Dan Jones

Professor

djones@ucf.edu
Office Hours: Tues--11-12; 1:30-3; Th--11-12
Campus Location: 303B Colbourn Hall

Education

Ph.D. in English from Florida State University (1979)
M.A. in English from Florida State University (1976)
B.A. in English, with honors, from Florida State University (1974)

Dan Jones is a Professor of English at the University of Central Florida where he has taught a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate technical communication courses for the past 26 years. He helped develop the department's undergraduate and master's programs in technical communication as well as the department's new Ph.D. program in Texts and Technology. Prior to teaching at UCF, he taught for 4 years at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach. He has also consulted for over 25 companies teaching employees many kinds of effective writing and technical writing seminars as well as evaluating company documentation.

Research and teaching interests include technical and professional communication, technical writing style, technical editing, the relations of literature and science, software documentation, and science fiction.

Publications include four books:

Defining Technical Communication (Society for Technical Communication, 1996)

Technical Writing Style (Allyn and Bacon, 1998)

The Technical Communicator's Handbook (Allyn and Bacon, 2000)

Technical Communication: Strategies for College and the Workplace (Longman, 2002), co-authored with Karen Lane.

Awards

The Gloria Jaffe Outstanding Technical Communicator Award--Lifetime Achievement--from the Orlando Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. 2009.
Award for "sustained exemplary service" as Listserv Adminstrator for the Orlando Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. 2007.
Distinguished Chapter Service Award from the Orlando Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. 2006.
Ronald S. Blicq Award from IEEE Professional Communication Society for "distinguished contributions to technical communication education." 2003.
Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication. Elected in 2000.
J.R. Gould Award from the Society for Technical Communication for "Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication." 1998.
UCF Teachng Incentive Program (TIP) Awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching. 1994, 1997, 2004, and 2009.