Teaching Technical Communication

James M. Dubinsky is an associate professor of Rhetoric and Writing and since 2008, the inaugural director of the Center for Student Engagement and Community Partnerships (CSECP) at Virginia Tech.  From 1998 until mid-2008, he directed the Professional Writing Program in the Department of English, a program he was hired to build. Dubinsky chairs the board of directors for the YMCA at Virginia Tech and recently served as president for the Association for Business Communication (ABC).  He has received college-level awards for both teaching and outreach, and the first university award for the scholarship of teaching and learning. Dubinsky’s research focuses on the scholarship of teaching, combining historical, rhetorical, and qualitative methods to study the connections of experiential learning and reflective practice.  His articles have been published in journals such as Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ), Business Communication Quarterly (BCQ), and the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.