Jordan Smith

PhD, Iowa State University, Department of English-2019

MPC, Weber State University, Department of Communication-2013 

2008 BA, Brigham Young University, Department of Linguistics-2008

• Assistant professor, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado, 2024–present
• Assistant professor, Department of Technical Communication, University of North Texas, 2019–2024
• Graduate teaching/research assistant, Department of English, Iowa State University
• Adjunct instructor, Program in Digital Humanities and Technology (formerly Computers and the Humanities), Brigham Young University

Courses Taught

ENG 122, College Composition 

ENG 123, Writing and Research Methods 

ENG 218, Introduction to Linguistics 

ENG 225, Research Writing for Contemporary Culture 

ENG 301, Writing as a Job  

ENG 427, Substantive Editing 

ENG 540, Introduction to Composition and Rhetoric 

ENG 650, Advanced Editing 

Editing and publishing, English grammar and usage, corpus linguistics, content/discourse/text analysis, prescriptivism, formality in writing 

Batchelor, J. & Smith, J. (in press). Communicating science to the public: A comparison of lexicogrammatical features in student-produced and popular science writing. In M. Williams & L. Melonçon (Eds.), Liminality: The work of resilience in technical communication. WAC Clearinghouse. 

Aune, J. E., Baker, M. J., Mackiewicz, J., & Smith, J. (published online). Anthropomorphizing artificial intelligence: A corpus study of mental verbs used with AI and ChatGPT. Technical Communication Quarterly, 1–20. doi: 10.1080/10572252.2025.2593840 

Smith, J., Santos, M., & Bomely, K. (2025). The writing, editing, and publishing major concentration at the University of Northern Colorado. Programmatic Perspectives, 16(2), 266–291. https://programmaticperspectives.cptsc.org/index.php/jpp/article/view/134/202  

Smith, J., Baker, M. J., Wilde, L., & McMillan, S. (2025). Introducing TrackEDT: A tool to accelerate empirical editing research. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 68(4), 514–527. doi: 10.1109/TPC.2025.3615256 

Smith, J. & Batchelor, J. (2025). Qualitative considerations for building corpora of business-related texts. International Journal of Business Communication, 62(4), 685–709. doi: 10.1177/23294884251364526 

Smith, J. (2024). Determining levels of prescriptivism in American English usage guides. Technical Communication, 71(2), 26–42. doi: 10.55177/tc377227  

Smith, J. (2023). Corpus linguistics and technical editing: How corpora can help copyeditors adopt a rhetorical view of prescriptive usage rules. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 37(2), 194–216. doi:10.1177/10506519221143125 

Campbell, K. S., Naidoo, J. S., & Smith, J. (2023). When your boss says, “You need to sound more professional”: Writing style and writer attributions. International Journal of Business Communication, 60(4), 1071–1094. doi:10.1177/23294884211025735 

Smith, J. (2020). A content analysis of figure captions in academic journals from four disciplines. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 63(4), 341–360. doi:10.1109/TPC.2020.3032049 

Gray, B., Cotos, E., & Smith, J. (2020). Combining rhetorical move analysis with multi-dimensional analysis: Research writing across disciplines. In U. Römer, V. Cortes, and E. Friginal (Eds.) Advances in corpus-based research on academic writing: Effects of discipline, register, and writer expertise. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi:10.1075/scl.95.06gra 

Smith, J., Mackiewicz, J., Hanson, D., Fanning, S. N., & Doan, S. (2016). The communicative work of biology-journal captions: Lessons for technical and professional communication. Technical Communication Quarterly, 25(4), 260–277. doi:10.1080/10572252.2016.1222453