James Dubinsky
James M. Dubinsky is an associate professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech (VT). He was the founding director of the department’s Professional Writing program and of VT Engage, the University’s service-learning and civic engagement center. He has served in all leadership positions in the Association for Business Communication, and since 2011, he has been serving as the Executive Director. Equally important, Jim is retired from 28 years of service in the U.S. Army, and has been working to build a Veterans in Society focus at Virginia Tech. He is the founding Chair of VT’s Veterans Caucus, and served in that position from 2014 to 2019. Jim has been honored with awards at the college and university levels for teaching, scholarship, and outreach. His work has appeared in scholarly publications such as Business Communication Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, Issues in Writing, the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, and Present Tense. He is the author of Teaching Technical Writing: Critical Issues for the Classroom.
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the ones we teach fit into the larger picture. With the embedded features of the software we're testing, students gain practice in presentation skills by creating a variety of views on their work, tailored for different audiences. In these views, they have the
opportunity to reflect on the learning they've experienced, and the products they've created.