Professor of English
Lewis Department of Humanities
Email: riley@iit.edu



Mail:
Humanities Dept., Siegel Hall 218
Illinois Institute of Technology
3301 South Dearborn
Chicago, IL 60616 USA

S12 Teaching:
COM 421-02 Technical Communication (Internet section)
COM 425-01 Editing (Internet section)
COM 529-01 Technical Editing (Internet section)

• Vita (PDF)
• Resources

Recent and upcoming activities:
• Companion Website exercises for The Little, Brown Handbook (Fowler et al.). (Pearson/Longman, 2012).
• Developmental exercises and Answer key for The Little, Brown Compact Handbook, 8th ed. (Aaron). (Pearson/Longman, 2012).
• Co-author, with Frank Parker, Writing for Academic Publication, 2nd ed. (Parlay Press, in progress).
• Exercise Book for The Academic Writer's Handbook, 3nd ed. (Rosen) (Longman, 2012).
• Strategies and Resources for Teaching Writing for Prentice Hall Reference Guide, 8th ed. (Harris) (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2011).
• Co-author, with Jo Mackiewicz, Visual Composing: Document Design for Print and Digital Media (Prentice Hall, 2011).
• Co-author, with Frank Parker, 5th edition of Linguistics for Non-Linguists: A Primer with Exercises (Allyn & Bacon, 2010).
• Co-PI, NSF Grant, "Ethics in the Details."
• Editorial Review Board, Texas Tech University Press Series in Technical Communication and Rhetoric.

Listen to a podcast of Visual Composing co-author Jo Mackiewicz being interviewed by Tom Johnson, a technical writer who blogs at I'd Rather Be Writing.