Donna J. Kain, PhD

Associate Professor
Associate Chair
Department of English
East Carolina University
Office: 2202 Bate Bldg.
Phone: (252) 328-6023
E-mail: kaind@ecu.edu

Courses

Research & Selected Publications

ENGL 1100 First Year Composition
ENGL 3870 Editing and Abstracting
ENGL 3880 Writing for Business and Industry
WOST 4200 Feminist Theory
ENGL 5780 Adv. Writing for Business and Industry
ENGL 6700 Editing and Production
ENGL 6715 Technical Writing
ENGL 6721 Adv. Editing
ENGL 6725 Directed Readings
ENGL 7605 Discourse Analysis
ENGL 7705 Ethics in Technical & Professional Comm
ENGL 7746 Training in Technical Comm
ENGL 7765 Risk Communication
ENGL 7765 Editing as Management
ENGL 7765 Visual Discourse
ENGL 7766 Theory and Practice of New Media
ENGL 7780 Theory of Professional Comm
ENGL 8100 Discourse of Special Interests (Dir. Reading)
ENGL 8200 Directed Research
ENGL 8605 Adv. Discourse Analysis
ENGL 8780 Adv. Theory of Professional Comm
WOST 6100 Adv Feminist Theory

Severe Weather Risk & Emergency Communication
Renci at ECU
Center for Natural Hazards Reseach at ECU

2010. Kain, Donna, Menno deJong, Catherine F. Smith. Information Usability Testing as Audience and Context Analysis for Risk Communication. In Usability of Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction. Michael Albers and Brian Still, Eds. CRC Press. (Taylor and Francis) ISBN 978-1439828946.

2010. Smith, Catherine F. and Donna Kain. Making Sense of Hurricanes: Public Discourse and Perceived Risk of Extreme Weather. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) 4.2 Special Issue on Risk: 180-196.

2007. Kain, Donna J. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Storm-related Risk and Emergency Communication. Weather and Society Watch 1.4: 5, 8.

2007. Ward, Heather, Donna Kain, Catherine Smith, Tom Crawford, John Howard. Emergency Communications and Risk Perceptions in North Carolina’s Coastal Zone.  Proceedings of the Coastal Zone 07 Conference.

2007. Smith, Catherine, Donna Kain, Heather Ward, Roberta Thuman.  Emergency Communication:  Case Study of Problematics in Public Discourse Regarding Hurricane Risks and Hazards.  Proceedings of the International Professional Communication Conference (IEEE).

2005. Kain, Donna J. Constructing Genre: A Threefold Typology. Technical Communication Quarterly 14.4: 375-409.

2005. Kain, Donna, Elizabeth Wardle. Building Context: Using Activity Theory to Teach about Genre in Multi-Major Professional Communication Courses. Technical Communication Quarterly 14.2: 113-139. 2006 NCTE Awards for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication

2005. Osterberg, Arvid E., Donna J. Kain. Access for Everyone: A Guide to the Accessibility of Buildings and Facilities with References to ADAAG. Revised Edition. Ames, IA:. Iowa State University: (ISBN: 0-9726480-1-1)

2003. Kain, Donna. Teacher-centered—vs.—student-centered: Balancing constraint and vision in the composition classroom. Pedagogy 3.1.