BROCKMANN, R. John 1951-

PERSONAL: Born May 25, 1951, in New York, NY; son of Robert J. (in business) and Marilyn F. (a teacher) Brockmann; married, August 28, 1994; wife's name, Sarah J. (an Episcopal priest); children: Van John, Robert John III. Ethnicity: "German/Irish." Education: Georgetown University, B.A., 1973; University of Chicago, M.A., 1974; University of Michigan, D.Arts, 1980.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of English, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716.

CAREER: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, assistant professor, 1979-80; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, assistant professor, 1980-84; University of Delaware, Newark, DE, professor of English, 1985—, Episcopal chaplain, 1999-2001. Ordained Episcopal priest; Bear-Glasgow Church without Walls, priest in charge, 1997-99.

MEMBER: Society for Technical Communication (fellow), National Maritime Historical Society, Association of Computing Machinery, Society of St. Francis (member of Third Order).

AWARDS, HONORS: Award from National Council of Teachers of English, 1984; Rigo Award, Association of Computing Machinery, for a collection of essays.

WRITINGS:

Writing Better Computer Documentation: From Paper to Hypertext, John Wiley (New York, NY), 1990.

From Millwrights to Shipwrights to the Twenty-first Century: Historical Considerations of American Technical Writing, Hampton Press (Creskill, NJ), 1998.

Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates, and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics, and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838, Baywood Publishing (Amityville, NY), 2002.

WORK IN PROGRESS: The Rhetorical Dance of Nineteenth-Century Steamboat and Railroad Accident Investigations; research for The Antebellum Colossus of New Jersey: Commodore Robert F. Stockton.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Technical Communication, August, 1999, Charles R. Crawley, review of From Millwrights to Shipwrights to the Twenty-first Century: Historical Considerations of American Technical Writing, p. 396.