Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric

Dr. Laura A. Palmer is a Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric as well as the Internship Coordinator for IAD and TCOM courses. Her current work focuses on accessibility, the relationships between technology/humanities, and the role of knowledge management within technical communication. She attended the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) for undergrad and received both her Master's and Ph.D. in Technical Communication and Rhetoric from Texas Tech University.

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Laura Palmer
    • Applied Writing
    • PRWR 6260 Managing Writing in Organizations

    • Palmer, L. A. (2026, July 13–15). AI ethics across national boundaries: An examination of guardrails for TPC [Panel presentation]. In Ambiguities and ethics: Field reports of global TPC activities. IEEE ProComm 2026, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

    • Palmer, L. A. (2026). It’s in the syllabus. In S. Burton (Ed.), Women in technical communication: From typewriters to touchscreens: A history by the women who did the work (pp. 277–281). XML Press.

    • Palmer, L. (2019). Introducing undergraduate students to writing and algorithms: Understanding analytics and measuring content on personal capstone websites. Journal of Writing Analytics, 3. Retrieved from https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/jwa/vol3/palmer.pdf

    • Lang, S. and Palmer, L. (2017), Reconceiving technical editing competencies for the 21st century: Reconciling employer needs with curricular mandates. Technical Communication. 64(4), 297-309.