We are excited to announce the 2024 Career Advancement Research Grant winners!
Dr. Mason Pellegrini, Paul Thompson Hunter, and Adrianna Deptula – “Expert Audience Strategies for Distinguishing between Human- and AI-generated Student Writing: A Mixed-Methods Research Project.”
Dr. Mason Pellegrini, along with collaborators Paul Thompson Hunter and Adrianna Deptula, are one of the two CARG winners for their research project titled, “Expert Audience Strategies for Distinguishing between Human- and AI-generated Student Writing: A Mixed-Methods Research Project.”
The SIGDOC Executive Committee was impressed with the project’s focus on possible approaches in detecting AI-generated student writing, which “addresses one of the main topics of conversation in recent conferences” while also praising the project’s “clear survey design.”
Dr. Mason Pellegrini is an assistant professor in Texas Tech University’s Technical Communication and Rhetoric program who completed his PhD at Purdue University. He is most interested in empirical research that narrows the gap between what is taught in technical and professional communication classrooms and what occurs in workplaces. Specifically, He is interested in innovation, which is why much of his research has focused on entrepreneurship and design thinking. His dissertation was supported by a Fulbright Open Research Grant, which he used to spend most of 2022 collecting data at Start-Up Chile, one of the top business accelerators in the world. His research has been published in a variety of academic journals in the field of Technical and Professional Communication.
Adrianna Deptula (she/her) is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition and Bilsland fellow at Purdue University. Her research areas include the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM), healthcare communication, and Technical and Professional Communication (TPC). Her dissertation, “Charting Chronicity” investigates how chronic pain and the body are framed in clinical assessment and documentation practices. Adrianna’s work has been published in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication (JBTC), and she has actively contributed to a grant-funded project focused on rural healthcare communication and narrative medicine. She currently serves as the graduate representative for the CCCC’s Medical Rhetoric Standing Group.
Paul Thompson Hunter is a PhD candidate in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. His research areas include technical and professional communication, user experience, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurship. His most recent work can be found in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication, the Journal of STEM Education, and Communication Design Quarterly.
Imari Cheyne Tetu – “Accessibility of Blended Courses in Technical Communication”
The SIGDOC Executive Committee was impressed with Imari’s project’s focus on accessibility, learning, and hyflex course modalities, noting it is, “an important and much needed endeavor and has a clear connection to SIGDOC priorities.”
Imari Cheyne Tetu is a graduate research assistant in the Evidence-Driven Learning Innovation (EDLI) Research Center and a PhD candidate in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University. She holds a B.A. in Professional and Technical Writing from Saginaw Valley State University and an M.A. in Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing from Michigan State University. Imari’s research areas include learning experience design, digital accessibility, and technical communication with a focus on disability in higher education. Her teaching experience includes courses such as Information Architecture, Introduction to Accessibility for the Humanities, and Introduction to Experience Architecture. Imari has worked as a graduate researcher with the WIDE (Writing, Information, and Digital Experience) Research Center and as a freelance technical writer and instructional designer.
Join us in celebrating all of our 2024 CARG winners!