Publications

Rea, J. M. (2022). Inventing the slums: Rhetoric, race, and place in Westlake Terrace. Rhetoric Review 41.1, pp. 31-44.

• This article examines Westlake Terrace, a housing project in Youngstown, Ohio to examine how places are rhetorically invented. In this case, these inventions are particularly inflected by race and poverty.

Rea, J. M., Cannon, P., Sawchyn, A., and Walkup, K. (2018). Journaling and bibliotherapy:

Theory, methodology, and usability. In N. Matveeva & G. Agboka, Eds., Citizenship and

Advocacy in Technical Communication: Scholarly and Pedagogical Perspectives (pp.

153-174). New York: Routledge. 

• Details efforts to design a writing program at a women's residential drug and alcohol treatment facility. 

Johnson, M. A., Cannon, P., Palmer, R., Rea, J. M., & Zarlengo, T. (2017). Logotypes in place: A visual rhetorical history of Cigar City. In D. N. DeVoss & C. S. Wyatt (Eds.), Type matters: The rhetoricity of letterforms (pp. 252-281). Anderson, SC: Parlor Press.

• Examines late-19th century Ybor City cigar labels to understand relationships between place, culture, and visual rhetoric.

 Rea, J. M. (2018). Usability. In T. Zarlengo (Ed.), A Rhetorical Approach to Workplace Writing, 5th edition (pp. 85-91). Tampa, FL: University of South Florida Press.

Rea, J. M. (2018). Accessibility. In T. Zarlengo (Ed.), A Rhetorical Approach to Workplace Writing, 5th edition (pp. 92-94). Tampa, Fl: University of South Florida Press.

Rea, J. M. (2016). Introduction: What is rhetoric? In A. Hoffman & K. Wiggs, Rhetoric Matters (pp. 13-16). Acton, MA: XanEdu.

Gocinski, K., Wiggs, K., & Rea, J. M. (2016). Using direct quotations. In A. Hoffman & K. Wiggs, Rhetoric Matters (pp. 156-160). Acton, MA: XanEdu.

Rea, J. M. (2016). Avoiding copyright issues. In A. Hoffman & K. Wiggs, Rhetoric Matters (pp, 327-330). Acton, MA: XanEdu.

Rea, J. M. (2016). Introduction: Joining the conversation. In A. Hoffman & K. Wiggs, Rhetoric Really Matters (pp. 14-17). Acton, MA: XanEdu.

Gerdes, J., Hopton, S. B., & Rea, J. M. (2016). Visual rhetoric. In A. Hoffman & K. Wiggs, Rhetoric Really Matters (pp. 331-337). Acton, MA: XanEdu.

Rea, J. M. (2016). Building effective websites. In A. Hoffman & K. Wiggs, Rhetoric Really Matters (pp. 357-361). Acton, MA: XanEdu.

Browning, E. & Rea, J. M. (2016). Understanding stakeholders. In A. Hoffman & K. Wiggs, Rhetoric Really Matters (pp. 371-374). Acton, MA: XanEdu.