Service to the Profession

Aside from departmental and university service, I engage my field in numerous ways. I hold membership in the following professional organizations:

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) — Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) 
• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW)
• Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) 
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) — Professional Communication Society (ProComm) 
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) — Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
• Rhetoric Society of America (RSA)

Currently, I serve as the social media manager and a member of the communications team for SIGDOC. I facilitate community exchanges on Facebook, Twitter, and other digital platforms, as well as communicate updates from SIGDOC to our members & friends. I am also vice president of CPTSC, working with colleagues from technical and professional communication academic programs to create resources for programmatic development.

I serve on the faculty editorial review board for Xchanges, a student journal in technical communication and writing studies, and work as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (2021-2023) and Technical Communication Quarterly (starting June 2023).

I have also reviewed manuscripts for the following journals and collections:

• Best of Rhetoric and Composition Journals (Parlor Press)  
• Cogent Arts & Humanities (Taylor & Francis) 
• Communication Design Quarterly (ACM-SIGDOC) 
• Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (SAGE) 
• IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (IEEE)
• Journal of Computers in Education (Springer) 
• Journal of Workplace Learning (Emerald)
• Journal of Business and Technical Communication (SAGE)
• Technical Communication (Society for Technical Communication) 
• Technical Communication Quarterly (ATTW)
• Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture (Duke University Press)
• Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (University of Florida Press)

I am an advocate for student-friendly conferences in our field, particularly:

• SIGDOC
• Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW)
• Computers & Writing (cwcon)

To help graduate students and scholars navigate our disciplinary terrains, I am curating crowd-sourced lists of publishers/journals and professional conferences:

• Journals and publishers in technical & professional communication, rhetoric & composition, writing studies, and rhetoric & communication
• Conferences and conventions for technical communication & rhetoric scholars and practitioners

Public Writing

• Moses, J. & Tham, J. (2019, April 2). Slacker alert: How to overcome slanxiety in every collaborative writing project. Medium. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2P9SLEY
• Tham, J. & Moses, J. (2019, March 25). Is design thinking the key to your next corporate writing gig? Medium. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2ZbVnqn
• Moses, J. & Tham, J. (2019, March 12). What could be worse than team writing projects? Medium. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2IlWkHn
• Tham, J. & Moses, J. (2019, March 5). How we use design thinking to support collaborative writing. Medium. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2KEhF0N
• Moses, J. & Tham, J. (2019, March 1). Five collaborative writing roles that makes sense––and some that don’t. Medium. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2ZaCbJI
• Moses, J. & Tham, J. (2019, February 25). Four ideas for creating a collaborative writing environment that works. Medium. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2Uk8X7w
• Moses, J. & Tham, J. (2019, February 21). Stop using traditional writing process models for team-writing projects. Medium. Retrieved from http://bit.ly/2DbQ5lk
• Tham, J. (2014, May 11). SCSU, community welcomed, taught me. St. Cloud Times, Times. Retrieved from http://on.sctimes.com/2FkTv8I
• Tham, J. (2014, April 13). Social media worsen MH370 tragedy. St. Cloud Times. Retrieved from  http://on.sctimes.com/1oXV3pR
• Tham, J. (2014, March 9). Lessons, Gadgets can mesh. St. Cloud Times. Retrieved from http://on.sctimes.com/2oYA4Y3
• Tham, J. (2014, February 9). Coke ad shows U.S. beauty. St. Cloud Times. Retrieved from http://on.sctimes.com/2G0SLCx
• Tham, J. (2014, January 17). Keep the resolutions afloat. St. Cloud Times. Retrieved from http://on.sctimes.com/2FA4FW8 

Between January 25, 2010 and May 11, 2014, I have written 80+ op-ed pieces for the student newspaper University Chronicle at St. Cloud State University, where I also served as opinion editor (2011-2012) and managing editor (2013-2014). These op/eds are available upon request.