Rate My Professor Jonathan Arnett

E. Jonathan Arnett, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Technical Communication at Kennesaw State University and serves as the Coordinator of the B.S. in Technical Communication program. He holds a doctorate in Technical Communication & Rhetoric from Texas Tech University, completed in 2008 with the dissertation "Habermas on Acid: A Rhetorical Analysis of a Scientific Controversy." Arnett previously worked at Southern Polytechnic State University prior to its merger with Kennesaw State University. At KSU, he has taught classes in both the Professional Writing program and the Technical Communication program. He participates in faculty councils and has contributed to various academic committees.

Arnett's research interests focus on technical communication pedagogy and the intersection of technical communication and open educational resources (OER). Since 2017, he has presented research on OER development and students' use of OER at seven international conferences, three national conferences, two statewide conferences, and one webinar. He co-authored a successful $30,000 grant from Affordable Learning Georgia for developing Open Technical Communication (OTC), including the grant's follow-up report, and a subsequent $25,800 "Scaling Up" grant under review. Additionally, he secured a $3,000 contract with the Cobb & Douglas Health Department for a publicly available 280-page technical report from April 2016 to June 2017. Key publications include contributions to Open Technical Communication (3rd ed., Reardon et al., 2019), such as "08: Technical Editing" and "02.14: Technical Definitions and Descriptions"; Sexy Technical Communication (Powell et al., 2nd ed., 2016); "Disrupting the Textbook Model to Create an Open, Digitally-Delivered Technical Communication Text" (Arnett, IEEE, 2016); "If You Build It, Will They Come?: Research into Students’ Use of an Open Educational Resource in Technical Communication" (Arnett, IEEE IPC, 2018); "Learning Information Literacy Across the Curriculum (LILAC) and Its Impacts on Student Digital Literacies and Learning Across the Humanities" (Bohannon, Arnett, et al., IEEE IPC, 2017); and "Lessons from Creating Authentic, Renewable Assignments" (Arnett, 2022). His efforts have supported the creation of accessible OER materials in technical communication.