Contact Information:
470 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
f: 413-545-3880
nelson@english.umass.edu
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Professor Emeritus
With the advice and counsel of Dr. Richard Howard of Digital Equipment Corporation,
Professor John R. Nelson founded the Professional Writing and Technical Communication (PWTC) Program at the University of Massachusetts in 1990. The program traces its roots to professional writing courses taught during the 1970s and 1980s by Professor John Mitchell, and prepares students for positions as technical editors and writers, grant writers, website designers and business writers.
Professor Nelson holds degrees from Hamilton College (B.A., 1959), the University of Maine (M.A., 1962), and the University of Oregon (Ph.D., 1967). He came to UMass in 1967 and has served as a Visiting Professor at the Summer Institute, Universities of Bordeaux, Pau, Toulouse (1970), Visiting Professor, Endresschule, Université de Saint Malo, (summer 1974), Villingen, Schwarzwald (summer 1977), and as an Exchange Professor at the Universities of Freiburg, (1971-1972), Stirling (Scotland, 1976-1977), and Kent (1988-1989).
His most recent book, American Folk Toys, has enjoyed commercial success and won the Society for Technical Communication's Distinguished Communication Award in 1999. Professor Nelson's scholarship and interests include Technical Writing and American Studies.
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