Degrees
Doctor of Philosophy, Communication and Rhetoric, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1991.
Dissertation: The life and death of generative semantics.
Supervisor: S. Michael Halloran.
Master of Science, Technical Communication, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986.
Minor: Graphic Communication.
(Nonthesis program.)
Master of Science, Experimental Linguistics, University of Alberta, 1985.
Thesis: Acoustic dimensions of functor comprehension in Broca's aphasia.
Supervisor: Lois Marckworth Stanford.
Master of Arts, English Literature, Dalhousie University, 1982.
Thesis: Romance structures in the novels of Henry Fielding.
Supervisor: Bruce Stovel.
Bachelor of Arts, Honours English Literature, Queen's University, 1980.
Minor: Philosophy.
Additional undergraduate work at the University of Lethbridge
Other programmes
Usability, online technology, and graphic communication, Technical Writers' Institute, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986.
Online documentation and graphic communication, Human Performance Associates, 1988.
