Joshua Welsh

Joshua Welsh is a Professor in the English Department at Central Washington University. He researches and writes about rhetoric and technology, with special interests in intellectual property, open-source software, user experience, accessibility, and online technical writing pedagogy. He earned an MS (2009) and a PhD (2013) from the University of Minnesota. His current projects include investigating the rhetoric of the so-called “smart phone patent wars” as well as working to develop a pedagogy and practice to connect the teaching of technical writing with open-source software communities and projects. Dr. Welsh helped launch the program and provided guidance for its online format and principles of rhetoric. He is a member of the ASP Steering Committee and helped design ASP 435/535 Accessible Information Design.