Kristin L. Arola is a first-year Assitant Professor of English—specializing in Rhetoric, Composition, and Technology—at Washington State University. She received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication from Michigan Technological University in 2006. Her research focuses on the rhetorics of new media and design, specifically the ways that new media affords certain opportunities for identity performances. She has co-authored, along with Cheryl E. Ball, two instructional CD-ROMs—ix: Visual Exercises and ix: Visual Exercises for Technical Communicators and is currently working on an edited collection with Anne Frances Wysocki entitled Composing (Media) = Composing (Embodiment). Kristin likes to listen and/ or take advice (her swim coach once described her as "very coachable") thus she works well with Cheryl "I like to give advice" Ball. You can explore her web presence at her website: www.wsu.edu/~arola.
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