Carolyn Rude worked as a technical editor for six years at Texas Tech's Research and Training Center. From 1981 until 2003, she taught technical editing and other technical communication courses at Texas Tech University. She has received several teaching honors, including the Chancellor's Council Distinguished Teaching Award, President's Academic Achievement Award, and Amoco Award from Texas Tech University. She also received the J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Technical Communication from the Society for Technical Communication. She is a Fellow of both the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) and of the Society for Technical Communication. At Texas Tech, she helped to develop the university's graduate and undergraduate programs in technical communication, including an online master's degree.
She edited the collection, Teaching Technical Editing, published by ATTW in 1985. She is co-author, with Elizabeth Overman Smith, of "Use of Computers in Technical Editing," in Technical Communication (1992). Technical Editing has won several publications awards from the Society for Technical Communication in its first two editions.
Carolyn Rude is currently Professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she is helping to develop a graduate program in professional writing and where she serves as Director of Graduate Studies.
