Heidi McKee

Biography

For over 20 years, Dr. McKee has been researching and teaching about digital writing technologies, co-authoring and co-editing five books and 35+ chapters, articles, and conference proceedings, including most recently: “Writing with Generative AI and Human-Machine Teaming: Insights from Faculty and Students”; “Team Roles and Rhetorical Intelligence in Human-Machine Writing”; “Ethics for AI Writing: The Importance of Rhetorical Context”; and “Intercultural Communication and Teamwork: Revising Business Writing for Global Networks.”

Education Credentials

Ph.D., English-Composition and Rhetoric, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
M.A., English, University of Wyoming
B.A., English, Yale University

Teaching Areas

Professional communication and digital technologies. Specific courses include:

• ENG/IMS 407/507 Interactive Business Communication
• ENG/IMS 224 Professional Communication and Digital Rhetoric
• ENG 415 Capstone in Professional Writing
• ENG 316 Legal Writing
• EGS/ENG 319 Medical Writing
• doctoral-level graduate seminars in research methods and digital writing

Research Interests

Research interests include professional communication, artificial intelligence, digital technologies.

Listing of Select Publications

Books

McKee, Heidi A., and James E. Porter. Professional Communication and Network Interaction: A Rhetorical and Ethical Approach. New York: Routledge, 2017.

Refereed Articles & Conference Proceedings

Bedington, Andelyn, Halcomb, Emma F., McKee, Heidi A., Sargent, Thomas, and Smith, Adler. “Writing with Generative AI and Human-Machine Teaming: Insights and Recommendations from Faculty and Students.” Computers and Composition, 71.

McKee, Heidi A., and Porter, James E. “Team Roles & Rhetorical Intelligence in Human-Machine Writing.”  2022 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), 2022, pp. 384-391. 

McKee, Heidi A., and Porter, James E. “Ethics for AI Writing: The Importance of Rhetorical Context.” AIES '20: Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. February 2020: pp. 110-116.

McKee, Heidi A., and Porter, James E. “The impact of AI on Writing and Writing Instruction.” Digital Rhetoric Collaborative [invited & reviewed blog], Sweetland Center for Writing, University of Michigan. 2018.

Coffey, Kathleen M., Bridget C. Gelms, Cynthia C. Johnson, and Heidi A. McKee. “Consulting with Collaborative Writing Teams.” Writing Center Journal 36(1). 2017: pp. 147-182. 

McKee, Heidi. “Researching a New Professional Writing Major.” Programmatic Perspectives 8 (Fall 2016). 

McKee, Heidi A. “Protecting Net Neutrality and the Infrastructure of Internet Delivery: Considerations for Our Past, Present, and Future.” Invited article as part of the collaborative contribution of Beck et. al. “Writing in an Age of Surveillance, Privacy, & Net Neutrality” for the 20th anniversary of Kairos, 20.2 (2016). 

Chapters

McKee, Heidi A. (2023). “Professional Writing for Healthcare: Writing & Revising Research Summaries with Artificial Intelligence.” Teaching with Text Generation Technologies, edited by Annette Vee, Tim Laquintano, and Carly Schnitzler, WAC Clearinghouse.

McKee, Heidi A., and Porter, James E. “Intertext: Writing Machines and Rhetoric.” Writing Futures: Collaborative, Algorithmic, Autonomous, edited by Ann Hill Duin and Isabel Pedersen, Springer, 2021: 47-52. 

McKee, Heidi A. “Believe in Yourself and Your Ability to Join Public and Scholarly Conversations.” Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by John R. Gallagher and Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Utah State University Press, 2019: pp. 41-44.

McKee, Heidi A. “Intercultural Communication and Teamwork: Revising Business Writing for Global Networks.” The Internationalization of U.S. Writing Programs, edited by Irwin Weiser and Shirley Rose, Utah State University Press, 2018: pp. 185-200.

McKee, Heidi A., and Porter, James E. “Digital Media Ethics and Rhetoric.” The Routledge Companion to Digital Writing & Rhetoric, edited by Jonathan Alexander and Jacqueline Rhodes. Routledge, 2018: pp. 401-411.

McKee, Heidi A., and Porter, James E. “Corporate Response to Employee Social Media Missteps: A Rhetorical and Ethical Lens.”  Ethics for a Digital Age, Volume 2 Eds. Bastiaan Vanacker and Don Heider. Peter Lang, 2018: pp. 51-77.