Donald Treadwell

Donald Treadwell earned his master’s degree in communication from Cornell University and hisPhD in communication and rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.He developed and taught communication research classes in classroom and online settingsand also taught courses in organizational communication, public relations, and public relationswriting. He is the coauthor of Public Relations Writing: Principles in Practice (2nd ed., Sage,2005).He has published and presented research on organizational image, consumer response tocollege names, health professionals’ images of AIDS, faculty perceptions of the communicationdiscipline, and employers’ expectations of newly hired communication graduates. His researchappears in Communication Monographs, Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, PublicRelations Review, Journal of Human Subjectivity, and Criminal Justice Ethics.He is professor emeritus, Westfield State University, and has international consulting experiencein agricultural extension and health communication.