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Barbara Shwom
Professor of Instruction, The Writing Program
Director, The Writing Place
Lecturer, MEAS Administration and the Kellogg Graduate School

PhD, Northwestern University

Kresge Hall, 2-245
847-491-7690
bshwom@kellogg.northwestern.edu

Barbara Shwom directs the Writing Place, Northwestern's peer tutoring center in writing, in addition to teaching writing courses in the Writing Program, the McCormick School, and Kellogg. A nationally recognized leader in business communication, Shwom has served as president of both the Association for Business Communication and the Association of Professional Communication Consultants. She is the managing principal of the consulting firm Communication Partners and is a frequent presenter at conventions in communication, education, and peer tutoring. Her research interests include leadership communication, visual communication of data, and teaching research writing; she is currently coauthoring a book titled Graphic and Visual Communication for Managers. Recent papers and publications include "Enriching Freshman Design Through Collaboration with Professional Designers" (with P. Hirsch, J. Anderson, E. Colgate, and C. Yarnoff), which won the 2002 Best Paper Award from the Freshman Division of the American Society of Engineering Education, and "A Response to Edward R. Tufte's The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint," presented at the Association for Business Communication European Conference in Milan, May 2004.

Before earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in English at Northwestern, Shwom received a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Simmons College in Boston. At Northwestern, she has been recognized for teaching excellence by being named a Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Lecturer.

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