Thominet, Luke Graduate Faculty

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biography

  • Luke Thominet, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Florida International University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Writing Program and Associate Director of the English Graduate Program. He is Vice Chair of ACM SIGDOC, an international scholarly association focused on the design of communication. At FIU, he teaches courses in qualitative research methods, document and visual design, rhetorical theory, and grant writing. His scholarship has appeared in Technical Communication Quarterly, Communication Design Quarterly, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Pedagogy, and Patient Education and Counseling.

research interests

  • Dr. Thominet’s research examines how communication practices shape experiences in healthcare, technology, and design. He specializes in medical rhetoric, technical communication, qualitative research methods, user experience design, design thinking, and generative AI. His projects explore physician–patient communication in cancer care, the role of plain language in clinical trial discussions, applications for design thinking in academic work, participatory and open models of video game development, the design of grading and assessment systems, and the impact of AI-assisted qualitative analysis on researcher roles, reflexivity, and collaboration.

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  • Luke Thominet

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