Romancing the Atom Garners National Book Award

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HOUGHTON, MI (02/13/2014)(readMedia)-- Bob Johnson, professor of rhetoric, composition and technical communication, has earned the 2014 CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Award for his book, Romancing the Atom: Nuclear Infatuation from the Radium Girls to Fukushima. Johnson won "Best Book in Technical or Scientific Communication." The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Johnson teaches in the Department of Humanities at Michigan Technological University. Johnson's research touches on New Mexico's role in the nuclear industry.

In announcing the award, NCTE said, "Romancing the Atom is written to a wide public audience and will be of interest to readers and teachers from middle school through adult. It includes classroom applications and discussion questions for students and community reading groups."

Jeanette Walls, best selling author of The Glass Castle and Half Broke Horses says, "Romancing the Atom is a deeply engrossing, cautionary tale of our often dangerous love affair of a power we don't fully understand." Walls was the featured author in Michigan Tech's 2011 Summer Reading Program.

Bill Geerhart, Editor of CONELRAD.COM says, "This fine book is a marvel of in-depth research and highly entertaining narrative style."

Contact information:

rrjohnso@mtu.edu

Office: 906-487-3236

Cell: 906-231-3097

Home: 608-237-1474

For additional information on the book and author, please go to www.romancingtheatom.com.

Johnson will be announced as recipient of the Technical and Scientific Communication Award on March 21, during the 2014 CCCC Annual Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana.

For more information about the CCCC Technical and Scientific Communication Awards, including past winners, see http://www.ncte.org/volunteer/groups/techscicom/techsciaward.