Dr. Menno de Jong is a full Professor of Communication Science at the University of Twente, Netherlands. His research interests include organizational communication, technical communication and research methods of applied communication and he has published many articles in these fields. He is the editor-in-chief of Technical Communication and serves on the editorial board of many other journals including Journal of Business Communication, Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization. He is also a member of the Netherlands School of Communication Research (NESCoR) and Society for Technical Communication (STC).