Sally Jackson is an American

United States

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 scholar

Academia

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 of argumentation

Argumentation theory

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, communication

Communication studies

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, and rhetoric

Rhetoric

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.

Dr. Jackson served as the chief information officer

Chief information officer

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 for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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., but resigned from the position on April 8, 2011 due to disagreement with a change in administrative reporting lines. She will remain at the university as a professor and associate provost.

Previously, she worked for the University of Arizona

University of Arizona

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 as the vice-president for information technology

Information technology

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 and professor

Professor

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 in the Department

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 of Communication

Communication

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 in the College of Social

Social sciences

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 and Behavioral sciences. She has published in Communication Monographs, Communication Theory, Journal of the American Forensic Association, Quarterly Journal of Speech, and Argumentation. Her seminal contribution to the field of argumentation appears in: Sally Jackson and Scott Jacobs, "Structure of Conversational Argument: Pragmatic Bases for the Enthymeme" in The Quarterly Journal of Speech. LXVI, 251-265.