
Daocheng Lin (林道诚)
📊 Data Visualization | 🖌️ Visual Rhetoric | 🔬 Science Communication | 💟 Emotion
📧 daocheng(at)iastate.edu
Thank you for stopping by my personal website! 💫 My name is Daocheng Lin, and I am a researcher, teacher, and illustrator. Currently, I am pursuing my Ph.D. degree in rhetoric and professional communication at Iowa State University (ISU) under the advice of Prof. Charles Kostelnick. As a researcher, my research interests include data visualization, visual rhetoric, science communication, and emotion. Under an interdisciplinary lens, I explore how data visualizations present facts and persuade audiences in the contemporary communication landscape shaped by social media, GenAI, and the scientific communities.
As a graduate instructor in the Department of English at ISU, I teach multimodal composition courses for undergraduates. With four years of teaching experience in the Department of Visual Communication in China, I developed the concept of agency as the center of my teaching philosophy. Seen myself as a lifelong learner, I am enthusiastic to improve my pedagogy and create a classroom with more agency that empowers students and creates a more inclusive environment.
I am also an illustrator with collaboration between universities and companies including Tencent and Exxon Mobile. This identity allows me to explore my research topics with a different perspective, such as how visual embellishment can impact the perception of the facts, which is located in the “chartjunk” debate raised by Edward Tufte.
Teaching
Summer 2025
ENGL 2500 Online – Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition (Undergraduate)
Spring 2025
ENGL 2500 – Written, Oral, Visual, and Electronic Composition (Undergraduate)
Fall 2024
ENGL 1500 – Critical Thinking and Communication (Undergraduate)
My photo is credited to my love, Shiyu.