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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Michael Pennell

Michael Pennell, PhD

Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies

Office: Roosevelt 323
Office Hours: On sabbatical Spring 2013
Phone: (401) 874-4861
E-mail: mpennell@uri.edu
Degrees: Eastern Michigan University; Purdue University

Teaching Interests:
Writing in electronic environments, business communications, argumentative and persuasive writing.

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • "'If Knowledge is Power, You're About to Become Very Powerful': Literacy and Labor Market Intermediaries in Post-Industrial America." College Composition and Communication. February 2007.
  • "Fraternities and ITexts: Composing in the Post-Industrial Turn." Computers and Composition. 24.1 March 2007.
  • "Beyond Napster: Peer-to-Peer Technology and Network Culture." Digital Tools in Cultural Contexts: Assessing the Implications of New Media. Eds. Byron Hawk, Ollie Oviedo, and David Rieder. Forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press.
Current Research Interests: Writing technologies; research methodologies; social and literacy theory; literacy education in Rhode Island mill communities.

Announcements


Congratulations to our recently published WRT majors!

Ankawha Blain, "Blue Whales Do Not Live in Providence," *The Independent Scribe* Fall 2009 edition

Jessica Watson, "Should America Speak American?" *The Independent Scribe *Fall 2009 edition

Sarah Payne, "Thoreau's Sublime Wreckage in *Cape Cod*," *The Independent Scribe *Fall 2009 edition

Mercer Smith, "Coffee Coffin," "A-Bed at 3AM," and "Chucks," *The Independent Scribe *Fall 2009 edition

Raymond Mathieu, "Frozen Foods Section," "So They Say," and "The Steps to Stumblin'," *The Independent Scribe *Fall 2009 edition

George C. Whaley, Jr. "Clam Bake" and "A Vicious, Pretty Cycle," *The Independent Scribe *Fall 2009 edition

Patricia Wisenseel, "The Bells:" From a Freestanding Object to a Pulsating Presence," *The Independent Scribe *Fall 2009 edition

Kaitlyn Stone, "The Vulgar Way," *Chronogram*, November 2009

Faculty/Graduate Student Awards and Publications

Professor Jeremiah Dyehouse was awarded sabbatical leave for Spring 2011 to work on his project, "Roots for a Technological Rhetoric: John Dewey's Writings on Writing."

Professor Mike Pennell was awarded a grant for his proposal, "Enhancing the Training of Writing Teachers through Video."

Professor Kim Hensley Owens was published in the book, Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts: Motherhood in Contemporary Women's Literatures .

PhD candidate Joannah Portman Daley was awarded a mini grant from the Office of Research and Economic Development Graduate Research to be put toward participant incentives for her dissertation project.

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Spotlight

WRT 647 Research Proposal Poster Presentations

Every other spring, URI community members gather in the Writing Center, 4th floor Roosevelt Hall, to look at and listen to the research proposals of graduate students in WRT 647, Seminar in Research Methods. The class, led by Prof. Mike Pennell of Writing and Rhetoric, spends the semester designing original research projects using a variety of methods, as well as learning the value of mixed methods research and critical methodologies for the study of all types of writing. The poster presentation event began in 1999 under the instruction of Prof. Libby Miles, now chair of Writing and Rhetoric. “A great research design makes sense to different audiences and addresses questions worth answering,” said Prof. Miles, who attended the most recent session. “Each year we do this, the work gets better and better.”


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