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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Nedra Renolds

Nedra Reynolds, PhD

Professor

Office: Roosevelt 322
Phone: (401) 874-4665
E-mail: nedra@uri.edu
Degrees: Emporia State University; Miami University of Ohio

Teaching Interests:
Rhetorical and feminist theories; geography; composition pedagogy and cultural studies; portfolios.

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 201, WRT 435, WRT 647, WRT 999

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • Geographies of Writing: Inhabiting Places and Encountering Difference, Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.
  • The Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Writing, 6th edition 2004. With Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg.
  • Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for Students and Portfolio Teaching: A Guide for Teachers. Bedford Books, 2000.
  • "Activism and Service Learning." with Donna M. Bickford. Pedagogy 2(2002): 229-52.
  • "Who's Going to Cross This Border? Travel Metaphors, Material Conditions, and Contested Places." jac 20(2000): 541-64.
  • "Composition's Imagined Geographies: The Politics of Space in the Frontier, City, and Cyberspace" College Composition and Communication, Vol. 50, September 1998.
  • "Interrupting Our Way to Agency: Feminist Cultural Studies and Composition" in Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words (MLA).
Professional Activities: Chair of the PK-16 Advisory Committee on the Language Arts (State of Rhode Island Office of Higher Education and Department of Education); College Section Steering Committee, NCTE; editorial board member, College Composition and Communication; past member of the CCCC Executive Committee.

Current Research Interests: Place-based theories of composing; portfolio assessment.

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E-Portfolio Presentations

All seniors in the Writing & Rhetoric major complete an electronic portfolio through our capstone course, WRT 495. The Spring 2009 class, consisting of Sam Fuller, Jessica Notardonato, Samantha Notardonato, Rob Petrin, Tatiana M. Uhoch, and Emily Weintraub, marked the second year for graduating our pioneer Writing & Rhetoric majors.


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Upcoming Events

Friday, November 13th
Brown Bag: "The Collision of Science and Rhetoric, and a Lesson on How to Save a Bay" by Matthew Ortoleva
Where: The Writing Center, 4th Floor Roosevelt Hall
When: 1:00 pm - 2:00pm

This presentation, part of a two-year ethnographic study on how language and rhetorical acts are used to construct ecological relationships to Narragansett Bay, considers how Save The Bay, a professional environmental advocacy organization, enacts science discourses as a central focus of its activism on behalf of the ecological health of the Narragansett Bay watershed.