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Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric
Dr. Robert A. Schwegler
Roosevelt 329
(401) 874-2979
rschweg@mail.uri.edu
Director of Graduate Studies
Professor
Degrees: Hope College;
University of Chicago
Teaching Interests: Writing about culture, scientific and technical writing, composition
theory and pedagogy.
Courses Recently Taught: WRT 105, WRT 106, WRT 201, WRT 302,
WRT 333, WRT 512, WRT 645
Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
- Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, co-edited with Linda
K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard and Sandra Jamieson.
- CrossCurrents
Series, Boyton-Cook, forthcoming.
- "Interpretation and Composition Theory." JAC: A Journal of
Composition Theory.
- The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers, with Chris Anson,
Longman, 1997, 1999.
- Writing in Depth (with Nancy Newman Schwegler and Robin
Schutt), 2003.
- Patterns of Exposition 18 (2006).
- Choices: Values, Voices, and Strategies (with Nancy
Newman Schwegler), 2006.
Professional Activities:
Consultant for Longman Publishers; Executive Board, Rhode Island
Consortium on Writing; Advisory committee for the National Archives of
Composition and Rhetoric; member, Council of Writing Program
Administrators, NCTE, CCCC.
Current Research Interests:
Relationships between social theory and composition theory; the social
and political dimensions of error; error in written English; economics
of disciplinarity; the development of professional
writing in the English renaissance.
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