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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

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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