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Robert Schwegler

Robert A. Schwegler, PhD

Professor

Office: Roosevelt 329
Office Hours:MWF: 11:00 - 11:50 and by appointment
Phone: (401) 874-2979
E-mail: rschweg@aol.com
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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