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Department of Writing & Rhetoric
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Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Dr. Linda K. Shamoon


Roosevelt 326                     

(401) 874-4203

shamoon@uri.edu

 

Professor

PhD:  Tufts University

Teaching Interests: Writing with electronic technology; public writing; methods and theories of writing across curriculum; freshman composition.

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 104, WRT 201, WRT 227, WRT 235, WRT 303,  WRT 353, WRT 383

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:

  • Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, co-edited with Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert A. Schwegler. CrossCurrents Series, Boynton-Cook, forthcoming.
  • "Exorcising the Ghost of Writing Centers Past, Greeting the Ghost of Writing Centers Future: On Plagiarism and the Writing Center" with D. Burns. Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Plagiarism. Eds. Alice Roy & Lisa Buranen. Buffalo: SUNY Albany, 1999.
  • "Labor Pains: An Analysis of Power Relations between the Writing Center and the University." with Deborah Burns in The Politics of Writing Centers. Ed. Jane Nelson & Kathy Evertz. Forthcoming, Longman.

Professional Activities: Consultant and workshop leader, Writing Across the Curriculum; founding member, Intercollegiate Electronic Democracy Project; member, Council of Writing Program Administrators, NCTE, CCCC.
 
Current Research Interests: Writing with electronic technology; writing as a profession; democracy theory and writing; writing center practices.

 

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