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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Linda Shamoon

Linda K. Shamoon

Professor

Office: Roosevelt 326
Phone: (401) 874-4203
E-mail: linda.shamoon@gmail.com
Degrees: Purdue University; 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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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.