COURSES TAUGHT

*Note: semesters indicated in brackets, such as [F05], provide links to student evaluation data for the course and my analysis of and commentary on those evaluations.

GRADUATE

North Carolina State University:

• Eng. 624: Teaching College Writing [F07] [F08]
• Eng. 583: Writing Across Contexts: New Perspectives [S03]
• Eng. 511 Theory and Research in Composition [S01] [S02] [F03] [F04] [F05] [S06]
• Eng. 583B: Studies in Writing Across the Curriculum [F99]
• CRD 809: Colloquium in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media [F05]
• CRD 704: Technology and Pedagogy in the Communication Arts [F05]

University of Minnesota:

• Eng. 8810: Composition and Literacy: Contemporary Issues
• Eng. 8810: Studies of Writing Across the Curriculum
• Eng. 8810: Responding to Student Writing: Theory, Research, Practice
• Eng. 8810: Advanced Composition Research
• Eng. 8810: Introduction to Composition Research
• Eng. 8050: Introduction to Theory and Research in Composition
• LS8801: Final Project Course, Liberal Studies Master's Program
• Eng. 5860: Methods of Text Analysis
• Eng. 8050: Teaching Writing in the College Years: Theory and Research
• Eng. W5210: Using Writing Creatively in Teaching [1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, & 1999 Summer Institute for Teachers]
• Eng. W5210: Developing a Teaching Portfolio [1997 Summer Institute Short Course]
• Eng. W5210: Writing for Teaching [1993 Summer Institute for Teachers]
• Eng. 5100: Introduction to Composition Theory and Research
• Eng. 5100: Writing Across the Disciplines
• Hum 5910: Theories of Reading and Interpretation

UNDERGRADUATE

North Carolina State University (1999-pres.)

• Eng. 455: Literacy in America [S07]* [S08]*
• Eng. 323: Writing in the Rhetorical Tradition [S04]
• Eng. 210: Introduction to Language and Linguistics [S00] [F00] [F01] [S05]
• Eng. 350: Internship in Writing and Editing. [F02]

*Created course and received approval by NC State University as a permanent offering in 2006. Includes service learning requirement.

University of Minnesota (1984-99)

• PMA1050: Premajor Advising Seminar: Faculty Mentor Program for Premajor Freshmen [2-credits; invited; 1997 and 1998]
• SPAN 1995: Faculty Advisor for Student Project for Amity Among Nations, Switzerland Group: 1994 advising; summer 1995 advising in residence (Switzerland); 1995-96 project advising. See student entries under "undergraduate directed study." [Competitively chosen]
• FSSP 5960: SPAN preparation and thesis course (see above); 12 credits.
• HSem 3010: American Literacy and Cultural Diversity [honors; included service-learning component]
• HSem 3060: American Literacy and Cultural Diversity [honors; included service-learning component]
• Eng. 3960: American Literacy and Cultural Diversity [senior seminar; included service learning component]
• Eng. 3960: English in America [senior seminar]
• Eng. 3860: English in America
• Eng. 3860: American Literacy and Cultural Diversity [included service learning component]
• Eng. 3910: A Survey of Modern Grammars [honors course]
• Eng. 3860: American Literacy and Cultural Diversity [service-learning course, federally funded]
• Eng. 3860: Special Topics in English Language: Child Language Development
• Eng. 3854: American Literacy and Cultural Diversity [included service-learning component]
• Eng. 3851: Introduction to the English Language
• Eng. 3852: Aspects of the English Language
• Eng. 1101: Introduction to Fiction Writing
• Eng. 1018: Introduction to Modern Fiction
• Eng. 1016: Introduction to American Literature
• HCol 1101: Language in America [Summer High School Honors Program, 1992]
• HCol 1101: Language and Literacy in America [Summer High School Honors Program, 1991]
• HCol 1101: A Critique of American English [Summer High School Honors Program, 1990]
• Comp. 3085: Writing the Large Academic Paper
• Comp. 3065: Editorial Practice
• Comp 3050: Special Topics in Advanced Composition: Writing in the Metro Internship Program
• Comp. 3033: Writing in the Health Sciences
• Comp 3027: Advanced Expository Writing
• Comp. 3027: Writing About Social Psychology [linked to Psych. 3080]
• Comp. 3027: Writing About the English Language [linked to Eng. 3851
• Comp. 3011: Writing About Literature
• Comp. 1027: Intermediate Expository Writing
• Comp. 1011: Introductory Expository Writing

Indiana University (1979-1984):

• Elementary Composition Elementary Composition (Basic Skills)
• Elementary Composition (Foreign Students)
• Introduction to Composition (Groups Special Services)
• Professional Writing
• Professional Writing for Business Majors
• Introduction to Literature and Composition
• Experimental Pilot Course in Reading/Writing Relationships

Syracuse University (1977-79):

• Introduction to Composition
• Minicourses in Writing About Literature

 

ADVISING

M.A. AND PH.D. THESES [official member on all committees unless otherwise noted; date indicates successful defense]

North Carolina State University (1999-pres.)

• Kathy Ashman, [untitled dissertation]. Ph.D. Dissertation, Florida State University. [committee member; in progress]
• Laura Ingram, An Analysis of the Problem of Writing Skill Transference and Its Implications for Professional Writing Instructors. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. June 27, 2007. [advisor and thesis director]
• Toby Coley, Wikis in the Teaching of Writing: Purposes for Implementation. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Mar. 30, 2007. [advisor and thesis director]
• Brian Coe, Communication Problems in Virtual Teams: Applying Symbolic Interactionism Theory to Virtual Team Communication. M.S. Capstone Project, Dept. of English, def. Nov. 30, 2006.
• Alice Osborne, A Conversation in the Composition Classroom: Finding our Voice Through Creative Nonfiction. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Nov. 3, 2006. [advisor and thesis director]
• Susan Rashid Horn, What's Wrong and Who Cares? Reader Reaction to Error. Ph.D. Dissertation, College Writing Program, University of Rhode Island, def. Aug. 9, 2006. [committee member, defense chair]
• Melissa Meeks, Between Abolition and Reform: First-Year Writing Programs, Academic e-Literacy, and Institutional Change. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, def. Apr. 3, 2006. [committee member]
• Laura Samuels, The Effectiveness of Web Conferencing Technology in Student-Teacher Conferencing in the Writing Classroom: A Study of First-Year and Graduate Student Writers. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English; def. Mar. 15, 2006. [advisor and thesis director]
• Alexis Keto, Brain-Based Composition Instruction. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Sep. 26, 2005. [advisor and thesis director]
• Ashley Joyce Holmes, Web Logs in the Post-Secondary Writing Classroom: A Study of Purposes. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. March 21, 2005. [advisor and thesis director]
• Scott Wagar, Connections: Working Toward Nonviolence in Composition. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Oct. 19, 2004. [advisor and thesis director]
• Nichole Hurley Guthrie, Necessary Contradictions: Critical Pedagogy and Kenneth Burke's Pentad. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. May 8, 2003.
• Tanya Tillett, A Matter of Degrees: An Evaluation of Instructor Concept of Writing Effectiveness in an Adult Accelerated Degree Completion Program. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Dec. 2002. [advisor and thesis director]
• Boonyakrapob, Kornsiri. A Comparative Analysis of Longitudinal Studies of College Students' Intellectual Development. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, def. Dec. 2, 2002.
• Matarese, Maureen T. African American Vernacular English in Freshman Composition and the Social Construction of Teacher Response. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Apr. 2002. [advisor and thesis director]
  
• Fiore, Sallie Mae. Conferencing Software: Why to Incorporate it Into Writing Instruction and How to Select an Appropriate Product. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Mar. 2002.
  
• Furtner, Anita Lynn. What Students Know About Writing and Where They Learn It: An Interview-Based Study of College Seniors. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Mar. 2001.
• Slattery, Shaun Patrick, The Role of Web Sites in Defining and Furthering WAC and CAC: An Annotated Bibliography of WAC and CAC-Oriented Web Sites. M.A. Thesis, Dept. of English, def. Mar. 2000. [advisor and thesis director]

University of Minnesota (1984-99)

• Gill Creel, "How Cozening a Word is this 'Community'": Community College Teachers and Democratic Pedagogy: An Ethnographic Inquiry. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1999. Vol. 60-08A of Dissertation Abstracts International. PAGE 2902
• Angela Karstadt, Swedish-American English: A Longitudinal Study of Linguistic Variation and Identity. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1999.
• Louise Gaylord McDonald, Powerful English for the Active and Productive Man: How College English Became Difficult Enough to Build Character at Harvard College, 1890-1900. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English,1999. [advisor and dissertation director]
• Carol Ann Rutz, What Does my Teacher Want Me to Do? A Response-Based Investigation of the Teacher-Student Relationship in the Writing Classroom. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English,1999. [advisor and dissertation director]
• Thomas Joseph Reynolds, Ideological Affinities of Compositional and Popular Literacy: 1880-1920. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1999. [advisor and dissertation director]
• Michael Kuhne, A Community Pedagogy of Critical Hope: Paulo Freire, Liberation Pedagogy and Liberation Theology. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English,1998.
• Anna Marie Fellegy, Here/There, These/Those, This/That: Locative Discourse Markers in New Ulm English. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English,1997.
• Paul Johnson, Literacy, Technology, and Progress: The Social Construction of World-Wide Web Hypertexts in First-Year Composition. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1997.
• Kim Donehower, Beliefs About Literary in a Southern Appalacian Community. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1997. [advisor and dissertation director]
• Laurie Lee Forsberg, Studies in Discourse Literacy. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1996.
• Judith Landrum, The Teaching of Writing in Minnesota High Schools: Suburban, Private, and Urban. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, 1996.
• Linda Adler-Kassner, High School History Textbooks and Public Literacy in the Progressive Era: "Reading Progress." Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Journalism and Mass Communications, 1996.
• Todd Finley, Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Service English Teachers' Narratives, Stances, Roles, and Practice. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, 1995.
• Judy Lou Beckman, The Relationship Between Reluctant Readers' Need for Social Acceptance and Academic Success and Their Attitude Towards Leisure Reading. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, 1994.
• Bruce Maylath, Words Make a Difference: Effects of Greco-Latinate and Anglo-Saxon Lexical Variation on Post-Secondary-Level Writing Assessment in English. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1994. [Dissertation Director]
• Joseph Moses, Discourse and Community: Rhetoric and Relationship at a Social Service Agency. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1993.
• Paul Prior, Contextualizing Writing and Response in Graduate Seminars: A Sociohistoric Perspective on Academic Literacies. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, 1993.
• Mary Ann Bock, Education With the People: "Race," Pedagogy and Literacy. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1993.
• Karen Joy Muslof, The Angel Sings: The First Rhetorical Quest of Nancy, Lady Astor, November, 1919. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Speech Communications, 1992.
• Jeanette M. Lindholm, Bearing Witness to the Word: Language, Faith, and Learning in an Evangelical College Community. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1992.
• Marion Larson, Writers in Transition: Case Studies of Undergraduate Interns. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1992.
• Julienne S. Prineas, The Indigenous Writer: A Study of Nonfluent Writers Among Capable Upper-Division College Students. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1991.
• Mark Christensen, Interpersonal Cognitive Complexity and Abstractness, Degree of Self-Disclosure, and Solidarity with Addressee as Factors in the Quality of College Students' Autobiographical Writing, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, 1990.
• Joanne Cavallaro, The Effects of Selected Test Features on Teachers' Judgments of Students' Writing, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, 1990.
• Hildy Miller, Thesis-Design for Writing: Image and Metaphor in the Cognitive Processes of Composing, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1990.
• Katharine Swanson, The Relationship of Interpersonal Cognitive Complexity and Message-Design Logics Employed in Response to a Regulative Writing Task, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, 1990.
• Linda Fine Wendler, The Effects of Biblical Prior Knowledge and Verbal Ability on College Students' Ability to Interpret Short Stories. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, 1989.
• Anne O'Meara, Representing Emily Dickinson: A Study of Literary Practice. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1988.
• Bette Baldwin, Trends in Linguistic Politics: The English-Only Movement, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1987.
• Laura Brady, Collaborative Literary Writing: Issues of Authorship and Authority, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1988.
• Jill Reilly, The Effects of Guided Prewriting on Eighth Graders, Eleventh Graders, College Freshmen and College Juniors on Interpretation of a Story, M.A. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, 1985.
• Deborah Appleman, The Effect of Heuristically Based Assignments on Adolescent Response to Literature, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, 1986.
• Geoffrey Sirc, Composing Processes in Writing: A Critical Review of Paradigms in Theory and Research, Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of English, 1985.

M.A. AND Ph.D. PRELIMINARY EXAMINING COMMITTEES [reader on all written examination committees unless otherwise indicated]

• 48 committees; list available on request.

M.A. AND MAJOR GRADUATE DEGREE PAPERS (ADVISOR)

• 11 papers; list available on request.

GRADUATE DIRECTED STUDIES

• 32 courses, 128 total academic credits; list available on request.

UNDERGRADUATE HONORS AND SUMMA THESES, SENIOR PROJECTS, DIRECTED STUDIES

• 61 students; list available on requests.