University Writing
Resume:
Dr. Michael A. Pemberton
Court Path
Statesboro, GA 30461
(912)
Department of Writing & Linguistics
Georgia Southern University, P.O. Box 8026
Statesboro, GA 30460
e-mail: ********@***************.***
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English &
American Literature/Composition Studies, University of California,
San
Diego 1990
M.A. English,
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 1984
B.A. Motion
Picture/TV Production, University of California, Los Angeles 1975
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Professor, Georgia
Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 2008 present
Associate Professor,
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 2003 2008
Assistant Professor,
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA, 1999 2003
Director, University
Writing Center, Georgia Southern University, 1999 present
Assistant Professor,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 1990 99
Director,
The Writers' Workshop (campus writing center), UIUC, 1990 99
Acting Director, Division
of Business & Technical Writing, UIUC, 1998 99
Associate Director,
Center for Writing Studies, UIUC, 1990 99
Director of Outreach
Programs, Dept. of English, UIUC, 1996 99
Director of Instructional
Computing, Dept. of English, UIUC, 1996 98
Instructor, University of
California, San Diego, 1985 90
Instructor, Long Beach
City College, 1988 90
Instructor, Southwestern
Community College, Summer 1985
Lecturer, California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1981 84
BOOKS
PUBLISHED
Shifting the Center of Africanism: Language, Economic Regionalism, and
Globalization; Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African
Linguistics (with Olaoba Arasanyin). Sommerville, MA:
Cascadilla Press, 2006. Online version available at:
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/36/index.html
Bookmarks: A Guide to Research and Writing, 3rd ed. (with
John Ruszkiewicz and Janice R. Walker). Longman Publishing, July 2005.
The
Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship
(with Joyce Kinkead). Logan: Utah State University Press, 2003.
Winner, Best Book Award (2003), International Writing
Centers Association
Winner, Best Book Award (2003-04), Council of Writing
Program Administrators
Bookmarks: A Guide to Research and Writing, 2nd ed. (with
John Ruszkiewicz and Janice R. Walker). Longman Publishing, August 2002.
The
Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and Practice. Stamford,
CT: Ablex, 2000.
BOOKS IN
PROGRESS
Writing
Centers. A volume in the Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition
series published by Parlor Press; Charles Bazerman, series editor. Expected
manuscript completion date: August 2009.
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS IN PROGRESS
Reconceiving Authority in the Writing Center:
Beyond the Tryptich of Race, Class, and Gender. (with Suellynn Duffey).
PUBLICATIONS
Putting a
Finger in Every Pie: The Expanding Role of Writing Centers in Writing
Instruction. Writing and Pedagogy (forthcoming 2009).
Revisiting
Tales Too Terrible to Tell : A Survey of Graduate Coursework in Writing Program
and Writing Center Administration. Before and After the Tutorial: Writing
Centers and Institutional Relationships. William Macauley and Nicholas
Masiello, eds. (forthcoming 2009).
Word
Processors and Composition. Digital Tools in Composition Studies: Critical
Dimensions and Implications, Ollie Oveido, Byron Hawk, and Joyce Walker,
eds. (forthcoming 2009).
Reflections
on Across the Disciplines. Editor s Column, Across the Disciplines
(Feb. 15, 2007).
http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/editor/
Foreword.
Selected Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on African
Linguistics: Shifting the Center of Africanism: Language, Economic Regionalism,
and Globalization(with Olaoba F. Arasanyin). Medford, MA: Cascadilla
Press, 2006. v-vi.
Working
with Faculty Consultants in the Writing Center: Three Guidelines and a Case
History. The Writing Center Director s Resource Book, Christina Murphy
and Byron Stay, eds. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2006. 403-416.
Critique or
Conformity?: Ethics and Advocacy in the Writing Center. The Writing Center
Director s Resource Book, Christina Murphy and Byron Stay, eds. Mahwah, NJ:
Erlbaum, 2006. 261-270.
Making
Better Writers, Not Just Better Writing. The Eyrie: Newsletter of the
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Georgia Southern University,
3.1/2 (Fall 2004/Spring 2005): 13.
On Becoming
Editor of Across the Disciplines. Editor s Column, Across the Disciplines
(June 28, 2005).
http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/editor/editor2006.cfm
How Did You
Come to Be Active in the Computers and Writing Community? Computers and
Writing: The Cyborg Era, James A. Inman, ed. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2004:
186.
Preparing
for Hypertext in the Writing Center Or Not. Writing Center Journal, 24.1
(2003): 9-24.
Nominated for IWCA Outstanding Article Award, 2003
The
Writing Lab Newsletter as History. The Center Will Hold: Critical
Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship, Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce
Kinkead, eds. Logan: Utah State UP, 2003: 21-40.
Nominated for IWCA Outstanding Article Award, 2003
Introduction: Benchmarks in Writing Center Scholarship (with Joyce Kinkead).
The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship,
Michael A. Pemberton and Joyce Kinkead, eds. Logan: Utah State UP, 2003: 1-20.
Artful
Dodging? Coping with Standardized Literacy Assessments in the Writing Center.
Writing Lab Newsletter 27.3 (November 2002): 6-9.
Working
Relationships between Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum
Programs plus follow-ups and responses, Academic.Writing Forum,
Academic.Writing (Spring 2002).
http://aw.colostate.edu/forums/spring2002/
What Must Be
Done to Ensure that College Students Communicate Well in Their Fields?
Panelists Statements; WAC 2002: The Sixth National Writing Across the
Curriculum Conference. Houston, TX: Rice University.
Review of
Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs: A Developing
Partnership (with Joan Mullin). Robert Barnett and Jacob Blumner, eds.
Writing Lab Newsletter, 24.9 (May 2000): 12-13.
Foreword,
in Coogan, David. Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of
Composition, Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1999.
Introduction. The Ethics of Writing Instruction: Issues in Theory and
Practice. Michael A. Pemberton, ed. Stamford, CT: Ablex, 2000. ix-xvi.
Toe the
Party Line or Subvert from Within? Travels with the Midwest Writing Centers
Association: 1996 & 1997 Conference Proceedings. Shireen Carroll, ed.
Davidson, NC: MWCA (1998): 47-66.
Working with
Graduate Students NWCA Writing Center Resource Manual. Bobbie Silk, ed.
Emmitsburg, MD: NWCA Press, 1998: IV.3.1-5
Writing
Across the Curriculum Encounters Asynchronous Learning Networks (with Gail
Hawisher). Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum, Donna Reiss,
Art Young, and Dickie Selfe, eds. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1997:17-39.
Reprinted in Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks 1.1 (March
1997).
[http://www.aln.org/alnweb/journal/jaln_Vol1issue1.htm]
Review of
Writing Centers: An Annotated Bibliography, Christina Murphy, Joe Law, and
Steve Sherwood, Eds., NACADA 17.1 (Spring 1997): 74-5.
Online
Writing Labs (OWLs): A Taxonomy of Options and Issues (with Muriel Harris).
Computers and Composition 12.2 (1995): 145-160.
Reprinted in Barnett, R.W. and J.S. Blumner, eds. The Allyn and Bacon
Guide to
Writing
Center Theory and Practice. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001: 521-540
Panoramas
and Vistas: New Directions in Writing Instruction, The Clearing House
69.1 (September/October 1995): 5-7.
Rethinking
the WAC/Writing Center Connection, Writing Center Journal 15.2 (Spring
1995): 116-133.
Reprinted in Barnett, R.W. and J.S. Blumner (eds.) The Allyn and
Bacon Guide to
Writing
Center Theory and Practice. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001: 442-457.
Dependency
in the Writing Center: Psychological Profiles and Tutorial Strategies,
Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 10 (Spring 1994): 63-70.
Computer-Based Research. Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts,
Alan C. Purves, Ed. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1994: 259-260.
Modeling
Theory and Composing Process Models. College Composition and Communication,
44 (February 1993): 40-58.
Tales Too
Terrible to Tell: Unstated Truths and Underpreparation in Graduate Composition
Programs. Writing Ourselves into the Story: Unheard Voices in Composition
Studies. S. Fontaine and S. Hunter, Eds. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
Press, 1993: 154-173.
Integrating
Theory and Ergonomics: Designing the Electronic Classroom, (with Gail Hawisher)
Approaches to Computer Writing Classrooms: Learning from Practical Experience.
L. Myers, ed., New York: SUNY Press, 1993: 35-52.
Threshold of
Desperation: Winning the Fight Against Term Paper Mills. The Writing
Instructor, 11 (Spring/Summer 1992): 143-152..
The Prison,
the Hospital, and the Madhouse: Redefining Metaphors for the Writing Center,
The Writing Lab Newsletter, 17 (September 1992): 11-16,
The Case for
Teacher as Researcher in Computers and Composition Studies, (with Gail
Hawisher) The Writing Instructor, 10 (Winter 1991): 77-88 .
Writing
Center Ethics A monthly column in The Writing Lab Newsletter:
The Ethics
of Content: Negotiating Religious Arguments and Papers in Unfamiliar
Disciplines, 24.1 (September 1999): 14-15, 8.
The Ethics
of Content: Rhetorical Issues in Writing Center Conferences, 23.8 (April 1999):
10-12.
Crisis
Tutorials, 23.6 (February 1999): 14-15.
Special
Needs Students and Writing Centers, 23.4 (December 1998): 12-13.
Mediating
between Students and Faculty, 23.2 (October 1998): 14-16.
Tutorial
Ethics: Student Personalities, 23.1 (September 1998): 10-12
Student
Agendas and Expectations for Writing Center Conferences (Part IV Again), 22.10
(June 1998): 10-11
Student
Agendas and Expectations (Part IV): Requests for Evaluation, 22.9 (May 1998):
13-14
Student
Agendas for Writing Center Conferences (Part III), 22.8 (April 1998): 13-15
Student
Agendas and Expectations for Writing Center Conferences (Part II), 22.7 (March
1998): 12-13
Student
Agendas and Expectations for Writing Center Conferences (Part I), 22.6
(February 1998): 14-16
Equity
Issues in Hiring for the Writing Center, 22.5 (January 1998): 14-15
The Ethics
of Choosing and Hiring Tutors (Part 1), 22.3 (November 1997): 11-12
Do What I
Tell You Because You Control Your Own Writing, 22.2 (October 1997): 13-14, 5
A Case in
Point, 22.1 (September 1997): 10-11
The Ethics
of Writing Center Pedagogy, 21.9 (May 1997): 11-12
Administrative Contexts and Ethics, Part II, 21.7 (March 1997): 11-13
Discerning
and Discriminating among Multiple Contexts, 21.6 (February 1997): 14-15
Responsibility, Context, and Situational Ethics, 21.4 (December 1996): 13-14
Ethical
Standards and Writing Centers, 21.3 (November 1996): 15-16
Defining
Our Terms, 21.2 (October 1996): 13-14
Ethics and
Diversity, 21.1 (September 1996): 15-16, 10
Kiping,
20.10 (June 1996): 14-15
Content Is
As Content Does, 20.9 (May 1996): 12-13
How
Collaborative are Take-Home Exams?: Part II, 20.8 (April 1996): 11-12
Safe Sex in
the Writing Center, 20.6 (1996): 14-15
How
Collaborative are Take-Home Exams? 20.5 (1996): 13-14
Walls,
20.4 (1995): 13-14
Sharers and
Seclusionists, 20.3 (1995): 13-14
Weirdos,
Wackos, and Writing Centers, 20.2 (1995): 11-12
Grammar
Redux, Redux, Redux, 20.1 (1995): 5-6
The
Question of Expertise, 19.10 (1995): 15-16
Equity,
Opportunity, and Access, 19.9 (1995): 15-16
Teaching,
Learning, and Problem-Solving, 19.8 (1995): 15-16
Undermining
the System, 19.7 (1995): 15-16
Ignorance
and the Unethical Writing Center, 19.6 (1995): 13-14
Questioning
Our Own Existence, 19.5 (1995): 8-9
The Three
Laws of Tutorics, 19.4 (1994): 13-14
Responding
(Or Not) as Readers in Context, 19.3 (1994): 15-16
Drawing the
Line Between Personal and Professional, 19.2 (1994): 6-7
Directive
Non-Directiveness: Readers' Responses to Troublesome Scenarios, 18.10 (1994):
15-16
Confronting
Controversy and Practicing Politics, 18.7 (1994): 6-7
The Ethics
of Intervention: Part III, 18.6 (1994): 10
The Ethics
of Intervention: Part II, 18.5 (1994): 8-9
The Ethics
of Intervention: Part I, 18.4 (1993): 10, 12
Telling
Stories In and Out of School, 18.2 (1993): 4
Reconciling
Responsibilities, 17.10 (1993): 15-16
Naming
Names, 17.9 (1993): 6-7
Situating
Ourselves and Weighing Consequences, 17.8 (1993): 6-7
Lying to
Ourselves and Others, 17.7 (1993): 6-7
Ethics and
Writing Centers, 17.5 (1993): 14-15
PAPERS,
LECTURES, AND READINGS DELIVERED
Comic Books
and First Year Writing: Moving Beyond Literary Analysis. Student Success in
First Year Composition Conference, Statesboro, GA, Feb. 2009: (accepted).
Preparing
Future Writing Center Administrators for the Real World. Conference on
College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 13, 2009.
(accepted)
The Comic
Book in American Culture. Averitt Center for the Arts, introductory
lecture for opening of Comics In Society exhibit. Statesboro, GA: April 11,
2008.
Using Digital
Tools to Assess Writing Center Work. Conference on College Composition and
Communication, New Orleans, LA: April 2008.
Using
Contrastive Scenarios to Teach Writing Center Ethics. Student Success in
First Year Composition Conference, Statesboro, GA: February 1, 2008
(accepted).
Houston, We
Have a Problem : Report on the 2006 Phoenix Symposium on Writing Center
Leadership. International Writing Centers Association Conference,
Houston, TX: April 2007.
The IWCA
Assessment and Accreditation Survey of Writing Center Directors.
International Writing Centers Association Conference, Houston, TX: April
2007.
Writing
Center Assessment: Background and Foreground. Conference on College
Composition and Communication, New York, NY: March 2007.
Japanazis,
Jungle Girls, and Jubilee: Using Comic Books to Deconstruct Cultural
Stereotypes. Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Chicago, IL, April 2006.
Reconceiving
Authority in the Writing Center: Beyond the Tryptich of Race, Class, and
Gender. International Writing Centers Association/National Conference on
Peer Tutoring, Minneapolis, MN, October 20, 2005.
Everything I
Need to Know About Information Literacy I Learned in Kindergarten (More or
Less). Keynote address at the Georgia Conference on Information
Literacy. Georgia Southern University, September 30, 2005.
The Past,
Present, and Future of Writing Centers. St. Leo University, St. Leo, Florida,
August 19, 2005.
Student
Agency and Writing Programs. Invited presentation at featured panel.
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of
Louisville, KY, October 2004.
Objects and
Objectives: The Rhetoric of Writing Center Artifacts. Thomas R. Watson
Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, KY,
October 2004.
Collecting
(and Spreading) the Good Word...about Writing, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, San Antonio, TX, 2004.
Partnering
with Celebrities, Authors, and CEOs to Teach Writing, NCTE Annual Convention,
San Francisco, CA, November 2003.
Redefining
Expertise: Will New Technologies + New Texts = New Tutors? International
Writing Centers Association/National Conference on Peer Tutoring, Hershey,
PA 2003
Hypertext
and Writing Centers, Computers and Writing Conference, Purdue
University, West Lafayette, IN, May 2003.
The Art of
Subversion: Working with
Mandated State Literacy Tests in the Writing Center, International Writing
Centers Association Conference, Savannah, GA, April 2002.
How Can
Writing Centers Enhance Disciplinary Communication Skills? Invited
presentation at featured panel, Sixth National Writing across the
Curriculum Conference, Houston, TX, March 8, 2002.
We Don't Need
No Steenking Professional Development: The Promise and Pitfalls of Faculty in
the Writing Center, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Chicago, IL, 2002.
Faculty and
Peer Tutors Working Shoulder to Shoulder, NCTE Annual Convention,
Baltimore, MD, November 17, 2001.
Crackers: The
Textual Community of Software Pirates, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Denver, CO, 2001.
Getting
Better Student Writing with Well-Crafted Assignments, Success in First-Year
Composition Conference, Statesboro, GA, February 9, 2001.
Teaching
Tutorial Ethics with Contrastive Scenarios, National Writing Centers
Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 3, 2000.
Charting
Where We've Been; Predicting Where We'll Be, Keynote address at the
National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Merrimack College, Andover,
MA, October 2000.
If It's Not
My Father's Oldsmobile, Can I Still Call It a Car?: Technology, Literacy, and
Transformation in the Writing Center. Computers and Writing 2000 Conference,
Ft. Worth, TX, May 25, 2000.
That
Doesn t Work for Me : Learning from ESL Graduate Students, National Writing
Centers Association Conference, Bloomington, IN, April 16, 1999.
Why Not Ask
Them?: Using Feedback from ESL Students to Shape Writing Center
Pedagogy, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta,
GA, March 23, 1999.
Ethical
Theory, Composition, and Writing Centers, Illinois State University
Colloquium. Bloomington, IL, February 1999.
Technology
and the Writing Center, Furman University Colloquium. Greensboro, NC, February
1999.
The Future of
Writing Centers, University of Delaware Colloquium. Newark, DE, December 11,
1998.
Turning
Current Stories into Future Policy: A Writing Center Perspective, Conference
on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, April 4, 1998.
Toe the Party
Line or Subvert from Within?: Politics in the Writing Center, Keynote
address at the Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference, Kansas
City, MO, 1997.
Negotiating Rocks and Hard Places: When the Writing Center Must Confront
Faculty. Workshop at National Writing Centers Association Conference,
Park City, UT 1997.
Not Just
Writing: Take-Home Exams, Writing Centers, and Faculty Expectations,
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, AZ, March 13,
1997.
Border Wars
on the Electronic Frontier: The Online Writing Center and WAC at the University
of Illinois, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Milwaukee, WI, March 28, 1996.
Gauging
Faculty Attitudes Toward Writing Centers. Keynote Address at the
Central Pennsylvania Consortium of Writing Centers Conference, Dickinson
College, Carlisle, PA, February 17, 1996.
Reconceiving
Graduate Education in Writing. Panelist at the Graduate Student Conference
in Rhetoric and Composition, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, February 2,
1996.
Using
Asynchronous Learning Technologies to Support WAC in the University of Illinois
Writing Center. Paper presented at Second International Writing Centers
Conference, St. Louis, MO, September 1995.
Using
Contrastive Scenarios to Teach Writing Center Ethics. Workshop given at
Second International Writing Centers Conference, St. Louis, MO, September
1995.
The Ethics of
Technology in the Writing Center. Paper presented at Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Washington, DC., March 25, 1995.
Epistemological Warfare: WAC Programs and Writing Centers. Paper presented at
East Central Writing Center Association Conference, Indiana University,
March 11, 1995
Polyphony or
Harmony?: The Place of a Writing Center in a WAC Program. Paper presented at
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Nashville, TN, 1994.
On the Horns
of a Writing Center: Confronting Ethical Dilemmas in a Writing Conference.
Paper presented at Learning Assistance Association of New England,
Cambridge, MA 1993.
Dealing with
Dependency in the Writing Center. Paper presented at Conference on College
Composition and Communication, San Diego, CA, 1993.
Assisting
Undergraduate and Graduate Students in the Writers' Workshop. Paper presented
at NCTE Annual Convention, Louisville, KY, November 1992.
Writing
Preparation and Expectations for Collegiate Programs. Panelist at North
Central Association of Colleges and Schools, Chicago, IL, March 23, 1992.
Confronting
Term Paper Mills: Know the Enemy. Paper presented at Allerton Articulation
Conference, April 1992.
Lakoff and
Johnson Revisited: Metaphors for the Writing Center. Paper presented at
Conference on College Composition and Communication, Cincinnati, OH, March
1992.
Writing
Initiatives at the University of Illinois. Talk given at DEIL Colloquium,
November 6, 1991.
The Prison,
the Hospital, and the Madhouse: Redefining Metaphors for the Writing Center.
Paper given at East Central Writing Centers Association Conference, May
4, 1991, and at Allerton Articulation Conference, April 1991.
Meeting the
Needs of a Diverse Student Body in the Writers' Workshop. Talk given at
Writing Across the Curriculum at UIUC, October 23, 1991.
Guest on
WILL-AM "Afternoon Magazine, call-in talk show, February 21, 1991.
The Writers'
Workshop: Past, Present, and Future. Paper presented at Writing Across the
Curriculum: What Is It? Why Do We Want to Do It?, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, October 1990.
Empowering
Theoretical Discourse: What Do We Mean by a 'Model' of Composing Processes?
Paper presented at Conference on College Composition and Communication,
Seattle, WA, 1989.
Undermining
Academia: How Instructors Keep Term Paper Mills in Business. Modern
Language Association Conference on Literacy, Columbus, OH, Sept. 1988.
Integrating
Models of the Planning Process. Paper presented at Conference on College
Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, 1986.
In-Service Workshops & Professional Service:
Panelist and
Chair, Going Up for Full. IWCA/NCPTW Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
October 30, 2008.
Leader/Facilitator, Effective Conferencing with Students, Brown Bag Forum,
Department of Writing & Linguistics, February 27, 2007.
The Academic
Success Center and the University Writing Center. SOAR Presentations
(approximately 6-7 per year). 2003-present.
Guest lecturer
on Information Literacy, WRIT 3230, Dr. Janice Walker, professor. Georgia
Southern University, March 2006.
Contrasting
Response Strategies in the Writing Center and the Classroom, workshop given at
St. Leo University, August 19, 2005.
Program
Leader, 2005 Summer Institute for Writing Center Directors and Professionals,
University of Kansas, July 10-15, 2005.
Trading
Spaces, workshop at 2005 Summer Institute for Writing Center Directors and
Professionals, University of Kansas, July 11, 2005 (with Anne Geller).
Writing
Fellows/Tutors in Classrooms, workshop at 2005 Summer Institute for Writing
Center Directors and Professionals, University of Kansas, July 12, 2005
(with Carol Sevarino).
Educating Faculty, workshop at 2005 Summer Institute for Writing Center
Directors and Professionals, University of Kansas, July 13, 2005 (with
Frankie Condon).
Outreach, Publicity, and Marketing, workshop at 2005 Summer Institute for
Writing Center Directors and Professionals, University of Kansas, July 14,
2005 (with Jeanne Simpson).
From Research
to Scholarship II: Projects and Publication, workshop at 2005 Summer
Institute for Writing Center Directors and Professionals, University of
Kansas, July 14, 2005 (with Elizabeth Boquet).
Conference
Co-Coordinator, 36th Annual Conference on African Linguistics,
Savannah, GA, March 31-April 3, 2005
Disconnecting
and Reconnecting the Writing Center with Service Learning, Writing At/Of the
Center, Pre-Conference Workshop at Conference on College Composition and
Communication, San Antonio, TX, 2004.
Ethics In
the Classroom and in the Center, invited speaker in the Virginia Peck
Composition Series, Middle Tennessee State University, February 27, 2004.
Conducted workshops on:
Troublesome Conferences and Confidentiality
Working with ESL Students in the Writing Center
Challenges in Writing Assessment
Effective Assignment Design
Integrating
Writing into the Texture of Your Class, CET Workshop for New Faculty, Georgia
Southern University, October 6, 2003, and March 2005.
Discussion
Leader,Graduate Research Network, Computers and Writing Conference,
2003
ESL and the
Writing Center," Georgia Southern University, April 4, 2003.
Collaborative
Learning Theory and the Writing Center, Georgia Southern University, November
20, 2002.
Faculty
Involvement in the Writing Center, IWCA Workshop, Conference on College
Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, 2002.
Chair,
The Writing Center s Role in the Success of First-Year Composition Students,
Student Success in First-Year Composition Conference, Georgia Southern
University, 2002.
Encouraging
Students to Use the University Writing Center New Faculty Orientation, Georgia
Southern University, 2002 & 2003.
Crafting Successful Writing Assignments CET Workshop, Georgia Southern
University, January 19, 2002, and February 20, 2002 (with Suellynn Duffey).
Writing Centers and Writing Across the Curriculum Programs, Georgia Southern
University Writing Center, December 4, 2001.
Teachers and/or Peers?: Negotiating Authority in the Writing Center, Georgia
Southern University Writing Center, November 2, 2001.
Troublesome Conferences and Troubled Students, Georgia Southern University
Writing Center, October 17, 2001.
Ebonics, African-American Vernacular English, and the Writing Center, Georgia
Southern University Writing Center, April 26, 2001.
Teaching
Argument in First-Year Composition, Georgia Southern University Writing Center,
April 6, 2001.
Critical Pedagogy and the Writing Center, Georgia Southern University Writing
Center, March 29, 2001
and April 18, 2003.
Recognizing
and Working with Rhetorical Patterns from Different Cultures, Georgia Southern
University Writing Center, November 29, 2000.
When Is
Grammar Important in a Conference and When Isn t It? Georgia Southern
University Writing Center, November 10, 2000; November 1, 2002; November 5,
2004.
Ethical
Conferencing: When Are We Giving Too Much Help in Conferences? Georgia Southern
University Writing Center, October 20, 2000; October 11, 2002; November 29,
2004.
Discussion
Leader Graduate Student Research Network, Computers and Writing 2000
Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, May 25, 2000
Panelist/Presenter, CCCC Caucus on Intellectual Property and
Composition/Communication Skills, Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 24, 1999.
Problems, Dilemmas, and Conflict in Conferences, Denison University,
Granville, OH, March 1999.
Writing Across
the Curriculum Workshop: directed two-day workshop at the University of
Montevallo, Montevallo, AL, August 22-23, 1998.
Teaching for
Active Learning through Writing, 10th Annual All-Campus Teaching
Assistants Orientation (Advanced Sessions), UIUC, August 28, 1997.
Writing and
Learning Across the Curriculum: Design and Implementation of Writing Assignments
in the Disciplines : Workshop given at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, February
16, 1996.
The Critical
Features of 'Good' Assignments : Workshop given at Dickinson College, Carlisle,
PA, February 16, 1996.
Writing
Across the Curriculum (with Gail Hawisher): Two day presentations at Allerton
Conference Center, 1991 98 [annually].
Writing Across
the Curriculum (with Gail Hawisher and Paul Prior): Five day summer workshops
for faculty, UIUC, 1991 99.
Writing Across
the Curriculum (with Gail Hawisher): Two day summer workshops for teaching
assistants, UIUC, 1991 92.
Numerous
presentations about the writing center in courses across campus
EDITORIAL AND PROFESSIONAL DUTIES
Editor, Across the Disciplines, international peer-reviewed online journal
focusing on interdisciplinary rhetoric and writing across the curriculum
programs, 2005 present.
http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/
Editor,
Illinois English Bulletin, 1996 1999
Founding
co-editor, Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 1993 2001
Guest
editor, The Clearing House, special issue on writing instruction,
September/October 1995
Assistant
Editor, CCCC Bibliography of Rhetoric and Composition, 1984 1999 (http://ibiblio.org/cccc/credits.html)
Consulting
reader, College Composition and Communication, 2005, 2008
Editorial
board, Writing and Pedagogy, 2007 present
Editorial
board,The WAC Clearinghouse, 2005 present
Editorial
board, The Writing Center Journal, 1995 present
Editorial
board, WPA: Writing Program Administration, 2004 present
Editorial
board, Computers and Composition, 1990 present
Editorial
board, Across the Disciplines, 2003 2005
Editorial
board, Academic.Writing (electronic journal), 2001 2005
Editorial
board, International Writing Center Association Press, 1995 present
Editorial
board, Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, 2001 2003
Advisory
board, National Writing Center Research Project, University of Louisville,
2000 present
At-Large
Member, Executive Board, International Writing Centers Association, 2004
2008
Past
President, International Writing Centers Association, 2001 2003
President,
International Writing Centers Association, 1999 2001
Vice
President, National Writing Centers Association, 1998 1999
Second Vice President,
National Writing Centers Association, 1997 1998
Acting Secretary,
National Writing Centers Association, 1996 1997
Treasurer, National
Writing Centers Association, 1995 1997
Listowner,
NWCA-L, discussion list for International Writing Centers Association
executive board, 1998 2002
Executive
Secretary, Illinois Association of Teachers of English, 1996 1999
Member,
Southeastern Writing Centers Association Awards Expansion Initiative Team, 2002
Member,
CCCC Task Force on National Day of Writing, 2009
Member,
CCCC Resolutions Committee, 2009
Member,
WPA Consultant Evaluator Board, 2007 present
Chair,
IWCA Committee on Assessment and Accreditation, 2005 2008
Member,
IWCA Finance Committee, 2004 2008
Judge,
Georgia Charter School Association annual essay contest, 2005.
Judge, CCCC Writing Programs of Excellence Awards, 2005.
Judge,
Outstanding Director and Tutor Awards, Southeastern Writing Centers Association,
2003, 2004
Judge,
NCTE Affiliate Journals Award Competition, 1999
Proposal
Reader, International Writing Centers Association Conference, 2002.
Chair,
IWCA Best Article Award Committee, 2003
Reviewer,
book manuscript, In the Center, IWCA Press, 2004.
Reviewer,
book manuscript, Doing Synchronous: Researching Real-Time Computer
Environments within the Composition Classroom, Hampton Press, 2002.
Reviewer,
Bookmarks, 1st ed., Longman, 2001
Reviewer,
book manuscript, Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of
Composition, Computers & Composition series (Ablex), 1999
Reviewer,
book manuscript, Taking Flight with OWLS: Research into Technology Use in
Writing Centers, University of Illinois Press, 1997
Reviewer,
book manuscript, Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center,
NCTE 1994
Reviewer,
book manuscript, The Blair Handbook, Blair Press, 1992.
Reviewer,
book proposal, Critical Mythologies, St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Reviewer,
book proposal, Writing for All Situations; Theory and Practice: Essays on the
Application of Theory in Writing Centers, NCTE, 1991 92.
Proposal
Reviewer, Idaho State Board of Education, 1991 1992.
Contributing bibliographer, CCCC Bibliography of Rhetoric and Composition,
1989 1994.
Writing
Consultant for the New Standards Project, 1992 94. [Task development and
review, rubric design for writing assessment, reader/scorer training]
Reader
for Educational Testing Service (since 1988): TWE exam, Statewide Subject A exam
(for University of California) 1988 90, CBEST exam, AP exam in Language and
Literature 1990 97. Table Leader for TWE exam 1990, 92, 94, 96, 97.
Member,
Publishers and Professionals Committee, NCTE, 2000.
Lead QEP
Evaluator, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools reaffirmation
review of Auburn University, Montgomery (April 1-3, 2008).
External
Reviewer, tenure and promotion reviews for candidates at Merrimack College,
Dickinson College, University of Idaho, University of Colorado, and elsewhere.
External
Writing Program Reviewer, George Washington University, 2006. Visited,
reviewed, and assessed the writing center and first year writing program.
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