Rick Bailey
English Instructor
Phone: (313) 845-6498
Fax: (313) 317-6690  
E-mail: rbailey@hfcc.edu
Office: A-214
Building: Learning Technology Center
 

Professional Activity

I've taught English at HFCC since 1980.   My doctoral work at University of Michigan focused on rhetoric and freshman writing.  In my dissertation, I applied the Harvard Business School's case method approach to forms of academic writing. 

Since finishing my doctorate in 1989, I have continued to use my classrooms as laboratories to test ideas about teaching, culminating in these publications: The Creative Writer's Craft: Lessons in Poetry, Fiction, and Drama (Glencoe, 1999) and Destinations: An Integrated Approach to Developmental Writing (McGraw-Hill, 2005).  

I have explored my interest in thinking-writing connections and writing across the curriculum in a number of projects funded by the National Science Foundation at HFCC, infusing writing into courses in technical physics (1998), electronics (1999), and mathematics (2004).  I also helped develop custom curriculum through HFCC's Office of Corporate Training, in a project called The Detroit Manufacturing Technology Bridge.  With grants from the National

 

Endowment for the Humanities, I have been privileged to work with HFCC colleagues in the humanities and career education on a number of issues related to work.  With my colleague Dr. Michael Daher, I co-directed an oral history project focused on working people in Southeastern Michigan (1998-2002).  Most recently, I worked as a consultant on his  Landmarks of American History Workshop, also funded by the NEH. 

News and Current Events

New students, here is information about English 131 online, Winter 2009.

I am in my third year of work as a curriculum integration consultant on a project sponsored by the Community College Research Center (CCRC) of Teachers College, Columbia University, funded by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education.

In January 2009 McGraw-Hill will publish two new books on developmental writing that I have written with Linda Denstaedt.