News and Current Events
New students, here is information
about English 131 online, Winter, 2010.
In January 2009,
McGraw-Hill published two new developmental writing books I
wrote with Linda Denstaedt.
In January and
February, at McGraw-Hill symposia in Austin and New York, I
spoke to writing teachers about developmental writing and
motivation.
Using a program
called Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, I am working on
"sentence dividing" to improve students' control of the sentence
in freshman composition. I'll report on this work at the League
of Innovation conference in Oct 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.
Bio
I've taught English at HFCC since
1980. My doctoral work at the University of Michigan
focused on rhetoric and freshman writing. In my
dissertation, I applied the Harvard Business
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School's case method approach to forms of academic writing.
Since finishing my
doctorate in 1989, I have continued to test teaching ideas in my
classrooms, culminating in these publications: The Creative Writer's
Craft:
Lessons in Poetry, Fiction, and Drama (Glencoe, 1999), Destinations: An Integrated Approach to Developmental Writing
(McGraw-Hill, 2005). My new books are
Going Places (McGraw-Hill, 2009), and On the Go
(McGraw-Hill, 2009).
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).
More recently, I worked as a
consultant on his Landmarks of American
History Workshop, also funded by the NEH.
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