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Current Research Digital Media Ethics, & Writing: My current research centers on the ethical implications of using digital media in writing studies. My new book is due out in a couple weeks! Check it out for more in this area. I am currently developing a second qualitative study that look at another aspect of this important issue.
19th Century Writing @ Baylor Female College:
This research involves the history of The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor (UMHB) during its early years, when it
was still the Baylor Female College.
Specifically, this research seeks to understand the courses, methods,
and pedagogical justifications behind the teaching of rhetoric, composition,
and elocution at Baylor Female College (1866-1900: late nineteenth
century). I believe the value of this work is
substantial both to the university and the discipline of Rhetoric and
Composition of which I am a member.
Principally,
understanding how rhetoric, composition, and elocution—intimately related
subjects during the nineteenth century—were taught, catalogued, and implemented
at Baylor Female College will enable the preservation and publicity of
UMHB history for future generations.
Outcomes related to this preservation include—but are not limited to—possible
museum displays, historical lectures, newspaper reflections, etc. Historical preservation is not the sole
purpose of the research, however.
A second
purpose of this research builds on awareness that the field of Rhetoric and
Composition maintains a substantive investment in understanding the means by
which students learned the skills necessary for writing and speaking in private
and public life during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Of particular importance is the reclaiming of
women’s voices during these periods—something this research seeks to support. Recent publications in Rhetoric and
Composition abound that describe similar research at other universities and
colleges, offering contextualized studies of courses, students, teachers, and programs
related to the teaching of rhetoric, composition, and elocution. |
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Future Research
Professionalization of Christian Graduate Student in Writing Studies:
This
research initially began while I was in graduate school and led to a
publication in Rhetoric Review. I plan to continue research that explores
this important population of future scholars.
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This book explores the ethical implications of using digital media tools
in the writing classroom, particularly first-year composition, but
applied more broadly as well. The author argues that in addition to
Stuart Selbers three multiliteracies, teachers of writing must include
ethical literacy when teaching students to compose using digital tools.
This book explores the need for this ethical literacy—drawing on
interviews with writing program administrators and instructors—and
offers implications, heuristics, outcomes, and sample assignments for
teaching digital media ethics in writing. |
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