I am a Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing and Co-Director of the Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center.

I am interested in how people write together to do the (knowledge) work of their everyday lives. Because of this, I locate my work at the intersection of professional and technical writing, rhetorical theory, and literacy theory.

I have a new book called Writing Community Change: Designing Technologies for Citizen Action (Hampton, 2007). In many ways, this is an extension of the work represented in my first book, Community Literacy Programs and the Politics of Change (SUNY, 2001).

I have published articles in journals such as College Composition and Communication, Technical Communication Quarterly, Computers and Composition, and English Education.

Spring 2008 Courses

An experimental course in organizational communication for the college of business
AL 877, community literacies

Links

rhetoric & writing
writing, rhetoric, & american cultures
vita (pdf)

Older Courses

WRA 210, introduction to web authoring
AL 872, methods in language learning and research (pdf of syllabus)
AL 877, community literacies (with ellen cushman)
WRA 110, writing, science, and technology
AL 885, professionalization seminar