Dissertations

Aitken, Nicole. Creating a Connected Classroom: Engaging Students with Multimodal Texts in the Community College Composition Classroom. Committee Member, 2008.

Erickson, Bruce. Before Beyond: A Study of a Para-Pedagogy Which Uses Discovery and De-Mystification to Revisit First-Year College Composition. Committee Member, 2008.

Fitzgerald, Devon. Intersections of the Self: Identity in the Boom of Social Media. Committee Chair, 2008.

Seible, Marcea. The Transition From Student to Professional A Pedagogy of Professionalism For First-Year Composition. Committee Member, 2008.Morton, Sheila. Teaching Eighteenth-Century Drama Through Classroom and Digital Performance. Committee Member, 2006.

Antliz, Susan. Building Textual Spaces: Moo Writing in the First Year Composition Classroom. Director, 2005.

Morton, Deborah. Beyond User-Centered: Ecological Design for Technical Communication Practitioners and Pedagogues. Director, 2003.

Fan Jiang-ping. Semiotics and Advertising. Committee Member, 2003.

Kumpf, Eric. Concurrent Discourses. Committee Member, 2001.

Strasma, Kip. Sites of Disjuncture: Reading/Writing Hyperfiction. Director, 1998. (This dissertation won the Hugh Burns Award for the Outstanding Computers and Writing Dissertation, 1999 and the Illinois State University Clarence W. Sorensen Distinguished Dissertation Award, 1999.)

Sawyer, Paul. Evaluating the Design and Delivery of an Online Technical Writing Course. Committee Member, 1997.

Ding, Dan. Historical and Social Contexts for Scientific Writing and Use of Passive Voice: Toward An Undergraduate Science Literary Course. Committee Member, 1997.

Lamonica, Claire. Conflict and Creativity in Student Writing Groups. Committee Member, 1996.

Ng, Joseph. Writing Instruction in the Computerized Context: An Ethnographic Case Study of Three College Teachers at Work. Committee Member, 1993.

DeWitt, S. Lloyd. Hypertextualizing Composition Instruction. Committee Member. 1992.

Mabrito, Mark. Writing Apprehension and Computer-Mediated Peer-Response Groups: A Case Study of Four High- and Four Low-Apprehensive Writers Communicating Face-to-Face versus Electronic Mail. Committee Member, 1989. (This dissertation won the Hugh Burns award for the Outstanding Computers and Writing Dissertation, 1990.)