Curriculum Vitae

Michael M. Williamson
110 Leonard Hall
English department
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
(724) 357-2576 Office,

(724) 357-2261 English Department,

(724) 357-3056 fax
 

Email: mmwimson@iup.edu
Web:   http://www.english.iup.edu/mmwimson/

last updated 2003

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

B.A. Denison University, Granville Ohio, 1973, Major: English

Ed.M. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1976, Major: English Instruction

Ph.D. Research and Evaluation, Department of Learning and Instruction, Graduate School
            of Education, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1984

Major Fields: English Education, Linguistics, Educational Research Methodology

Dissertation Title: The Function of Writing in Three College Undergraduate Curricula

Director: Bruce E. Miller, Ph.D.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employment History - Teaching

1988-      Professor, English Department, IUP.

1986-88 Associate Professor, English Department, IUP.

1983-86 Assistant Professor, English Department, IUP.

1979-83 Instructor, Learning Center, Niagara University.

1977-83 Instructor, Humanities Department, Medaille College.

1975-77 Teaching Assistant, University Learning Center, State University of New York at Buffalo.

1975       Instructor, Educational Opportunity Center, State University of New York at Buffalo.

1973-74 Instructor, Department of Remediation, Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Certifications and Licenses

American Council of Teachers of Foreign Language Oral Proficiency Interview
          Administrator, Educational Testing Service, 1985

Pre-Teacher Assessment Center Examiner, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
          Pre-Teacher Assessment Project, 1987

Secondary English (7-12), Pennsylvania Instructional Level I

Honors/Distinctions

Faculty Member of the Year, Medaille College, 1979

Graduate Fellow, Educational Testing Service, 1977

Instruction

    Undergraduate

Borough of Manhattan Community College

Developmental English

English as a Second Language

State University of New York at Buffalo

College Writing I (Basic Writing) Copy Editing

College Writing II (Basic Writing) English as a Second Language

College Study Skills News Reporting

Medaille College

Advanced Composition

Art of the Film
Basic Writing

College Writing

Niagara University

Basic Writing

English as a Second Language

English 101 (Exposition and Research Paper)
English 102 (Persuasion and Literature)

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

English 101 (Exposition)

English 121 Humanities Literature

English 102 (Research Paper)

English 202 Research Writing

Adolescent Literature

Teaching and Evaluating Writing

Teaching Reading and Literature in the Secondary School

Secondary English Methods Student Teaching Supervision
Secondary English Methods (capstone)

Structures of English

Graduate

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Advanced Seminar in Composition: Writing Across the Curriculum

Advanced Seminar in Composition: Writing Program Administration

Advanced Seminar in Composition: Computers and English

Linguistics and the English Teacher

Psycholinguistics

Teaching Basic Writing

Observation of English Teaching English in the Secondary School

Research Methodology in Rhetoric and Linguistics
Introduction to Research

Technology & Literacy

Advanced Seminar in Composition: Writing Assessment

Program and Curriculum Development

Master of Arts in Teaching English Redesign (Chair) 1988-89.

IUP Spring Hill Commission, 1987-88 (Teacher education redesign).

Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric and Linguistics) Program Curriculum Redesign
             (Chair, Committee on Redesign 1987), 1986-87.

Writing Across the Curriculum Criteria Committee, 1987-88.

Master of Education Development Team, 1987-88.

IUP College of Education Redesign of Teacher Education Task Force,
            1986-87.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS

(in preparation).  The future of holistic scoring.  Validating holistic scoring (2nd ed.).

(1993). Writing across the curriculum: Bibliographies and indexes in education, Westport,
            CT: Greenwood Press. (with Chris Anson and John Schwiebert).

(1993). Validating holistic scoring: Theoretical and empirical foundations. Cresskill, NJ:
            Hampton Press. (co-edited with Brian Huot)

(1989). Collaborative pathways: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Writing
            Centers Association East Central. Indiana, PA: Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
             (co-edited with Lea Masiello)

Articles in refereed journals, or chapters in edited books published by a national publisher

(2006). What teachers say about different kinds of mandated testing.  Journal of Assessing Writing, 2, 81-108.

    With Peggy O'Neill, Sandra Murphy, and Brian Huot.

(2006). Automated essay scoring. Journal of Writing Assessment, 1I, 83-104.

(2000). Literacy, equality, and competence: Ethics in writing assessment. In M. A. Pemberton (Ed.),

         The ethics of writing instruction: Issues in theory and practice in perspectives on writing:

         Theory, research, practice. Stamford, CT: Ablex. (with Brian Huot).

(1998). What a difference the difference makes: Theoretical and epistemological differences in writing

          assessment practice. In C. Anson & C. Ferris, (Eds.), Composition research as critical practice

          (pp. 93-110). Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. (with Brian Huot).

(1998). Civil War Remembrance. (Video documentary on civil war reenactors accepted in the
            Penn State Video Archives, aired on PBS, November 8, 1998. (With Dennis Ausel
            and Robert Begg).

(1997). Pragmatism, positivism, and program evaluation. In K. B. Yancey & B. Huot (Eds.),
            Assessing writing across the curriculum: Diverse approaches and practices,
            Volume 1 in perspectives on writing: Theory, research, practice, Greenwich, CT:
           Ablex.

(1997). Rethinking portfolios and evaluating writing: Issues of assessment and power. In K. B.
            Yancey & I. Weiser (Eds.), Situating portfolios: Four perspectives (pp. 43-56).
            Logan, UT: Utah State University Press. (with Brian Huot).

(1994). The worship of efficiency: Untangling theoretical and practical considerations in writing
             assessment. Assessing Writing, 1, 147-174.

(1993). An introduction to holistic scoring: The social, historical, and theoretical context for writing
             assessment. In M. Williamson and B. Huot (Eds.), Validating holistic scoring:
             Theoretical and empirical foundations (pp. 1-44). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.

(1991). Computers in the basic writing classroom Part II: Word processing. Research and
             Teaching in Developmental Education, 7(1),101-110. (with Penny Pence).

(1990). Computers in the basic writing classroom part I: A taxonomy of uses for computers
             in teaching basic writers. Research and Teaching in Developmental Education,
             6(2). (with Penny Pence and William L. Smith).

(1989). Word processing and student writers. In B. K. Britton & S. M. Glynn (Eds.),
             Computer writing environments: Theory, research, and practice (pp. 93-128).
             Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (with Penny Pence).

(1989). The journal as an adjunct for teaching basic writers. Research and Teaching in
             Developmental Education, 6(1), 71-80. (with Brian Huot).

(1989). The nontraditional student of the 1990's: Adults re-entering college. Research and
             Teaching in Developmental Education, 5(2), 69-79. (with Claudia Greenwood).

(1988). Basic writers writing across the disciplines II: The structure of programs, implications
             for basic writers, and strategies for teaching. Research and Teaching in
             Developmental Education, 4(2), 72-88.

(1988). A model for investigating the functions of language in different disciplines. In D. A.
             Jolliffe (Ed.), Advances in writing research, Volume 2: Writing in academic
             disciplines (pp. 89-132). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

(1987). Basic writers writing across the disciplines I. An historical and theoretical introduction.
             Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 4(1), 57-70.

(1987). Learning to make a mess while writing: The paradox of teaching basic writers the
             composing process. Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, 3(2),
             42-51. (with Wesley K. Davis).

(1986). Writing in college developmental mathematics. Research and Teaching in
              Developmental Education, 3(1), 14-21. (with Donald A. McAndrew).

(1985). Research on writing III: Teaching the basic writer. Research and Teaching in
             Developmental Education, 2(1), 48-56. (with Donald A. McAndrew).

(1985). Research on writing II: The basic writer. Research and Teaching in Developmental
             Education, 1(2), 55-64. (with Donald A. McAndrew).

(1985). Research on writing I: The composing process. Research and Teaching in
             Developmental Education, 1(1), 60-68. (with Donald A. McAndrew).

(1984). Assigned rhetorical context and semantic abbreviation in writing. In R. Beach &
              L. S. Bridwell (Eds.), New Directions in composition research (pp.285-296).
              New York: Guilford. (with James L. Collins).

(1981). Spoken language and abbreviated meaning in writing. Research in the Teaching
              of English, 15, 23-35. (with James L. Collins).

Articles in non-refereed journals

(1988). Reluctant readers: A librarian's greatest challenge. The Book Report, 6(4), 18-21.
             (with Susan H. Williamson).

(1986). Common sense meets research: Grammatical structure and the teaching of English. The
             English Record, 37(1), 13-17.

(1984). Reaching male reluctant readers. Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide, 19(1),
             3-4 and 78. (with Susan H. Williamson).

(1984). Team evaluation among teachers: A method of cooperative growth. The English Record,
             35(1), 22-24. (with Donald A. McAndrew).

(1984). Stalking the elusive prey: Books on hunting, trapping and fishing for young adults.
            School Library Journal, 31(1), 47-48. (with Susan H. Williamson).

(1983). The function of writing in the sciences. The English Record, 34(3), 22-35.

(1980). The Buffalo City Schools Writing Place Project. English Record, 31(2), 2-8. (with
             Thomas Reigstad and Ann F. Matsuhashi).

Bibliography Work

(1990). Consulting bibliographer. E. Lindemann (Ed.), Composition and rhetoric:
            An annual bibliography, Volume 4. National Council of Teachers of English: Urbana, IL.

(1989). Contributing bibliographer. E. Lindemann (Ed.), Composition and rhetoric:
            An annual bibliography, Volume 3. London: Longman.

(1988). Contributing bibliographer. E. Lindemann (Ed.), Composition and rhetoric:
            An annual bibliography, Volume 2. London: Longman.

(1987). Contributing bibliographer. E. Lindemann (Ed.), Composition and rhetoric:
            An annual bibliography, Volume 1. London: Longman.

RESEARCH AND GRANT ACTIVITY

Teaching English at a Distance: Faculty Development in Graduate English Education,
             State System of Higher Education Faculty Professional Development Council. ($5,929).

Peer conferences in a low achieving class, National Council of Teachers of English,
             Teacher-Researcher Program, 1987.

Classroom journal writing, National Council of Teachers of English, Teacher-Researcher
             Program, 1987.

Pennsylvania Department of Education Chapter 2 Small School Technology Grant Program
             in cooperation with Armstrong Indiana Intermediate Unit 28. ($23,227.00).
Internal Grant

Playing War Is Hell: IUP Senate Faculty Research Fellowship, IUP, 1996-97. ($6,000).

The Effects of Training in Word Processing on the Revising Behavior of First Year College
            Writers (Graduate School Faculty Research Grant, IUP), 1984-85. ($3,000)

Research in Progress

Composition & rhetoric: Research in conflict

Playing War Is Hell, My Mother Told Me to Come in out of The Rain And Here I Am
             Playing in The Mud in A $600 Suit: An Ethnography of Civil War Re-enactors.

Linguistic Theory and Composition Instruction. (with David Wallace and Penelope Smith)

English Teacher Education Students' Entry into the Profession: A Report of a Four Year
             Ethnographic Study.

High School Students Perceptions of English Classes and Teachers.

Linguistics for the English Teacher. (Book prospectus)

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

National (not updated)

(1998, November). The technology war: Teachers battling for student equity. Paper presented
             at the 87^th Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, TN.

(1998, October). Un-scheduled conflicts: Problems in developing a technology and literacy course.
             Paper presented at the 2^nd Annual Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and
             Composition, Louisville, KY.

(1998, May). One of many voices: Finding the teacher=s voice in the networked classroom. Paper
             presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Gainesville, FL.

(1998, April). Using online asynchronous computer conferencing to train college writing teachers to
             use technology. Paper presented at the 49^th Annual Convention of the Conference on
             College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL.

(1997, May). Too much of a good thing? A two topic graduate seminar asynchronous computer
             conference. Paper presented at the Computers and Writing Conference, Honolulu, HI.

(1997, March). 3Ps and 4Cs, or how to propose, prepare and perform a conference presentation.
             Half day workshop presented at the 48^th Annual Convention of the Conference on
             College Composition and Communication, Phoenix, AZ.

(1996, November). Assessment and computers. Technology demonstration at the 86^th Annual
             Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Chicago, IL.

(1996, October). From ignoring the reading self to prizing the reading self: The evolution of the role
             of the reader in writing assessment. Paper presented at 1996 Thomas R. Watson
             Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, KY.

(1996, March). A historical look at validity in educational measurement: Exploring the implications
              for writing assessment. Paper presented at the 47^th Annual Convention of the Conference
             on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee, WI.

(1995, April). The worship of efficiency: Untangling theoretical and practical considerations in
             writing assessment. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational
             Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

(1995, March). Methodology and design in computers and composition research. Paper
             presented at the 46^th Annual Meeting of the Conference on College Composition and
             Communication, Washington, DC.

(1994, May). Portfolios and computers: Towards the future of writing assessment. Paper
             presented at the National Council of Teachers of English National Portfolio Series,
             Portfolios for learning and beyond: Portfolios, Technology, and the World, Indianapolis,
             IN.

(1994, March). Issues, insights, and innovations in English education doctoral programs--Preparing
             English educators for change in the 21^st century. Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of
             the National Council of Teachers of English, Portland, OR.

(1994, March). Context and common sense: A new understanding of validity. Paper presented at
             the 44^th Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and
             Communication, Nashville, TN.

(1992, March). Collaborative teaching in secondary school and college: Two different worlds we
             live in? Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of The National Council of Teachers of
             English, Conference on English Education. (With Cheryl Parshall)

(1992, November). Something old, something new, something borrowed, something ruled:
            Assessing and regulating English teacher education. Paper presented at the 81^st Annual
            Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English

(1990, April). Reassessing writing assessment: The need for theory. Paper presented at the Annual
           Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, MA.

(1990, March). Disciplinary epistemology and learning to write in the sciences. Paper presented at
            the 41^st Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and
            Communication, Chicago, IL.

(1990, March). Fifth year English teacher education programs versus traditional baccalaureate
            programs: How do they differ? Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of the National
           Council of Teachers of English, Colorado Springs, CO.

(1989, November). Assessing the outcomes of graduate education. Paper presented at the 33^rd
           Annual Conference of the College Reading Association, Philadelphia, PA.

(1989, April). Theories of and research on holistic scoring: A panel. Panel presentation at the
           National Testing Network in Writing, Montreal, Canada.

(1988, April). A comparative study of handwriting and word processing in the revision process
            of first-year college writers. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
            Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

(1988, March). Secondary school students' perceptions of English teachers: How students limit
            teachers' behavior in the classroom. Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of the
            National Council of Teachers of English, Boston, MA.

(1988, March). Adult literacy in higher education. Paper presented at the 39^th Conference on
            College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO.

(1987, June). Writing about Shakespeare's plays. National endowment for the Humanities
            Summer Shakespeare Institute, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

(1987, March). A rationale for the use of computers in the writing center. Paper presented at the
            Spring Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, Louisville, Kentucky.

(1987, March). The effects of word processing on the revising patterns of first year college
            writers. Paper presented at the 38^th Annual Convention of the Conference on College
            Competition and Communication, Atlanta, GA.

(1986, May). The effects of word processors on student writing: An examination of revision styles.
            Paper presented at the University of Pittsburgh Conference on Computers and Writing,
            Pittsburgh, PA

(1986, March). Response to literature: The establishment of a literacy community in a secondary
            classroom. Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of
            English, Phoenix, AZ.

(1985, November). An empirical study of the effects of word processing in revision-centered
            college writing classes on the revision of students' text's. Paper presented to the 75^th
           Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Philadelphia, PA.

(1985, March). The effects of training in word processing on the revising behavior of first year
            college writers. Paper presented at the Spring Meeting of the National Council of Teachers
            of English, Houston, TX.

(1985, March). A contrastive study of the preferred modes of discourse and the registers of writing
            in three college curricula. Paper presented at the 36^th Convention of the Conference on
           College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, MN.

(1985, March). Computer use and writing research in the composition classroom. Paper
            presented to the 26^th International Conference of the Association for Development of
            Computer-Based Instructional Systems, Philadelphia, PA.

(1984, November). The function of writing in three college curricula: The modes of discourse and
            the registers of writing. Paper presented to the 74^th Annual Convention of the National
           Council of Teachers of English, Detroit, MI.

(1984, July). Writing in College: The modes of discourse and the registers of writing. Paper
           presented at the Third Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, State
           College, PA.

(1984, April). Writing in the experience of teaching in three college undergraduate curricula.
           Paper presented at the Spring Conference of the National Council of Teachers of English,
           Columbus, OH.

(1983, April). Help for teachers preparing students for college writing. Paper presented at the
           Spring Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, Seattle, WA.

(1980, November). Spoken language and abbreviated meaning. Paper presented at the 70^th
           Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of English, Cincinnati, OH.

(1979, April). Conferencing as a method of whole group writing instruction in schools and
            colleges. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Reading
            Association, Atlanta, GA.

State

(1994, October). Teaching students to be lifelong learners with computer technology. Paper
            presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English,
            Erie, PA.

(1989, October). Toward a model of Post baccalaureate teacher education: Some vital issues,
            some recommended directions. Paper presented at the Eighteenth Annual Teacher
            Education Assembly, Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Teacher Educators,
            Carlisle, PA.

(1989, October). Young adult literature: The bridge to literacy. Workshop for the Keystone
            State Reading Association, Seven Springs, PA. (with Susan Williamson)

(1988, April). Reluctant readers: A librarian's greatest challenge. Invited address presented at
            the Annual Conference of the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association, Hershey, PA.
           (with Susan H. Williamson)

(1988, April). Writing for scholarly publication. Presentation at the Eleventh Annual Symposium
           of the New York College Learning Skills Association, Ellenville, NY.

(1985, October). Writing evaluation at IUP: The quantitative strand. Paper presented at the Fifth
           Annual Conference of the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, Clarion,
           PA.

(1985, April). Critical thinking skills and the teaching of writing. Paper presented at the Eighth
           Annual Symposium of the New York College Learning Skills Association, Niagara Falls,
           NY.

(1984, April). Basic writing across the disciplines: Register, recursion, and revision. Paper
           presented at the Seventh Annual Symposium of the New York College Learning Skills
          Association, Liberty, NY.

(1984, October). Naturalistic evaluation in the secondary English classroom. Paper presented at
           the Annual Conference of the New York State English Council, Buffalo, NY.

(1984, September). Quantitative evaluation of college writing programs. Paper presented to the
           Fourth Annual Meeting of the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities,
           Bloomsburg, PA.

(1982, April). Peer and teacher tutoring in basic writing. Paper presented at the Fourth Annual
           Symposium of the New York College Learning Skills Association, Rochester, NY.

(1980, April). Evaluating supplemental writing programs. Paper presented at the Second Annual
           Symposium of the New York College Learning Skills Association, Rochester, NY.

(1979, April). Using the Daly-Miller Scale for diagnosis of the needs of college remedial writers.
           Paper presented at the First Annual Symposium of the New York College Learning Skills
          Association, Rochester, NY.

Local

(1988, September). Designing a writing center for secondary English instruction, for Homer
           Center Schools, Homer City, PA.

(1988, July). Summer happening for gifted high school writers. Two week workshop for high
           school students sponsored by ARIN Intermediate Unit 28, Indiana, PA.

(1987, November). Impromptu limerick contest, for Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit
           28/Indiana University of Pennsylvania Gray Matter Games, Indiana, PA.

(May, 1987). The English Co-teaching Project, for Intermediate Unit IV Writing Awareness
           Day, Grove City, PA.

(1986, June). A whole language approach to the middle school English curriculum, Pittsburgh
           Public Schools Middle School English Curriculum Planning Group, Pittsburgh, PA.

(1986, March). Writing proposals and recommendations, for IUP Residence Life Staff, Indiana
           University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

(1986, November). Impromptu drama contest, for Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit
           28/Indiana University of Pennsylvania Gray Matter Games, Indiana, Pennsylvania.

(1986, January). Teaching grammar in the secondary schools, for Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate
           Unit 28 Unified In-service Day, Shelocta, PA.

(1985, November). Impromptu limerick writing contest, for Armstrong-Indiana/Indiana University
           of Pennsylvania Gray Matter Games, Indiana, PA.

(1985, June). First writing topics in the basic writer, for Patterns of Success II, Indiana University
          of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

(1985, May). The writing process, for the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Program for
           Scholars, Indiana, PA.

(1985, April). Designing effective topics, for Patterns of Success, Indiana University of
           Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

(1985, January). The writing process and the microcomputer in the English classroom 7 through
           12, for the Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit 28 Unified In-service Day, Shelocta, PA.

(1985, January). The writing processes of elementary school students, for the Purchase Line
           School District, Purchase Line, PA.

(1985, January). The process-centered English classroom, for the English Department, Armstrong
           School District, Kittanning, PA.

(1984, November). Methods of integrating writing instruction into all subjects 7 through 12, for
          The Purchase Line School District, Purchase Line, PA.

(1984, September). Writing as a tool for learning in all school subjects, for the Purchase Line
           School District, Purchase Line, PA.

(1984, June). Word processors and the teaching of composition, for the English Department
           Summer Graduate Colloquium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

(1984, May). The English teacher and writing in other disciplines, for the English Department,
           Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

(1984, April). The English teacher and the word processor, for the English Department, Indiana
           University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

(1984, April). Writing in different disciplines, for the Program for Scholars, Indiana University of
           Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

(1983, November). Administrative considerations in choosing educational software, for Computer
          Workshop for Educational Administrators, Olean, NY.

(1982, November). Microcomputers and the teaching of language arts, for the Buffalo Area
          English Teachers Association, West Seneca, NY.

(1982, October). Computers in the high school English curriculum, for Superintendent's
          Conference Day, Leroy School District, Leroy, NY.

(1980, November). Teaching composition through the use of conferencing methods, for
          Superintendent's Conference Day, Wilson School District, Wilson, NY.

(1980, May). Test construction and item analysis, for the Annual Meeting of the Seminar on
         Vocational Education of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY.

(1979, October). Grading in the English classroom: Shortcut statistics for English teachers, for
          the Buffalo Area English Teachers Association, Buffalo, NY.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

American Educational Research Association

   Special Interest Group in Writing.

   Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition, 1994 to present (founding
         member).

   Committee on National Certification and Assessment of English Language Arts Teachers,
         1990 to 1993.

   Newsletter Editor, 1991 to 1997.

Department of Foreign Languages and Bilingual Education, City of Buffalo Board of
         Education, 1979-1983 (third party evaluation for Title IV-C grants).

Department of Evaluation, City of Buffalo Board of Education, 1978-1983 (third party
        evaluation of Title IV-C grants).

Barat College, 1978-1979 (composition program development).

LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES

National

Convention Proposal Reviewer, Conference on College Composition and Communication,
         1995 annual meeting.

Conference on College Composition and Communication, Consortium of Doctoral
         Programs in Rhetoric and Composition, 1994 to present (founding member).

National Council of Teachers of English Committee on National Certification and
         Evaluation of English Language Arts, 1988-1992.

Committee on National Certification and Assessment of English Language Arts Teachers,
         1990 to present.

National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and Conference on English
         Education, English Education Program Folio Reviewer 1988-present.

Conference on English Education, Commission on the Preparation of English Teacher
         Educators, 1988-present.

Committee on National Certification and Assessment of English Language Arts
         Teachers, 1990 to present.

Co-Chair, L. Ramon Veal Seminar on Research in Language Education, National
         Council of Teachers of English, 1986-1989.

Editorial Board, Research and Teaching in Developmental Education,
         1982-1990.

State

Editor, Pennsylvania Council of Teacher of English Language Arts Newsletter,
          1990-present.

Editor, The Keystone Reader, 1990-1992. (Keystone State Reading Association
          Newsletter).

Pennsylvania Department of Education Certification Test Reviewer, 1986.

Local

National Council of Teachers of English Teacher-Researcher Grant-In-Aid Program,
          Consultant to grantee teachers, Armstrong-Indiana Intermediate Unit 28, 1987-88.

Conference Coordinator, Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Effective Writing
          Programs, October 1986.

Conference Organizer Summer Seminar on Rhetoric and Linguistics, June 1985.

Almozaini, Yousef. (1998). A descriptive case study of ESL teachers beliefs about
          pedagogy in computer-assisted writing instruction.

Beall, Barbara Inman. (1998). Are other teachers doing this? Profiling student
          resistance to the implementation of ethnography in the first year composition
          research class: A case study.

Boudreaux, Marjory. (1998). Toward awareness: A study of nonverbal behavior
         in the writing conference.

Jennings, Nadine N. (1989). In the spirit of the Kaswenta: Cultural literacy in
        Akwesasne Mohawk culture

Keyes, John. (1998). A linguistic challenge for schools in one small town in the
        Southeastern United States.

Lavendel, Brian. (1998). Historical themes in early standardized writing assessment,
        1912-1925.

Seymour, Celene. (1998). Use of instructional texts in college writing courses as a
        reflection of teachers' pedagogical beliefs.

Tannacito, Terry. (1998). Electronic peer writing groups: Case studies of
        computer-mediated communications in a composition class.

Fischer, Ruth Overman. (1997). An investigation of the long terms effects on
       teachers of participation in the 1991 summer institute of the Metropolitan
       Area Writing Project.

Matsumoto, Dianna G. (1997). The writing workshop: An interactive, language-rich
        context for teaching nonnative English speakers.

McCarren, III, Joseph V. (1997). Rater Talk: Finding common ground in a university
        placement program: A naturalistic study.

Thelin, William H. (1997). A participant observational study of a writing classroom
        using politicized readings as a corpus for essay assignments.

Chapman, Curtis L. (1996). Naming strategies in the writing of university students:
       Linguistic variation across quality and audience.

Nunnally, Gladys Collins. (1996). First-year college developmental reading students
        use of elaboration during reading-to-write tasks.

Barber, John F. (1995). Talking around the electronic campfire: An ethnography of
        writing teachers investigating computer-assisted composition within a computer
       conference.

Brown, Donald. (1995). The perceived insult: A comparative study of offensive language
        in the perceptions of black and white college students.

Burkowski, Gayle. (1995). Description of peer interaction and avoidance of conflict in
       a first-year college composition class writing on computers.

Fowler, Cynthia G. (1995). Protocoling protocol analysis: A descriptive study of the
       strategies, procedures, and theories of four English teachers analyzing a think-aloud
       protocol.

Honeman, Diane. E. (1995). Simultaneous functions of the discourse marker OK in
       daytime television talk shows.

Johnson, Richard M. (1995). A dramatistic study of College Composition and
       Communiation and Research in the Teaching of English from 1985 through
       1989.

Magee, Jayne M. (1995). Grace under pressure: A qualitative and quantitative case
        study of the revision process of a corporation president.

Schum, Judith A. (1995). A naturalistic study of the functions of preschool children's
        writing at home and at school.

Sharpe Jr., Rudolph. (1995). The writing-process model: A paradigm for the
        teaching of gifted adolescents.

Smith, Penelope L. (1995). Dimensions of audience in two composition classrooms:
        Reader/writer/text interactions.

Ballinger, Mary G. (1994). Collaborative teaching journals and professional
        development among women teaching associates.

Bucha, Edward R. (1994). An ethnographic study of collaborative writing in the
        workplace.

Goodwyn, Deborah A. (1994). Gender-preferential language use in the narrative
       writing of first year college students.

Honeman, Robert W. (1994). An ethnographic study of the effects of a multicultural
        focus in a freshman composition class.

Smith, Alvin F. (1994). The writing dance: A functionalist inquiry into the role of
        writing in the enculturation process of four first-year doctoral students in a
        summer intensive program in rhetoric and linguistics.

Brock, Mark N. (1993). A comparative study of computerized text analysis and
        peer tutoring as revision aids for ESL writers.

Rhodes, Barbara Cecilia. (1993). Learning through writing: Teachers' perceptions
        of writing and pedagogical strategies in three academic disciplines at a community
        college.

Escoffery, B. T. (1992). The influences of the writing center on black college students'
       perceptions of the functions of written language.

Foster Crawford, B. (1992). Collaborative learning and collaborative teaching: Nurturing
       literacy in African-American ROTC cadets.

LeVan, S. L. (1992). Writing projects and teacher balance: With colleagues, students,
      and self.

Phillips, C. R. (1992). The function of discourse events in a graduate seminar: Reading,
      writing, and talk as symbolic action.

Bell, M. C. (1991). A comparative study of error in compositions by first-year college
       students using handwriting and word processing.

Johnson, J. L. (1991). A comparative ethnography of linguistic taboo: Profanity and obscenity
       among American undergraduate college women.

Hock, D. (1990). A correlational study of computer-measured traits and holistic assessment
       ratings of first-year college students' essays.

Pula, J. J. (1990). The function of personal background, professional training, and work
        experience on rater performance in holistic scoring sessions: A study of disciplinary
        enculturation and placement context.

Yahner, W. A. (1990). A comparative analysis of text level rhetorical structures of first year
         college students' text produced on word process and by handwriting: A macrostudy.

Davis, W. K. (1988). A comparative study of rule-based and process-based writing instruction
          for first year college composition.

Huot, B.A. (1988). The validity of holistic scoring: A comparison of talk aloud protocols of
          expert and novice holistic raters. Dissertation Abstracts International, 49, 2188A.
          (University Microfilms No. 88-17, 872)

Smith, R.E. (1988). Writing in the work place: A case study of an organization. Dissertation
         Abstracts International, 49, 2955A. (University Microfilms No. 88-27, 456)

Gaunder, E. P. (1987). Revision using the word processor: Three case studies of experienced
         student writers. Dissertation Abstracts International, 48, 3064A. (University
         Microfilms No. 88-02, 881)

Greenwood, C. M. (1987). Factors which influence re-entry women in college composition
         classes: A descriptive study. Dissertation Abstracts International, 48, 3064A.
         (University Microfilms No. 88-02, 882)

Puma, V. (1986). The effects of degree of audience intimacy on features and quality in
         the audience-specified essays of first-year college students. Dissertation Abstracts
         International, 47, 3343A. (University Microfilms No. 87-00, 548)

Etchison, C. (1985). A comparative study of the quality and syntax of compositions by first
         year college students using handwriting and word processing. Dissertation Abstracts
        International, 47, 163A. (University Microfilms No. 86-06. 203)

Committee Member

Ackerman, Harold C. (1998). The effects of authentic, metaphor-laden prose on the
         reading comprehension of EFL students at the college level.

Alam, Md. Monirul. (1993). The use of Arabic in the composing process of Arab university
         students writing in English.

Alfallaj, Fahad. (1989). An evaluative study of the teaching of English as a foreign language
         at the College of Technology, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia.

Al-Samawi, Ahamad Mohammed. (1995). Lexical replacement in extemporaneous speech
         of proficient L2 male Arab students in Western Pennsylvania. A communication strategy.

Aly, Mohamed Sayed. (1992). A descriptive study of four EFL teachers' treatment of writing
         errors and their feedback in an Arab country.

Al-Zahrani, Mohammad S. (1998). Knowledge of English lexical collocations among male
         Saudi college students majoring in English at a Saudi university.

Aungpredathhep, Chitra. (1989). The self-reported composing experiences of four Thai ESL
          writers. Dissertation Abstracts International, 42, 2112A. (UMI No 3923912).

Assad, Salahiddeen B. (1984). The construction and validation of a multiple-choice and
         a performance test of communicative writing ability in the EFL classroom.

Bishop, Wendy. (1988). A microethnography of teacher development and change through
         a graduate training course in writing for teachers of writing. Dissertation Abstracts
         International, 49, 3347A. (University Microfilms No. 89-05, 333).

Carpenter, T. W. (1990). Three basic writing classrooms: An observational study of the
         interaction of teachers and students.

Condravy, Joan C. (1991). Women's talk in a women's studies reading and discussion
         group: A descriptive study.

Davis, Kevin. (1990). Becoming somebody new: A phenomenological investigation of six
         students entering new discourse communities.

Dreyer, Diana Yvonne. (1992). Responding to peers: The language of native and nonnative
          speakers in writing groups.

Edkin, Wayne Scott. (1985). The transactive-developmental writing process: An instructional
          theory in response to competency testing. Dissertation Abstracts International, 46,
          1177A. (University Microfilms No. 85-14, 516).

Farrell, Thomas S. C. (1996). A qualitative study on the reflections of four English as a foreign
          language teachers in Korea.

Gibson, Jr., Wavie. (1989). The effects of current-traditional instruction and new rhetoric
          instruction on the holistic quality and audience adaptation in college freshmen's writing.
         Dissertation Abstracts International, 51, 68A. (UMI No. 9011331).

Glossner, Alan J. (1990). College writers' personal constructs for writing and learning to write:
          A descriptive study.

Grant, Gary Lyndell. (1988). Order of events in a trickster narrative: Experiments in the recall
          of arrangement and strength of story grammar episode connections. Dissertation
          Abstracts International, 49, 1130A. (University Microfilms No. 88-11,244)

Harwick, J. (1989). Do readers perceive differences in the treatment of women and men in
         Texts? Dissertation Abstracts International, 51, 665A. (UMI No. 9022133).

Hunter, Kathleen R. (1993). Tutor talk: A study of selected linguistic factors affecting
         tutor-writer interaction in a university writing center.

Hibbison, Eric P. (1990). Prompting interference: Two ways to write college multiple-choice
         comprehensive questions for a complete article. Dissertation Abstracts International,
        (UMI No. 9022650).

Jazzar, Mohammed Riyad. (1991). A probe into Arab home literacy and its impact on college
         students' reading ability in Arabic and English.

Kamel, Gehan Wahid. (1989). Argumentative writing by Arab learners of English as a foreign
         and second language: An empirical investigation of contrastive rhetoric. Dissertation
         Abstracts International, 50, 677A. (UMI No. 8912392).

Lee, Margaret, G. (1997). An historical, semantic, and contextual analysis of the lexical
         borrowing of black verbal expressions in a mainstream newspaper.

Leyenberger-Pfohl, Emily May. (1987). A case study of the composing processes of two
        congenitally blind students. Dissertation Abstracts International, 48, 3089A.
        (University Microfilms No. 88-02, 884)

Lopresti, Gene F. (1987). Four basic skills students: A naturalistic study of reading/writing
         models they bring to college. Dissertation Abstracts International, 48, 585A.
         (University Microfilms No. 87-11, 951)

Marler, Michael G. (1990). The effect of context and cuing on the ability of college-level
         developmental readers to learn new vocabulary.

McClure, Susan Harpham. (1990). An observational study of the behavior of first semester
         college students as tutors in a writing center. Dissertation Abstracts International, 51,
         771A. (UMI No 9022657).

McCullough, Karen L. (1997). The hidden discourse in the composition classroom: A
         theoretical exploration of silence and silencing among student writers.

Murdock, L. Phillip. (1990). The dynamics of collaboration: An ethnographic study of
         scientific writing.

Okawa, Gail Y. (1997). Expanding perspectives of teacher knowledge: A descriptive study
         of autobiographical narratives.

Plummer, Herbert Joseph. (1994). Getting it together: One teacher's combining process writing
         and news writing in a journalism class.

Rammal, Samir Muhammad. (1995). Investigating the English writing skills curriculum at Hebron
        University.

Reeves, LaVona L. (1989). Teaching analytic writing: An experimental study at the college level.
        Dissertation Abstracts International, 51, 1145A. (UMI No 9015225).

Rowshan, Cyrus. (1988). Student, alumni, and faculty perceptions of the quality-related
         characteristics of the Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric/Linguistics) at IUP. Dissertation
        Abstracts International, 50, 128A. (UMI No. 8095336).

Sato, Taeko. (1990). Revising strategies in Japanese students' writing in English as a foreign
        language. Dissertation Abstracts International, 51, 2005A. (UMI No. 9030677).

Sheikh Ibrahim, Abdul-Latif. (1986). The IL stress phonology of Arab learners of English:
        Influence of Universals as well as dialect, distance, and task. Dissertation Abstracts
        International, 47, 2569A. (University Microfilms No. 86-23, 645)

Shi, Huifen. (1993). The relation between freshman writing coherence and cohesion, functional
        roles and cognitive strategies.

Simmons, K. A. (1985). An experimental study of the effects of stylistic maturity on the writing
        quality and syntactic fluency of high school seniors. Dissertation Abstracts International,
        47, 168A. (University Microfilms No. 86-07, 695).

Singleton, Donna Hampton. (1998). Drawing on art: Blurring the boundaries between
        composition and art education.

Thamraksa, Chutima. (1907). A descriptive study of questioning behaviors in Thai EFL
         classrooms.

Trupe, Alice L. (1996). Back to school in the virtual age: An ethnographic study of reentry
         women students in the computer classroom.

Valentino, Marilyn J. (1992). Writing in the workplace: A descriptive study of how writers
         perceive the effects of information and structure.

Wang, C. (1992). Paragraph organization in English and Chinese academic prose: A
         comparative study.

Wansor, Collin T. (1990). The rhetorical dynamics of teacher written response to student
         writing: A descriptive and protocol study. Dissertation Abstracts International, 51,
        1900A. (UMI No. 9022654).

Wong, L. (1992). A descriptive analysis of varieties of Singapore English as recreated by
        Singapore writers of fiction.

Woo, Choong-Whan. (1995). Rules of speaking: An analysis of conversational politeness
        in an ESL communication class.

Xu, George Qiaoqi. (1990). An ex post facto study of the differences in the structure of
        standard expository paragraphs between written compositions by native and non-native
        speakers of English at the college level. Dissertation Abstracts International, 51, 1942A.
        (UMI No. 9022655).

Yakoubou, Nourou M. (1994). A sociolinguistic inquiry into language maintenance and
         language shift among sub-Saharan Africans in the United States of America: An
         example in Western Pennsylvania.

Yaronczyk, Aandrew F. (1988). An empirical study of collaboration in the writing process
         of peer groups writing in stages: Its effects on overall writing performances and attitudes
         in the middle school.

Zeng, G. (1992). The English aux-with implications for teaching English to Chinese ESL
          learners.

Zhang, Xaolin. (1993). English collocations and their effect on the writing of native and
          non-native college freshmen.

Graduate Programs in Composition & TESOL.

Task Force on Writing, 1983-86.

College Committee on International Student Admissions, 1984-1985.

University

Computer Services Steering Committee, Subcommittee on Academic Computing, 1985-87.

Representative Council Alternate 1985-86.

System Outcomes Assessment Resource Group 1996-1998.

Memberships in community based organizations

109th Pennsylvania Historical Preservation Society, 1996-present.

110th Pennsylvania Historical Recreation Organization, 1995-1996.

83rd Pennsylvania Historical Recreation Group, 1991-present.

Discussion Leader, Computing Support for Writing Across the curriculum, Second Annual
         Symposium on Academic Computing, September, 1987.

Consulting with local and area agencies and organizations

Armstrong and Indiana Counties/IUP English Co-teaching Project, 1984 to 1989.