• Guidelines: Writing Your First 3 Chapters
• Guidelines: Sample IRB
• Guidelines: Preparing for the 3 Chapter Meeting
• Guidelines: Writing the Dissertation
  
• Guidelines: Preparing for the Dissertation Defense
• Article: "Do You Really Not Have the Time?" by David Perlmutter (article on time management)

Availability for Dissertation Committees

I enjoy working with doctoral students, especially in the areas of narrative research, composition, and technology. However, as you can see from my commitments below, I am already over extended. Because I am so over loaded with doctoral committee work, I am usually behind on providing students feedback on dissertation chapters. If you need constant and immediate feedback, you may wish to consider a faculty member with fewer commitments.

Doctoral Committee Participation Parameters

If you wish to have me serve as a director or reader for your dissertation, you must agree to the following parameters:

• I need 3 weeks to read materials before a 3 chapter meeting
• I need 4 weeks to read a final dissertation
• I need all documents you ask me to read to be printed hard copies which are bound and carefully proofread (no missing references!)
• I am NOT available for meetings in the summer when I am not teaching
• I am NOT available for any meetings if I am on sabbatical

Doctoral Students I Am Directing

I am almost maxed out on directing dissertations. At the present time I can only accept 1 or 2 new students to direct at this time.

3 Chapter Stage

1. Omar Alqadoumi
2. Brian Burke
   
3. Colleen Donovan
4. Amy Flick
5. John Guelcher
6. Khawla Kittaneh
7. Jo-Wan Lei (Monica)
8. Sabatino Mangini
9. Kimberly M. Miller
10. Mary Alice Moore
11. Alva Ramon

1. Elizabeth Campbell
2. Eric Glicker
3. David Golden
4. Dauvan Mulally
   
5. Mahamadou Ganda Nabi

Dissertation Committees for Which I Am a Reader

1. John Boyd
2. Leah Chambers
3. Larry Czer
4. Elizabeth C. Duncan
5. Steve Edgehouse
6. Dawn Fels
7. Roseanne Gatto
8. Ngarmnij (Jeab) Intachkra
   
9. Jennifer Johnson
10. Lisa Loderhose
11. Jason Lukasik
12. Kelly McCaffrey
13. J. Patrick McGinnis
14. Deepak Pant
15. Joana Paul
16. April Sikorski
17. Joseph Slick
18. Olubukola “Bukky” Salako
19. Tom Stewart
20. Lisa Straight
21. Whitney A. Tudor
22. Andrea Wynn Verschaeve
23. John Wafer
24. Jennifer M. Wells

1. Mahmoud A. Amer
2. Alexander Lapidus
3. Janet M. Lucas
4. Heidi Stevenson
5. Mary Verbout
6. Ana Wetzl

Updating Listings

Since I serve as a director or reader for so many doctoral students, the lists above may not be totally accurate. I do try to keep these lists up-to-date, but I'm often behind. So if I've left your name off a list or have you at an incorrect stage of the dissertation process, please know it's just a simple oversight, not an intentional slight. If you spot an error here, please email me and I'll be happy to update the appropriate list.

Doctoral Students I Directed to Degree Completion

• Marjorie Stewart (2009).
  
• Lauren DiPaula (2009).
  
• Benie Colvin. (2008). Passing the story: A study of personal memoirs—Letters, recipes, and quilts.
  
• Stephen Swartz. (2008). Composition and identity: A theoretical approach to first-year composition.
  
• Contreras-Escalante, Gerardo Ali. (2007). Rural voices winding through the Andes Mountains: A collective creative literacy research project.
• Dorfeld, Natalie Marie. (2007). Broke, bohemian, and burned out: An in-depth analysis of the adjunct lifestyle.
• Pearlman, Steven. (2007). Beyond response: Transcending peer feedback through critical collaborative assessment.
  
• York, Aimee J. (2007). Graduate teaching associates: Negotiating the borders of practice and theory.
• Barnett, Stephanie J. (2006). Rock the boat but don’t make waves: The literacy perspectives of working-class, marginalized students and their parents from the Delmarva Peninsula.
  Hsu, Po-Yen. (2006). CALL, American culture, and EFL: A case study of student perceptions of a cultural-based curriculum on the Internet.
  
• McBride, Jennifer H. (2006). Trusting narrative beyond theory: One teacher’s story.
• Ho, Ching Yi. (2005). A Qualitative Study of the Impact of a Taiwanese/American E-mail Exchange Project on Taiwanese Participants’ Attitudes, Cultural Knowledge, and Second Language Writing.
• Petrucci, Michele L. (2005). Collage Literacy and Textual Landscapes: Four Case Studies of Individuals Layered in Words and Pictures.
• Al-Rajhi, Ali. (2004). Joining the Online Literacy Club: Internet Reading Among Saudi EFL Learners.
• Jones, William F. Ritke. (2004). Forces in Space: A Bakhtinian Exploration of Online Writing Groups.
• Sharples, Riva J. (2004). The Business of Consumer Literacy: How the Modern Book Industry Shapes What We Read.
• Vallejo, Rosa. (2004). Living La Vida Writing/Living the Writing Life: A Case Study of a Teacher’s Writing Group.
• Wallace, Robert M. (2004). This Wild, Strange Place: Local Narratives of Literacy Use in Appalachian Families over Three Generations.
• Berger, Jeanette M. (2003). Keeping the Faith in Florida: Critical Teachers, Critical Teaching, and a Pedagogy of Elusive Particulars.
• Mikoni, Dorothy Jane (2003). Silence: A Narrative Case Study of Six Women Practicing Life Writing.
• Pardlow, Donald (2003). Flight from Flatland: A Descriptive Study of Using Creative-Writing Pedagogy to Improve Basic and First-Year Composition Teaching.
• Stainbrook, Eric. (2003). Reading Comics: A Theoretical Analysis of Textuality and Discourse in the Comics Medium.
• Theis, Richard W. (2003). Mapping the Geography: A Narrative of Long-Term English Adjunct Teaching.
• Abalhassan, Khalid Mohammad Ibraheem. (2002). English as a Foreign Language Instruction with CALL Multimedia in Saudi Arabian Private Schools: A Multi-case and Multi-site Study of CALL Instructors’ Pedagogies and Beliefs.
• Al-Kahtani, Saad A. (2001). Computer Assisted Language Learning in EFL Instruction at Selected Saudi Arabian Universities: Profiles of Faculty.
• Mauriello, Nicholas. (2000). The College Writing Peer Response Project: Diversity and Conflict in Online Writing Environments.
• Berry, Amy J. (1999). Cybercollaboration: Portrait of an Online Writing Course.

Doctoral Committees for Which I Was a Reader (partial list)

• Amy Lynch-Biniek
• Heather Peterson
• Holly Niemi
• Krystia Nora
• Elaine Kelly
• Elgeddawy, Mohamed Abdel Rahim Mohamed. (2006). The Post-process Movement in Rhetoric and Composition: A Philosophical Hermeneutic Reading of Being-in-the-World with Others.
• Al-Ghonaim, Ali S. (2005). ESL College Students’ Beliefs and Attitudes about Reading-to-Write in an Introductory Composition Course: A Qualitative Study.
• Al-Shehri, Ali M. (2005). The Impact of Islam on Using Computers and the Internet to Support Language Learning in Saudi Arabia.
• Alshwairkh, Sami A. N. (2005). Learning Vocabulary Through Online Reading: Approaches and Attitudes of ESL Business Students.
• Al-Zahrani, Meteab. (2005). Arab EFL Reaction to Computer Supported Collaborative Writing.
• Hammill, Bobbi A. (2005). The Making of Models, Maxims, and Mother Metaphors: Deconstructing Perceptions of Four Women Regarding Teaching and Scholarship in the Field of Composition.
• Kobashigawa, Suzan Reiko (2005). Native Hawaiian Literacies: A Case Study of Three Genereations of One Native Hawaiian Family.
• Milner, Laura A. (2005). The Language of Loss: Transformation in the Telling, In and Beyond the Writing Classroom.
• Pitman, Brenda. (2005). Expressive Writing: A Language of Self-Care.
• Santa, Tracy. (2005). Dead Letters: Error in Composition, 1873-2004.
• Williams, Denise Sporleder Sneed. (2005). The Belief Systems of Cultural Brokers in Three Minority Communities in America.
• Al-Shehri, Ali Mohammad Ali (2004). Attitudes Toward Technology in Saudi Arabia: An Analysis of Qurianic, Other Islamic, and Saudi Sources.
• Davis, Cheryl K. (2004). Motivated to Serve, Motivated to Learn: Theorizing Care in the Composition Service-Learning Classroom.
• Klass-Soffian, Ronni. (2004). Competition vs. Cooperation: A Descriptive Study of Collaboration Among Mainly Bilingual Cuban American Students in Freshman Composition.
• Koch Jr., Robert T. (2004). Articulating a MOO-Integrated Writing Pedagogy.
• Alshamrani, Hassan M. (2003). The Attitudes and Beliefs of ESL Students About Extensive Reading of Authentic Texts.
• Beatty, Jametha A. (2003). Composition and Recovery: Women Writing Sobriety and Spirituality into Their Lives.
• Diken, Bahar. (2003). Breaking Through Illusions: Collaboration in One College Writing Classroom.
• Fageeh, Abdulaziz. (2003). Saudi College Students’ Beliefs Regarding Their English Writing Difficulties
• Gutwein, Gerri. (2003). Native American Women and Literacy: Looking Through and Beyond a Thematic View of the Landscape of Literacy in Six Lakota Women’s Lives.
• Santiago-Veilez, Mildred (2003). Pleasure Reading in the Spanish and English Biliteracy of Successful Puerto Rican College First Year Students.
• Thatcher, Patricia. (2003). Historical Perspectives and Analysis of the Resolutions Process of the National Council of Teachers of English.
• Burford, Edith. (2002). The Impact of Race and Culture on Teacher and Students Views of First-Year Composition at a University in Deep South Texas
• Graber, Elizabeth. (2002). Old Believer Women in a Postmodern World: Changing Literacy, Changing Lives. 2003 Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Best Dissertation Award winner.
• Higgason, E. Richard (2002) Hypertext Performances/Hypertext Communities
• Huber, Lois Elaine. (2002). Unexplored Territory: Writing Instruction in Pennsylvania Homeschool Settings, Grades 9-12.
• Thongrin, Saneh. (2002). E-mail Peer Responses in Collectivist Thai Culture: Task, Social and Cultural Dimensions.
• Conley, Flora W. (2001). Negotiation, Resistance, and Self-Presentation: Four Women Managers Using Email to Gain a Voice.
• Eckard, Sandra J. (2001, October). The Ties That Bind: Storytelling in Composition Classrooms and Writing Centers.
• Huggins, Jacqueline R. (2001). A Qualitative Investigation into the Metacognitive Processes of Adult Learners in an Online Distance Learning Program .
• Reagles, Steven L. (2001). Rhetorical Redolence: Socio-Semiotic Explorations of the Multimodal Effects of Odor on Verbal/Visual Rhetoric.
• Schakel, Sharon K. (2001). Reflective Paragraphs as Metacognitive Opportunities for Writing Improvement.
• Smith, Delver. (2001). Decades of Experience: Portraits of Good High School English Teachers.
• Goggin, Peter N. (2000). A New Literacy Map of Research and Scholarship in Computers and Writing.
• James, Annie Deloris (2000). Attitudes of Technical Communication Faculty at Selected Historically Black Colleges and Universities Toward Teaching with Instructional Technology.
• Norton, Daniel P. (2000). Electronic Mentoring: A Qualitative Study on Mentoring Preservice English Language Teachers Through Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication.
• Thompson, Stella S. (2000). Composing Journeys from Home to Here: Seven Women’s Literacy Experiences.
• Waren-Austin, Wendy. (2000). The Research Paper in Cyberspace: Source-Based Writing in the Modern Composition Classroom.
• Werner-Burke, Nancy. (2000). Opening a Door: Older Students and Computer Literacy.
• Winner, Tammy S. (1999). Teaching First-Year Composition Employing Web-Based Pedagogies: A Qualitative Study.
• Sohn, Kathy K. (1999). Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Development Since College. 2001 Conference on College Composition and Communication James Berlin Best Dissertation Award winner.
• Mackall, Joe. (1996). Porch Stories: A Narrative Look at the Stories and the Storytelling Traditions of the Places My Students and I Call Home.

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