Visiting Writing Scholars for 2014

  Joseph Harris, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, has published extensively in the field of composition/rhetoric on topics ranging from use of student writing in writing research, the history of the field, the practice of revision, and the concept of discourse community. His book-length publications include Rewriting: How To Do Things With Texts (2006), A Teaching Subject: Composition Since 1966 (1997; new Edition, 2012), Media Journal (1998), and Teaching With Student Texts (2010). Former editor of CCC: College Composition and Communication, Harris was also the founding director of the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University. Harris is a frequently invited workshop facilitator on such topics as responding to student texts and teaching argumentative “moves” in essay writing. In February 2014, Professor Harris led a Writing Associates workshop on the topic of “Making Writing Visible in the Disciplines.”

John M. Swales is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the University of Michigan and Director of the English Language Institute from 1985 to 2001. He has published extensively in the fields of written discourse, genre theory, methods of discourse analysis, English for Academic Purposes, and comparative rhetoric. Swales is known internationally for his teaching-oriented research on academic genres, as seen in his books Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (1990), Research Genres: Explorations and Applications (2004), and, with Christine Feak, Academic Writing for Graduate Students (2012). Other books include Other Floors, Other Voices: A Textography of a Small University Building (1998) and Incidents in an Educational Life: A Memoir (of Sorts) (2009). In 2015, the Journal of English for Academic Purposes will release a special issue in honor of the 25-year anniversary of 1990 Genre Analysis. In March 2014, Professor Swales led a Writing Associates workshop on the topic of “Exploring Students’ Academic Texts: Selected Linguistic Features.”

Terry Myers Zawacki is Associate Professor Emerita of English at George Mason University and director emerita of George Mason University’s nationally ranked Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program. She has published widely on writing in the disciplines, writing assessment, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and English second language writing, writing centers, and writing fellows. She serves on the editorial boards of Across the Disciplines, The WAC Journal, and the WAC Clearinghouse, where she is lead editor. Her book-length publications include Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook, co-edited with Paul Rogers, and Engaged Writers and Dynamic Disciplines: Research on the Academic Writing Life (2006), with Chris Thaiss. Professor Zawacki has led writing workshops around the country. In April 2014, she led a Writing Associates workshop on the topic of “Responding Effectively and Efficiently to Student Writers.”