University Writing Program

Education

• Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1998
• MAT, English as a Second Language, School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT, 1991
• BA, Language, Culture, and Society, New College, Sarasota, FL, 1987

Classes Taught

• ENC 3254: Writing in the Disciplines (professional writing in the disciplines, strategic communication, landscape architecture)
• ENC 3246: Professional Communication for Engineers
• ENC 3453: Writing in the Health Professions
• ENC 3464: Writing in the Social Sciences
• ENC 3466: Writing in Communication Sciences
• ENC 3459: Writing in the Medical Sciences
• ENC 5319: Writing for Scholarly Communication

Scholarly Interests

• Information Literacy – what are “best practices” for helping students attain higher levels of ability to filter, control, and manipulate information?
• Literacy Practices of Health Practitioners – what do practicing clinicians really do in terms of professional literacy work?
• Writing Science – what processes can increase a researcher’s publishing productivity?
• Discourse Linguistics – (a long standing interest) – what language and cognitive structures govern language output in connected text/speech?
• Applied Linguistics – how does theoretical knowledge translate into practice?

Other Interests

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