Mickey Schafer, PhD
Associate Program Director and Instructional Professor
University Writing Program
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
Research and Pedagogical 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?
Personal Interests
Bees!
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