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Finalist, editorship of College English

Finalist, with Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train International Short Story Competition, “An Alaskan Education.”

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First-Year Composition and Transfer: A Quantitative Study

Composition and the Search for Self-Awareness

Key Pedagogic Thinkers: Jean Baudrillard

Gender, Writing Self-Efficacy, and Help Seeking

Help Seeking, Self-Efficacy, and Writing Performance among College Students

Ars or Technê? Horace’s Ars Poetica as a Display Piece

Effects of Self-Regulatory Behavior on ESL Student Writing

Dyson Dark—brilliant, wealthy, and good looking—believes he has everything, until he meets Victoria Molson and realizes just how empty his life is.  Beautiful, smart Victoria knows in her heart that Dyson is “the one,” even though her friends and family insist that he is too old for her . . . or that she is too young for him.  In a moment of doubt, urged on by the example of her friends, Victoria makes a “mistake” that has devastating consequences for them both.  Subsequently separated by time and space, Dyson and Victoria struggle to rebuild their lives in a changing world while exploring the meaning of love and forgiveness, until destiny intervenes.

Pasadena Gridlock Blues: A Love Story

The Teacher's Grammar Book, Second Edition introduces the various grammars that inform writing instruction in our schools, and examines methods, strategies, and techniques that constitute best classroom practices for teaching grammar and writing. Designed for students who are preparing to become English or language arts teachers, as well as for credentialed teachers who want an easy-to-use guide to questions of methods, grammar, and teaching, this overview of basic English grammar includes the following major topics: a brief history of grammar, teaching grammar, grammar and writing, traditional grammar, transformational-generative grammar, cognitive grammar, dialects, black English, and Chicano English.New in the reorganized and fully updated Second Edition:*new chapter giving a brief history of grammar and grammar instruction;*new chapter on best practices--strategies and techniques that actually work;*expanded chapter on cognitive grammar--a topic not found in other texts of this nature;*expanded chapter on dialects;*summary and evaluation of the minimalist program (Noam Chomsky's most recent revision of transformational-generative grammar)--a topic unique among texts of this kind; and*reduced discussion of transformational grammar.

The Teacher's Grammar Book

An anthology of primary texts in translation, An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric offers an overview of the social, cultural, and intellectual factors that influenced the development and growth of rhetoric during the classical period.  Uses primary source material to analyze rhetoric from the Sophists through St. Augustine  Provides an in-depth introduction to the period, as well as introductions to each author and each selection  Includes study guides to help students develop multiple perspectives on the material, stimulate critical thinking, and provide starting points for dialogue  Highlights include Gorgias's Palamedes, Antiphon's Truth, Isocrates' Helen, and Plato's Protagoras  Each selection is followed by suggested writing topics and a short list of suggested additional readings. 

An Introduction to Classical Rhetoric: Essential Readings

A history of contemporary rhetoric, Visions and Revisions: Continuity and Change in Rhetoric and Composition examines the discipline’s emergence and development from the rise of new rhetoric in the late 1960s through the present. Editor James D. Williams has assembled nine essays from leading scholars to trace the origins of new rhetoric and examine current applications of genre studies, the rhetoric of science, the rhetoric of information, and the influence of liberal democracy on rhetoric in society.Given the field’s diversity, a historical sketch cannot adopt a single perspective.  Part one of Visions and Revisions therefore offers the detailed reminiscences of four pioneers in new rhetoric, while the essays in part two reflect on a variety of issues that have influenced (and continue to influence) current theory and practice. In light of the recent shift in focus of scholarly investigation toward theory, Williams’s collection contextualizes the underlying tension between theory and practice while stressing instruction of students as the most important dimension of rhetoric and composition today. Together, these chapters from some of the most influential scholars in the field provide a range of perspectives on the state of rhetoric and composition and illuminate the discipline’s development over the course of the last forty years.

Visions and Revisions: Continuity and Change in Rhetoric and Composition

Book by Williams, James D., Huntley, David, Hanks, Christine

The Interdisciplinary Reader: A Collection of Student Writing

Preparing to Teach Writing, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive survey of theories, research, and methods associated with teaching composition successfully at the middle,  secondary, and college levels. Research and theory are examined with the aim of informing teaching. Practicing and prospective writing teachers need the information and strategies this text provides to be effective and well prepared for the many challenges they will face in the classroom.  Features  Current―combines discussions and references to foundational studies that helped define the field of rhetoric and composition, with updated research, theories, and applications  Research based―thorough examination of relevant research in education, literacy, cognition, linguistics, and grammar   Steadfast adherence to best practices based on how students learn and on how to provide the most effective writing instruction  A Companion Website provides sample assignments and student papers that can be analyzed using the research and theory presented in the text.

Preparing to Teach Writing: Research, Theory, and Practice

Rhetoricized Reality

James Williams focuses on neoliberalism and higher education, classical rhetoric, writing pedagogy, psycholinguistics.

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