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Susan Callahan, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of Louisville

Selected Scholarship:

"Conversations and Competence: How English Teachers Fail to Connect." English Education 32.3 (April 2000): 182

"Tests Worth Taking?: Using Student Portfolios for Teacher Accountability." Research in the Teaching of English 31 (1997): 295-336.

 


Michael Day, Associate Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Selected Scholarship:

Technical Communications and the World Wide Web, an edited collection of chapters on the changes in technical communications teaching and practice brought about by the shift of much technical documentation to the World Wide Web.

The Online Writing Classroom (Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 2000). With Susanmarie Harrington and Rebecca Rickly, eds. 

"Teachers at the Crossroads: Evaluating Teaching in Electronic Environments." Computers and Composition 17.1 (2000): 31-40.

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Philip Eubanks, Associate Professor

Ph.D. (awarded with distinction), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996

Selected Scholarship:

“An Analysis of Corporate Rule in Globalization Discourse: Why We Need Rhetoric to Explain Conceptual Figures.”  Rhetoric Review July 2008 (27.3).

 With John Schaeffer.  “A Kind Word for Bullshit: The Problem of Academic Writing.”  College Composition and Communication  February 2008 (59.3).

A War of Words in the Discourse of Trade: The Rhetorical Constitution of Metaphor. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000.

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Bradley Peters, Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Iowa

Selected Scholarship:

"On Blundering (And Making a Half-Way Decent Job of It)." Blundering for a Change: Errors and Expectations in Critical Pedagogy. Ed. John Tassoni and William Thelin. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 2000.

"Trailing the Essay with Professor Fog." Stories Told In and Out of School: What the Essay Is and Who Writes It. Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Susan Marie Harrington. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

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Jessica Reyman, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Selected Scholarship:

-"Rethinking Plagiarism for Technical Communication." Technical Communication <http://www.ingentaconnect.
com/content/stc/tc>, Volume 55, Number 1, February 2008, pp. 61-67(7).

"Copyright, Distance Education, and the TEACH Act: Implications for Teaching Writing." CCC 58.1 (2006): 30-45.

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John Schaeffer, Professor
Ph.D., St. Louis University

Selected Scholarship:

"From Natural Religion to Natural Law in Vico: Rhetoric, Poetic, and Vico's Imaginative Universals." Rhetorica 15:1 (Winter 1997): 41-52.

Sensus Communis: Vico, Rhetoric, and the Limits of Relativism. Durham NC: Duke UP, 1990.

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