My Professional Life

I am a Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where I direct the University's Institute for Learning and Teaching and co-direct the Center for Research on Writing and Communication Technologies. My scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and new approaches to scholarly publishing.

My work has appeared in journals including Computers and Composition, Written Communication, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Engineering Education, Kairos, Council of College Teachers of English Studies, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. I coordinate the development of Writing@CSU, the University's Online Writing Center, am founding editor of Academic.Writing, a refereed journal focusing on interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across the curriculum, and edit the WAC Clearinghouse.

I am co-author, with Kate Kiefer, Jake Hartvigsen, and Barbara Godlew, of Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms, published in 1998 by Ablex, and co-author, with Don Zimmerman, of Writing with a Computer, published in 1999 by Allyn and Bacon. I am also the author of The Bedford Researcher (first edition, August 2002; second edition, October 2005), Designing Writing (2005), the Bedford Bibliographer (a Web-based citation tool published in 2006), the Bedford Research Room (a Web site for students and instructors, first published in 1998 and last updated in 2005), and the software program Research Assistant/HyperFolio for English, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's.