Academic Journals
Suggested Reading
Genre in the Classroom  |
 Diversity in College Classrooms |
Text, Role, and Context |
If this page seems to be a bit too "me-oriented" for your taste, then link to "Academic Journals" or "Leisure Reading."
However, if you want to know something about my recent books, here are brief annotations:
In Text, Role, and Context: Developing Academic Literacies (Cambridge, 1997), I argue that literacy instructors have special roles to play on our campuses, and I attempt to show what we teachers might be doing, in the classroom and elsewhere, to promote academic literacies. My emphases are upon the social construction of texts and genre theories, particularly for curriculum development. Currently, I'm preparing a composition textbook for Houghton-Mifflin that builds upon the ideas from this volume.
Genre in the Classroom: Multiple Perspectives (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002) represents my effort to bring together experts from three of the major genre camps: the Sydney School, English for Specific Purposes, and the New Rhetoric. The volume includes contributions on theory, research, and pedagogy; and it concludes with a chapter by William Grabe, who pursues a new argument, accompanied by commentaries by three well-respected genre theorists: Jim Martin, Vijay Bhatia, and Carol Berkenkotter.
Diversity in College Classrooms: Practices for Today's Campuses (University of Michigan Press, 2004) [co-edited with Maureen Kelley Sipp] results from my years as Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at San Diego State University. The fourteen SDSU faculty contributors represent different departments, ethnic groups, ages, and sexual orientations. They discuss teaching approaches, research, and service learning experiences for diverse students on post-secondary campuses.