As a faculty in rhetoric and composition, I have a wide range of research interests, many of which are centered around either collaborative writing or gender and communication.  A sampling of some of my interests and recent publications is below:

• Writing in the Disciplines (particularly engineering and literary analysis)
• How Technical Writing Classes Fail Engineering Students,Technical Communication Quarterly
• A Method for Teaching Invention in the Gateway Literature Class, Pedagogy
• Writing about Data: A Guide to Writing IMRaD Documents
  

• Computers and Writing
• with Stephen Neaderhiser, Between Technological Endorsement and Resistance: The State of Online Writing Centers, Writing Center Journal
• Annotations and the Collaborative Digital Library: Effects of an Aligned Annotation Interface on Student Argumentation and Reading Strategies, Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
  
• Gender and Communication
• with Elizabeth Powell, Biases in interpersonal communication: How engineering students perceive gender-typical speech acts in teamwork, Journal of Engineering Education
  
• Teamwork
• Team Writing: A Guide to Working in Groups, available August 2009 from Bedford/St. Martins press.

I have received an NCTE award for research in technical communication and an ACM award for research in digital libraries.

Recent graduate classes I have taught include:

• Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition
• Linguistic Theory and its Applications
• Human-Computer Interaction
  

Beginning in Fall 2009 I will be Director of Composition. I am also currently chair of the CCC Committee on Research.

My current c.v. (updated Jan 09)