ABOUT MY SCHOLARSHIP

My research deals with the teaching of writing, new media composition, rhetorical theory, discourse analysis, and environmental rhetorics.

WORK IN PROGRESS AND UNDER REVIEW

Book:

Binocular Vision: Birdwatching Field Guides and the Environmental Imagination

A book about birdwatching, field guides, and the rhetoric of amateur science in heavily reference-oriented environmental hobbies. (under review)

Articles:

• an article about birdwatching at sewage ponds, dumps, and superfund sites (in progress)
• a piece on the use of writing as punishment (in progress)
• an argument about innovative appropriations of the five-paragraph essay (in progress)
• a description (for new teachers) of what I call "pedagogical reading" (in progress)