Welcome to Summer 2018 Dissertation Camp! I'm looking forward to working with you.   I've been a prof. in the Rhetoric Dept and a Writing Center director for 28 (!) years.  In my recent research I've been using writing center data, as well as my own second language learning experiences to illustrate and explore concepts in second language writing and more recently second language acquisition.  I also write creatively, especially about travel, and teach a travel writing course every fall as a first-year seminar.


In this Dissertation Camp, I'll be working on a combination of academic and creative projects.


1) Finishing the draft of an article that analyzes survey results about second language writers' perceptions of their second language writing development.


2) Starting a draft of a travel essay about a recent "heritage trip" to Sicily focusing on when I used what I had learned in a spring Italian course to problem solve and get out of jams.


3) I will continue to send out a travel essay about a frequent bus trip I take in Ecuador from the mountains to the jungle.