May 30, 2020

Welcome to Summer 2020 Dissertation Camp! I'm looking forward to getting to know you and to discovering how a virtual dissertation camp works!  In my research I've been using writing center data, as well as my own second language learning and writing experiences to illustrate and explore concepts in second language writing and more recently second language acquisition. Every two years I've been teaching a seminar on second language writing research.  I also write creatively, especially about travel, and teach a travel writing course every fall as a first-year seminar. As Writing Center Director, I also teach tutor training courses. 

I'm going to use this camp to make progress on two of my own projects:

1) I want to translate a conference ppt about an pilot study we did in the Writing Center last summer into a 3000-word article for WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship.  

      a) I'm going to have to re-code the transcribed tutorial data because I cannot find my original coding sheets. That means reacquainting myself with the coding scheme. I'll work with my co-authors on coder-reliability.

       b) Studies using the same coding scheme but focusing on different issues and research questions have been published since my conference presentation last November, so I will continue to follow up on them. 

2) My ex-grad student, now a Spanish instructor at Cornell University, asked me to collaborate on an article based on a section of her dissertation on profiles and stances of peer reviewers in a Spanish Writing class--the way they approach their task of commenting on peers' work. We have a rough draft of the article intended for Foreign Language Annals, but the discussion and conclusion still need a lot of work so as not to simply repeat the results. I plan to draft those sections during part of the second week of the camp.