LINDA ADLER-KASSNER, PROFESSOR

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Dept. of English Language & Literature 603DPray-Harrold Ypsilanti, MI 48197 734.487.0148 linda.adler-kassner@emich.edu Homepage: First Year Writing Program homepage

I joined the English Department at EMU in the fall of 2000 as the Director of First-Year Writing. Much of my job here involves working with our first-year writing courses and the graduate instructors teaching those courses. I also teach first-year writing (ENGL 121), upper-level writing courses like Writing, Style, and Language (ENGL 328), and graduate courses in composition and literacy theory and pedagogy.

Most recently, my research has focused on how education and teachers (especially those associated with writing) are framed in public fora (including policy documents and mainstream media), and on developing strategies to reframe those representations. This focus provides the opportunity to weave together work in a number of fields: composition studies, communications and journalism, policy studies, history and historiography, and of course pedagogy.

The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers (Utah State UP, 2008)

Adler-Kassner, Linda, Chris Anson, and Rebecca Moore Howard. “Framing Plagiarism.” In Carolyn Eisner and Martha Vicinus, Eds. Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: A Cross-Disciplinary Collection. Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2008. 231-246.

Adler-Kassner, Linda and Susanmarie Harrington. “In the Here and Now: Public Policy and Basic Writing” Journal of Basic Writing (Spring 2007): 27-48. (Invited submission)

Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. “Reading Practices in the Writing Classroom.” WPA Journal (Fall/Winter 2007): 35-47.

Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. “Reaching Out from the Writing Classroom: Research Writing as a Situated, Public Act.” In Writing in Context(s): Textual Practices and Learning Processes in Sociocultural Settings, ed. Triantafillia Kostouli. New York: Springer, 2005. 229-246.

Adler-Kassner, Linda and Heidi Estrem. “Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: A View from the Field.” In The Outcomes Book: Debate and Consensus after the WPA Outcomes Statement, ed. Susanmarie Harrington et al. Logan: Utah State UP, 2005. 60-71.

English 121 (Composition II: Researching the Public Experience)

English 328 (Writing, Style, and Technology)

English 621 (Research in Theory and Practice of Writing)

English 596 (Teaching Composition at the College Level)

English 585 (Teaching Basic Writing at the College Level)

English 516/517 (Writing, Public Policy, and Public Writing)