Dr. Carl Whithaus, Associate Professor, Professional Writing

Ph.D. City University of New York M.A. New York University B.A. University of Texas at Austin HH 2101 757-683-3875 cwhithau <AT> odu.edu http://writingassessment.blogspot.com

Teaching

Teaching Writing with Technology

Teaching Composition

Rhetorical Studies

Rhetorics of Cyberpsace

Electronic Writing

Research Areas

Writing Assessment and Pedagogy

Writing in the Sciences and Medicine 

Computer-mediated Communication

Histories of Texts and Technology

Rhetorics and Poetics of Composition

Selected Publications

Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2005.

Whithaus, Carl and Mary Beth Lakin. "Working on Electronic Portfolios: Connections between Work and Study"Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments. 9.2 (Spring 2005). http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/9.2/binder2.html?coverweb/whithaus/cover.htm

"The Development of Early Computer-Assisted Writing Instruction (1960-1978): The Double Logic of Media and Tools," Computers and the Humanities, 38.2, May 2004, 149 - 162.

"Green Squiggly Lines: Evaluating Student Writing in Computer-Mediated Environments" academic.writing: interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across the curriculum (Summer 2002) http://aw.colostate.edu/articles/whithaus2002/

"Evaluating Student-Created Hypertexts: What Do We Do With These Things???"Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 6.2 (Fall 2001) http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.2/binder2.html?coverweb/hypertext/whithaus/index.html

"Immediate Memories: (Nostalgic) Time and (Immediate) Loss in the Poetry of David Shapiro." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 53.1.(Spring 1999) 29-45. http://rmmla.wsu.edu/ereview/53.1/articles/whithaus.asp

[Reprinted] Whithaus, Carl. "Immediate Memories: (Nostalgic) Time and (Immediate) Loss in the Poetry of David Shapiro." Jacket 23 (August 2003). http://jacketmagazine.com/23/shap-whit.html