Dr. Joyce Neff, Professor, Professional Writing

Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania M.A. Univeristy of Maryland B.A. Western Maryland College 5024 Batten Arts & Letters 757-683-6875 jneff <AT> odu.edu

 Teaching

First-year Composition

Advanced Composition

Management Writing

Teaching Composition

Colloquium for teachers of English

Writing Research

Research Areas

Grounded theory

Distance education

Writing across the curriculum

Representations of students as writers

Writing in government agencies

Hypertext and writing

Writing centers

Selected Publications

Across Distances and Disciplines: Writing Research and Pedagogy in Distributed Learning.  New York: Lawrence Erlbaum/Taylor & Francis, 2008.  (with Carl Whithaus)

"Contact and Interactivity: Social Constructionist Pedagogy in a Video-based Management Writing Course." Technical Communications Quarterly.  15 (2006): 431-456. (with Carl Whithaus)

"Getting Our Money's Worth: Delivering College Composition at a State University." in Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Cannon.  Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey.  Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2006: 48-59.

 "Working Together: Teaching Collaborative Research to Professional Writing Students" Research Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook for Teachers. Eds. Pavel Zemliansky and Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2004: 91-101.

"From a Distance: Teaching Writing on Interactive Television." Research in the Teaching of English 33(2), 1998.

"Grounded Theory: A Critical Research Methodology" in Under Construction. Utah State UP, 1998.

"Rhetoric in a Bureaucracy: Government Evaluators as Report Writers" in Studies in Technical Communication. University of North Texas, 1996

Professional Writing in Context: Lessons from Teaching and Consulting in Worlds of Work. (with Reynolds, Matalene, Samson, and Sadler). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995. 

"Literacy among Undergraduates: How We Represent Students as Writers and What It Means When We Don't" in Rhetoric, Cultural Studies, and Literacy. Earlbaum, 1995.