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Dr. Joyce Neff, Professor and Graduate Program Director, 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.