Education
B.A., Miami University, 1974
M.S., University of Oregon, 1994

Awards
Listed in Marquis WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA (2000-present.)
Selected for membership in the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), nation's premiere association for free-lance nonfiction writers, 1996-present
2005 Distinguished Researcher of the Year Award, College of Communication, Information, and Media, BSU

Refereed (academic journal) Publications:
"Individual Assessment of Media Writing Student Attitudes: Recasting the Mass Communication Writing Apprehension Measure," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Vo. 82, Issue 2, Summer 2005. (co-author: Dr. Mark Popovich)

"Searching for a New Paradigm: Results of the National Media Writing Faculty Study," Journalism & Mass Communication (JMC) Educator, Autumn 2004. (co-author: Dr. Mark Popovich)

"Revisiting Student Writer Apprehension: A New Interpretation of the Riffe and Stacks’s Writing Apprehension Measure," Operant Subjectivity, 2003 (April) 26 (3):88-111. (co-authors: Dr. Mark Popovich, Dr. Beverley Pitts)

"Evaluating Students' Progress by Reading Their Journals," Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Autumn 1999.

"Using Q Methodology to Assess Journalism Faculty Attitudes Toward the Teaching of Writing," Operant Subjectivity, October 1998/January 1999. (co-author: Dr. Mark Popovich)

"Assessing Faculty Attitudes Toward the Teaching of Writing," Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, Autumn 1998. (co-author: Dr. Mark Popovich)      

Books:
Delamore's Dreams (a novel), published January 2005, Booklocker.com

Inspired to Serve: Today’s Faith Activists,book-length collection of literary journalistic profiles, Indiana University Press, September 2004

Writer’s Digest Handbook of Magazine Article Writing (second ed.), F&W Publications, 2005.  Featured my artile on "Finding Your Focus" in one of the chapters.

The Writer's Handbook, THE WRITER, INC., 1996 (My chapter, "Creative Nonfiction: Where Journalism and Storytelling Meet," was featured in this 900-plus page reference book, which also included chapters by Donald Murray, John Jakes and Rita Dove.)                      

Mainstream Publications (since 1996):
"How to Organize a Nonfiction Feature," The Writer, September 2006

“Writing Profiles with Personality Plus,” The Writer, July 2003.

“On the Frontline,” published in Etude, online literary journal, graduate program in literary nonfiction, University of Oregon, January 2003.  (This original work of literary journalism on a crisis intervention team was the lead feature story.)

“Literary Journalism: Learning the Basics," Writer's Digest, March 2002       

“Find Your Focus. Organize Your Story," Writer's Yearbook, January 2002. Article first published in Writer's Digest  magazine, August 2001

"Theory of Relativity" (feature story) published in Golf Journal (U.S.G.A. publication), September 2000

"Six Ways to Avoid a Rewrite," published by Writer's Digest (on-line edition), March 2000

"Missions of Print Journalism in the New Millennium," The (Muncie) Star Press, February 23, 2000

"Wrongs of Passage" (book review), The (Muncie) Star Press, November 28, 1999

"Angel of the Streets," Catholic Digest, June 1998

"Nobody's Father," Hemispheres (United Airlines), June 1997

Professional Affiliations
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
American Society of Journalists and Authors
Society of Professional Journalists

Research Interest
Literary journalism/creative nonfiction
Teaching of writing
Writing across the curriculum