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W. Webster Newbold

Associate Professor
Director of the Writing Program
Ph.D., University of Birmingham (England)

Office: Robert Bell 2108
Phone: (765) 285-8377
E-mail: wnewbold@bsu.edu
Website: http://www.bsu.edu/web/00wwnewbold/

Areas of Specialization:

On-line composition pedagogy; Medieval and early modern history of rhetoric and literacy; electronic portfolios in teaching, learning, and assessment

Representative Publications:

"Developing a University-wide Digital Portfolio System For Teacher Education," with Laurie Mullen and William I. Bauer (50% my effort) Kairos 6.2 (Fall 2001)

A Review of Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print (2nd Edition) by Jay David Bolter, Kairos 6.2 (Fall 2001)

"Teaching on the Internet: Transactional Writing Instruction on the World Wide Web." Kairos 4.1 (1999).

"Letter Writing and Vernacular Literacy in Sixteenth Century England." Letter-Writing Manuals from Antiquity to the Present. Ed. Carol Poster and Linda Mitchell. Columbia, SC: Univ. of South Carolina P, forthcoming.

Courses:

Graduate: Technology in English Studies (604), Writing Technologies (692), Medieval and Early Modern History of Rhetoric (695)

Undergraduate: Shakespeare (464), Senior Seminar (444), English Studies and Technology (213), English Composition 2 On-line (104)