W. Webster Newbold

Associate Professor
Department of English
Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana 47306 USA

B.A. Swarthmore College 1972
M.A., Ph.D. The Shakespeare Institute
University of Birmingham (England) 1979



Links to Courses


2002 Summer Workshop on Portfolio Assessment in English Studies (supported by USDE Title II Grant)

Senior Seminar with Electronic Portfolio Samples

Digital Portfolios in Teacher Education at Ball State: A Progress Report (slide show for MSIE or download)

Electronic Portfolios in English (slide show for MSIE or download)

Composition Doctoral Exam Question Bank (restricted)
 
 

Teaching and Research Interests

Recent Works Published and Forthcoming
"Developing a University-Wide Electronic Portfolio System for Teacher Education" with Laurie Mullen and William I. Bauer.  Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 6.2 (Fall 2001)
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.2/binder2.html?coverweb/assessment/
mullenbauernewbold/main.htm

Review of Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print (2nd Edition) by Jay David Bolter.  Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 6.2 (Fall 2001)
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/6.2/binder.html?reviews/newbold/
newbold_main.htm

“Teaching on the Internet: Transactional Writing Instruction on the World Wide Web.” Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments 4.1 (1999)
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/4.1/binder.html?features/newbold/bridgenw.html

“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, in print.
 
Mailing Address: 
Department of English 
Ball State University 
Muncie, IN 47306 USA 		 Office Phone: (765) 285-8583 
Home Phone: (765) 649-6673 
Fax: (765) 285-3765 
E-Mail: wnewbold@bsu.edu
Slide Show of Jan Newbold's sabbatical trip to the French Antilles, Fall 2001

Epigrams of Note

  • On rhetoric
    • "Human thought, enveloped by the ponderous mass of the body, is impenetrable; it is made manifest to a certain extent in speech."
    Juan Luis Vives, De anima et vita
    Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain
    She wrote me a letter, she wrote it so kind--
    She put down in writin' what was in her mind.
    Dylan, "Not Dark Yet"
    It's rough out there...high water everywhere
    Dylan, "High Water"
    I think what I might need is a full length leather coat.
    Dylan, "Highlands"
    English Homepage revised Apr 4, 2007