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Present	Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of English
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Rhetoric and Composition

Articles (16)

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Applying Natural Language Processing Tools to a Student Academic Writing ...

Journal of Writing Analytics (2017)

Scott A. Crossley, David R. Russell, Kristopher Kyle and Ute Romer

• Background: Researchers have been working towards better understanding differences in professional disciplinary writing (e.g., Ewer & Latorre, 1969; Hu ...

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"Genre as Social Action": A Gaze into Phenomenology

Composition Forum (2015)

David R. Russell

Genre as Social Action opened up a whole new connection for me, which even now, some 20 years later, I ...

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WAC/WID meets CXC/CID: A dialogue between writing studies ...

The WAC Journal (2013)

Denise Ann Vrchota and David R. Russell

We work in the same English Department doing the same kind of work—but in two very different fields. Here at ...

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Contradictions regarding teaching and writing (or writing to learn) in ...

REDU: Journal of University Teaching (2013)

David R. Russell

This article describes a tradition of Anglophone North American higher education (HE) research concerning the role of writing in learning ...

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Drafting and Revision Using Word Processing by Undergraduate Student Writers ...

Research in the Teaching of English (2010)

Anish M. Dave and David R. Russell

The concepts of drafting and revision were developed out of process theory and research done in the early 1980s, an ...

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Genre, media, and communicating to learn in the disciplines: Vygotsky ...

Revista Signos (2010)

David R. Russell and Patricia Harms

What is the relationship between medium and genre in learning and development? North American genre theory suggests following Miller (1984, ...

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Open Access Book Publishing in Writing Studies: A Case Study

First Monday (2008)

Charles Bazerman, David Blakesley, Mike Palmquist and David R. Russell

The publication of scholarly books has been shaped strongly in recent decades by two factors: assessments by publishers of the ...

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Rethinking the Articulation Between Business and Technical Communication and Writing ...

Journal of Business and Technical Communication (2007)

David R. Russell

In a profound sense, the teaching of business and technical communication (BTC) is always already the teaching of writing in ...

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Portfolios across the Curriculum: Whole School Assessment in Kentucky

The English Journal (2001)

Lizabeth Berryman and David R. Russell

This article is the result of a two-year teacher/researcher collaboration between Liz, an experienced high school English teacher, and David, ...

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The Cooperation Movement: Writing and Mass Education, 1890-1930

Research in the Teaching of English (1998)

David R. Russell

The cooperation movement (c. 1900-1930) was the first in a series of twentieth century attempts to broaden responsibility for language ...

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Review: The Search for Traditions

College English (1998)

David R. Russell

Teaching is an art, so the saying goes. But we rarely take that metaphor seriously.In this century, in the field ...

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Growing Together: Curricular and Professional Development through Collaborative Portfolio Assessment

English Leadership Quarterly (1996)

David R. Russell, Starr Lewis and Anella Riggs

We want to present two examples of a simple but radical idea: that an important way to connect curriculum, professional ...

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Writing across the Curriculum in Historical Perspective: Toward a Social ...

College English (1990)

David R. Russell

Literacy instruction or the lack of it has a wide range of social consequencespolitical, economic, cultural. These consequences are most ...

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Romantics on Writing: Liberal Culture and the Abolition of Composition ...

Rhetoric Review (1988)

David R. Russell

On no one subject of education has so great an amount of effort been put forth as on the teaching ...

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Writing across the Curriculum and the Communications Movement: Some Lessons ...

College Composition and Communnication (1987)

David R. Russell

Cross-curricular writing programs are not new. Since the modern universityfirst took shape toward the close of the nineteenth century, and ...

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Writing across the Curriculum in 1913: James Fleming Hosic on ...

The English Journal (1986)

David R. Russell

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) looks forall the world like something new. Articles andbooks on it are common, and programs ...

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Contribution to Book

Attending to Phenomenology: Rethinking Cognition and Reflection in North American ...

Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing (2018)

Dylan B. Dryer and David R. Russell

As detailed elsewhere in this collection (esp. Bazerman; Carillo; Talbot), when North American Writing Studies of higher education and workplaces ...

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The Literary and the Literate: The Study and Teaching of ...

Futures for English Studies. Ed. Ann Hewings, Lynda Prescott and Phillip Seargeant (2016)

David R. Russell

The study and teaching of academic and other practical kinds of writing has become, over the last 40 years, a ...

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Thinking Critically and Negotiating Practices in the Disciplines.

Working with Academic Literacies: Case Studies Towards Transformative Practice (2015)

David R. Russell and Sally Mitchell

David Russell, Professor of English at Iowa State University, researches writing in the disciplines and professions, consults on writing in ...

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Beyond single domains: Writing in boundary crossing

Handbook of Writing and Text Production (2014)

David Oakey and David R. Russell

The chapter explains the role of text production in intellectual, cultural, and social mobility in a digital age. Written communication ...

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US First-Year Composition and Writing in the Disciplines

The Routledge Companion to English Studies (2014)

Irene Clark and David R. Russell

The issue of how to help university students write more effectively has been a concern since the establishment of the ...

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Cultural Historical Activity Theory and Student Writing

Pedagogy in Higher Education: A Cultural Historical Approach (2013)

David R. Russell

Writing, often in conjunction with other media, is profoundly important to higher education, as it is to other modern institutions ...

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Academic and Scientific Texts: The Same or Different Communities?

University Writing: Selves and Texts in Academic Societies Series: Studies in Writing, Volume (2012)

David R. Russell and Viviana Cortes

This chapter analyzes the question of how and why texts written by students are similar to and different from texts ...

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Writing in Multiple Contexts: Vygotskian CHAT Meets the Phenomenology of ...

Traditions of Writing Research (2010)

David R. Russell

Texts largely structure the activity of the modern world and--a forteriori--the post-modern world, with its reliance on hypertextual networks. But ...

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Texts in Contexts: Theorizing Learning by Looking at Genre and ...

Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching: Communities, Activities and Networks. (2009)

David R. Russell

Written texts are central to formal education. The reading (consumption) and writing (production) of texts constitutes a great deal of ...

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