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I am Professor Emeritus of Writing Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Davis. This homepage includes
- my bio
- selected courses I’ve taught over my career, first at George Mason University and, from 2006, at UC Davis
- research projects in which I’ve been engaged
- and info about my consulting.
You may reach me at [email protected].
My most recent books:
Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century (second edition with Ashley Mehlenbacher, Broadview Press, 2025), based on years of teaching writing to STEM majors at UC Davis, as well as on many years of research in writing in disciplines and across the curriculum (WAC/WID). The new edition is updated with material on generative artificial intelligence in science writing and other emergent issues since the first edition was published in 2019.
The fourth edition of A Short History of Writing Instruction: From Ancient Greece to the Modern United States (Routledge, 2020), which I co-edited with the late James J. Murphy. This is the fully updated 30th Anniversary edition of this classic text.
