Undergraduate and Graduate Degrees

Ph.D. in English,
University of Manitoba, 1988

Masters Degree in English,
Joint Masters Program,
University of Winnipeg/University of Manitoba, 1979

B.A. (Hons. English)
University of Saskatchewan, 1977

Courses Taught

  • RHET-1101 (3) Academic Writing: Humanities
  • RHET-1105 (3) Academic Writing: Multidisciplinary
  • RHET-1102 (3) Academic Writing: Social Sciences
  • ANTH-2022 (3) Interdisciplinary Linguistics (presentation, “The [Growing] Role of Personal Voice and Experience in Academic Writing”)
  • RHET-2131 (3) Professional Style and Editing
  • RHET 2150 (3) as Independent Study, Spring, 2006
  • RHET-3255 (3) Narrative Thinking and Writing (050)
  • RHET-3320 (3) Forms of Inquiry in Written Communication (001)
  • RHET-3321 (3) Composing Our Winnipeg: Rhetoric of/and the City
  • RHET-4320 (3) Qualitative Research Methods in Written Communications
Selected/Recent Publications

Books

Sole Author:

 

Aspects of the Female Novel. Wakefield, N.H.: Longwood Academic, 1991, 1-179.

 
Two Sides to a Story: Gender in the Narrative Practices of University- and Elementary-Level Writers. Winnipeg: Inkshed Publications, 1997, 1-150.
Co-Author:

 

 

The Writer's Harbrace Handbook, First Canadian Edition, Cheryl Glenn, Robert Keith Miller, Suzanne Strobeck Webb, Loretta Gray, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, Thomson Nelson, 2007, 853 pp.

 

Writing and Reading Across the Disciplines, Canadian Edition. Laurence Behrens, Leonard J. Rosen, Jaqueline McLeod Rogers and Catherine Taylor, Pearson, 2007, 497pp.

 

Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum Canadian Edition, with Catherine Taylor, Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Toronto: Longman, 2003, 694 pp.

 

Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Instructor's Manual, edited with Lila M. Harper, Leonard J. Rosen, Laurence Behrens, and Catherine Taylor. Toronto: Longman, 2003, pp.

-currently preparing a 500 page Handbook under contract for Pearson, Writing in/across Disciplines, due June 2009.

Contributions to Books

“Identifying Patterns in Student Narrative Writing (and Reading )” in Quilting a New Canon: Stitching Women's Words. Ed. Uma Parameswaran, Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1996, pp. 145-164.

“Grace After Pressure,” in Marjorie Anderson and Carol Shields Eds. Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told. Random/Vintage Canada , January 2001.

 

“Provisional Knowing and Exploratory Narrative: Positioning Uncertainty in Academic Inquiry,” in Rhetoric, Uncertainty and the University as Text: How Students Construct Academic Experience. Andrew Stubbs Ed. Canadian Plains Research Centre at University of Regina, 2008: 184-93.

 

“A Research Methods Course for Undergraduate Students in Rhetoric and Composition: A Model” in Joyce Kinkead and Laurie Grobman, eds. Undergraduate Research in/and English Studies. Logan: Utah State UP, volume submitted for consideration.

 

“Helping Students to Make Sense with Narrative: Experience and Memory, Change and Truth,” Revising the Past. Dale Sullivan ed. Cambridge Scholars Press, Forthcoming.

Contributions to Journals:

 

“Finding Places for Imagining Feeling and Thinking in Academic Writing,” Writing on the Edge: A Journal about Writing and Teaching Writing, 2008: 69-78.

 

“Storying Scientific Adventure in the South Seas : Mead's Coming of Age.” Rhetoric Review, under review, April 2009.

 

“Techno Moms and Daughters: Who Gives Advice in the Postmodern Home?” under review for Remembering Family, Analyzing Home: Special Issue on Oral History (Canadian Oral History Association), March 2009.