Dana Driscoll's Professional Website

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at Oakland Univesrity and the CCCC Memberweb editor. For more information about Oakland University's department of Writing and Rhetoric, view our website here. My current students should use our class Moodle site.

For more information on the CCCC Memberweb and my work as CCCC Memberweb Editor, please see my introductory letter.

I specialize in writing across the curriculum, writing centers, WPA, Research Methodologies, and technology and writing. My current research focuses on the role of student attitudes in the transfer of learning with an emphasis on first-year composition. Preliminary findings were recently presented at the CCCC 2009 and IWAC 2008 conferences. It is my hope that this work will help create more effective writing pedagogies for facilitiating the transfer of writing knowledge across the curriculum.

In the Fall 2009, I am teaching WRT 160, Composition II and WRT 320: Peer Tutoring in Composition. In the Winter 2009 semester, I will once again teach WRT 320: Peer tutoring.

I am a recent graduate of the Ph.D. program in Rhetoric and Composition at Purdue University. While at Purdue, I served as the Purdue OWL Coordinator, Purdue OWL Webmaster, and as a Technology Mentor in the Introductory Composition at Purdue program.

 


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Pedagogy of Transfer

Why do students have difficulty transferring writing knowledge to other contexts? My dissertation research shows that part of the reason is that students do not understand their future writing contexts and that they have limited definitions of writing. The Pedagogy of Transfer I have been developing directly addresses both of these issues by asking students to directly investiate their future writing contexts and how writing is done in their fields. It also works to expand students definitions of what it means to write in various rhetorical situations.