Dana Driscoll's Professional Website

My complete CV can be downloaded here (Acrobat PDF file): Dana Driscoll's CV.

Selected Publications

”Praxis and Allies: The WPA Board Game” The WPA Journal.  With T. Sura, J. Wells, M. Schoen, and C. Elder.  (Spring 2009 32.3 2009)

“Composition Studies, Professional Writing, and Empirical Research: A Skeptical View” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 39.2

“Usability and User-Centered Theory for 21st Century OWLs.”  The Handbook of Research in the Virtual Workplace.  First author with H. Allen Brizee, Michael Salvo, and Morgan Sousa.   Edited by P. Zemilansky and K. St. Amant, K. Hershey, PA: Idea Group International, 2008. 614-631.

“Review of Moodle Course Management System” for Computers and Composition Online, Summer 2009 issue.
            http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/Web_2_0_Reviews/Moodle_Driscoll/index.html

“Review of College Writing and Beyond: A New Framework for University Writing Instruction.”  Across the Disciplines Journal. March 29, 2008.
            http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/reviews/beaufort2007.cfm

Under Review
“Introduction to primary research: observations, surveys, and interviews.” In Writing Spaces: Readings for Writers.  Eds. C. Lowe and P. Zemilansky.  

In Preparation
“The pedagogy of transfer: impacts of student attitudes on the transfer of writing knowledge.”  In preparation.

 

Selected Presentations

“Transfer of Knowledge and Motivation in the First Year Writing Classroom: Connections, Perceptions, and Pedagogies” Conference on College Composition and Communication –San Francisco 2009.

“Writing Centers as Bridges to Engagement: Strategies for Fostering College-Community Partnerships”  with Linda Bergmann, H. Allen Brizee, Danielle Cordaro, and Morgan Reitmeyer.  CCCC Writing Center Collaborative, San Francisco, 2009.

“Student Perceptions of the Transfer of Knowledge about First-Year Composition” Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, TX, 2008. 

“Looking Back and Looking Forward: 12 Years of OWL History” East Central Writing Center Conference (ECWCA), Columbus, OH, 2008.

““Student Perceptions of Transfer of Knowledge from First Year Composition” Research Network Forum at CCCC, 2008. 

“Researching Disability: Intersections Between Technology, Usability, and Persons with Blindness” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA, 2008. 

“Sustaining Writing Center Technologies Though User-Centered Design:  Improving Websites and OWLs” CCCC Pre-Conference Workshop.  With H. Allen Brizee, Tammy Conard-Salvo, and Morgan Sousa, 2008. 

“Survey Research in the Writing Center: A Methodological Discussion” International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), Houston, TX, 2007.

“OWL Usability Testing: Methods and Issues” Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New York, NY, 2007.

“Purdue OWL Remote Testing Survey” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Computer Connection,  2007.

“Purdue OWL Usability Testing” Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference, Purdue University, 2007.

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Current Research

My current dissertation research focuses on the role of student attitudes in the transfer of learning. Findings have been 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. I also seek to develop better methods for studying transfer.