Carl Whithaus
- Associate Professor
Office Hours: T 11:00-12:00, W 10:00-11:00 & by appt.
Education:
- Ph.D. City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, May 2001
- Dissertation: Writing Our Way Toward Interactive Evaluation: Computer-Mediated Communication, Critical Pedagogy, and Hypermedia
- Committee: George Otte (Director), Ira Shor and David Greetham
- M.A. New York University, September 1995
- Thesis: “Upon Dust and Ashes”: Histories of Reading The Book of Job
- Director: Yael Feldman
- B.A. University of Texas at Austin, May 1992
- Honors Thesis: Muddy Violin Notes: Frames and Fictions (Chaucer, Borges, and Barth)
- Director: Zulfikar Ghose
Biography:
Carl Whithaus studies the impact of information technology on literacy practices, writing assessment, and writing in the sciences and engineering. His publications include Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing (Erlbaum 2005) and Writing Across Distances and Disciplines: Research and Pedagogy in Distributed Learning (Erlbaum / Taylor and Francis 2007). Carl earned his Ph.D. at the City University of New York (CUNY); he has taught at Stevens Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University, and the University of California, Davis.
His current research projects include: integrating emerging writing technologies into the language arts curriculum (k-12), examining the relationships among claims and evidence in the writing of professional biologists and environmental scientists, and exploring potential modifications to microblogs to leverage knowledge produced "swarming" content/users.
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