University of Colorado Denver College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Bio

My current research focuses on understanding and improving literacy practices in high school, college and the workplace through a focus on transfer and vertical curricula. With Sharon James McGee, I received a $25,000 grant from CCC to study writing in high schools and colleges across the U.S. Our initial results were published in the September 2010 issue of College Composition and Communication. Another strand of my research focuses on the use of experience sampling methods to understand and improve literacy practices in both traditional and online educational settings.

Select Publications

"The Role of Advanced Composition in the Undergraduate Curriculum: Making a Place for Rhetorical Theory." Principles and Practices: New Discourses for the Vertical Curriculum. Ed. Margaret Strain. Hampton Press. In Press.

"Writing in High School/Writing in College: Research Trends and Future Directions" (Joanne Addison and Sharon James McGee). CCC 62:1 (2010): 147-179.

"Understanding Literacy as Lived Experience: Feminist Standpoint Theory, Strong Objectivity, and Experience Sampling Methods." Rhetorica in Motion. Eds. Eileen E. Schell and Kelly Rawson. Albany: SUNY Albany Press, 2009. 136-159

"Mobile Technologies and a Phenomenology of Literacy." Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues. Eds. Danielle Nicole DeVoss and Heidi McKee. New Jersey: Hampton Press, 2007. 171-185. Collection Winner of the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award.

"The Teaching Practicum as a Site of Inquiry and Action." Don't Call it That: The Composition Practicum. Ed. Sidney I. Dobrin. Champaign: National Council of Teachers of English, 2005. 256-265.

"Outsourcing Education, Managing Knowledge, and Strengthening Academic Communities." Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University. Eds. C. Werry and M. Mowbray. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2001. 1-13.

"Technological Fronts: Lesbian Lives 'On the Line'" (with Susan Hilligoss). Feminist Cyberscapes Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces. Eds. K. Blair and P. Takayoshi. Stamford: Ablex Publishing Co., 1999. 21-40. Article Winner of the Ellen Nold Award for Best Article in Computers and Composition.

Feminist Empirical Research: Emerging Perspectives on Qualitative and Teacher Research (Joanne Addison and Sharon James McGee). New Hampshire: Boyton/Cook Publishers. 1999.

"Portfolio Based Assessment and Professional Development" (Joanne Addison and Rick VanDeWeghe). English Education 16 (1999): 16-33.

"Data Analysis and Subject Representation in Empowering Research". Written Communication 14 (1997): 106-128.

"Virtual Complexities: Exploring Literacy at the Intersection of Computer Mediated Social Formations" (Joanne Addison and Michelle Comstock). Computers and Composition 14 (1997): 245-255.

"Reforming Developmental Writing: Writing and Agency at the Academic Edge" (Karin Evans and Joanne Addison). Feminist Teacher 9 (1995): 22-28.

Courses Taught

Empirical Research
Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing
Senior Seminar
Argumentation and Logic
Business Writing