Elizabeth Wardle
Introduction
Elizabeth Wardle has served as the Roger and Joyce Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication and the Director of the Howe Center for Writing Excellence since 2016. In the HCWE she takes primary responsibility for faculty development initiatives. She is interested in working with colleagues across the university to promote deep change around teaching and learning.
Research Interests
- writing across the curriculum
- threshold concepts
- transfer of knowledge
- program design
- changing public conceptions of writing
Courses Taught
- Rhetoric and Writing Capstone
- Grantwriting
- Composition Theory
- Writing Program Administration
- Transfer and Threshold Concepts
- Teaching Disciplinary Writing
Education
- Ph.D., Iowa State University
- M.A., University of Louisville
- B.A., University of Louisville
Publications
Books
- Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines. Utah State University Press, 2022.
- Writing Expertise: A Research-Based Approach to Writing and Learning Across Disciplines. WAC Clearinghouse, 2022.
- Writing about Writing, 5th ed. Bedford/St. Martins,2022.
- (re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy. Utah State University Press, 2019.
- Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity. Utah State University Press, 2018.
- Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Utah State University Press, 2015.
Recent Articles and Book Chapters
- "Working with Faculty Partners to Change Conceptions of Writing Beyond University Walls.” With Mandy Olejnik, Jennifer Maher, Will Chesher, and Angela Glotfelter. WAC Journal, March 2023.
- “Writing-Related Faculty Development for Deep Change: An Introduction and Overview.” With Angela Glotfelter, Caitlin Martin, Mandy Olejnik and Ann Updike. In Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines. 2022. 5-26.
- “Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Effects of the Howe Faculty Writing Fellows Program.” With Angela Glotfelter, Caitlin Martin, Mandy Olejnik and Ann Updike. In Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines. 2022. 27-45.
- “Deep Change Theory: Implications for Educational Development Leaders.” With Caitlin Martin. In Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines. 2022. 2022. 46-60.
- “Principles for Enacting an Integrated Vision of Teaching and Learning.” With Angela Glotfelter, Caitlin Martin, Mandy Olejnik and Ann Updike. In Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines. 2022. 261-273.
Afterword: Tracing the Rise of the Disintegrative View of Education and Imagining Challenges Ahead.” With Angela Glotfelter, Caitlin Martin, Mandy Olejnik and Ann Updike. In Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching Across Disciplines. 2022. 275-289. - “ ‘Something Invisible… Has Been Made Visible for Me’: An Expertise-Based WAC Seminar Model Grounded in Theory and (Cross) Disciplinary Dialogue.” With Angela Glotfelter and Ann Updike. In Diverse Approaches to Teaching, Learning, and Writing Across the Curriculum: IWAC at 25. Lesley Bartlett, Sandra Tarabochia, Andrea Olinger, and Margaret Marshall, eds. WAC Clearinghouse, 2020. 167-92.
- “Naming What We Know (In Writing Studies): Engaging Troublesome Trends in Educational Policy and Practice.” With Linda Adler-Kassner. Threshold Concepts on the Edge. Ray Land, and Julie Rattray, eds. Sense Publishers, 2019. 313-26
- “Using a Threshold Concepts Framework to Facilitate an Expertise-Based WAC Model for Faculty Development.” In (re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle, eds. Utah State University Press, 2019. 297-312.
- “Recognizing the Limits of Threshold Concept Theory.” With Linda Adler-Kassner, Jonathan Alexander, Norbert Elliot, James Hammond, Mya Poe, Jacqueline Rhodes, and Anne-Marie Womack. In (re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle, eds. Utah State University Press, 2019. 15-35.
- “Threshold Concepts as a Foundation for ‘Writing about Writing’ Pedagogies.” With Linda Adler-Kassner. Next Steps: New Directions for/in Writing about Writing. Doug Downs, Barbara Bird, Moriah McCracken, and Jan Rieman, eds. Utah State University Press, 2019. 23-34.
- “Understanding the Nature of Disciplinarity in Terms of Composition’s Values.” With Doug Downs. In Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity. Utah State University Press, 2018.
- “Teaching and Learning Threshold Concepts in a Writing Major: Liminality, Dispositions, and Program Design.” With Mikael Romo and R. Mark Hall. Composition Forum, Spring 2018.
- “You Can Learn to ‘Write in General.” Bad Ideas about Writing. Cheryl Ball and Drew Lowe, eds. Fall 2017. 30-33.
- ‘The Hardest Thing With Writing is Not Getting Enough Instruction’: Helping Educators Guide Students Through Writing Challenges.” With Nicolette Mercer Clement. Understanding Writing Transfer and Its Implications for Higher Education. Jessie Moore and Randy Bass, eds. Stylus: January 2017. 131-143.
Work in Progress
With Alex Arreguin and Stacy Wilson: description of a WAC collaboration between Miami's HCWE and Mesa Community College/Maricopa System.
Articles on the Miami Writing Institute and changing the public's ideas about writing (with Jennifer Maher, Mandy Olejnik, Will Chesher, and Angela Glotfelter)
Project on innovating general education with colleagues from six institutions across the US.