Linda Learman, (517) 264-3907

Assistant Professor, English

Office: Valade 113 - llearman@adrian.edu

Degrees

• Wayne State University, Ph.D., English (Rhetoric and Composition)
• Eastern Michigan University, M.A., English (Written Communications)

Specialties

• writing center theory
• teaching of writing
• rhetoric and composition
• qualitative research methods
• pedagogy
• literacy studies
• critical writing theory
• computers and writing

Biography

Research Studies currently in progress (in development from dissertation) include developing pedagogies to work with student conflict and resistance in first-year writing, understanding the revising processes of undergraduates through rhetorical and textual analysis; and proposing methodological considerations for classroom research. Review: Learman, Linda Mercer. “Writing Genres By Amy Devitt.” Issues in Writing. 15.1 (2004): 125-132. Presentations/Conferences “Of Conflict and Collaboration: Reflective Instrumentalism in the Composition Classroom.” Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, 2009. “Research on Student Revision Revisited.” Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Antonio, TX, 2004. “Essay #3: A Writing Teacher’s Close Encounter with New Media.” Presented at the New Media Conference, Detroit, MI, 2004. “The Question Concerning a Critical View of Technology: Paying Attention in the Computer Classroom.” Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY, 2003. “Connecting the Text to the Hills to the Streets.” Presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, 2002. “The Pedagogy of Paulo Friere and Critical Literacy in America.” Presented at National Council “Paulo Freire, The Problem of Authority, and Rhetorical Education in America.” Presented at Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, 1999. Professional Memberships Conference on College Composition and Communication National Council of Teachers of English Modern Language Association Michigan Council of Teachers of English Awards Rumble Fellow, Wayne State University Distinguished Graduate Student in Written Communications Award Other Interests Playing soccer, golf, waterskiing, travel, enjoying the outdoors.