Joel's Welcoming Post

Welcome to our class blog. I hope you will enjoy this term. I have been teaching here at Ohio State for 10 years. I have a phd in rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a MA is esl education from the University of Michigan. I live with my wife and 7-year old daughter. I was one of the first Americans who went to China in 1979 and was one of the first to marry a Chinese citizen. It was very difficult in those days since you had to get permission from the Chinese communist party, which wasn't easy.

My dissertation was on academic writing in Chinese and English. I don't speak much Chinese and my wife had to help me. The first article I published from my dissertation I put her name on to acknowledge this help, even though she works in software development.

I have been been published on plagiarism and in technology and two articles, one on email and one on evaluative writing that were based on 10802. I just received a contract to publish a book on technology and second language composition.

In addition to 10802, I coordinate 106 and teach a course in publishing research, which you are invited to take when you are ready to publish.

I hope you enjoy this course and I am looking forward to working with you.