David R. Russell Professor, Rhetoric and Professional Communication (515) 296-5727 Fax: (515) 296-5817 philiptr@yahoo.com

Thanks for finding me. My interests are in writing across the curriculum, international writing instruction, writing assessment, the history of rhetoric in education, and cultural-historical Activity Theory. My book, Writing in the Academic Disciplines: A Curricular History, now in its second edition, examines the history of American writing instruction outside of composition courses.

Teaching Projects:

ISUComm: A communication-across-the-curriculum program at ISU. I am currently helping design two foundations courses that weave together written, oral, visual and electronic communication (WOVE)..

English 310: Rhetorical Analysis. A course required for English majors at Iowa State, which introduces them to rhetoric.

Research Interests (and selected papers)

Computers and Communication Across the Curriculum

Group for Research on Internt Case-based Education (GRICE)

Activity Theory and Writing

Writing Selves/Writing Society. Edited by Charles Bazerman and David
Russell. An online book on writing and activity

The Limits of the Apprenticeship Models in WAC/WID Research, Conference of College Composition and Communication, 1998.

Rethinking Genre in School and Society: An Activity Theory Analysis, Written Communication 14 (1997): 504-554.

International Writing Instruction

Writing and Learning in Cross-National Perspective: Transitions from Secondary to Higher Education. (coedited with David Foster) NCTE Press, 2002.

Assessment and Portfolios

"Portfolios Across the Curriculum: Whole School Assessment in Kentucky" (with Lizabeth Berryman). English Journal 90 (2001): 76-84.

Organizations (related to my teaching and research interests)

GRAPES (Group for Research in APplied English Studies) Iowa State's empirical research group in rhetoric and applied linguistics.

Writing in the Disciplines/Communication Across the Curriculum

Language and Learning Across the Disciplines on the Web
academic.writing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Curriculum

Activity Theory

National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement
MCA
Activity theory
Writing in the Disciplines/Communication Across the Curriculum

Teaching and Learning English

NCTE Homepage
National Research Center on English Learning & Achievement