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As first opponent on this Norwegian disputation (completed in English), I was responsible for

• reading a completed draft of the dissertation,
• writing up a report outlining why (and whether) I thought it was defendable
• working with the examination committee to create a topic for Eikenes’ “public trial” [presentation based on his dissertation]
• articulating a set of questions to pose during his disputation [defense]
• deciding, in consultation with the research committee, whether the candidate would pass the defense.

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Participating with VP of Research for Illinois State University, I spoke to new faculty members (in a morning and afternoon session) about personal and professional strategies for being a successful researcher at Illinois State.

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In 2007-08, Ellison and I mentored finishing PhD students through weekly meetings to guide them through the academic job market process. In 2008-09, we set up a blog to contain much of the advice we had previously distributed verbally in meetings and through individual emails and, thus, began having twice-a-month workshops to do peer-review of CVs, cover letters, mock interviews, and practice job talks. We have continued that set-up in 2009-10, as students have begun to refer to the “job blog” more regularly.

accompanying materials

• job advice blog

see also

• 2009 Sigma Tau Delta Award for Faculty Mentoring (under Honors)

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Wendling and Myers worked under my guidance to revise the digital media chapter that undergraduates in my Fall 2008 Multimodal Composition class authored for inclusion in the digital book I am co-editing, The New Work of Composing. Wendling’s work was supported through a Research and Sponsored Programs fellowship for undergraduate research.

accompanying materials

• not available

see also

• “A Case Study of Revision Processes in Student-Authored Digital Media Scholarship” (Wendling’s summer fellowship, under Honors)

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PhD students at Illinois State (and a Masters student at Utah State) have the occasional opportunity to be a research assistant for the journal I edit, Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy. Depending on the journal’s needs at the time, students’ technical and theoretical skills, as well as how long they will be assigned to the journal based on departmental teaching needs, students are guided to perform different projects from copy- and design-editing to non-production projects such as designing promotional materials. Depending on the project, I create training documents or verbally guide students through the process.

students/projects

• Kyle Jensen (Spring 2009), created promotional website for editorial projects, including Kairos, in department
• Devon Fitzgerald (Spring 2008), worked on copy- and design-editing in production cycle
• Susan Baxter (2004-06: volunteer), compiled a database-ready bibliography of citation contents for Kairos‘s first ten years of publication

accompanying materials

• none available