Since our start in fall 2016, I’ve served as a Research Assistant on a transdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate students from writing studies and across STEM fields on a project we’ve come to call Writing Across Engineering and Science (WAES). WAES aims to cultivate an active community of practice around the teaching of STEM writing by supporting STEM teachers in learning, integrating, and innovating on relevant writing pedagogy practices to suit the specific contexts of their courses and disciplines. Our startup Strategic Instructional Innovations Program grant from Grainger College of Engineering’s Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education enabled us to spend the first of four years studying writing curricula and pedagogies across the College of Engineering, a needs-analysis process we’ve published on in Technical Communication Quarterly, and our recently awarded National Science Foundation grant will sustain and grow the project for the next three years.
See our team website for more information: https://publish.illinois.edu/waes/
Team Publications:
Kovanen, Bruce, Ryan Ware, Megan Mericle, Nicole Turnipseed, Paul Prior, Julie Zilles. (July 2020). Implementing writing-as-process in engineering education. Proceedings of the 127th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition. https://peer.asee.org/34786
Gallagher, John R., Nicole Turnipseed, John Y. Yoritomo, Celia M. Elliott, S. Lance Cooper, John S. Popovics, Paul Prior, and Julie L. Zilles. (2020). A collaborative longitudinal design for supporting writing pedagogies of stem faculty. Technical Communication Quarterly. Online first version: January 2020. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10572252.2020.1713405
Ware, Ryan, Nicole Turnipseed, John Gallagher, S. Lance Cooper, Celia M. Elliott, John S. Popovics, Paul Prior, and Julie L. Zilles. (June 2019). Writing across engineering: A collaborative approach to support STEM faculty’s integration of writing instruction in their classes. Proceedings of the 126th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference and Exposition, Tampa, FL. https://peer.asee.org/33671
Yoritomo, John Y., Nicole Turnipseed, Maxx Joseph Villotti, Aric Tate, Kelly Searsmith, Matthias Grosse Perdekamp, Paul Prior, and Julie L. Zilles. (June 2019). A tale of two rubrics: Realigning genre instruction through improved response rubrics in a writing-intensive physics course. Proceedings of the 126th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference and Exposition. Tampa, FL. https://peer.asee.org/32012
Yoritomo, John Y., Nicole Turnipseed, S. Lance Cooper, Celia M. Elliott, John R. Gallagher, John S. Popovics, Paul Prior, and Julie L. Zilles. (June 2018). Examining engineering writing instruction at a large research university through the lens of writing studies. Proceedings of the 125th American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference & Exposition. Salt Lake City, UT. https://peer.asee.org/30467
A few recent posters I’ve created and presented locally and regionally:
sp17 SIIP poster_AE3 finalAE3 SIIP poster spring19 final
ASEE regional poster draft final