Professor Emeritus
Fields of Interest
Biography
B.A., Yale University, 1965
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1966
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1969
Activities and Interests
My scholarly efforts have been devoted to analyzing the workings of language in literature, academic writing, and advice writing, always with a view toward literary, textual, and discourse theory. At present, I expend good bit of time developing new uses of on-line technology to support courses in English Syntax, World Englishes, and corpus based analysis of kinds of writing. These on-line corpora also support my current research project, which is to give more specificity and substance to our accounts of writing in the academic disciplines. I also have made and maintain "resource" sites for studying English language and sites supporting books in visual analysis. (See my personal website.)