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SHARON THOMAS
Associate Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/432-2403 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
teaching and research interests: first-year composition, basic writing, reading theory, writing center work, writing in the sciences
courses: WRA 1004/0102, Director of Preparation for College Writing; WRA 130 Writing: American Radical Thought; WRA 455: Portfolio Seminar
Thomas has her PhD in Language Arts from Michigan State University and has taught in K-12 and university settings in both the United States and Denmark. She has an M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOLD). She has been Associate Director and Acting Director of the MSU Writing Center and Associate Chair of the ATL Department. Thomas is the co-founder of the Red Cedar Writing Project, a site of the National Writing Project (1992), funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Education. She received a Fulbright Award to teach in Denmark in 1982-1983 and a Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) grant (with an MSU zoology professor) to develop professional writing groups in the sciences (1997-2000).
Thomas’ recent publications include contributions to the new Bedford Bibliography of Basic Writing (2002); two pieces on professional writing groups in the sciences (“Using the Peer Response Model for Graduate Student Writing Groups in the Sciences” in the Michigan Academician) and “Shaping Writing Groups in the Sciences” in Writing Groups, to be published as part of a new series by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. She also co-authored a book chapter on a study of the writing students do during their undergraduate years at MSU (“The Portfolio Project: Sharing Our Stories” in Centered Research: The Making of Knowledge in Writing Centers, 2002). Thomas is currently working on a case study of one of the professional writing groups in the sciences that was part of the FIPSE project.
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