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Mary Jo Reiff

Selected Publications

  • Scenes of Writing: for Composing with Genres, with Amy Oevitt and Anis Bawarshi (Allyn Bacon/Longman, 2004
  • Approaches to Audience: Overview of the Major Perspectives (Parlay Press, 2004).

Representative articles

  • "Moving Writers, Shaping Motives, Motivating Critique and Change: A  Genre Approach to Teaching Writing."  In Relations, Locations, Positions: Composition Theory for Writing Teachers. Eds. Peter Vandenberg, Sue Hum, and Jennifer Clary-Lemon.  NCTE: 2006.  157-79
  • “Mediating Materiality and Discursivity: Critical Ethnography as Metageneric Learning,” in Ethnography Unbound (SUNY Press, 2004). 35-51
  • “Accessing Communities through the Genre of Ethnography: Exploring a Pedagogical Genre,” College English 65 (May 2003): 553-558
  • with Anis Bawarshi “Composition and the Cultural Imaginary: Interview with Susan Miller,” Composition Forum 13.1&2 (2002): 1-22
  • review of Interacting with Audiences: Influences on the Production of the Scientific Writing, Ann M. Blakelee, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 45 (December 2002): 311-314
  • “Teaching Audience Post-Process: Recognizing the Complexity of Audiences in Disciplinary Contexts,” The WAC Journal 13 (June 2002): 100-111
  • “Creating Community, Collaboration and Consistency: The Use of Teaching Teams in Writing Program Administrations,” Issues in Writing 11.1 (2000): 28-63
  • "On the Border Between Disciplines: A Conversation with Carolyn Miller," (with Anis Bawarshi), Issues in Writing 9 (Spring/Summer 1999), 110-138
  • "Behind the Scenes of Writing: An Interview with Min Zhan Lu," (with Anis Bawarshi), Writing on the Edge 9.1 (Fall/Winter 1998), 89-104
  • "Rereading 'Invoked' and 'Addressed' Readers Through a Social Lens: Toward a Recognition of Multiple Audience," JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory 16 (1996), 407-24.

Honors

  • John C. Hodges Excellence in Teaching Award, 2002.

 

Mary Jo Reiff

Contact Information

Mary Jo Reiff
Associate Professor
Director of Composition
Department of English
211 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6946
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: mreiff@utk.edu

Education

B.A., Truman State University
M.A., Southeast Missouri University
Ph.D. University of Kansas

Research

Rhetoric and Composition, Technical/Professional Communication