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Professional and Research Interests:
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As a newbie retiree, I am still on a roll -- developing
and giving workshops on memoir-writing, soul-collaging, and on the multigenre
approach to memoir and argument. I am also writing . . . .yea! And
getting involved in my community. Walking the walk in a way that I am more
free to do now. I would love to hear from you, should you be interested in
my services and, always, I love to hear from my former students and
colleagues.
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I have presented my ideas on multigenre writing at several national CCCC
conferences. To learn more about my approach: See "Multigenre Research: Inquiring Minds," in
Wendy Bishop's The Subject is Research (Boynton/Cook 2001). A
co-authored chapter, along with Dr. Jayne A. Moneysmith, Kent State
University Stark Campus, shows students and teachers how
to develop a multigenre argument, step-by-step. Practical and
thorough. Also see my book entitled, Multiple Genres,
Mulitple Voices: Teaching Argument in Composition and Literature (March
2005, Heinemann). A
co-authored book with Dr. Jayne A. Moneysmith, Kent State University Stark
Campus, focuses
on our work with recasting classical and alternative forms of argument in multigenre writing.
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Metaphor as Renewal. In addition to my extensive work
with Multigenre Arguments, I am also engaged in a joint teacher-researcher project with Dr. Candida Gillis focused
on how metaphorical knowing shapes philosophy and practice in student teachers and in
experienced teachers. We have presented our ideas at both regional and national
conferences. Our article in the July 2002 issue of English Journal
focuses on
our work with teachers: "Metaphor
as Renewal: Re-imagining Our Professional Selves."
- Service-learning. I frequently included an s-l component in my writing classes.
Such work deepens study of significant social issues and problems in my argument
classes. Students used this experience in their multigenre capstone
project. Students in English 209 have explored connections in a wide variety of agencies
in Moscow including Sojourner's Alliance, the Veterans' Hospital (Lewiston), and AspenPark Healthcare.
I also used the s-l component in my creative nonfiction course; here, we
write profiles of locals for specific agencies, such as Hawthorne Village
(Spring 2007). I presented my recent work at a conference, focused
on service-learning: "Breaking
Through: Hope,
Text and Community."
Institute on Academic Service-Learning:
Connecting
K-12, Communities, and Higher Education, Feb. 8-9, 2002, Ypsilanti, MI.
Personal Interests:
- Summers find me hiking, gardening, berry-picking,
and treking Idaho. I like to travel, especially to urban haunts like
Seattle, San Francisco and New York City. I went to Greece summer of 2006 and took a
10-day workshop in nonfiction in Hania, Crete. I envision myself
traveling more--Ireland, Scotland, England, Spain, Caribbean, Priest Lake, Keller, Wa and the Selway--writing
more, being engaged in new teaching venues and community action groups.
- I cherish my family--husband Bill Johnson (also
recently retired from LCSC where he taught composition, literature and
poetry at and is a recent recipient of an NEA grant for his poetry), three
grown children who are following their paths--my oldest son, a Clarkston
high school English/History teacher and boys' varsity basketball coach, my
daughter, manager of SL Start (a disability organization) in Lewiston and my
youngest son, who is a third year medical student in the College of Medicine
at the University of Toledo, two wonderful daughter-in-laws--one a junior
high social studies teacher at Jenifer Jr. High and one a student in
the Physician Assistants program in the College of Health Science and Human
Service at the University of Toledo and will graduate in December 08, four grandchildren, ranging in ages
from 17 to nearly 3 years old -- all very
dear to my heart.
- I cherish my roots on the Sanpoil River and my extended
family. A teepee encampment I am grateful to
be in.
- And I cherish my calling to be in this world, as mother, grandmother, wife, friend, teacher
and writer.
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