Writing and Rhetoric: faculty development, composition and rhetoric, writing program administration, writing pedagogy education
Shelley Reid is currently Director for Teaching Excellence at the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, and also teaches a range of courses for the English Department on writing, the teaching of writing, and writing program scholarship. Her recent articles in Composition Studies, Pedagogy, Writing Program Administration and College Composition and Communication argue for more comprehensive and discovery-based teacher preparation in composition programs, propose strategies for mentoring and development of new and continuing faculty, and examine strategies for curriculum assessment and revision. She is interested more generally in questions of how learners transfer knowledge from one context to another, and how institutions shape the work of teachers and learners at all levels. Prior to coming to George Mason, Shelley taught at Oklahoma State University, Austin College (Sherman, TX), and the University of Wyoming; she earned her BA at Grinnell College and her MA and PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
She is currently working on a composition textbook for Bedford/Macmillan, Solving Writing Problems, designed as an integrated, multimedia online resource for college writers.
Lukes, Laura L. and E. Shelley Reid. “Rebuilding a Teaching Conference in a Pandemic: User-Centered Guiding Principles and Lessons Learned.” To Improve the Academy 39.3 (Spring 2021): n.p. https://www.toimprovetheacademy.org/
Reid, E. Shelley. “Defining Dispositions: Mapping Student Attitudes and Strategies in College Composition.” Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing, edited by Patricia Portonova, J. Michael Riffenberg, and Duane Roen, WAC Clearinghouse Press, 2017, pp. 291-312.
Reid, E. Shelley. “On Learning to Teach: Letter to a New TA.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 40.2 (Spring 2017): 129-145.
Reid, E. Shelley. “Peer Review for Peer Review’s Sake: Resituating Peer Review Pedagogy.” Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Collaborative Peer Review and Response for the Writing Classroom. Ed. Steven J. Corbett, Michelle LaFrance, and Teagan Decker. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2014. 217-231.
Reid, E. Shelley, Heidi Estrem, and Marcia Belchier.“The Effects of Writing Pedagogy Education on Graduate Teaching Assistants’ Approaches to Teaching Composition.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 36.1 (Fall 2012): 32-73.
Winner, the Kenneth Bruffee Award for Best Article in WPA: Writing Program Administration, 2012-2013.
Estrem, Heidi, and E. Shelley Reid. “What New Writing Teachers Talk About When They Talk About Teaching.” Pedagogy 12.3 (Fall 2012): 447-478.
Selected for and reprinted in The Best of the Independent Rhetoric and Composition Journals 2013. Ed. Steve Parks et al. Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2015. 292-329.
Reid, E. Shelley. “Ten Ways To Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2. Ed. Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2010. 3-23. <http://writingspaces.org/volume2 >
Reid, E. Shelley. “Teaching Writing Teachers Writing: Difficulty, Exploration, and Reflection.” College Composition and Communication 61.2 (December 2009): 376 [W197-W221].
Reid, E. Shelley. “Mentoring Peer Mentors: Program Design and Mentor Education in the Composition Program.” Composition Studies 36.2 (Fall 2008): 51-80.
ENGH 101: Composition
ENGH 302: Advanced Composition
ENGH 382: Writing Nonfiction Genres
ENGH 386: Editing for Audience, Style, and Voice
ENGH 488: Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: How Writers Learn
ENGH 503: Theory and Practice of Editing
ENGH 615: Composition Pedagogy
ENGH 697: Composition Theory
ENGH 821: Writing Program Administration
ENGH 822: Studies in Composition -- Responding to and Assessing Student Writing
“Integrating Inclusive Pedagogy into University Systems.” With Bethany Usher. Workshop for the Summer Institute on Equity in the Academic Experience. Online. June 13, 2022.
“Bright Spot: Building Systemic Anti-Racism Education at George Mason University.” Presentation for Association for Undergraduate Education at Research Universities Teaching and Learning Colloquium. Online. November 18, 2021.
“DEAL and Delve: Supporting Writing Student Reflective Practice.” Presentation for Teacher to Teacher Workshops, Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online, March 12, 2022.
“360º Assignment Design: Teaching Everything We Value.” Presentation for Teacher to Teacher Workshops, Conference on College Composition and Communication. Online, April 10, 2021.
“Grading for Transfer.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Pittsburgh, PA, March 15, 2019.
“Building Online Degree Programs: Taking Instructional Design to Scale." With Constance Harris. POD Network Conference, Portland, OR, November 15, 2018.
“Building New Models for Faculty Development: A Workshop to End All Workshops.” With Emily Isaacs, Emily Simnitt, and Jennifer Wells. Writing Program Administration Conference, Lexington, KY, July 14, 2017.
“Processes and Dispositions: Mapping Student Habits of Mind Onto Composing Skills.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, OR, March 17, 2017.
“Linking Faculty Development to Student Learning: A Peer Review Case Study.” Writing Program Administration Conference, Raleigh, NC, July 16, 2016.
“The Lightbulb Has To Want To Change: Guiding and Assessing Student Intention as a Pathway to Learning Transfer in FYC.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston, TX, April 7, 2016.
“Teach it Forward: A ‘Solving Writing Problems’ Reorientation for Composition Curricula.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MO, March 23, 2012.
“The Decoder Assignment: Solving Once and Future Writing Problems in the Composition Classroom.” Writing Program Administration Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, July 15, 2011.
Randa Saad, The Perceptions of Writers with Learning Disabilities: What Helps Them Write in College (2023)
Bree McGregor, Secret, Unofficial, and Military-Connected: How Active-duty U.S. Marines Use Social Media to Cultivate Professionalized Learning Communities (2020)
Amber Jensen, Preservice English Teachers and 21st Century Composition in Flux: Implementing Principles of Writing across Sites of Learning (2019)
Jennifer C. Nardacci, How Do First-year College Students Experience a Self-regulated Learning Intervention in a Composition Course (2016)