CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING & LEARNING
r. James P. Purdy will propose that to prepare students for their college,
career, and civic endeavors, colleges must promote an understanding of
literacies that builds on students’ rich extracurricular, digital lives and
make literacies instruction the shared responsibility of the entire campus
community. After reviewing prevailing definitions of literacy and exigent
research about students’ literacy practices, he will share foundational
ideas for an encompassing approach to literacy. He will close by offering
six teaching strategies for enacting this approach.
Thursday
November 3,
2016
3:00 – 4:00 pm
RCC
Technology
Center
Room 8180
(Ellipse)
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James P. Purdy, PhD, is an Associate Professor of English/Writing
Studies and Director of the University Writing Center at Duquesne
University. He received the Presidential Award for Excellence in
Teaching and the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal
Arts Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2016. In addition
to publishing in numerous scholarly journals and edited collections, he
has co-edited four books, most recently Making Space: Writing
Instruction, Infrastructure, and Multiliteracies with Dànielle Nicole DeVoss (University of
Michigan Press) and The Future Scholar: Researching and Teaching the Frameworks for
Writing and Information Literacy (Information Today).
His scholarship has won several awards including, with co-author Joyce R. Walker, the 2011
Ellen Nold Award for the Best Article in Computers and Composition Studies and the 2008
Kairos Best Webtext Award. With co-editor Randall McClure, he received the Silver Medal
for Education in the Commentary/Theory Category at the 2014 Independent Publisher Book
Awards for The New Digital Scholar: Exploring and Enriching the Research and Writing
Practices of NextGen Students (Information Today) and the Bronze Medal for Education in
the Commentary/Theory Category at the 2015 Independent Publisher Book Awards for The
Next Digital Scholar: A Fresh Approach to the Common Core State Standards in Research
and Writing (Information Today).