The University of Western Ontario


	Roger Graves Associate Professor

Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Program The University of Western Ontario Room 65, University College London, ON Canada N6A 3K7 519.661.2111x85785 519.850.2902 (fax) rgraves3@uwo.ca Inkshed Newsletter 24.2	Appointments Director, Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Co-Vice-President, Canadian Association for Teachers of Technical Writing (CATTW) Co-Editor, Inkshed (Newsletter of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning) President, London Chapter of Society for Technical Communication Recent Presentations (2006-2007) Service Learning for BEd Students UWO , January 24, 2008 Clear Instructions, Great Expectations: Creating good writing assignments University of Alberta, November 5, 2007 Be careful what you ask for: Writing assignments across the curriculum University of Alberta, November 6, 2007 Learn, Do, Reflect: Service Learning Activities in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication Service-Learning Committee Meeting, UWO October 4 2007 Assessing the Writing of ESL Students Fall Perspectives on Teaching, UWO August 30 2007 Writing Centres in Canada: Historical Perspectives and Institutional Locations, CATTW 2007, Saskatoon May 29 Slides from Writing to Learn: Learning to Write at UWO April 4, 2007 Writing to Learn: Learning to Write WAC Resources Handout "Editing for Cohesion ." Workshop for London Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication, London ON March 29, 2007 Writing Centres, Writing Seminars, Writing Culture: Teaching Writing in Canadian Universities Arts and Humanities Research Day Poster, UWO March 27, 2007 "The UWO Writing Project." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York NY, March 24, 2007 Slides from presentation at Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax March 15, 2007, and Loyalist College, Belleville ON May 31, 2007 Track Changes: The emergence of the visual in writing instruction Oral Presentation slides for Scholar's Elective students at UWO, March 19, 2007 Oral Presentations: Advice and Tips Creating Effective Visual Displays Slides from workshop on writing lay abstracts for research projects, Schulich School for Medicine and Dentistry, UWO January 29, 2007 Explaining your science to the public (pdf of PowerPoint slides) Slides from a presentation to the London (ON) chapter of the Society for Technical Communication January 25, 2007 What is technical writing? Scholar's Elective presentation to Science faculty (UWO) students January 29, 2007 Writing the interim progress report Video of November 18, 2006 Faculty of Education, McGill University http://media.campus.mcgill.ca/misc/doreen/roger.wmv Slides for this presentation (pdf) Publications: Articles Author or co-author of 31 articles in journals such as Business Communication Quarterly Composition Studies Inkshed Journal of Business Communication Journal of Technical Writing andCommunication Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-learning, and Community Literacy, Technical Communication Quarterly and Written Communication Service Work Consultant to many companies, community service organizations, and schools since 1993. Current service work: London Health Sciences Fundraising Project Education PhD, Ohio State, Rhetoric and Composition MA, BA (co-op), University of Waterloo BEd, University of Toronto	Books A Strategic Guide to Technical Communication With Heather Graves. Peterborough: Broadview, 2007. The Brief Penguin Handbook, Canadian Edition With Lester Faigley and Heather Graves. Toronto: Pearson Longman, 2007. Writing Centres, Writing Seminars, Writing Culture: Teaching Writing in Canadian Universities (Winnipeg: Inkshed Publications, 2006). Co-edited with Heather Graves (hgraves@rogers.com). Summary of the book Writing Instruction in Canadian Universities (Winnipeg: Inkshed Publications, 1994). Co-editor of Inkshed: Newsletter of the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning. George Campbell's The Philosophy of Rhetoric (scholarly web site).