Slippery Rock University Blog

                We have one more profile of a Washington speechwriter to post.  Before we do, I would like to call attention to my article in the most recent issue of College Composition and Communication.  The article pulls together in a more coherent and extended fashion than can be mustered in blog postings the implications of the study results we have presented here in the form of writer profiles and discussion posts.  It’s entitled “What Our Graduates Write: Making Program Assessment Both Authentic and Persuasive,” and I hope readers of this blog will get an opportunity some time to take a look at it.

            I thank the editor of 3 Cs, Kathleen Blake Yancey, for the opportunity to present my ideas to the readers of the journal, and my two anonymous reviewers for the specific and very useful suggestions they made for revision of the article.  As I was cutting and reorganizing what was an unusually long submission to the journal I also obtained invaluable help from two of my colleagues at Slippery Rock University, Nancy Barta-Smith and Danette DiMarco.  Thanks to the scholarship of innumerable composition researchers, we now are much more aware of the collaborative nature of written communication, an awareness that now permeates writing classrooms across America.  I am grateful to my collaborators because, through a lifetime of journalistic, organizational, and scholarly writing, I have come to realize just how important they have been to my work.

Cosgrove, Cornelius.  “What Our Graduates Write: Making Program Assessment Both Authentic

            And Persuasive.” College Composition and Communication. 62.2 (December, 2010):

            311-35.