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- Joyce Neff
- Professor
- English
- 5024 Batten Arts and Letters
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Norfolk,
VA
23529
- 757-683-6875
- jneff@odu.edu
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Education
- University of Pennsylvania,
1991
- Major: Program in Writing
- Degree: Ph. D.
- Loyola College,
1986
- Degree: Graduate courses in composition and reading
- Westbrook College,
1980
- Degree: Garrison Institute for Writing Instructors
- University of Maryland,
1978
- Major: English
- Degree: M.A.
- McDaniel College (formerly Western Maryland College),
1966
- Major: English
- Degree: B.A.
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Books
- Neff, J., and Whithaus, C. (2008). Writing Across Distances and Disciplines: Research and Pedagogy in Distributed Learning. NY: Lawrence Erlbaum/Taylor & Francis.
- Frederick, R. J., Matalene, C. B., Neff, J., Samson, Jr., D. C., and Sadler, L. V. (1995). Professional Writing in Context: Lessons from Teaching and Consulting in Worlds of Work. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Book Chapters
- Neff, J. (2006). Getting Our Money’s Worth: Delivering College Composition at a State University. In Delivering College Composition: The Fifth
Cannon. (pp. 48-59). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
- Neff, J. (2004). Working Together: Teaching Collaborative Research to Professional Writing Students. Research Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook
for Teachers. (pp. 91-101). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
- Neff, J. (2002). Capturing Complexity: Using Grounded Theory to Study Writing Centers. Writing Center Research: Continuing the Conversation. (pp. 133-148). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Neff, J., and Comfort, J. (2002). Technological Imbalances: The English Curriculum and Distance Education. Beyond English, Inc.. (pp. 181-193). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
- Neff, J. (1998). Grounded Theory: A Critical Research Methodology. In Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Research,
Theory, and Practice. (pp. 124-135). Logan, UT: Utah State UP.
- Neff, J. (1996). Rhetoric in a Bureaucracy: Government Evaluators as Report Writers. In Studies in Technical Communication. (pp. 69-75). U of North Texas: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
- Neff, J., and Stout, B. R. (1992). The Faculty Workshop. In Writing Across the Curriculum: A Guide to Developing Programs. (pp. 32-46). Newbury Park: SAGE.
- Neff, J. (1990). Prince George's Community College. In Programs That Work: Models and Methods for Writing Across the Curriculum. (pp. 65- 81). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook.
- Stout, B., and Neff, J. (1988). Writing Across the Curriculum at Community Colleges. In Strengthening Programs in Writing Across the Curriculum. New Directions
in Teaching and Learning. (pp. 21-30). Jossey Bass.
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Articles
- Neff, J., McAuliffe, G. J., Whithaus, C., and Quinaln, N. Low-Stakes Reflective Writing: Moving Students into Their Professional Fields,". Currents in Teaching and Learning
- Neff, J., and Whithaus, C. (2006). Contact and Interactivity: Social Constructionist Pedagogy in a Video-based Management Writing Course. Technical Communications Quarterly, 15, (pp. 431-456).
- Neff, J. (1999). Something Undermining Our Efforts: What Is and Isn’t Working in the Writing Lab. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 29, (pp. 209-215).
- Neff, J. (1998). From a Distance: Teaching Writing on Interactive Television. Research in the Teaching of English, 33, (pp. 136-157).
- Stevenson, M., Ryan, M., Verdi, C., Demma, S., and Neff, J. (1992). Faculty Tutors in the Writing Center: Stories about Writing, Learning and Teaching. The MAHE (Maryland Assoc. of Higher Education) Journal, 15, (pp. 37-45).
- Neff, J. (1991). Faculty Writing Groups: A Useful Addition to WAC Programs. Composition Chronicle, 4 (4), (pp. 7- 8).
- Stout, B., and Neff, J. (1991). Building on Realities: WAC Programs at Community Colleges. In Writing Across the Curriculum in Community Colleges. New Directions for Community College Teaching / Jossey Bass (73), (pp. 9 -13).
- Neff, J. (1990). A WAC Spinoff: Writing for Pleasure and Profit. Composition Chronicle, 3 (3), (pp. 8-9).
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Presentations
- Staying or Leaving or Doing Both: Professional Commitments During Retirement
- Conference Name:
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Date: March 13, 2009
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- PhD 2.0: Preparing Graduate Students for the New Work of Composing
- Conference Name: University of Louisville
- Sponsoring Organization: University of Louisville
- Date: October, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- History of Grounded Theory and applications in Writing Studies
- Conference Name:
- Location: New Orleans, LA
- Date: April, 2008
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- The Literacies of Online Learning
- Conference Name: University of New Hampshire
- Sponsoring Organization: University of New Hampshire
- Location: Durham, NH
- Date: October 13, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Writing Across the Curriculum as a Rhetoric for Distance and Distributed Learning
- Conference Name: Penn State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Penn State University
- Location: State College
- Date: July 8, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- The Identity Challenges of Cross-Disciplinary Research
- Conference Name:
- Location: New York City
- Date: March 22, 2007
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Low-Stakes, Reflective Writing in Counselor Education: WAC in Practice
- Conference Name:
- Location: Santa Barbara, CA
- Date: February 6, 2005
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Economies of Composition
- Conference Name:
- Location: San Antonio, TX
- Date: March 25, 2004
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Faculty Labor and Ethos: A Close Connection in Interactive Television
- Conference Name:
- Location: Denver, CO
- Date: March, 2001
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Faculty Labor in Distance Education
- Conference Name:
- Location: Louisville, KY
- Date: October, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Mediated Ethos: Instructor Credibility in a Televised Writing Course
- Sponsoring Organization: Rhetoric Society of America
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: May, 2000
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Mediated Ethos: Reinventing the Instructor in a Televised Writing Course
- Conference Name:
- Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Date: July, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Classroom Authority and Mediating Elements in Distance Education
- Conference Name:
- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Date: March, 1999
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Rhetoric and Electronic Pedagogy: Changes in the Classroom/World of Professional Writing
- Sponsoring Organization: Rhetoric Society of America
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: June 7, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Hypertext and the Teaching of Professional Writing
- Conference Name: Chicago, IL
- Sponsoring Organization: Chicago, IL
- Date: April, 1998
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- From a Distance: Student and Faculty Perceptions of a Teletechnet Writing Course
- Conference Name:
- Location: Phoenix, AZ
- Date: March, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Writing and Distance Education: Does WAC Work as Virtual Pedagogy?
- Conference Name:
- Location: Charleston, SC
- Date: February, 1997
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Pressure Points for Midlife PhDs in Rhetoric and Composition
- Sponsoring Organization: Rhetoric Society of America
- Location: Tucson, AZ
- Date: June, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Grounded Theory: Research as Praxis
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- Location: Milwaukee, WI
- Date: March, 1996
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Compositionists and Bureaucrats: What We Can Learn from One Another
- Conference Name: Washington, D.C.
- Sponsoring Organization: Washington, D.C.
- Date: March, 1995
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Literacy Among Undergraduates: How Students Represent Themselves as Writers
- Sponsoring Organization: Rhetoric Society of America
- Location: Norfolk, VA
- Date: May, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- New Directions in Writing Center Research: Creating Agendas for Action
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- Location: Nashville, TN
- Date: March, 1994
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Interactive Television in Prince George's County: Cooperation in Distance Education
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: July, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- DACUM
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: March, 1993
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Using DACUM to Rethink the Writing Curriculum
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boston, MA
- Date: October, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Students and Faculty-Tutors: Constructing College Writing
- Conference Name:
- Location: State College, PA
- Date: July, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Faculty Tutors in the Writing Center
- Conference Name:
- Location: Emmitsburg, MD
- Date: April, 1992
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- The Construction of Writing in a Cross disciplinary Writing Center
- Conference Name:
- Location: Boston, MA
- Date: March, 1991
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Issues and Conflicts in Writing Across the Curriculum
- Conference Name:
- Location: Pittsburgh, PA
- Date: February, 1991
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Writing Across the Curriculum: New Directions for a New Decade
- Conference Name:
- Location: Philadelphia, PA
- Date: October, 1990
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- The Construction of College Writing
- Conference Name: Towson State University
- Sponsoring Organization: Towson State University
- Location: Towson, MD
- Date: October, 1990
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Writing Across the Curriculum: Possibilities for the '90s
- Conference Name:
- Location: Albany, NY
- Date: March, 1989
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- WAC at Open-Admissions Colleges
- Conference Name: Washington, D.C.
- Sponsoring Organization: Washington, D.C.
- Date: March, 1988
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- WAC in Two-Year Schools: Problems and Possibilities
- Conference Name:
- Location: St. Louis, MO
- Date: March, 1988
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- WAC: Second Stage
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- Location: Atlanta, GA
- Date: March, 1987
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Writing Across the Curriculum
- Conference Name:
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: October, 1986
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Making Conference-Centered Writing Work in the Classroom
- Conference Name:
- Location: Portland, ME
- Date: October, 1985
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- Writing Across the Curriculum: Part II
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- Location: Largo, MD
- Date: March, 1985
- Authors/Presenters:
Neff, J.
- 1985: Distinguished Program Award, Maryland Association of Higher Education
- 2006: Elected to Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
- 1989: Finalist, Faculty Excellence Award, Prince George's Community College
- 1992: Finalist, Outstanding Dissertation Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication
- 1993: Finalist, President's Medal, Prince George's Community College
- 1993: Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for summer study in China
- 1991: Invited Panelist, PBS National Teleconference on Writing Across the Curriculum
- 1989: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Seminar on Mythology
- 2003: Nominee, Rufus Tonelson Award, Old Dominion University
- 2000: Nominee, Stern Award for Teaching Excellence, Old Dominion University
- 2005: Outstanding Service Award, College of Arts and Letters, Old Dominion University
- 2009: University Professor Designation
- 2008: University Teaching with Technology Award, Old Dominion University
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