Steve Simpson, PhD

Scientific and technical communication

Graduate writing

ESL

PhD  English, University of New Hampshire, NH, 2010
Specialization: Composition Studies 

MA  English and Comparative Literature, University of Cincinnati, OH

Edited Book

(2016) Graduate Writing Support: Research, Pedagogy, and Program Design
With Nigel Caplan, Michelle Cox, and Talinn Phillips. University of Michigan Press

Peer reviewed articles and book chapters

(In press). Technical Communication Client Projects and Nonprofit Partnerships: The Challenges and Opportunities of Community Engagement. Citizenship and Advocacy in Technical Communication: Scholarly and Pedagogical Perspectives. (Second author, with Elisabeth Kramer-Simpson). New York: Routledge. (Godwin Agboka and Natalya Matveeva, eds.)

(In press). On the Distinct Needs of Multilingual STEM Graduate Students in Writing Centers. Re/Writing the Center: Pedagogies, Practices, Partnerships to Support Graduate Students in the Writing Center. Logan: Utah State University Press. (Susan Lawrence and Terry Myers Zawacki, eds.)

(2017) The New Mexico Tech Writing Program and Writing Center. Working Writing Programs: A Reference of Innovations, Issues, and Opportunities. Logan: Utah State University Press. (With Maggie Griffin Taylor and Julianne Newmark). Companion site: https://writingprogramarchitecture.com/.

2015  Creating a Culture of Communication: A Graduate-Level STEM Communication Fellows Program at a Science and Engineering University, Across the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning, and Academic Writing. (With Rebecca Clemens, Drea Rae Killingsworth, and Julie Dyke Ford). Available at http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/graduate_wac/simpsonetal2015.cfm

2013  Systems of Writing Response: A Brazilian Student's Experiences Writing for Publication in an Environmental Sciences Doctoral Program, Research in the Teaching of English, 48(2).

2013  Building for Sustainability: Boot Camp as a Nexus of Graduate Writing Support. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 10(2). Available at http://praxis.uwc.utexas.edu/index.php/praxis

2012  The Problem of Graduate-Level Writing Support: Building a Cross-Campus Graduate Writing Initiative. WPA: Writing Program Administration, 36(1): 95-118.

2008  Mentoring as a Long-Term Relationship: Situated Learning in a Doctoral Program. Steve Simpson and Paul Kei Matsuda. Learning the Literacy Practices of Graduate School: Insiders' Reflections on Academic Enculturation. Christine Pearson Casanave and Xiaoming Li (Eds.). U of Michigan P.: 90-104.

Selected reviews

2015  Review of Communicating Popular Science,
Technical Communication Quarterly (in press).

2012  Review of Genres in the Internet: Issues in the Theory of Genre, English for Specific Purposes Journal, 31(1): 70-72.

2010  Review of Technologies in the Second Language Composition Classroom and Plagiarism, the Internet, and Student Learning, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 9(1): 80-82.

2008  Review of Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 7(1): 208-210.

Selected newsletter articles

2013  Geek to Geek Tutoring: The New Mexico Tech Writing and Oral Presentation Center, Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association Newsletter, 1(1). Available at http://www.rmwca.org/newsletter/featured-center

2011  CCCC ESL Workshop Report: Working with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Writing Programs and Writing Centers, SLW News: The Newsletter of TESOL’s Second Language Writing Interest Section. Available at http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolslwis/issues/2011-11-30/7.html

2011  Graduate Learning Communities? Integrating Language Support for ESL and Native-English Speaking Graduate Students. SLW News: The Newsletter of TESOL’s Second Language Writing Interest Section, 6(1). Available at http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolslwis/issues/2011-02-28/1.html

COMM 580  Thesis and Disertation Boot Camp COMM 575  Communication in the Sciences (Graduate) 

ENGL 341  Technical Writing 

ENGL 315  Academic and Scientific Communication for Multilingual Students 

ENGL 305  Communication for Multilingual Students 

ENGL 105  Introductory Academic Communication 

ST 529  Research and Documentation 

TC 411/511  Persuasive Communication 

TC 305/505  Science Writing 

TC 202 Technical Editing

Vice Chair

Faculty Senate Chair

Adhoc Faculty Senate General Education Committee

2013  Graduate Student Association Faculty Appreciation Award, New Mexico Tech.