- Phone:
- 765-455-9229
- Email:
- paulcook@iuk.edu
- Website:
- https://paulgcook.org/
- Campus:
- IU Kokomo
Main Building, KO 238D
Main Building, KO 238D
Biography
Paul Cook is Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing at Indiana University Kokomo, as well as the Reviews Editor for Across the Disciplines. Paul teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, digital literacy, literacy and public life, rhetorical theory, and technical editing (among others), and is particularly interested in digital polarization, problematic information, and the status of knowledge in the digital age. Paul has published in several journals, including JAC: Journal of AdvancedComposition, Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, Across the Disciplines, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, and others. His most recent essay on the value of first-year writing appeared in the edited collection Bad Ideas about Writing (Eds. Drew M. Loew & Cheryl E. Ball, 2017). His current research itinerary explores the pedagogy and assessment of digital information literacy in first-year general education courses (with Polly Boruff-Jones and Yan He), as well as the competing definitions of ideology and rhetoric in the scholarly literature on US Supreme Court confirmation hearings (with Chris Darr). See also paulgcook.org.
Research
- “Rhetoric, Politics, and the Ideological State Apparatus.” (Co-authored with Chris Darr. Under review at Law Review.)
- “Assessing Information Literacy on a Regional Campus.” (Co-authored with Yan He, Polly Boruff-Jones, and Chris Darr. Under review at Assessment Update.)
- “Notes from the Margins: WAC/WID and the Institutional Politics of Place.”Across the Disciplines: A Journal of Language, Learning, and Academic Writing 11 (2014): n. pag. Web.
- “Survival Guide Advice and the Spirit of Academic Entrepreneurship: Why Graduate Students Will Never Just Take Your Word for It.”Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor 21 (2013): 25-39. Web.
- “What Is Pedagogy? Ethnographic Questions and Ethological Encounters.”JAC 29 (2009): 757-92. Print.
- “The Rhetoricity of Cultural Literacy.”Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 9 (2009): 487-500. Print.
- “Disciplinarity, Pedagogy, and the Future of Education: Introduction.”Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 9 (2009): 471-74. Print. (Co-authored and co-edited with Adam Ellwanger.)
- “First-year Composition Should Be Skipped.”Bad Ideas about Writing. Eds. Drew M. Loewe and Cheryl E. Ball. Morgantown, WV: Digital Publishing Institute, 2017. Print and Web. (Forthcoming in 2017.)
- “Voicing Graduate Student Writing Experiences: A Study of Hybrid Courses at Two, Regional Institutions.”Graduate Writing Across the Disciplines: Identifying, Teaching, and Supporting. Eds. Trixie Smith and Katie Manthey. Fort Collins, CO: WAC Clearinghouse, 2017. Print. (Forthcoming in 2017: co-authored with Brian R. Henderson.)
- “Education.” American Decades: 2000-2009. Ed. Eric Bargeron. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale/Cengage, 2012. 123-55. Print. (Co-authored with Ashley Stimpson.)
- “Disciplinarity, Identity Crises, and the Teaching of Writing.”Who Speaks for Writing: Stewardship for Writing Studies in the 21st Century. Eds. Jennifer Rich and Ethna Lay. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. Print.
- “Why Argue?” Introduction. The Carolina Reader. Eds. Lee Bauknight, Brooke Rollins, and Emily Crawford. New York: Pearson Custom, 2007. 2-10. Print.
- Rev. of “Composition in the Age of Austerity”, pres. by Tom Fox, Tony Scott, and Nancy Welch. Chair. Lil Brannon. Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. JW Marriott, Indianapolis, IN. 20 Mar. 2014. Conference presentation. Kairos 19.1 (2014): n. pag., Web.
- Rev. of Academic Charisma and the Origins of the Research University, by William Clark. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38 (2008): 352-55. Print.
- Rev. of The Function of Theory in Composition Studies, by Raúl Sánchez. Rhetoric Society Quarterly37 (2007): 109-12. Print.
- Write to Success: A Handbook and Rhetoric with Readings for First-year Writing. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead P, 2014. Print. (Co-compiled with Kristen Snoddy.)
Teaching
Classes Taught:
- ENG-W 131: Reading, Writing, & Inquiry I
- ENG-W 132: Elementary Composition II
- ENG-W 210: Literacy & Public Life
- ENG-W 215: Intro to Rhetoric
- ENG-W 311: Writing Creative Nonfiction
- ENG-W 365: Technical Editing
- ENG-W 368: Research Methods & Materials
- ENG-W 395: Independent Study in Writing
- ENG-W 400: Issues in the Teaching of Writing
- ENG-L 202: Literary Interpretation
- ENG-L 295: American Film Culture
- ENG-L 495 / SPCH-S 400: Senior Seminar in English & Communication Arts
- ENG-G 301: History of the English Language
- NMAT-G 411: New Media Theory (Senior Seminar Capstone)
- HSS-E 110: IU Kokomo Summer Bridge Program
- LBST-D 511: Thesis Writing (MALS Program)
- HON-H 399: Honors Colloquium on “Digital Culture and Its (Dis)Contents”