Professor of Rhetoric adb Co-Director, Center for University Outreach at Carnegie Mellon University

My early work concentrated on studying cognitive processes in writing and bringing a strategic, problem-solving approach to writing instruction. Motivated by the need for a more integrated social-cognitive approach to writing, my recent research has focused on how writers construct negotiated meaning in the midst of conflicting internal and social voices. Concerned with the logic of the learner, I studied negotiated meaning making in school settings in which students are learning new literate practices, and in inner city community settings in which teenagers and adults are working across cultural differences. Out of this has grown a new body of research in intercultural rhetoric and education for community consequences