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  Heather Shearer

Heather Shearer

Teaching Professor

Email preferred. 831-459-4012

 

Humanities Division

Writing Program

Teaching Professor

Faculty

Regular Faculty

Stevenson College Academic Building
208

Fall 2023. Students: Canvas. All others: Email for appt.

Stevenson Academic Services

PhD, Syracuse University
MA, Ohio University
BA, Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Rhetoric, organizational communication, activity theory, Peoples Temple, visual design of information

Winner, 2nd place,Thomas Robbins Awards for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements for "'Verbal Orders Don't go -- Write it!: Building and Maintaining the Promised Land." The Thomas Robbins Awards for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements were established in 2002 to recognize outstanding articles published in Nova Religio. The Robbins awards are administered by the Association for the Academic Study of New Religions (AASNR).

"Verbal Orders Don't Go--Write It!": Building and Maintaining the Promised Land" (2018). Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, 22.2, 65–92.

The Value of the Archive (Oct. 2018). the jonestown report, Volume 20.

An Activity-Theoretical Approach to the Usability Testing of Information Products Meant to Support Complex Use” (2011). Usability and Complex Information Systems: Evaluation of User Interaction, Eds., Michael Albers and Brian Still. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 181-206.

With Dana Harrington, “Administrating Ourselves to Death: Historiography and the Ethics of WPA Narratives” (2006). Culture Shock and the Practice of Profession: Training the Next Wave in Rhetoric & Composition. Eds., Virginia Anderson and Susan Romano. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton P, 347-61.

Crown Core
WRIT 20: The Nature of Written Discourse
WRIT 21: The Sentence in Context
WRIT 27: Writing about Genre
Writing 1: Introduction to Composition
WRIT 2: Rhetoric & Inquiry
WRIT 203: Theories and Practices for Teaching Writing
Summer session: WRIT 30

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