Chris Anson

Bio

CHRIS M. ANSON is Distinguished University Professor, Professor of English, and past Director (1999-2023) and current Strategic Advisor of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in language, composition, and literacy and works with faculty across the curriculum to improve undergraduate education in the areas of writing and speaking. Before moving to NCSU in 1999, he spent fifteen years at the University of Minnesota, where he directed the Program in Composition from 1988-96 and was Professor of English and Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor. He received his Ph.D. and second M.A. in English with a specialization in composition studies from Indiana University, and has a B.A. degree in English and an M.A. degree in Creative Writing from Syracuse University.

Chris has received numerous awards, including the NC State Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor Award, the NC State Outstanding Teacher Award, the State of Minnesota Higher Education Teaching Excellence Award, the Morse-Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, and the Minnesota Governor’s Star Service Award. He was an NCTE Promising Researcher Award Finalist and has received or participated as a co-principal investigator in over $2.1 million in grants. He is a member of the NC State Academy of Outstanding Teachers and a Distinguished Fellow of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum.

Chris has published 19 books and over 145 journal articles and book chapters focusing on the teaching and learning of writing, and is on the editorial or reader’s boards of numerous journals, including College English, Research in the Teaching of English, Across the Disciplines, Written Communication, Assessing Writing, and The Journal of Writing Assessment. He is a co-editor of The Journal of Writing Research. He has recently co-edited a new collection of essays titled Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation (University Press of Colorado and the WAC Clearinghouse, 2021) which has received two organizational awards for best book. His current publication  h-index is 39 and his current i-10 index is 83.

Chris has given over 750 conference papers, keynote addresses, and invited lectures and faculty workshops across the U.S. and in 33 other countries.

Chris has served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (2011-14; Chair, 2013) and as President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (2002-2005) and spent seven additional years on the WPA Executive Board. He has also served on the CCCC Executive Committee (1993-96 and 2011-14) and 11 other CCCC committees, as well as several NCTE committees. He chaired the NCTE Assembly for Research in 1992-3 and was program co-chair of the NCTE Global Conference on Language and Literacy in Utrecht, Netherlands. He chaired the WPA Task Force on Plagiarism and the WPA Task Force on Internationalization, and formed the MMLA’s Writing-Across-the-Curriculum section. He is currently Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research.

His full c.v. is located at www.ansonica.net

Office Hours

Research Publications

BOOKS

Kruse, Otto, Christian Rapp, Chris M. Anson, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani (Eds.). Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education. Springer, 2023. Open access at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36033-6

Anson, Chris M., and Pamela Flash (Eds.).  Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation. University Press of Colorado and the WAC Clearinghouse, 2021.

Anson, Chris M., and Jessie Moore (Eds.). Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer. Colorado Spring: Colorado State University Press, 2016.

Beach, Richard, Chris M. Anson, Lee-Ann Kassman Breuch, and Tom Reynolds. An Activity-Based Approach for Teaching Digital Writing. New York: Rowan and Littlefield, 2015.

Beach, Richard, Chris M. Anson, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, and Thom Swiss. Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon Publishers, 2009.

Anson, Chris M., ed. 75 Readings Across the Curriculum: An Anthology. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Anson, Chris M. The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. New York: Oxford UP, 2002.

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman’s Writer’s Bible: The Complete Guide to Writing, Research, and Grammar. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2006.

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia F. Muth. The Longman Concise Companion (2nd Ed.). New York: Pearson/Longman, 2009. [1st ed. 2006]

Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers (6th Ed.). New York: Longman, 2011. [5th ed. 2009; 4th ed. 2007; 3rd ed. 2003; 2nd ed. 2000; 1st ed. 1996]

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Writer’s Companion. (4th Ed.). New York: Longman, 2007. [3rd ed. 2005; 2nd ed. 2003; 1st ed. 2000]

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Pocket Writer’s Companion (3rd ed.). New York: Longman, 2007. [2nd ed. 2005; 1st ed. 2003]

Farris, Christine, and Chris M. Anson, eds. Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Theory, Research, and Practice. Logan: Utah State UP, 1998.

Anson, Chris M., Carol Rutz, Lesley K. Cafarelli, and Michelle R. Weiss, eds. Dilemmas in Teaching: Cases for Collaborative Faculty Reflection. Madison, WI: Mendota, 1998.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Beach. Journals in the Classroom: Writing to Learn. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon, 1995.

Anson, Chris M., Joan Graham, David A. Jolliffe, Nancy Shapiro, and Carolyn C. Smith. Scenarios for Teaching Writing: Contexts for Discussion and Reflective Practice. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English/Alliance for Undergraduate Education, 1993.

Anson, Chris M., John E. Schwiebert, and Michael M. Williamson. Writing Across the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.

Anson, Chris M., and Lance E. Wilcox. A Field Guide to Writing. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

Anson, Chris M. (Ed.) Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, and Research. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 1989.

Anson, Chris M., and Lance E. Wilcox. Writing in Context. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1988.

Anson, Chris M., and Lance E. Wilcox. Teaching Writing In Context. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1988. [IM for Writing in Context; not refereed; 204 pp.]

Anson, Chris M. Composition and Communicative Intention: Exploring the Dimensions of Purpose in College Writing. Diss. Indiana U, 1984. Dissertation Abstracts International 46-01A, p. 90. [Barry Kroll, director]

Anson, Chris M. Skeleton in a Closet. M.A. Thesis, Syracuse University, 1979. [Raymond Carver and George P. Elliott, directors]

 

CHAPTERS IN EDITED COLLECTIONS [refereed]

Shirley K. Rose, Deborah H. Holdstein, Chris M. Anson, Chris Thaiss, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. “The Intellectual Work of Writing Program Review.” Sites of Writing: Essays in Honor of Anne Ruggles Gere, edited by James Edward Beitler and Sarah Ruffing, Robbins. The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, in press.

Anson, Chris M. “Dimensions of Transfer and the Role of Multimodality.” Multimodal Composition and Writing Transfer, Edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lilian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd, Utah State UP, 2023. ix-xvii.

Anson, Chris M. “Teacher Feedback Tools.” Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp, Chris M. Anson, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer, 2023. 183-202.

Anson, Chris M. “Digital Peer Review Programs.” Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp, Chris M. Anson, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer, 2023. 203-214,

Benites, Alice Delorme, Fernando Benites, and Chris M. Anson. “Automated Text Generation and Summarization for Academic Writing.” Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp, Chris M. Anson, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer, 2023. 279-301.

Kruse, Otto, and Chris M. Anson. “Writing and Thinking: What Changes with Digital Technologies?” Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp, Chris M. Anson, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer, 2023. 465-484.

Anson, Chris M., and Otto Kruse. “Plagiarism Detection and Intertextuality Tools.” Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Christian Rapp, Chris M. Anson, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer, 2023. 231-243.

Anson, Ian G., Chris M. Anson, and Kendra Andrews. “Teachers’ Beliefs about the Language of Peer Review: Survey-Based Evidence.” Rethinking Peer Review: Critical Reflections on a Pedagogical Practice, edited by Phoebe Jackson and Christopher Weaver, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2023. 17-40. http://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2023.1961.2.01 Open access at: https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/peer/chapter1.pdf

Anson, Chris M. “The Multidimensional Variables of Writing Program Development and Sustainability.” Centros y Programas en Latinoamérica: Opciones Teóricas y Pedagógicas Para la Enseñanza de la Escritura Disciplinar [The Field of Teaching Disciplinary Writing in Latin America: Trajectories and Future Directions], edited by Estela Inés Moyano and Margarita Vidal Lizama, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2023. vii-xix. [Spanish transation, “Prólogo. Variables Multidimensionales en el Desarrollo y la Sustentabilidad de los Programas de Escritura,” xxi-xxxv.] Open access at: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/la/centros/

Anson, Chris M., Amy Hodges, and Mysti Rudd. “The Writing-Enriched Curriculum: Transnational Prospects and Challenges.” Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition, edited by Christiane Donahue and Bruce Horner. Modern Language Association, 2022. 263-286.

Anson, Chris M. “A Heuristic Approach to Selecting Technological Tools for Writing Instruction and Support.” Negotiating the Intersections of Writing and Writing Instruction. Edited by Magnus Gustafsson and Andreas Eriksson. University Press of Colorado and The WAC Clearinghouse, 2021. 63-87. Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/eataw2019/

Anson, Chris M., Ian G. Anson, and Kendra Andrews. “Peer Review in First-Year Composition and STEM Courses: A Large-Scale Corpus Analysis of Key Writing Terms.” Composition and Big Data, edited by Benjamin Miller and Amanda Licastro. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. 101-124.

Anson, Chris M. “Semantic Snafu: Choose Your Words Carefully.” Failure Before Success: Teachers Describe What They Learned From Mistakes, edited by Julie Warner. Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 31-36.

Anson, Chris M. “WEC and the Strength of the Commons.” Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation. Edited by Chris M. Anson and Pamela Flash. University Press of Colorado and the WAC Clearinghouse, 2021. 3-14. Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/wec/

Anson, Chris M. “The New Grass Roots: Exploring Departmentally Localized Models of Writing Across the Curriculum.” Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation. Edited by Chris M. Anson and Pamela Flash. University Press of Colorado and the WAC Clearinghouse, 2021. 45-72. Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/wec/

Anson, Chris M. “Correctness Revisited: How Students (Mis)Identify and Comment on Error in Peers’ Drafts.” English Across the Curriculum: Voices From Around the World, edited by Julia Chen, Linda Lin, Bruce Morrison, Alan Armston, and Terry Zawacki. The WAC Clearinghouse, 2021. 271-291. Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/eac2018/

Anson, Chris M. “After the Big Bang: The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies.” The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research, edited by Kelly Blewett, Christiane Donahue, and Cynthia Monroe. Peter Lang, 2021. 5-26.

Anson, Chris M., and Kendra Andrews. “Sleuthing for the Truth: A Reading and Writing Pedagogy for a New Age of Lies.” Teaching Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News, edited by Ellen C. Carillo and Alice S. Horning. Peter Lang, 2020. 211-228.

Anson, Chris M. “Storyboarding Your Writing Projects.” Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by John Gallagher and Danielle Nicole Devoss. University Press of Colorado/Utah State University Press, 2019. 53-57.

Reid, Gwendolynne, and Chris M. Anson. “Public- and Expert-Facing Communication: A Case Study of Internet-Mediated Citizen Science.” Genres and Science in the Digital Age: Connecting Traditional and New Genres. Ed. Carmen Pérez-Llantada and María José Luzón. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2019. 219-238.

Anson, Chris M., Chen Chen, and Ian G. Anson. “Talking About Writing: A Study of Key Terms Used Instructionally Across the Curriculum.” (Re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy. Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. Logan: Utah State University Press. 314-327.

Anson, Chris M. “Crossing Thresholds: What’s to Know About Writing Across the Curriculum?” Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies. Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. Logan: Utah State University Press. 203-219. [Winner, 2016 Outstanding Contribution to the Discipline Award, Council of Writing Program Administrators]

Anson, Chris M. “Technology and Transparency: Sharing and Reflecting on the Evaluation of Teaching.” Assessing the Teaching of Writing:Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies. Ed. Amy E. Dayton. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2015. 99-117.

Paine, Charles, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Paul Anderson. “Using National Survey of Student Engagement Data and Methods to Assess Teaching in First-Year Composition and Writing Across the Curriculum.” Assessing the Teaching of Writing: Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies. Ed. Amy E. Dayton. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2015. 171-186.

Anson, Chris M., and Tiane Donahue. “Deconstructing ‘Writing Program Administration’ in an International Context.” Transnational Writing Program Administration. Ed. David S. Martins. Logan, UT: Utah State UP. In press.

Anson, Chris M. “Writing, Language, and Literacy.” First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice. Ed. Deborah Coxwell-Teague and Ronald F. Lunsford. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press. 3-26.

Anson, Chris M. “Process Pedagogy and Its Legacy.” A Guide to Composition Pedagogies (2nd ed.). Ed. Amy Rupiper Taggart, Kurt Schick, and H. Brooke Hessler. New York: Oxford University Press. 212-230.

Paine, Charles, Robert M. Gonyea, Chris M. Anson, and Paul V. Anderson. “What is NSSE?” A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators. Ed. Rita Malenczyk. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2013. 265-275.

Anson, Chris M. “Beyond the Curriculum: Supporting Faculty Writing in WAC Programs.” Working With Faculty Writers. Ed. Anne Geller and Michele Eodice. Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2013. 21-37.

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Martha Townsend, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. “Beyond Composition: Developing a National Outcomes Statement for Writing Across the Curriculum.” The WPA Outcomes Statement: A Decade Later. Ed. Nicholas N. Behm, Gregory R. Glau, Deborah H. Holdstein, Duane Roen, and Edward M. White. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, 2012. 88-106.

Anson, Chris M. “Black Holes: Writing Across the Curriculum and the Gravitational Invisibility of Race.” Race and Writing Assessment. Ed. Asao B. Inoue and Mya Poe. New York: Peter Lang, 2012. 15-28. [Winner, 2014 CCCC Outstanding Book Award, edited collection category]

Anson, Chris M. “What Good Is It? The Effects of Teacher Response on Students’ Development.” Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Edward M. White. Ed. Norbert Elliot and Les Perelman. New York: Hampton Press, 2012. 187-202.

Anson, Chris M. “World Wide Composition: Virtual Uncertainties.” Teaching Writing in a Globalized World: Remapping Composition Studies. Ed. Daphne Desser and Darin Payne. Lanham, MD: Lexington. [forthcoming]

Anson, Chris M., Matthew Davis, and Domenica Vilhotti. “‘What Do We Want in This Paper?’: Generating Criteria Collectively.” Teaching With Student Texts. Ed. Joseph Harris, John Miles, and Charles Paine. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2011. 35-45.

Matarese, Maureen T., and Chris M. Anson. “Teacher Response to AAE Features in the Writing of College Students: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Error.” The Elephant in the Classroom: Race and Writing. Ed. Jane Bowman Smith. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010. 111-136.

Anson, Chris M. “Absentee Landlords or Owner-Tenants? Formulating Criteria for Dual-Credit Composition Programs. College Credit for Writing in High School: The “Taking Care of” Business. Ed. Kristine Hansen and Christine R. Farris. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. 2010. 245-271.

Anson, Chris M. “Assessment in Action: A Mobius Tale.” Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication. Ed. Margaret Hundleby and Jo Allen. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 2009. 3-15. [Winner, Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Commumination 2010 Award for Excellence in Program Assessment]

Adler-Kassner, Linda, Chris M. Anson, and Rebecca Moore Howard. “Framing Plagiarism.” Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age. Ed. Martha Vicinus and Caroline Eisner. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. 231-246.

Anson, Chris M., Jeanne Gunner, and Thomas P. Miller. “Portraits of a Field.” The Promise and Peril of Writing Program Administration. Ed. Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press. 79-91.

Anson, Chris M. “We Never Wanted to Be Cops: Plagiarism, Institutional Paranoia, and Shared Responsibility.” Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies. Ed. Rebecca Moore Howard and Amy E. Robillard. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2008. 140-157.

Anson, Chris M. “Warp and Weft: Reflections on the Art of Communication Weaving.” Sustaining Excellence in Communicating Across the Curriculum: Cross-Institutional Experiences and Best Practices. Ed. Nagwa Kassabgy and Amani Elshimi. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 2-18.

Anson, Chris M. “Beyond Formulas: Closing the Gap Between Rigid Rules and Flexible Strategies for Student Writing.” Closing the Gap: English Educators Address the Tensions between Teacher Preparation and Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools. Ed. Karen Keaton Jackson and Sandra Vavra. Charlotte: Information Age, 2007. 147-164.

Anson, Chris M. “Can’t Touch This: Reflections on the Servitude of Computers as Readers.” Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences. Ed. Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard Haswell. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2006. 38-56.

Anson, Chris M., Deanna P. Dannels, and Karen St. Clair. “Teaching and Learning a Multimodel Genre in a Psychology Course.” Genre Across the Curriculum. Ed. Anne Herrington and Charles Moran. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2005. 171-195.

• Reprinted in Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook, ed. Terry Myers Zawacki and Paul M. Rogers. New York: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2012. 399-420.

Anson, Chris M. “Citation as Speech Act: Exploring the Pragmatics of Reference.” Research Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook for Teachers. Ed. Pavel Zemliansky and Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2004. 203-213.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. “The Heart of the Matter: Writing, Speaking, and Inquiry-Guided Learning.” Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors. Ed. Virginia S. Lee. Sterling, VA: Stylus, 2004. 219-227.

Anson, Chris M. “Taking Off.” Finding Our Way: A Writing Teacher’s Sourcebook. Ed. Wendy Bishop and Deborah Coxwell Teague. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 44-48.

Beach, Richard, and Chris M. Anson. “Stance and Intertextuality in Written Discourse.” Uses of Intertextuality in Classroom and Educational Research. Ed. Nora Shuart-Faris and David Bloome. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004. 251-278.

Anson, Chris M. , and Deanna Dannels. “Writing and Speaking in Conditional Rhetorical Space.” Classroom Space(s) and Writing Instruction. Ed. Ed Nagelhout and Carol Rutz. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2004. 55-70.

Anson, Chris M. “Responding to and Assessing Student Writing: The Uses and Limits of Technology.” In Brian Huot and Pamela Takayoshi (Eds.), Teaching Writing With Computers: An Introduction. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 234-246. [Winner of the Computers and Composition 2002 Distinguished Book Award, Spring, 2003]

Anson, Chris M. “Who Wants Composition? Reflections on the Rise and Fall of an Independent Program.” Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition. Ed. Peggy O’Neill, Angelo Crow, and Larry W. Burton. Logan, Utah: Utah State UP, 2002. 153-169.

Anson, Chris M. “Teaching Writing Creatively: A Summer Institute for Teachers.” Teaching Writing Teachers. Ed. Robert Tremmel and William Broz. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. 27-39.

Anson, Chris M. “Figuring It Out: Writing Programs in the Context of University Budgets.” The Writing Program Administrator’s Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice. Ed. Theresa Enos and Stuart Brown. New York: Erlbaum, 2002. 233-252.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. “The Medium and the Message: Developing Responsible Methods for Assessing Teaching Portfolios.” Composition Pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching. Ed. Deborah Minter and Amy M. Goodburn. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002. 89-100.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. “Developing Rubrics for Instruction and Evaluation.” Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition. Ed. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner. Urbana: National Council of Teachers of English, 2002. 387-400.

Anson, Chris M. “Writing Intensity.” The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. Ed. Chris M. Anson. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 10-14.

Anson, Chris M. “Trudy Does Comics.” The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. Ed. Chris M. Anson. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 28-32.

Anson, Chris M. “The Jonas Incident.” The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. Ed. Chris M. Anson. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 82-89.

Anson, Chris M. “Shobhna’s Pronouncements.” The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. Ed. Chris M. Anson. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 116-120.

Anson, Chris M., and Ian G. Anson. “Sondra Gets Hyper. ” The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. Ed. Chris M. Anson. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 145-155.

Anson, Chris M. “Mistakes in Social Psychology. ” The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. Ed. Chris M. Anson. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 212-222.

Anson, Chris M. “Thoughts from the Rank and File. ” The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development. Ed. Chris M. Anson. New York: Oxford UP, 2002. 248-258.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Jewell. “Shadows of the Mountain.” Moving a Mountain: Improving the Working Conditions of Adjunct Writing Faculty. Ed. Eileen E. Schell and Patricia Stock. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2001. 47-75. [Winner of the CCCC Outstanding Book Award, March, 2003]

Anson, Chris M. “Talking About Text: The Use of Recorded Commentary in Response to Student Writing.” A Sourcebook on Responding to Student Writing. Ed. Richard Straub. Norwood, NJ: Hampton, 2000. 165-174.

Anson, Chris M. “Below the Surface: A True-to-Life Course in Editorial Practice.” Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum. Ed. Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert Schwegler. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 2000. 121 ff. [Winner of the Council of Writing Program Administrators Outstanding Book Award, 2002]

Anson, Chris M. “Talking About Writing: A Classroom-Based Study of Students’ Reflections on Their Drafts. Student Self-Assessment and Development in Writing. Ed. Jane Bowman Smith and Kathleen Yancey. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1999. 59-74.

Anson, Chris M., and Robert L. Brown, Jr. “Subject to Interpretation: Researching the Textual Representation of Writing Programs and Its Effects on the Politics of Administration.” The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection. Ed. Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 1999. 141-152.

Anson, Chris M. “Reflective Reading: Developing Thoughtful Ways to Respond to Students’ Writing.” Evaluating Writing: The Role of Teachers’ Knowledge about Text, Learning, and Culture. Ed. Charles R. Cooper and Lee Odell. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1999. 302-324.

• Reprinted in Key Works on Teacher Response: An Anthology, ed. Richard Straub. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 2006.

• Reprinted in the Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers (1st and 2nd editions). Ed. James C. McDonald. Glenview: Allyn & Bacon, 1999.

Anson, Chris M. “Text Analysis.” Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies. Ed. Mary Lynch Kennedy. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 323-31.

Anson, Chris M. “Stories for Reflective Teaching: Using Cases in Faculty Development. Dilemmas in Teaching: Cases for Collaborative Faculty Reflection. Ed. Chris M. Anson, Lesley K. Cafarelli, Carol Rutz, and Michelle R. Weiss. Madison, WI: Mendota, 1998. 7-15.

Anson, Chris M. “The Jonas Incident.” Dilemmas in Teaching: Cases for Collaborative Faculty Reflection. Ed. Chris M. Anson, Lesley K. Cafarelli, Carol Rutz, and Michelle R. Weiss. Madison, WI: Mendota, 1998. 61-66.

Anson, Chris M. “Beginnings.” Narration as Knowledge. Ed. Joseph Trimmer. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. 61-70.

Anson, Chris M. “On Reflection: The Role of Journals and Logs in Service-Learning Courses.” Composition, Community, and the Academy: Theory and Practice. Ed. Linda Adler-Kassner, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters. Washington, D.C.: American Association for Higher Education, 1998. 167-180.

Anson, Chris M. “In Your Own Voice: Using Recorded Commentary to Respond to Writing.” Assigning and Responding to Writing in the Disciplines. Ed. Peter Elbow and Mary Deane Sorcinelli. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997. 105-113.

Anson, Chris M. “Writing Across the Curriculum” and “Portfolios.” Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Ed. Theresa Enos. New York: Garland, 1996.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Beach. “Argument in Peer Dialogue Journals.” Perspectives on Written Argument. Ed. Deborah Berrill. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1996. 139-170.

Anson, Chris M. “Creating Effective Writing Assignments.” An Anthology/Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers. Ed. James C. McDonald. Needham, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1995.

Anson, Chris M. “Aim.” Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts. Ed. Alan C. Purves. Urbana, IL: NCTE/Scholastic, 1994.

Anson, Chris M. “Portfolios for Teachers: Writing Our Way to Reflective Practice.” New Directions in Portfolio Assessment. Ed. Laurel Black, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall. Portsmouth, NH:  Heinemann, 1994. 185-200.

• Reprinted in Teaching Composition: Background Readings (2nd ed.), ed. T. R. Johnson. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005.

Beach, Richard, and Chris M. Anson. “Using Dialogue Journals to Foster Response.” Exploring Texts: The Role of Discussion and Writing in the Teaching and Learning of Literature. Ed. George E. Newell and Russell Durst. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon, 1993. 191-210.

Anson, Chris M. “Responding to Writing.” Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing. Richard E. Straub and Ronald F. Lunsford. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton, 1995.*

Anson, Chris M. “Rites of Passage: Disciplinary Enculturation in the Field of Composition Studies.” Writing Ourselves Into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies. Ed. Susan Hunter and Sheryl I. Fontaine.  Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1993. 246-265.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Beach. “Journeys in Journaling.” The Subject is Writing. Ed. Wendy Bishop. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1993. 165-176. 1st edition; 2nd edition; 3rd edition.

Anson, Chris M. “The Future of Writing Across the Curriculum: Consensus and Research.” Writing Across the Curriculum. Chris M. Anson, John E. Schwiebert, and Michael M. Williamson. Westport: Greenwood, 1993. xiii-xxiv.

Anson, Chris M., and Bruce R. Maylath. “Searching for Journals: A Brief Guide and 100 Sample Species.” Teacher as Writer: Entering the Professional Conversation. Ed. Karyn Dahl. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1992. 150-187.

Anson, Chris M. “Academic Literacy Meets Cultural Diversity: An Analysis of Ideological Change Among Student Tutors in a Service-Learning Program.” Academic Literacies in Multicultural Higher Education. Ed. Thomas Hilgers, Marie Wunsch, and Virginia Chattergy. Manoa: Center for Studies in Multicultural Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1992. 32-41.

Anson, Chris M., and Robert L. Brown, Jr. “Large-Scale Portfolio Assessment: Ideological Sensitivity and Institutional Change.” Portfolios: Process and Product. Ed. Pat Belanoff and Marcia Dickson. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991. 248-269.

Anson, Chris M. “Response to Writing and the Paradox of Uncertainty.” Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research. Ed. Chris M. Anson. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989. 1-11.

Anson, Chris M. “Response Styles and Ways of Knowing.” Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research. Ed. Chris M. Anson. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1989. 322-366.

• Reprinted in An Anthology/Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers. Ed. James C. McDonald. Needham, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1995.
• Reprinted in Harcourt Brace Guide to Writing in the Disciplines. By Robert Jones, Cynthia Selfe, and Patrick Bizzaro. Ft. Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1997.

Anson, Chris M. “Toward a Multidimensional Model of Writing in the Academic Disciplines.” Writing in Academic Disciplines: Vol. 2 of Advances in Writing Research. Ed. David A. Jolliffe. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988. 1-36.

Anson, Chris M. “Casebook Writing Assignments for Students.” Collective Wisdom. Ed. Sondra J. Stang and Robert Wiltenburg. New York: Random House, 1988. 211-216.

Kroll, Barry M., and Chris M. Anson. “Analysing Structure in Children’s Fictional Narratives. The Development of Children’s Imaginative Writing. Ed. Helen Cowie. London: Croom Helm, 1984. 153-183. Rpt. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.

 

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS [refereed]

Anson, Chris M., Jonathan Marine, Federico Navarro, and Paul M. Rogers. Introduction: Writing Research Across Borders. Literatura y Linguistica, 46, 2022, pp. 13-20. [In Spanish as “Numero Especial: Estudios de la Escritura a Traves de las Fronteras,” pp. 21-28.]

Anson, Chris M., and Ingerid S. Straume. “Amazement and Trepidation: Implications of AI-Based Natural Language Production for the Teaching of Writing.” Journal of Academic Writing, forthcoming.

Anson, Chris M. “AI-Based Text Generation and the Social Construction of Fraudulent Authorship: A Revisitation.” Composition Studies, vol. 50, no. 1, 2022, pp. 37-46.

Anson, Chris M. “Echoes of ‘Distance Voices’: A Retrospective on Technological Days of Future Past.” Composition Forum, vol. 47 (Fall), 2021. https://compositionforum.com/issue/47/distant-voices.php

Anson, Chris M., Beth Greene, and Matthew Halm. “Analyzing Students’ Constructs of Writing Through Reflections on Their Drafts.” Journal of Writing Analytics, vol. 4, 2020, pp. 140-158. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/jwa/vol4/ansonc.pdf

Anson, Chris M., Susanne Hall, Michael Pemberton, and Cary Moskovitz. “Reuse in STEM Research Writing: Rhetorical and Practical Considerations and Challenges. AILA Review. Forthcoming.

Anson, Ian G., Cary Moskovitz, and Chris M. Anson. “A Text-Analytic Method for Identifying Text Recycling in STEM Research Reports.” Journal of Writing Analytics, 3 (2019), 125-150.

Pemberton, Michael, Susanne Hall, Cary Moskovitz, and Chris M. Anson. “Journal Editors’ Views on Text Recycling: An Interview-Based Study.” Learned Publishing, 32.4 (2019): 355-366.

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Tom Fish, Robert M. Gonyea, Margaret Marshall, Wendy Menefee-Libey, Charles Paine, Laura Palucki Blake, and Susan Weaver. “How Writing Contributes to Learning: New Findings from a National Study and Their Local Application.” Peer Review, 19.1 (2017): 4-8.

Anson, Ian G., and Chris M. Anson. “Assessing Peer and Instructor Response to Writing: A Corpus Analysis from an Expert Survey.” Assessing Writing, 33 (2017): 12-24.

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Charles Paine. “How to Create High-Impact Writing Assignments That Enhance Learning and Development and Reinvigorate WAC/WID Programs: What Almost 72,000 Undergraduates Taught Us.” Across the Disciplines, 13.4 (2016). http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/hip/andersonetal2016.cfm

Anson, Chris M. “The Pop Warner Chronicles: A Case Study in Contextual Adaptation and the Transfer of Writing Ability.” College Composition and Communication, 67.4 (2016): 518-549.

Anson, Chris M., Deanna Dannels, Johanne Laboy, and Larissa Carneiro. “Students’ Perceptions of Oral Screencast Responses to Their Writing: Exploring Digitally Mediated Identities.” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 30.3 (2016): 1-34.

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Charles Paine. “The Contributions of Writing to Learning and Development: Results from a Large-Scale Multi-Institutional Study.” Research in the Teaching of English, 50.2 (2015): 199-235.

Anson, Chris M. “Climate Change.” College Composition and Communication, 65.2 (2013): 324-344. [CCCC Chair’s address]

Anson, Chris M. “A Word for Peter.” WPA: Writing Program Administration, 36.2 (2013): 160-68. [review essay]

Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. “Tracking the Mind’s Eye: A New Technology for Researching 21st Century Writing and Reading Processes.” College Composition and Communication 64.1 (2012): 151-171.

Anson, Chris M., Deanna Dannels, Pamela Flash, and Amy L. Housley Gaffney. “Big Rubrics and Weird Genres: The Futility of Using Generic Assessment Tools Across Diverse Instructional Contexts.” Journal of Writing Assessment 5.1 (2012). http://journalofwritingassessment.org/

Anson, Chris M., and Karla Lyles. “The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition on Writing Across the Curriculum, Part Two: 1986-2006. The WAC Journal 22 (2011): 7-19.

Anson, Chris M. “How I Have Changed My Mind.” College English, 74.2 (2011): 106-108.

Anson, Chris M., and Karla Lyles. “The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition on Writing Across the Curriculum, Part Two: 1986-2006. The WAC Journal. Forthcoming.

Anson, Chris M., Deanna Dannels, Pamela Flash, and Amy L. Housley Gaffney. “Big Rubrics and Weird Genres: The Futility of Using Generic Assessment Tools Across Diverse Instructional Contexts.” Journal of Writing Assessment. Forthcoming.

Anson, Chris M. “Fraudulent Practices: Academic Misrepresentations of Plagiarism in the Name of Good Pedagogy.” Composition Studies. Forthcoming.

Anson, Chris M. “My Dinner with Calais.” Pedagogy, 11.3 (2011): 604-615.

Anson, Chris M. “The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition on Writing Across the Curriculum, 1967-1986.” The WAC Journal, 21 (2010): 5-20.

Anson, Chris M. “A Field at Sixty-Something.” College Composition and Communication (Special Anniversary Issue), 62.1 (2010): 216-228. [review essay]

Anson, Chris M., and Shawn Neely. “The Army and the Academy as Textual Communities: Exploring Mismatches in the Concepts of Attribution, Appropriation, and Shared Goals.” Kairos, 14.3 (2010). Webtext and printable PDF

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna P. Dannels. “Profiling Programs: Formatives Uses of Assisted Descriptions in the Assessment of Communication Across the Curriculum.” Across the Disciplines 6 (2009). Available at http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/assessment/anson_dannels.cfm [Special issue on Writing Across the Curriculum and Assessment]

Anson, Chris M., Susan Rashid Horn, and Robert A. Schwegler. “The Promise of Eye-Tracking Methodology for Research on Writing and Reading.” Open Words: Access and English Studies 3.1 (2009): 5-28.

Anson, Chris M., and Susan Miller-Cochran. “Contrails of Learning: Using New Technologies for Vertical Knowledge-Building.” Computers and Composition 26 (2009): 38–48. [Special Issue: “The Future of Graduate Education in the New University”]

Anson, Chris M. “The Intelligent Design of Writing Programs: Reliance on Belief or a Future of Evidence.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 32.1 (2008): 11-36.

Anson, Chris M. “Closed Systems and Standardized Writing Tests,” College Composition and Communication 60.1 (2008): 113-128.

Anson, Chris M. “What’s Writing Got to Do With Campus Terrorism?” Academe 93.6 (2007): 44-47.

Bernold, Leonhard E., Joni E. Spurlin, and Chris M. Anson. “Understanding Our Students: A Longitudinal Study of Success and Failure in Engineering with Implications for Increased Retention.” Journal of Engineering Education 96.3 (2007): 263-274.

Anson, Chris M. “Assessing Writing in Cross-Curricular Programs: Determining the Locus of Activity.” Assessing Writing 11 (2006): 100-112.

• in Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook, ed. Terry Myers Zawacki and Paul M. Rogers. New York: Bedford-St. Martin’s, 2012. 477-492.

Anson, Chris M., Leonhard E. Bernold, Cathy Crossland, Joni Spurlin, Molly McDemott, and Stacy Weiss. “Empowerment to Learn in Engineering: Preparation for an Urgently-Needed Paradigm Shift.” Global Journal of Engineering Education 7.2 (2003): 145-155.

Anson, Chris M., Michael Carter, Deanna Dannels, and Jon Rust. “Mutual Support: CAC Programs and Institutional Improvement in Undergraduate Education.” Journal of Language and Learning Across the Disciplines 6.3 (2003): 26-38. [special issue] Available online at: http://wac.colostate.edu/llad/v6n3/anson.pdf

Carter, Michael, Chris M. Anson, and Carolyn Miller. “Assessing Technical Writing in Institutional Contexts: Using Outcomes-Based Assessment for Programmatic Thinking.” Technical Communication Quarterly 12.1 (2003): 101-114.

Dannels, Deanna P., Chris M. Anson, Lisa Bullard, and Steven Peretti. “Challenges in Learning Communication Skills in Chemical Engineering.” Communication Education 52.1 (2003): 50-56.

Anson, Chris M. “Response and the Social Construction of Error.” Assessing Writing 7 (2000): 5-21. [Ranked third of ten most often downloaded essays in Assessing Writing from Elsevier’s ScienceQuest online journal subscription service, 2002]

Anson, Chris M. “Distant Voices: Teaching Writing in a Culture of Technology.” College English 61.3 (1999): 1-20.

• Reprinted in Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook. Ed. Michelle Sidler, Richard Morris. and Elizabeth Overman Smith. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008.
• Reprinted in Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader (2nd ed.). Ed. Victor Villanueva. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2003.

• Reprinted in Background Readings for Instructors Using the Bedford Handbook (6th ed). Ed. Glenn Blalock. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2001.

• Reprinted in Writing in an Electronic World. Ed. Ann B. Bailey. New York: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000

• Reprinted in Trends and Issues in Postsecondary English Studies(Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2000). 167-189.

• Reprinted in Dialogue on Writing: Rethinking ESL, Basic Writing, and First-Year Composition. Ed. Geraldine DeLuca, Len Fox, Mark-Ameen Johnson, and Myra Kogen. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002. 387-408.

Anson, Chris M., and Carol Rutz. “Graduate Students, Writing Programs, and Consensus-Based Management: Collaboration in the Face of Disciplinary Ideology. WPA: Writing Program Administration 21.2/3 (1998): 106-120. [available at: http://wpacouncil.org/21n2-3]

Anson, Chris M., David A. Jolliffe, and Nancy Shapiro. “Stories to Teach By: Using Narrative Cases in TA and Faculty Development.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 19 (1995): 25-38. [available at: http://wpacouncil.org/19n1-2]

Anson, Chris M., Laura Brady, and Marion Larson. “Collaboration in Practice.” Writing on the Edge 4 (1993): 80-96.

Beach, Richard, and Chris M. Anson. “Stance and Intertextuality in Written Discourse.” Linguistics and Education 4 (1992): 335-358.

Anson, Chris M., and Greta Gaard. “Acting on the ‘Statement’: The All-Campus Model of Reform.” College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 21-25.

Anson, Chris M. “Cultural Literacy and the Commodification of Knowledge.” Communitas 4 (1991): 104-117.

Anson, Chris M. “The Crisis Cycle: Recent Reports on the Attainment of Literacy.” Metropolitan Education 7 (1991): 128-139.

Anson, Chris M., and Laurie L. Forsberg. “Moving Beyond the Academic Community: Transitional Stages in Professional Writing.” Written Communication 7 (1990): 200-231.

Anson, Chris M. “Errours and Endeavors: A Case Study in American Orthography.” International Journal of Lexicography 3 (1990): 35-63.

Beach, Richard, and Chris M. Anson. “The Pragmatics of Memo Writing: Developmental Differences in the Use of Rhetorical Strategies.” Written Communication 5 (1988): 157-183.

Anson, Chris M., and Hildy Miller. “Journals in Composition: An Update.” College Composition and Communication 39 (1988): 198-216.

Anson, Chris M. “Book lists, Cultural Literacy, and the Stagnation of Discourse.” English Journal, 77.2 (1988): 14-18.

• Reprinted in Literacy: Language and Power. Ed. Douglas L. Vipond and Ronald Strahl. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1992.

Anson, Chris M. “The Classroom and the ‘Real World’ as Contexts: Reexamining the Goals of Writing Instruction.” Journal of the MMLA 20.1 (1987): 1-16.

Anson, Chris M. “Reading, Writing, and Intention.” Reader 16 (1986): 20-35.

Anson, Chris M. “A Computerized List of Journals Carrying Articles on Composition.” College Composition and Communication 37 (1986): 63-76.

Sirc, Geoff, and Chris M. Anson. “What Writers Say: Analyzing the Metacommentaries of College Writers.” Forum in Reading and Language Education 2 (1985): 59-74.

Anson, Chris M. “The Peer-Group Conference: Rediscovering a Forgotten Audience.” NEATE Journal 84.1 (1985): 18-23. [Entire issue republished as a monograph by the National Council of Teachers of English, 1985.]

Anson, Chris M. “Audience, Dissonance, and Invention: A Method for Reducing Egocentrism in Student Writing.” Exercise Exchange 30.2 (1985): 12-14.

Anson, Chris M., Ellen Bommarito, and Jeffrey Deuser. “From Schemes to Themes: Implications of Schema Theory for Teaching Writing.” Journal of Teaching Writing 2 (1983): 193-212.

Anson, Chris M. “The Artificial Art of Evaluating Writing.” Journal of Teaching Writing 1 (1982): 159-170.

Book Reviews, Proceedings, Reports, Fiction and Shorter Publications

Anson, Chris M. “Foreword.” Clash! Superheroic Yet Sensible Strategies for Teaching the New Literacies Despite the Status Quo. Ed. Sandra A. Vavra and Sharon L. Spencer. Charlotte, NC: Information Age, in press.

Anson, Chris M. “Keller, Christopher J., and Christian R. Weisser, eds., The Locations of Composition. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.” Journal of Teaching Writing 24.2 (2008): 103-111. [review]

Anson, Chris M. Review of Melody Bowdon and J. Blare Scott, Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication (New York: Longman, 2003). In Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy 8.3 (2009): 151-154.

Anson, Chris M. New Media and Multimodality in Composition Studies: An Interview with Chris Anson. Produced by Toby Coley and Joe Erickson. Available at: http://www.mydigitaldiscourse.com/Anson/index.html

Anson, Chris M. Electronic interview on using digital oral commentary to respond to student writing. Ed. Gregory Zobel. Adjunct Central. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, Nov. 2007. Available at: http://adjunctcentral.com/index.php/site/dr_chris_anson_on_oral_commentary_yack_pack/

Anson, Chris M. “Student Plagiarism: Are Teachers Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?” Essays on Teaching Excellence: Toward the Best in the Academy, 15.1 (2004-2005). Nederland, CO: Professional & Organizational Development Network in Higher Education.

Anson, Chris M., Leonhard E. Bernold, Cathy Crossland, Joni Spurlin, Molly McDemott, and Stacy Weiss. “Empowerment to Learn in Engineering: Preparation for an Urgently-Needed Paradigm Shift. Proceedings of the 6th UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Cairns, Queensland. Ed. Zenon J. Pudlowski. Melbourne, Australia: Monash Engineering Education Series, Monash University, 2003. 127-30.

Spurlin, Joni E., Leonhard E. Bernold, Cathy L. Crossland, and Chris M. Anson. “Understanding How Freshmen Engineering Students Think They Learn.” Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN. Available at: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/assessment/articles/LESSONSASEE.doc

Anson, Chris M. “Errors at Pound Ridge.” Case written, posted, and mediated as part of the McGraw-Hill Teaching Composition Web-Enhanced Listserv. ©McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. “Writing and Speaking: They’re Everyone’s Business.” Emphasis on Teaching and Learning, 8.4 (1999): 1-3.

Anson, Chris M. “Hateful Teaching.” Comp Tales. Ed. Richard H. Haswell and Min-Zhan Lu. New York: Longman, 1999.

Anson, Chris M. Review of Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, ed. Gary A. Olson and Todd W. Taylor.  Albany: State U of NY P, 1997. Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 29.2 (1999): – .

Anson, Chris M. “In the Service of Learning.” The Generator 12 (1998): 6.

Anson, Chris M. “Learning About Service Learning.” Rethinking Tradition: Integrating Service with Academic Study on College Campuses. Ed. T. Y. Kupiec. Providence: Campus Compact, Brown University, 1993. 77-81.

Anson, Chris M. “Teacher Development in the Program in Composition.” Preparing Graduate Students to Teach. Ed. L. M. Lambert and S. L. Tice. Washington, D.C.: American Association of Higher Education, 1993.

Anson, Chris M. Review of A Sense of Audience in Written Communication, ed. G. Kirsch and S. Roen. College Composition and Communication 43 (1992): 93-95.

Anson, Chris M. “Service-Learning Works Wonders: A Faculty Member Tells His Story.” The Generator 11.2  (1991): 3.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Beach. Research on Writing to Learn: The Interesting Case of Academic Journals. ERIC Document Reproduction Service. (Abstracted in Resources in Education, February, 1991)

Anson, Chris M., Bruce R. Maylath, and Michael J. Loupe. “Using Writing to Assess Skills in Scientific Inquiry.” Notes from the National Testing Network in Writing 10 (1991).

Anson, Chris M., and Robert L. Brown, Jr. “Large-Scale Portfolio Assessment in the Research University: Stories of Problems and Successes.” Notes from the National Testing Network in Writing 9 (1990): 8-9.

Anson, Chris M. Review of John R. Abercrombie, Computer Programs for Literary Analysis, and Jeanne W. Halpern and Sarah Liggett, Computers and Composing. In Library Software Review (1987).

Anson, Chris M. “Cambridge Press” (pp. 71-72), “Capra Press; Robert McBride & Co.” (pp. 224-227); “Perishable Press; Mahlon Day” (pp. 114-115). The Dictionary of American Book Publishing. New York: Bruccoli-Clark-Gale Research, 1986. [Series of articles on the history of book publishing in America.]

Anson, Chris M. “A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Reading/Writing Relationships in Composition Instruction.” Patterns in Action. Robert A. Schwegler. Boston: Prentice-Hall, 1985. 25-35. (IM; invited)

Anson, Chris M. Composition and Communicative Intention: Exploring the Dimensions of Purpose in College Writing. ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 257 076, 1985. (Abstracted in Resources in Education, Oct. 1985).

Anson, Chris M. Review of Roger Garrison, How A Writer Works. Indiana English 6 (1982): 159-170.

Anson, Chris M. “From Goal to Grade: An Elastic Approach to Evaluation.” Teaching and Learning 5.1 (1981): n.p.

Anson, Chris M. “Bound to be Free.” Quarry 9 (1981): 37-46. [Fiction]

Anson, Chris M. “A Coming of Age.” Syracuse Review, Spring, (1979): 36-38. [Fiction]

Anson, Chris M. “The Night Factory.” Syracuse Review, Fall (1977): 38-39. [Fiction]

Others’ Reviews and Commentary

Remark, Tricia. “Professor Advocates Blogging in the Classroom.” New Mexico Daily Lobo, Feb. 18, 2010, 1, 3.

Hale, Gwendolyn. “Chris M. Anson.” COMPbiblio: Leaders and Influences in Composition Theory and Practice. Ed. Allison D. Smith, Trixie G. Smith, and Karen Wright. Southlake, TX: Fountainhead, 2007. 3-8.

Burmester, Beth, Tanya Cochran, and Beth Godbee. “Echoing Narratives: Chris Anson at Work and Play.” Southern Discourse 8.1 (Fall 2004): 5-6, 9.

Rutz, Carol. “WAC and Beyond: An Interview with Chris Anson.” The WAC Journal 15 (2004): 7-17.

The Campus Writing and Speaking Program: A National Model for Cross-Curricular Innovation. North Carolina State University, 2000. [documentary videotape describing program]

Blumner, Jacob S. “Where is WAC Heading?” The WAC Journal 14 (2003): 119-123. [review of Anson, The WAC Casebook]

“Under Construction,” review of Farris and Anson, Under Construction. Rhetoric Review (1999): 189-192.

“Under Construction,” review of Farris and Anson, Under Construction. College Composition and Communication 51.1 (1999): 133-34.

“The Classroom Meets the City,” 1997 Annual Report, College of Liberal Arts, Univ. of Minnesota. 7.

“Writing Expert to Speak at Carleton.” Northfield Times 19 Oct. 1997.

“Journals in the Classroom,” Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 40.2 (1996). [book review]

“Writing Across the Curriculum,” College Composition and Communication, 45 (1994): 274-5. [book review]

“Who’s Learning More?” Update 19.6 (1992): 6.

“U Students Leave Classroom to Learn Life Lessons,” Minnesota Daily 12 Mar. 1991: 3.

“University of Minnesota Grad Students in Literacy Get Nine Professors for the Price of One,” Composition Chronicle October 1992.

“Schools Fail in Student Responsibility,” Oklahoma Daily 24 Sept. 1992.

Academic Keys Who’s Who in Humanities Higher Education (WWHHE): http://humanities.academickeys.com/

Five Hundred Leaders of Influence. Raleigh, NC: American Biographical Institute, 1998.

2,000 Notable American Men. (3rd ed.). Raleigh, NC: American Biographical Institute, 1995.

Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World (12th ed.–), 1995-pres.

Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Education (4th ed.–), 1992-pres.

Marquis’ Who’s Who in the Midwest, 1991-pres.

Marquis’ Who’s Who in the United States, 1992-pres.

Men of Achievement. Cambridge: International Biographical Centre. 1992-pres.

“Responding to Student Writing,” English Journal Sept. 1990. [review of Writing and Response]

Soven, M. “On the Subjects of Teaching Thinking and Responding to Writing: Raising Questions and Challenging Assumptions.” College English 52 (1990): 323-328. [Review of Writing and Response]

Wallace, David A. “Chris M. Anson, ed. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 19 (1990): 283-285. [review of Writing and Response]

“IU’s Associate Instructors: Mediators in the Educational Transaction,” Arts & Sciences 5.2 (1982): 1-3.

Work in Progress

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Martha Townsend, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. “Beyond Composition: Creating an Outcomes Statement for Writing Across the Curriculum.” The WPA Outcomes Statement: A Decade Later. Ed. Nicholas Behm, Duane Roen, Gregory Glau, Edward White, and Deborah Holdstein. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press. [invited and submitted]

Anson, Chris M. “What Good Is It? The Effects of Teacher Response and Evaluation on Students’ Writing Development.” Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Edward M. White. Ed. Norbert Elliot and Les Perelman. [invited and submitted]

Anson, Chris M. “Dis/Closure: Transparent Formativity in the Evaluation of Teaching. “Keep Doing What You Do”: Assessing the Teaching of Writing. Ed. Amy Dayton-Wood and Karen Gardiner. [invited and submitted]

Anson, Chris M. “Black Holes: Writing Across the Curriculum and the Gravitational Invisibility of Race.” Race and Racism in Writing Assessment. Ed. Asao B. Inoue and Mya Poe. [invited and submitted]

Anson, Chris M., and Tiane Donahue. “‘This Bodes Some Strange Eruption to our State’: Deconstructing ‘Writing Program Administration’ in an International Context.” Transnational Writing Program Administration. Ed. David S. Martins. [invited and in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. “Beyond Doctrine: Encouraging Faculty Inquiry and Publication in Communication-Across-the-Curriculum Programs. Working With Faculty Writers. Ed. Anne Geller and Michele Eodice. [invited and in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. “Writing to Read, Revisited.” Addressing the Common Core Using a Critical Literacy Perspective: Proceedings of the 2011 Guy Bond Conference. Ed. Deborah Dillon. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. [invited and in preparation]

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Robert Gonyea, and Charles Paine. “When WAC Assessmente and WAC Research Converge at the National and Local Levels: The Example of the Consortium for the Study of Writing in College.” WAC, Assessment, and Research: Negotiating Boundaries and Changing Practices. Ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey, Emily Baker, Scott Gage, Rory Lee, Ruth Kistler, Natalie Symanski, Kara Taczak, and Jill Taylor. [invited and in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. “Contingent Responses: Valuing the Life Goals of Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Composition. A Statement in Recension: The Principles and Standards for the Postsecondary Teaching of Writing for the 21st Century University. Ed. Dayna Goldstein and Randall McClure. [invited and in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. “Composition and the Politics of Location: Reflections on Expertise, Disciplinarity, and Ownership in Writing Program Administration.” [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. “The Pop Warner Chronicles: Explorations in the Transfer of Writing Ability.” [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M., David A. Jolliffe, Joan Graham, and Nancy Shapiro. Scenarios for Teaching Writing: Contexts for Discussion and Reflective Practice (2nd ed.). Urbana: NCTE. [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. “Still Life With Skein and Moon.” Essay originally invited for Nature, Environment, and Me: Personal Explorations in a Deteriorating World. Ed. Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas M. Nelson. Montreal: McGill-Queens UP. Project has been cancelled; essay is looking for a home.