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H. Allen Brizee
Ph.D. Candidate in Rhetoric and Composition
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Email: hbrizee@purdue.edu

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		Projects and Scholarly Research:
		Community Writing and Education Station (CWEST): A Sustainable and Participatory Literacy Partnership with the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy (LARA) Presentation Handout Presentation on the project from the 2008 CCCC in New Orleans. Composed with Jaclyn Wells.
		Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) Usability Project: Accessing OWLs: Writing Center Usability Testing with Blind and Low-Vision Users (OWL Usability Research G3, G4) Presentation Handout Presentation on the project from the 2008 CCCC in New Orleans. Composed with Dana Driscoll, Professor Michael Salvo, and Morgan Sousa. Redesigning an OWL: Usability Testing for Writing Centers Presentation Handout Presentation on the project from the 2007 CCCC in New York, Session E.02. Composed with Professor Michael Salvo, Tammy Condard-Salvo, Dana Lynn Driscoll, Morgan Sousa. Purdue OWL Usability Report G1 and G2 Final Draft Purdue OWL Usability Report G1 and G2, Proposal for G3 English 680A, The Rhetoric(s) of Access. Summer 2006. Professor Michael Salvo. Expert and Apprentice: Using Hybrid Identities to Inform Local Research on the Purdue OWL A personal narrative of the Purdue OWL Usability Project. Expert and Apprentice: Hybrid Identities for Graduate Students Presentation on the project from the 2006 Computers and Writing Conference at Texas Tech. Final Report and Proposal for the Second Generation Test, OWL Prototype Purdue OWL Usability Report for the First Generation Test Proposal to Integrate User-Centered Design in the Purdue OWL English 515, Advanced Professional Writing - Usability. Spring 2006. Professor Michael Salvo.
		Using Stasis Theory to Foster Critical, Collaborative Citizenship. Presentation from the 2007 Language and Rhetoric of Citizenship Conference, University of Michigan.
		“Using Stasis in Professional Writing Pedagogy: Ancient Origins, Contemporary Applications.” 2007 Kneale Award for Pedagogy, Purdue Literary Awards. English 622, Classical Rhetoric. Fall 2006. Professor Richard Johnson-Sheehan.
		Book Review of Web Accessibility (forthcoming in Technical Communication) English 680T, Professional Writing Theory. Fall 2006. Professor Michael Salvo.
		Layout and Design of Graduate Project: Underground Railroad Tour English 505M, Professional Writing Mentorship. Fall 2006. Professor Patricia Sullivan.
		Course Proposal: English 421, Reader-Centered Technical Communication, Course Syllabus English 505B, Composition Mentorship. Spring 2006. Professor Richard Johnson-Sheehan.
		Research Proposal for Studying Undergraduate Writing in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of History at Purdue University English 625, Research Methodologies. Spring 2006. Professor Patricia Sullivan. Picture from the Research Poster Presentation, Spring 2006.
		Syllabus Rationale for English 106, Spring 2006 English 505A, Composition Mentorship. Fall 2005. Professor Richard Johnson-Sheehan.
		"Toward a Multidisciplinary Method of Teaching Visual Literacy in First Year Composition." Book Review Essay. English 591, Composition Theory. Fall 2005. Professor Irwin Weiser.
		Household Education by Harriet Martineau. Project Introduction. Critical Introduction. Text. Page Images. Etext Project. English 624, Composition Studies - Modernism. Fall 2005. Professor Patricia Sullivan.
		"Snapshot of the Fifty-Fifth Annual CCCC: Everything is Bigger in Texas," The Professional, the newsletter for the Professional Writing Program at The University of Maryland, April 2004.
		"Teaching Visual Literacy and Document Design in First-Year Composition," Master's Thesis in English at Virginia Tech, Defended March 31, 2003, Dr. Eva R. Brumberger, Chair.
		The English Graduate Student Organization (EGSO) Homepage at Virginia Tech, 2001-2002. (no longer available)
		The Graduate Teaching Assistant Homepage at Virginia Tech, Spring 2001.
		English 5334, Document Design and Visual Rhetoric Homepage at Virginia Tech, Fall 2000. Service-Learning Project: SEEDs Kenya Immersion Program.
		"Online Fund Raising for Not-for-Profit Organizations," Presented at the Virginia Service Learning Conference (coming soon as pdf).
		"Marxist Literary Criticism," Introduction to Graduate Studies at Virginia Tech, Spring 2000 (Ugly, but useful. And now, apparently, infamous).
		"The Marxist Formula in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood," Ex Libris, the Journal of Undergraduate Writing in English Courses at Virginia Tech, Spring 2000.
		"Keep it Simple: Wollstonecraft and Collins' Search for British Unification Through Simplicity," Ex Libris, the Journal of Undergraduate Writing in English Courses at Virginia Tech, Spring 1999.
		"Handbook for Tutoring Students with Learning Disabilities," Undergraduate Intern Project at Virginia Tech, 1998.


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