User:Rhhslv

I am Richard H. Haswell, Haas Professor of English Emeritus. I received my MA in English from the University of Washington in 1962 and my Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri in 1967. I taught at Washington State University (1967-1996) and Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (1996-2005). I helped design, implement, and direct the cross-campus writing assessment at WSU (1991-1996), and held an endowed professorship at Texas A&M CC (1996-2005). My areas of expertise are rhetorical analysis, life-span language development, and writing assessment. In those areas I authored, co-authored, or edited 9 books and more than 60 articles, many of them empirical studies. My CV is online.

A word about my contributions to Wikipedia. I have designed empirical studies, compiled and annotated bibliographies of scholarship, and written encyclopedia articles (e.g., C. Bazerman, ed., Handbook of Research on Writing, 2007, pp. 331-346). All forbid any undue influence of the author. For me it is as insulting to say that in my scholarship I indulged in self-promotion as it to say that I fudged the data. And I consider any contribution I might make to Wikipedia as scholarship.