Department of English
Joseph Moxley
Joseph Moxley
Professor, Director of Composition
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Office: CPR 331
Phone: 813/974-9469
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Bio
Joe Moxley (CV) is a professor of English at USF (University of South Florida) where he directs the First Year Composition program. Moxley’s research interests include collaborative courseware development, new media, digital libraries, and research methodologies. Past research has focused on assessment, faculty development, learning communities, and writing across the curriculum. In addition to articles in academic journals and book chapters, Moxley has published books on scholarly publishing and the academic reward system; an edited book on ethnography; an online edited book for graduate students interested in writing ETDs (electronic theses or dissertations); a co-edited book on ETDs; an edited book on teaching creative writing; books on legal writing; college-level writing textbooks; and a novel.
Since joining the USF faculty in 1984, Moxley has received three undergraduate awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching and the President's Award. Moxley's College Writing Online--an interactive writing environment designed to serve the needs of most college-level writing classes--received the 2004 Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award, the highest honor for a book in the field of Computers and Writing. Moxley has received approximately $500,000 in funding from a variety of funding sources including FIPSE/Department of Education, Dell, and Time Warner to support learning communities and new media scholarship. In 1999, he received a major gift from Microsoft to support his research and scholarship.
As a service/research effort, Moxley supports and analyzes various online writing environments, including CollegeWriting (for the USF First Year Composition Program), WritingBlogs (a blog site for college writers), WritersatWork (free presentations to help writers, particularly graduate students and faculty), ToolsforWriters, WritingWiki, TeachingWiki, GrammarWiki, and ResearchBlogs. Another major service effort has been to help grow the NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations). Moxley worked as Project Manager and Editor for The ETD Guide (the UNESCO-sponsored, authoritative guide on best electronic thesis and dissertation practices), which is now available in English, French, and Spanish. At USF, Moxley led a successful effort to require electronic theses and dissertations.
Education
Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo
Specialty Area
Computers and writing; composition theory; research methods
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