Education

Ph.D., Linguistics, Northwestern University, 1985

Representative Publications

"Sanctioned and Non-Sanctioned Narratives in Institutional Discourse,"
Narrative Inquiry, forthcoming.

"The Interactional Practices of Referrals and Accounts in Medical
Discourse: Expertise and Compliance," Discourse Studies 2.3 (2000):
259-81.

"Informational and Interactional Functions of slogans and Sayings in the
Discourse of a Support Group," Discourse and Society 10.4 (2000): 461-86.

"The Social Work of Diagnosis: Evidence for Judgments of Competence and
Incompetence," Constructing (In)Competence: disabling Evaluations in
Clinical and Social Interaction. Eds. Dana Kovarsky, Judy Duchan, and
Madeleine Maxwell. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1999. 257-90.

"Evocative Gestures in CCCC chairs' Addresses," History, Reflection, and
Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition. Eds. Beth Boehm, Debra
Journet, and Mary Roser. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1999. 235-52.

"More Methodological Matters: Against Negative Argumentation," CCC 51.3
(2000): 399-416.

With Ruth Ray. "Farther Afield: Rethinking the Contribution of Research,"
Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Theory,
Research, and Practice. Eds. Chris Anson and chris Farris. Logan: Utah
State University Press, 1998. 196-214.

"The Presence of Interlocutors vs. The Sites of the Internet: The
Restricted Range of Disability Narratives," Works and Days (Special Issue,
The Future of Narrative Discourse: Internet Constructs of Literacy and
Identity) 33/34, 35/36.17-18 (2000): 85-115.

Co-editor (with Gail Stygall): Discourse Studies in Composition. Cresskill,
NJ: Hampton Press, forthcoming. Includes chapter: "Inductive Discourse
Analysis: Discovering Rich Features."

"Textual Practices of Erasure: Representations of Disability and the Founding of the United Way," Rhetorics of Disability. Eds. James Wilson and Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming.

"Evocative Gestures in CCCC Chairs' Addresses," History, Reflection, and Narrative: The Professionalization of Composition. Eds. Beth Boehm, Debra Jounret, and Mary Roser. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, forthcoming.

"The Social Work of Diagnosis: Evidence for Judgments of Competence and Incompetence," Disabling Evaluations in Clinical and Social Interaction: Constructing (In)Competence. Eds. Judy Duchan, Dana Kovarsky, and Madeleine Maxwell. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, forthcoming. (invited chapter)

"Literacy in (Inter)Action," College English 59.4 (April, 1997): 408-437.

"Negotiation Expertise in Discourses of Disability." TEXT 16.3 (Fall, 1996), 299-322.

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