Richard C. Gebhardt

SCHOLARLY AGENDAS:
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

THE NATURE OF SCHOLARSHIP IN COMPOSITION STUDIES
**"Scholarship of Engagement: New Name for or Challenge to The Work of Rhetoric," in The Responsibilities of Rhetoric (Waveland Press, 2009).
** "Reviewing and Refocusing Doctoral Education in Composition Studies," JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, 22.1 (Winter 2002), 159-67.
** "Refereed Publication in Composition Studies and CCC," Rhetoric Review, 13.2 (Spring 1995), 238-44.
** "Forms of Scholarly Publication: Some Trends and Some Risks," Focuses, 6 (Winter 1993), 93-96.
** Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997). Edited with Barbara Genelle Smith Gebhardt. E.g., "Evolving Approaches to Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure in Composition Studies." 1-19.
** "Scholarship, Teaching, and the Future of Composition Studies," Writing Program Administration, 20.3 (Spring 1997), 7-16.
** "Scholarship and Teaching: Motives and Strategies for Writing Articles in Composition Studies," Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, ed. Gary Olson and Todd Taylor (State U of New York P, 1997), 35-46.
** Editing the refereed journal College Composition and Communication from 1986 to 1994 much advanced this scholarly agenda and led to a number of Editor's Column articles, including these:
"The Seductiveness of Theme Issues," College Composition and Communication, 43 (May 1992), 151-53.
"Diversity in a Mainline Journal," College Composition and Communication, 43 (Feb. 1992), 7-10.
"The Value and Frustration of Reviews," College Composition and Communication, 42 (Dec. 1991), 423-24.
"Thoughts on Confidentiality and Submissions," College Composition and Communication, 44 (Feb. 1993), 7-8.

FACULTY WORK AND ITS EVALUATION
** "The Importance of Untenured Writing Administrators to Composition and to English Studies," in Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics (2007).
** "Scholarship of Teaching and Administration: An Elusive Goal for English Studies," Teaching, Scholarship, and Service in the Twenty-First Century English Department: A Delicate Balance, ed. Joseph Hardin and Ray Wallace (Edwin Melin Press, forthcoming 2004)
** Academic Advancement in Composition Studies: Scholarship, Publication, Promotion, Tenure (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1997). Edited with Barbara Genelle Smith Gebhardt. E.g., "Mentor and Evaluator: The Chair's Role in Promotion and Tenure Review,"147-65.
** "Avoiding the Research vs. Teaching Trap: Expanding the Criteria for Evaluating Scholarship," The Politics and Processes of Scholarship, ed. Joseph Moxley (Greenwood, 1995), 9-17.
** "Scholarship, Promotion, and Tenure in Composition Studies," Rhetoric, Cultural Studies and Literacy, ed. John Fredrick Reynolds (Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995), 177-84.
** "The Department Chair's Role in Enhancing Teaching: A Review Article," ADE Bulletin, No. 100 (Winter 1991), 45-48.
** "Learn, Look Forward, Try Again: Productive Responses to Publishing Rejections," Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 22 (Feb. 1995), 61-64.

WRITING INSTRUCTION GROUNDED IN THEORY & RESEARCH
** "Initial Plans and Spontaneous Composition: Toward a Comprehensive Theory of the Writing Process," College English, 44 (Oct. 1982), 620-27.
** "Writing Processes, Revision, and Rhetorical Problems," College Composition and Communication, 34 (Oct. 1983), 294-96.
** "Changing and Editing: Moving Current Theory on Revision into the Classroom," Rhetoric Review, 2 (Jan. 1984), 78-88.
** "Teamwork and Feedback: Broadening the Base of Collaborative Writing," College English, 42 (Sept. 1980), 69-74.
** "Introspection and Observation for Insight and Instruction in the Processes of Writing," The Writing Teacher as Researcher, ed. Donald Daiker and Max Morenberg (Boynton Cook, 1990), 38-51.
** "Computer Writing and the Dynamics of Drafting," Journal of Teaching Writing, 5 (Fall 1986), 193-201.
** Process and Intention: A Bridge from Theory to Classroom," Writing Instructor, 1 (Summer 1982), 135-145.
** "Sentence Combining in the Teaching of the Writing Process," Sentence Combining: A Rhetorical Perspective, ed. Donald Daiker et al. (Southern Illinois UP, 1985), 202-12.

PREPARATION OF WRITING TEACHERS
** "Balancing Theory with Practice in the Training of Writing Teachers," College Composition and Communication, 28 (May 1977), 134-40. Richard Braddock Award for the outstanding composition studies article in any 1977 NCTE publication. Reprinted twice. Cited frequently, including a recent refereed article that describes it as "an early benchmark for the design of writing teacher education" and as a "template" reflected "in course and program designs in English education" since the 1970s."
** "Unifying Diversity in the Training of Writing Teachers," Training the New Teacher of College Composition, ed. Charles Bridges (NCTE, 1986), 1-12.
** "Toward Understanding and Cooperation Among Teachers of Writing
Teachers," Foreword to Teaching Writing Teachers of High School English and First-Year Composition, ed. Robert Tremmel and William Broz (2002).
** Composition and Its Teaching: Articles from College Composition and Communication During the Editorship of Edward P. J. Corbett (Ohio Council of Teachers of English, 1979 [distributed by the National Council of Teachers of English]).
** "Training Basic Writing Teachers at a Liberal Arts College," Journal of Basic Writing, 3 (Spring/Summer 1981), 46-63.
** "Competency-Based Teacher Education and College English Departments," College Composition and Communication, 25 (May 1974), 166-72. Co-authored with Barbara Genelle Smith.
** "Administration as Focus for Understanding the Teaching of Writing," Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for Writing Program Administrators, ed. Irene Ward and William J. Carpenter (Longman, 2002), 34-38.

An Ongoing Research Interest:

ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP IN THE FIELD OF RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION
A faculty improvement leave from BGSU provided the basis of ongoing exploration of (1) the nature of engaged research/scholarship and (2) the varieties of engaged research/scholarship published in the field of rhetoric and composition. Initial results of this ongoing study were presented at refereed conferences in 2008:
*"Composition Scholarship and the Scholarship of Engagement," Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC).
*"Scholarship of Engagement: New Name for Or Challenge to the Work of Rhetoric," Rhetoric Society of American (RSA).
Additional work on this topic includes:
*Expansion and revision of the RSA paper: "Scholarship of Engagement: Both New Name for and Challenge to The Work of Rhetoric" in The Responsibilities of Rhetoric (Waveland Press, 2009).
*Ongoing research and writing with the working title "Engaged Scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition.