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Publications


Books
Articles in Edited Collections
Journal Articles
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Others' Reviews and Commentary

Work in Progress


Current h-index: 39

Current i-10 index: 83


BOOKS

Kruse, Otto, Chris M. Anson, Christian Rapp, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani (Eds.). Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education. Springer, 2023. Open access at https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-36033-6

Anson, Chris M., Jonathan Marine, Federico Navarro, and Paul M. Rogers, editors. Monograph of Literatura y Linguistica: Writing Across Borders, 46, 2022, pp. 13-279. Open access at: http://ediciones.ucsh.cl/index.php/lyl/issue/view/239

Anson, Chris M., and Pamela Flash (Eds.). Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2021. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2021.1299. Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/wec/ [Recipient, 2021 Best Book Award, Council of Writing Program Administrators, awarded July 17, 2023; Honorable Mention, Best Edited Collection, Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, awarded June 15, 2023]

Anson, Chris M., and Jessie Moore, editors. Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2016. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2016.0797. Open access at: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/ansonmoore/

Anson, Chris M. A Guide to College Writing, Pearson, 2016.

Beach, Richard, Chris M. Anson, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, and Thomas Reynolds. Understanding and Creating Digital Texts: An Activity-Based Approach, Rowman and Littlefield, 2014.

Beach, Richard, Chris M. Anson, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, and Thom Swiss. Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and Other Digital Tools, Christopher-Gordon Publishers, 2009.

Anson, Chris M., editor. 75 Readings Across the Curriculum: An Anthology, McGraw-Hill, 2006.

Anson, Chris M. The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development, Oxford UP, 2002. [more]

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman's Writer's Bible: The Complete Guide to Writing, Research, and Grammar, Pearson/Longman, 2006.

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia F. Muth. The Longman Concise Companion (2nd Ed.),Pearson/Longman, 2009.

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia F. Muth. The Longman Concise Companion, Longman, 2006.


Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers (6th Ed.), Longman, 2011.

Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers (5th Ed.), Longman, 2009.
Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers (4th Ed.), Longman, 2007.
Anson, Chris M. and Robert A. Schwegler. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers (3rd Ed.), Longman, 2003.
Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers (2nd Ed.), Longman, 2000.
Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers, Longman, 1996.


Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Writer's Companion (4th Ed.), Longman, 2007.

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Writer's Companion (3rd Ed.), Longman, 2005.
Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Writer's Companion (2nd ed.), Longman, 2003.
Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Writer's Companion, Longman, 2000.


Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Pocket Writer's Companion (3rd ed.), Longman, 2007.

Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Pocket Writer's Companion (2nd ed.), Longman, 2005.
Anson, Chris M., Robert A. Schwegler, and Marcia Muth. The Longman Pocket Writer's Companion. Longman, 2003.


Farris, Christine, and Chris M. Anson, editors. Under Construction: Working at the Intersections of Composition Theory, Research, and Practice, Utah State UP, 1998. [more]

Anson, Chris M., Carol Rutz, Lesley K. Cafarelli, and Michelle R. Weiss, editors. Dilemmas in Teaching: Cases for Collaborative Faculty Reflection, Mendota, 1998.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Beach. Journals in the Classroom: Writing to Learn, Christopher-Gordon, 1995. [more]

Anson, Chris M., Joan Graham, David A. Jolliffe, Nancy Shapiro, and Carolyn C. Smith. Scenarios for Teaching Writing: Contexts for Discussion and Reflective Practice, National Council of Teachers of English/Alliance for Undergraduate Education, 1993. [more]

Anson, Chris M., John E. Schwiebert, and Michael M. Williamson. Writing Across the Curriculum: An Annotated Bibliography, Greenwood, 1993. [more]

Anson, Chris M., and Lance E. Wilcox. A Field Guide to Writing, HarperCollins, 1992. [more]

Anson, Chris M., editor. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice, and Research, National Council of Teachers of English, 1989. [more]

Anson, Chris M., and Lance E. Wilcox. Writing in Context, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1988. [more]

Anson, Chris M., and Lance E. Wilcox. Teaching Writing In Context, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1988. [IM for Writing in Context; not refereed; 204 pp.]

Anson, Chris M. Composition and Communicative Intention: Exploring the Dimensions of Purpose in College Writing. Diss. Indiana U, 1984. Dissertation Abstracts International 46-01A, p. 90. [Barry Kroll, director]

Anson, Chris M. Skeleton in a Closet. M.A. Thesis, Syracuse University, 1979. [Raymond Carver and George P. Elliott, directors]
 



ARTICLES IN EDITED COLLECTIONS
[refereed]

 

Shirley K. Rose, Deborah H. Holdstein, Chris M. Anson, Chris Thaiss, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. "The Intellectual Work of Writing Program Review." Sites of Writing: Essays in Honor of Anne Ruggles Gere, edited by James Edward Beitler and Sarah Ruffing, Robbins. The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, forthcoming.

Anson, Chris M. "Teacher Feedback Tools." Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Chris M. Anson, Christian Rapp, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer. [in press]

Anson, Chris M. "Digital Peer Review Programs." Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Chris M. Anson, Christian Rapp, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer. [in press]

Benites, Alice Delorme, Fernando Benites, and Chris M. Anson. "Automated Text Generation and Summarization for Academic Writing." Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Chris M. Anson, Christian Rapp, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer. [in press]

Kruse, Otto, and Chris M. Anson. "Writing and Thinking: What Changes with Digital Technologies?" Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Chris M. Anson, Christian Rapp, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer. [in press]

Anson, Chris M., and Otto Kruse. "Plagiarism Detection and Intertextuality Tools." Digital Writing Technologies: Impact on Theory, Research, and Practice in Higher Education, edited by Otto Kruse, Chris M. Anson, Christian Rapp, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, and Antonette Shibani. Springer. [in press]

Anson, Chris M. "Dimensions of Transfer and the Role of Multimodality." Multimodal Composition and Writing Transfer, Edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lilian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd, Utah State UP, in press.

Anson, Ian G., Chris M. Anson, and Kendra Andrews. "Teachers’ Beliefs about the Language of Peer Review: Survey-Based Evidence." Rethinking Peer Review: Critical Reflections on a Pedagogical Practice, edited by Phoebe Jackson and Christopher Weaver, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2023. 17-40. http://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2023.1961.2.01 Open access at: https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/peer/chapter1.pdf

Anson, Chris M. "The Multidimensional Variables of Writing Program Development and Sustainability."Centros y Programas en Latinoamérica: Opciones Teóricas y Pedagógicas Para la Enseñanza de la Escritura Disciplinar [The Field of Teaching Disciplinary Writing in Latin America: Trajectories and Future Directions], edited by Estela Inés Moyano and Margarita Vidal Lizama, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2023. vii-xix. [Spanish transation, "Prólogo. Variables Multidimensionales en el Desarrollo y la Sustentabilidad de los Programas de Escritura," xxi-xxxv.] Open access at: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/la/centros/

Anson, Chris M., Amy Hodges, and Mysti Rudd. "The Writing-Enriched Curriculum: Transnational Prospects and Challenges." Teaching and Studying Transnational Composition, edited by Christiane Donahue and Bruce Horner, Modern Language Association, 2022. 263-286.

Anson, Chris M. "A Heuristic Approach to Selecting Technological Tools for Writing Instruction and Support." Negotiating the Intersections of Writing and Writing Instruction, Edited by Magnus Gustafsson and Andreas Eriksson, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2021. 63-87. https://doi.org/10.37514/INT-B.2022.1466.2.03. Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/eataw2019/

Anson, Chris M., Ian G. Anson, and Kendra Andrews. "Peer Review in First-Year Composition and STEM Courses: A Large-Scale Corpus Analysis of Key Writing Terms." Composition and Big Data, edited by Amanda Licastro and Benjamin Mille. U of Pittsburgh Press, 2021. 101-124.

Anson, Chris M. "Semantic Snafu: Choose Your Words Carefully." Failure Before Success: Teachers Describe What They Learned From Mistakes, edited by Julie Warner, Rowman and Littlefield, 2021. 31-36.

Anson, Chris M. "WEC and the Strength of the Commons." Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation, edited by Chris M. Anson and Pamela Flash, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2021. 3-14. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2021.1299.1.3 Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/wec/

Anson, Chris M. "The New Grass Roots: Exploring Departmentally Localized Models of Writing Across the Curriculum." Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models of Faculty-Driven and Departmental Transformation, edited by Chris M. Anson and Pamela Flash, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2021. 45-72. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2021.1299.1.3 Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/wec/

Anson, Chris M. "Correctness Revisited: How Students (Mis)Identify and Comment on Error in Peers' Drafts." English Across the Curriculum: Voices From Around the World, edited by Julia Chen, Linda Lin, Bruce Morrison, Alan Urmston, and Terry Zawacki, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2021. 271-291. https://doi.org/10.37514/INT-B.2021.1220.2.15 Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/international/eac2018/

Anson, Chris M. "After the Big Bang: The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies." The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research, edited by Kelly Blewett, Christiane Donahue, and Cynthia Monroe, Peter Lang, 2021. 5-26.

Anson, Chris M., and Kendra Andrews. "Sleuthing for the Truth: A Reading and Writing Pedagogy for a New Age of Lies." Teaching Critical Reading and Writing in the Era of Fake News, edited by Ellen C. Carillo and Alice S. Horning, Peter Lang, 2020. 211-228.

Anson, Chris M. "Storyboarding Your Writing Projects." Explanation Points: Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, edited by John Gallagher and Danielle Nicole Devoss, Utah State UP and UP of Colorado, 2019. 53-57.

Reid, Gwendolynne, and Chris M. Anson. "Public- and Expert-Facing Communication: A Case Study of Internet-Mediated Citizen Science." Science Communication on the Internet: Old Genres Meet New Genres, edited by Carmen Pérez-Llantada and María José Luzón, John Benjamins, 2019. 219-238. [Recipient of the 8th Enrique Alcáraz Research Award for the best study of Language for Specific Purposes]

Anson, Chris M., Chen Chen, and Ian G. Anson. "Talking About Writing: A Study of Key Terms Used Instructionally Across the Curriculum." (Re)Considering What We Know: Learning Thresholds in Writing, Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle, Utah State UP, 2019. 314-327.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna P. Dannels. "Handing Over the Reins: Ownership, Support, and the Departmentally-Focused Model of Communication Across the Curriculum." Sustainable WAC: A Whole Systems Approach to Launching and Developing WAC Programs, edited by Michelle Cox, Jeff Galin, and Dan Melzer, National Council of Teachers of English, 2018. 5-7.

Anson, Chris M. "'She Really Took the Time': Students' Opinions of Screen-Capture Response to Their Writing in Online Courses." Writing in Online Courses: How the Online Environment Shapes Writing Practices, edited by Christopher Weaver and Phoebe Jackson, Myers Education Press, 2018. 21-45.

Anson, Chris M. "Intellectual, Argumentative, and Informational Affordances of Social Media: Bridging Public Forum Posts and Academic Learning." Social Writing/Social Media: Pedagogy, Presentation, and Publics, edited by Douglas Walls and Stephanie Vie, The WAC Clearinghouse amd UP of Colorado, 2017. 309-330.  https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2017.0063.2.16 Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/perspectives/social/

Anson, Chris M., and Les Perelman. "Myth: Machines Can Evaluate Writing Well." Bad Ideas About Writing, edited by Drew M. Loewe and Cheryl E. Ball. Digital Publishing Institute, 2017. 278-286. Open access at https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/badideas/badideasaboutwriting-book.pdf

Anson, Chris M. "Writing to Read, Revisited." What Is College Reading?, edited by Alice S. Horning, Deborah-Lee Gollnitz, and Cynthia R. Haller, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2017. 21-39. https://doi.org/10.37514/ATD-B.2017.0001.2.01 Open access at https://wac.colostate.edu/books/atd/collegereading/

Anson, Chris M. "I Stand Here Ironing." Labored: The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition, edited by Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein, and Michael A. Pemberton, Parlor Press, 2017. 14-28.

Anson, Chris M. "Epilogue." Oral Communication in the Disciplines: A Resource for Teacher Development and Training, edited by Deanna P. Dannels, Patricia R. Palmerton, and Amy L. Housley Gaffney, Parlor Press, 2016. 225-229.

Anson, Chris M., & Jessie L. Moore. “Afterword.” Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer, edited by Chris M. Anson and Jessie L. Moore, The WAC Clearinghouse and UP of Colorado, 2016, pp. 331-9. https://doi.org/10.37514/PER-B.2016.0797.3.2

Anson, Chris M. "Crossing Thresholds: What's to Know About Writing Across the Curriculum?" Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. Utah State UP, 2015. 203-219. [2016 Outstanding Contribution to the Discipline Award, Council of Writing Program Administrators]

Anson, Chris M., and Tiane Donahue. "Deconstructing 'Writing Program Administration' in an International Context." Transnational Writing Program Administration, edited by David S. Martins, Utah State UP, 2015. 21-47. [2017 Outstanding Book Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication]

Paine, Charles, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Paul Anderson. "Using National Survey of Student Engagement Data and Methods to Assess Teaching in First-Year Composition and Writing Across the Curriculum." Assessing the Teaching of Writing: Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies, edited by Amy E. Dayton, Utah State UP, 2015. 171-186.

Anson, Chris M. "Technology and Transparency: Sharing and Reflecting on the Evaluation of Teaching." Assessing the Teaching of Writing: Twenty-First Century Trends and Technologies, edited by Amy E. Dayton, Utah State UP, 2015. 99-117.

Anson, Chris M. "Writing, Language, and Literacy." First-Year Composition: From Theory to Practice, edited by Deborah Coxwell-Teague and Ronald F. Lunsford, Parlor Press, 2014. 3-26.

Anson, Chris M. "Process Pedagogy and Its Legacy." A Guide to Composition Pedagogies (2nd ed.), edited by Amy Rupiper Taggart, Kurt Schick, and H. Brooke Hessler, Oxford UP, 2013. 212-230.

Paine, Charles, Robert M. Gonyea, Chris M. Anson, and Paul V. Anderson. "What is NSSE?" A Rhetoric for Writing Program Administrators, edited by Rita Malenczyk, Parlor Press, 2013. 265-275.

Anson, Chris M. "Beyond the Curriculum: Supporting Faculty Writing in WAC Programs." Working With Faculty Writers, edited by Anne Geller and Michele Eodice, Utah State UP, 2013. 21-37.

Anson, Chris M. "Black Holes: Writing Across the Curriculum and the Gravitational Invisibility of Race." Race and Writing Assessment, edited by Asao B. Inoue and Mya Poe, Peter Lang, 2012. 15-28. [2014 Outstanding Book Award, edited collection category, Conference on College Composition and Communication]

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Martha Townsend, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. "Beyond Composition: Developing a National Outcomes Statement for Writing Across the Curriculum." The WPA Outcomes Statement: A Decade Later, edited by Nicholas N. Behm, Gregory R. Glau, Deborah H. Holdstein, Duane Roen, and Edward M. White, Parlor Press, 2012. 88-106. [2013 Best Book Award, Council of Writing Program Administrators]

Anson, Chris M. "What Good Is It? The Effects of Teacher Response on Students' Development." Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Edward M. White, edited by Norbert Elliot and Les Perelman, Hampton Press, 2012. 187-202.

Anson, Chris M. "World Wide Composition: Virtual Uncertainties." Teaching Writing in Globalization: Remapping Disciplinary Work, edited by Darin Payne and Daphne Desser, Lexington Books, 2012. 139-159.

Anson, Chris M., Matthew Davis, and Domenica Vilhotti. "'What Do We Want in This Paper?': Generating Criteria Collectively." Teaching With Student Texts, edited by Joseph Harris, John Miles, and Charles Paine, Utah State UP, 2011. 35-45.

Matarese, Maureen T., and Chris M. Anson. "Teacher Response to AAE Features in the Writing of College Students: A Case Study in the Social Construction of Error." The Elephant in the Classroom: Race and Writing, edited by Jane Bowman Smith, Hampton Press, 2010. 111-136. [more]

Anson, Chris M. "Absentee Landlords or Owner-Tenants? Formulating Criteria for Dual-Credit Composition Programs. College Credit for Writing in High School: The "Taking Care of" Business, edited by Kristine Hansen and Christine R. Farris, National Council of Teachers of English, 2010. 245-271. [2012 Best Book Award, Council of Writing Program Administrators] [more]

Anson, Chris M. "Assessment in Action: A Mobius Tale." Assessment in Technical and Professional Communication, edited by Margaret Hundleby and Jo Allen, Baywood, 2009. 3-15. [2012 Technical and Scientific Communication Award for Best Original Collection of Essays in Technical or Scientific Communication, Conference on College Composition and Communication; 2012 Award for Excellence in Program Assessment, Council of Programs for Technical and Scientific Communication, 2012] [more]

Adler-Kassner, Linda, Chris M. Anson, and Rebecca Moore Howard. "Framing Plagiarism." Originality, Imitation, and Plagiarism: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age, edited by Martha Vicinus and Caroline Eisner, U of Michigan P, 2008. 231-246. [more]

Anson, Chris M., Jeanne Gunner, and Thomas P. Miller. "Portraits of a Field." The Promise and Peril of Writing Program Administration, edited by Theresa Enos and Shane Borrowman, Parlor Press. 79-91.

Anson, Chris M. "We Never Wanted to Be Cops: Plagiarism, Institutional Paranoia, and Shared Responsibility." Pluralizing Plagiarism: Identities, Contexts, Pedagogies, edited by Rebecca Moore Howard and Amy E. Robillard, Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 2008. 140-157. [more]

Anson, Chris M. "Warp and Weft: Reflections on the Art of Communication Weaving." Sustaining Excellence in Communicating Across the Curriculum: Cross-Institutional Experiences and Best Practices, edited by Nagwa Kassabgy and Amani Elshimi, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 2-18.

Anson, Chris M. "Beyond Formulas: Closing the Gap Between Rigid Rules and Flexible Strategies for Student Writing." Closing the Gap: English Educators Address the Tensions between Teacher Preparation and Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools, edited by Karen Keaton Jackson and Sandra Vavra, Information Age, 2007. 147-164. [more]

Anson, Chris M. "Can't Touch This: Reflections on the Servitude of Computers as Readers." Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences, edited by Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard Haswell, Utah State UP, 2006. 38-56. [more]

Anson, Chris M., Deanna P. Dannels, and Karen St. Clair. "Teaching and Learning a Multimodal Genre in a Psychology Course." Genre Across the Curriculum, edited by Anne Herrington and Charles Moran. Utah State UP, 2005. 171-195. [more]

Reprinted in Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook, edited byTerry Myers Zawacki and Paul M. Rogers, Bedford-St. Martin's, 2012. 399-420.

Anson, Chris M. "Citation as Speech Act: Exploring the Pragmatics of Reference." Research Writing Revisited: A Sourcebook for Teachers, edited by Pavel Zemliansky and Wendy Bishop, Heinemann, 2004. 203-213.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. "The Heart of the Matter: Writing, Speaking, and Inquiry-Guided Learning." Teaching and Learning Through Inquiry: A Guidebook for Institutions and Instructors, edited by Virginia S. Lee, Stylus, 2004. 219-227. [more]

Anson, Chris M. "Taking Off." Finding Our Way: A Writing Teacher's Sourcebook, edited by Wendy Bishop and Deborah Coxwell Teague, Houghton Mifflin, 44-48.

Beach, Richard, and Chris M. Anson. "Stance and Intertextuality in Written Discourse." Uses of Intertextuality in Classroom and Educational Research, edited by Nora Shuart-Faris and David Bloome, Greenwood, 2004. 251-278.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. "Writing and Speaking in Conditional Rhetorical Space." Classroom Space(s) and Writing Instruction, edited by Ed Nagelhout and Carol Rutz, Hampton Press, 2004. 55-70.

Anson, Chris M. "Responding to and Assessing Student Writing: The Uses and Limits of Technology."Teaching Writing With Computers: An Introduction, edited by Brian Huot and Pamela Takayoshi, Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 234-246. [2022 Distinguished Book Award, Computers and Composition]

Anson, Chris M. "Who Wants Composition? Reflections on the Rise and Fall of an Independent Program." Field of Dreams: Independent Writing Programs and the Future of Composition, edited by Peggy O'Neill, Angelo Crow, and Larry W. Burton, Utah State UP, 2002. 153-169.

Anson, Chris M. "Teaching Writing Creatively: A Summer Institute for Teachers." Teaching Writing Teachers, edited by Robert Tremmel and William Broz, Heinemann, 2002. 27-39.

Anson, Chris M. "Figuring It Out: Writing Programs in the Context of University Budgets." The Writing Program Administrator's Resource: A Guide to Reflective Institutional Practice, edited by Theresa Enos and Stuart Brown, Erlbaum, 2002. 233-252. [2003 Best Book Award, Council of Writing Program Administrators]

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. "The Medium and the Message: Developing Responsible Methods for Assessing Teaching Portfolios." Composition Pedagogy and the Scholarship of Teaching, edited by Deborah Minter and Amy M. Goodburn, Heinemann, 2002. 89-100.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. "Developing Rubrics for Instruction and Evaluation." Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition, edited by Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner, National Council of Teachers of English, 2002. 387-400.

Anson, Chris M. "Writing Intensity." The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development, edited by Chris M. Anson, Oxford UP, 2002. 10-14.

Anson, Chris M. "Trudy Does Comics." The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development, edited by Chris M. Anson, Oxford UP, 2002. 28-32.

Anson, Chris M. "The Jonas Incident." The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development, edited by Chris M. Anson, Oxford UP, 2002. 82-89.

Anson, Chris M. "Shobhna's Pronouncements." The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development, edited by Chris M. Anson. Oxford UP, 2002. 116-120.

Anson, Chris M., and Ian G. Anson. "Sondra Gets Hyper. " The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development, edited by Chris M. Anson, Oxford UP, 2002. 145-155.

Anson, Chris M. "Mistakes in Social Psychology." The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development, edited by Chris M. Anson, Oxford UP, 2002. 212-222.

Anson, Chris M. "Thoughts from the Rank and File. " The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development, edited by Chris M. Anson, Oxford UP, 2002. 248-258.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Jewell. "Shadows of the Mountain." Moving a Mountain: Improving the Working Conditions of Adjunct Writing Faculty, edited by Eileen E. Schell and Patricia Stock, National Council of Teachers of English, 2001. 47-75. [2003 Outstanding Book Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication]

Anson, Chris M. "Talking About Text: The Use of Recorded Commentary in Response to Student Writing." A Sourcebook on Responding to Student Writing, edited by Richard Straub, Hampton, 2000. 165-174.

Anson, Chris M. "Below the Surface: A True-to-Life Course in Editorial Practice."Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, edited by Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard, Sandra Jamieson, and Robert Schwegler, Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 2000. 121, and full essay of 12 pp. on accompanying CD-ROM. [2002 Best Book Award, Council of Writing Program Administrators]

Anson, Chris M. "Talking About Writing: A Classroom-Based Study of Students' Reflections on Their Drafts. Student Self-Assessment and Development in Writing, edited by Jane Bowman Smith and Kathleen Yancey, Hampton, 1999. 59-74.

Anson, Chris M., and Robert L. Brown, Jr. "Subject to Interpretation: Researching the Textual Representation of Writing Programs and Its Effects on the Politics of Administration." The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection, edited by Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser, Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 1999. 141-152.

Anson, Chris M. "Reflective Reading: Developing Thoughtful Ways to Respond to Students' Writing." Evaluating Writing: The Role of Teachers' Knowledge about Text, Learning, and Culture, edited by Charles R. Cooper and Lee Odell, National Council of Teachers of English, 1999. 302-324.

Reprinted in Key Works on Teacher Response: An Anthology, edited by Richard Straub, Heinemann/Boynton-Cook, 2006.

Reprinted in the Allyn & Bacon Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers (1st and 2nd editions), edited by James C. McDonald, Allyn & Bacon, 1999.

Anson, Chris M. "Text Analysis." Theorizing Composition: A Critical Sourcebook of Theory and Scholarship in Contemporary Composition Studies, edited by Mary Lynch Kennedy, Greenwood, 1998. 323-31.

Anson, Chris M. "Stories for Reflective Teaching: Using Cases in Faculty Development. Dilemmas in Teaching: Cases for Collaborative Faculty Reflection, edited by Chris M. Anson, Lesley K. Cafarelli, Carol Rutz, and Michelle R. Weiss, Mendota, 1998. 7-15.

Anson, Chris M. "The Jonas Incident." Dilemmas in Teaching: Cases for Collaborative Faculty Reflection, edited by Chris M. Anson, Lesley K. Cafarelli, Carol Rutz, and Michelle R. Weiss, Mendota, 1998. 61-66.

Anson, Chris M. "Beginnings." Narration as Knowledge, edited by Joseph Trimmer, Heinemann, 1998. 61-70.

Anson, Chris M. "On Reflection: The Role of Journals and Logs in Service-Learning Courses." Writing the Community: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Composition, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner, Robert Crooks, and Ann Watters, American Association for Higher Education, 1997. 167-180.

Anson, Chris M. "In Your Own Voice: Using Recorded Commentary to Respond to Writing." Assigning and Responding to Writing in the Disciplines, edited by Peter Elbow and Mary Deane Sorcinelli, Jossey-Bass, 1997. 105-113.

Anson, Chris M. "Writing Across the Curriculum" and "Portfolios." Encyclopedia of Rhetoric, edited by Theresa Enos, Garland, 1996.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Beach. "Argument in Peer Dialogue Journals." Perspectives on Written Argument, edited by Deborah Berrill, Hampton, 1996. 139-170.

Anson, Chris M. "Creating Effective Writing Assignments." An Anthology/Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers, edited by James C. McDonald, Allyn & Bacon, 1995.

Anson, Chris M. "Aim." Encyclopedia of English Studies and Language Arts, edited by Alan C. Purves, National Council of Teachers of English and Scholastic, 1994.

Anson, Chris M. "Portfolios for Teachers: Writing Our Way to Reflective Practice." New Directions in Portfolio Assessment, edited by Laurel Black, Donald A. Daiker, Jeffrey Sommers, and Gail Stygall, Heinemann, 1994. 185-200.

Reprinted in Teaching Composition: Background Readings (2nd ed.), edited by T. R. Johnson, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2005.

Beach, Richard, and Chris M. Anson. "Using Dialogue Journals to Foster Response." Exploring Texts: The Role of Discussion and Writing in the Teaching and Learning of Literature, edited by George E. Newell and Russell Durst, Christopher-Gordon, 1993. 191-210.

Anson, Chris M. "Responding to Writing." Twelve Readers Reading: Responding to College Student Writing, Richard E. Straub and Ronald F. Lunsford. Hampton, 1995.*

Anson, Chris M. "Rites of Passage: Disciplinary Enculturation in the Field of Composition Studies." Writing Ourselves Into the Story: Unheard Voices from Composition Studies, edited by Susan Hunter and Sheryl I. Fontaine, Southern Illinois UP, 1993. 246-265.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Beach. "Journeys in Journaling." The Subject is Writing, edited by Wendy Bishop, Heinemann, 1993. 165-176. 1st edition; 2nd edition; 3rd edition.

Anson, Chris M. "The Future of Writing Across the Curriculum: Consensus and Research." Writing Across the Curriculum by Chris M. Anson, John E. Schwiebert, and Michael M. Williamson. Greenwood, 1993. xiii-xxiv.

Anson, Chris M., and Bruce R. Maylath. "Searching for Journals: A Brief Guide and 100 Sample Species." Teacher as Writer: Entering the Professional Conversation, edited by Karyn Dahl, National Council of Teachers of English, 1992. 150-187.

Anson, Chris M. "Academic Literacy Meets Cultural Diversity: An Analysis of Ideological Change Among Student Tutors in a Service-Learning Program." Academic Literacies in Multicultural Higher Education, edited by Thomas Hilgers, Marie Wunsch, and Virginia Chattergy, Center for Studies in Multicultural Education, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1992. 32-41.

Anson, Chris M., and Robert L. Brown, Jr. "Large-Scale Portfolio Assessment: Ideological Sensitivity and Institutional Change." Portfolios: Process and Product, edited by Pat Belanoff and Marcia Dickson, Heinemann, 1991. 248-269.

Anson, Chris M. "Response to Writing and the Paradox of Uncertainty." Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research, edited by Chris M. Anson, National Council of Teachers of English, 1989. 1-11.

Anson, Chris M. "Response Styles and Ways of Knowing." Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research, edited by Chris M. Anson, National Council of Teachers of English, 1989. 322-366.

Reprinted in An Anthology/Sourcebook for College Writing Teachers, edited by James C. McDonald, Allyn & Bacon, 1995.

Reprinted in Harcourt Brace Guide to Writing in the Disciplines, edited by Robert Jones, Cynthia Selfe, and Patrick Bizzaro, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1997.

Anson, Chris M. "Toward a Multidimensional Model of Writing in the Academic Disciplines." Writing in Academic Disciplines: Vol. 2 of Advances in Writing Research, edited by David A. Jolliffe, Ablex, 1988. 1-36.

Anson, Chris M. "Casebook Writing Assignments for Students." Collective Wisdom, edited by Sondra J. Stang and Robert Wiltenburg, Random House, 1988. 211-216.

Kroll, Barry M., and Chris M. Anson. "Analysing Structure in Children's Fictional Narratives. The Development of Children's Imaginative Writing, edited by Helen Cowie, London: Croom Helm, 1984. 153-183. Rpt. St. Martin's Press, 1985.

 



ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
[peer reviewed]

Anson, Chris M., Jonathan Marine, Federico Navarro, and Paul M. Rogers. Introduction: Writing Research Across Borders. Literatura y Linguistica, 46, 2022, pp. 13-20. [In Spanish as "Numero Especial: Estudios de la Escritura a Traves de las Fronteras," pp. 21-28.]

Anson, Chris M., and Ingerid S. Straume. "Amazement and Trepidation: Implications of AI-Based Natural Language Production for the Teaching of Writing." Journal of Academic Writing, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022, pp. 1-9.

Anson, Chris M. "AI-Based Text Generation and the Social Construction of Fraudulent Authorship: A Revisitation." Composition Studies, vol. 50, no. 1, 2022, pp. 37-46.

Anson, Chris M. "Echoes of 'Distance Voices': A Retrospective on Technological Days of Future Past." Composition Forum, vol. 47 (Fall), 2021. https://compositionforum.com/issue/47/distant-voices.php

Anson, Chris M., Beth Greene, and Matthew Halm. "Analyzing Students' Constructs of Writing Through Reflections on Their Drafts." Journal of Writing Analytics, vol. 4, 2020, pp. 140-158. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/jwa/vol4/ansonc.pdf

Anson, Chris M., Susanne Hall, Michael Pemberton, and Cary Moskovitz. "Reuse in STEM Research Writing: Rhetorical and Practical Considerations and Challenges." AILA Review, vol. 33, 2020, pp. 120-135.

Anson, Ian G., Cary Moskovitz, and Chris M. Anson. "A Text-Analytic Method for Identifying Text Recycling in STEM Research Reports." Journal of Writing Analytics, vol. 3, 2019, pp. 125-150.

Pemberton, Michael, Susanne Hall, Cary Moskovitz, and Chris M. Anson. "Journal Editors' Views on Text Recycling: An Interview-Based Study." Learned Publishing, vol. 32, no. 4, 2019, pp. 355-366.

Anson, Chris M., Lisa Arnold, Christiane Donahue, Bruce Horner, and Xiaoye You. "CCCC Statement on Globalization in Writing Studies Pedagogy and Research." College Composition and Communication, vol. 70, no. 4, 2019, pp. 682-690. [CCCC Committee on Globalization; authors listed alphabetically; Lisa Arnold, Chair]

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Tom Fish, Robert M. Gonyea, Margaret Marshall, Wendy Menefee-Libey, Charles Paine, Laura Palucki Blake, and Susan Weaver. "How Writing Contributes to Learning: New Findings from a National Study and Their Local Application." Peer Review, vol. 19, no. 1, 2017, pp. 4-8.

Anson, Ian G., and Chris M. Anson. "Assessing Peer and Instructor Response to Writing: A Corpus Analysis from an Expert Survey." Assessing Writing, vol. 33, 2017, pp. 12-24.

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Charles Paine. "How to Create High-Impact Writing Assignments That Enhance Learning and Development and Reinvigorate WAC/WID Programs: What Almost 72,000 Undergraduates Taught Us." Across the Disciplines, vol. 13, no. 4, 2016. http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/hip/andersonetal2016.cfm

Anson, Chris M. "The Pop Warner Chronicles: A Case Study in Contextual Adaptation and the Transfer of Writing Ability."College Composition and Communication, vol. 67, no. 4, 2016, pp. 518-549. [podcast interview about the article]

Anson, Chris M., Deanna Dannels, Johanne Laboy, and Larissa Carneiro. "Students' Perceptions of Oral Screencast Responses to Their Writing: Exploring Digitally Mediated Identities." Journal of Business and Technical Communication, vol. 30, no. 3, 2016, pp. 1-34.

Anderson, Paul, Chris M. Anson, Robert M. Gonyea, and Charles Paine. "The Contributions of Writing to Learning and Development: Results from a Large-Scale Multi-Institutional Study." Research in the Teaching of English, vol. 50, no. 2, 2015, pp. 199-235.

Anson, Chris M. "Climate Change." College Composition and Communication, vol. 65, no. 2, 2013, pp. 324-344. [CCCC Chair's address]

Anson, Chris M. "A Word for Peter." WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 36, no. 2, 2013, pp. 160-68. [review essay]

Anson, Chris M., and Robert A. Schwegler. "Tracking the Mind's Eye: A New Technology for Researching 21st Century Writing and Reading Processes." College Composition and Communication, vol. 64, no. 1, 2012, pp. 151-171.

Anson, Chris M., Deanna Dannels, Pamela Flash, and Amy L. Housley Gaffney. "Big Rubrics and Weird Genres: The Futility of Using Generic Assessment Tools Across Diverse Instructional Contexts." Journal of Writing Assessment, vol. 5, no. 1, 2012. http://journalofwritingassessment.org/

Anson, Chris M., and Karla Lyles. "The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition on Writing Across the Curriculum, Part Two: 1986-2006. The WAC Journal, vol. 22, 2011, pp. 7-19.

Anson, Chris M. "How I Have Changed My Mind." College English, vol. 74, no. 2, 2011, pp. 106-108.

Anson, Chris M. "Fraudulent Practices: Academic Misrepresentations of Plagiarism in the Name of Good Pedagogy." Composition Studies, vol. 39, no. 2, 2011, 29-43.

Reprinted in Mary Alice Trent, Meaghan Peggy Stevenson Ratliff, and Don Pardlow (Eds.), Transforming Students into Leaders through the Literary Arts and the Social Sciences. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 2-19.

Anson, Chris M. "My Dinner with Calais." Pedagogy, vol. 11, no. 3, 2011, pp. 578-590.

Anson, Chris M. "The Intradisciplinary Influence of Composition on Writing Across the Curriculum, 1967-1986." The WAC Journal, vol. 21, 2010, pp. 5-20.

Anson, Chris M. "A Field at Sixty-Something." College Composition and Communication, vol. 6, no. 1, 2010, pp. 216-228.

Anson, Chris M., and Shawn Neely. "The Army and the Academy as Textual Communities: Exploring Mismatches in the Concepts of Attribution, Appropriation, and Shared Goals." Kairos, vol. 14, no. 3, 2010. Webtext and printable PDF

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna P. Dannels. "Profiling Programs: Formative Uses of Assisted Descriptions in the Assessment of Communication Across the Curriculum." Across the Disciplines, vol. 6, 2009. Available at http://wac.colostate.edu/atd/assessment/anson_dannels.cfm [Special issue on Writing Across the Curriculum and Assessment]

Anson, Chris M., Susan Rashid Horn, and Robert A. Schwegler. "The Promise of Eye-Tracking Methodology for Research on Writing and Reading." Open Words: Access and English Studie,s vol. 3, no. 1, 2009, pp. 5-28.

Anson, Chris M., and Susan Miller-Cochran. "Contrails of Learning: Using New Technologies for Vertical Knowledge-Building." Computers and Composition, vol. 26, 2009, pp. 38–48.

Anson, Chris M. "The Intelligent Design of Writing Programs: Reliance on Belief or a Future of Evidence." WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 32, no. 1, 2008, pp. 11-36.

Anson, Chris M. "Closed Systems and Standardized Writing Tests." College Composition and Communication, vol. 60, no. 1, 2008, pp. 113-128.

Anson, Chris M. "What's Writing Got to Do With Campus Terrorism?" Academe, vol. 93, no. 6, 2007, pp. 44-47.

Bernold, Leonhard E., Joni E. Spurlin, and Chris M. Anson. "Understanding Our Students: A Longitudinal Study of Success and Failure in Engineering with Implications for Increased Retention." Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 96, no. 3, 2007, pp. 263-274.

Anson, Chris M. "Assessing Writing in Cross-Curricular Programs: Determining the Locus of Activity." Assessing Writing, vol. 11, (2006, pp. 100-112.

Reprinted in Writing Across the Curriculum: A Critical Sourcebook, edited byTerry Myers Zawacki and Paul M. Rogers. Bedford-St. Martin's, 2012. 477-492.

Anson, Chris M., Leonhard E. Bernold, Cathy Crossland, Joni Spurlin, Molly McDemott, and Stacy Weiss. "Empowerment to Learn in Engineering: Preparation for an Urgently-Needed Paradigm Shift." Global Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 7, no. 2, 2003, pp. 145-155.

Anson, Chris M., Michael Carter, Deanna Dannels, and Jon Rust. "Mutual Support: CAC Programs and Institutional Improvement in Undergraduate Education." Journal of Language and Learning Across the Disciplines, vol. 6, no. 3, 2003, pp. 26-38. [special issue] Available at: http://wac.colostate.edu/llad/v6n3/anson.pdf

Carter, Michael, Chris M. Anson, and Carolyn Miller. "Assessing Technical Writing in Institutional Contexts: Using Outcomes-Based Assessment for Programmatic Thinking." Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1, 2003, pp. 101-114.

Dannels, Deanna P., Chris M. Anson, Lisa Bullard, and Steven Peretti. "Challenges in Learning Communication Skills in Chemical Engineering." Communication Education, vol. 52, no. 1, 2003, pp. 50-56.

Anson, Chris M. "Response and the Social Construction of Error." Assessing Writing, vol. 7, 2000, pp. 5-21. [Ranked third of ten most often downloaded essays in Assessing Writing from Elsevier's ScienceQuest online journal subscription service, 2002]

Anson, Chris M. "Distant Voices: Teaching Writing in a Culture of Technology." College English, vol. 61, no. 3, 1999, pp. 1-20.

Reprinted in Computers in the Composition Classroom: A Critical Sourcebook, edited byMichelle Sidler, Richard Morris. and Elizabeth Overman Smith. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008.

Reprinted in Cross-Talk in Comp Theory: A Reader (2nd ed.), edited by Victor Villanueva. National Council of Teachers of English, 2003.

Reprinted in Background Readings for Instructors Using the Bedford Handbook (6th ed), edited by Glenn Blalock. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001.

Reprinted in Writing in an Electronic World, edited by Ann B. Bailey. Longman, 2000.

Reprinted in Trends and Issues in Postsecondary English Studies. National Council of Teachers of English, 2000. 167-189.

Reprinted in Dialogue on Writing: Rethinking ESL, Basic Writing, and First-Year Composition, edited by Geraldine DeLuca, Len Fox, Mark-Ameen Johnson, and Myra Kogen. Erlbaum, 2002. 387-408.

Anson, Chris M., and Carol Rutz. "Graduate Students, Writing Programs, and Consensus-Based Management: Collaboration in the Face of Disciplinary Ideology. WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 21, no. 2/3, 1998, pp. 106-120. [available at: http://wpacouncil.org/21n2-3]

Anson, Chris M., David A. Jolliffe, and Nancy Shapiro. "Stories to Teach By: Using Narrative Cases in TA and Faculty Development." WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 19, 1995, pp. 25-38. [available at: http://wpacouncil.org/19n1-2]

Anson, Chris M., Laura Brady, and Marion Larson. "Collaboration in Practice." Writing on the Edge, vol. 4, 1993, pp. 80-96.

Beach, Richard, and Chris M. Anson. "Stance and Intertextuality in Written Discourse." Linguistics and Education, vol. 4, 1992, pp. 335-358.

Anson, Chris M., and Greta Gaard. "Acting on the 'Statement': The All-Campus Model of Reform." College Composition and Communication, vol. 43, 1992, pp. 21-25.

Anson, Chris M. "Cultural Literacy and the Commodification of Knowledge." Communitas vol. 4, 1991, pp. 104-117. [full text]

Anson, Chris M. "The Crisis Cycle: Recent Reports on the Attainment of Literacy." Metropolitan Education, vol. 7, 1991, pp. 128-139. [invited]

Anson, Chris M., and Laurie L. Forsberg. "Moving Beyond the Academic Community: Transitional Stages in Professional Writing." Written Communication, vol. 7, 1990, pp. 200-231.

Anson, Chris M. "Errours and Endeavors: A Case Study in American Orthography." International Journal of Lexicography, vol. 3, 1990, pp. 35-63.

Beach, Richard, and Chris M. Anson. "The Pragmatics of Memo Writing: Developmental Differences in the Use of Rhetorical Strategies." Written Communication, vol. 5, 1988, pp. 157-183.

Anson, Chris M., and Hildy Miller. "Journals in Composition: An Update." College Composition and Communication, vol. 39, 1988, pp. 198-216.

Anson, Chris M. "Book lists, Cultural Literacy, and the Stagnation of Discourse." English Journal, vol. 77, no. 2, 1988, pp. 14-18.
Reprinted in Literacy: Language and Power, edited by Douglas L. Vipond and Ronald Strahl. University Press of America, 1992.

Anson, Chris M. "The Classroom and the 'Real World' as Contexts: Reexamining the Goals of Writing Instruction." Journal of the MMLA, vol. 20, no. 1, 1987, pp. 1-16.

Anson, Chris M. "Reading, Writing, and Intention." Reader, vol. 16, 1986, pp. 20-35.

Anson, Chris M. "A Computerized List of Journals Carrying Articles on Composition." College Composition and Communication, vol. 37, 1986, pp. 63-76.

Sirc, Geoff, and Chris M. Anson. "What Writers Say: Analyzing the Metacommentaries of College Writers." Forum in Reading and Language Education, vol. 2, 1985, pp. 59-74.

Anson, Chris M. "The Peer-Group Conference: Rediscovering a Forgotten Audience." NEATE Journal, vol. 84, no. 1, 1985, pp. 18-23. [Entire issue republished as a monograph by the National Council of Teachers of English, 1985.]

Anson, Chris M. "Audience, Dissonance, and Invention: A Method for Reducing Egocentrism in Student Writing." Exercise Exchange, vol. 30, no. 2, 1985, pp. 12-14.

Anson, Chris M., Ellen Bommarito, and Jeffrey Deuser. "From Schemes to Themes: Implications of Schema Theory for Teaching Writing." Journal of Teaching Writing, vol. 2, 1983, pp. 193-212.

Anson, Chris M. "The Artificial Art of Evaluating Writing." Journal of Teaching Writing, vol. 1, 1982, pp. 159-170.




BOOK REVIEWS, PROCEEDINGS, INTRODUCTIONS, PREFACES, REPORTS, VIDEOS, PODCASTS, FICTION, AND SHORTER PUBLICATIONS

Anson, Chris M. "Pathways and Reflections on Teaching" (pp. 25-28) and "Classroom Writing Assessment" (pp. 109-127), Teachers Talking Writing: Perspectives on Places, Pedagogies, and Programs, edited by Shane Wood. National Council of Teachers of English, 2023. [Series of interviews]. Open access at: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/swr/talking/

Anson, Chris M. WPA Advice from Past President Chris Anson." Council of Writing Program Administrators Past Presidents Series, June 16, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYrX-qpNKfw&feature=youtu.be [short video]

Anson, Chris M. "Habituated Practice Can Lead to Entrenchment." Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts for Writing Studies, edited by Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle. Utah State UP, 2015. 77-78.

Anson, Chris M. "Foreword." Clash! Superheroic Yet Sensible Strategies for Teaching the New Literacies Despite the Status Quo, edited by Sandra A. Vavra and Sharon L. Spencer. Information Age, 2011. ix-xiii.

Anson, Chris M. "Keller, Christopher J., and Christian R. Weisser, eds., The Locations of Composition. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007." Journal of Teaching Writing, vol. 24, no. 2, 2008, pp. 103-111. [review]

Anson, Chris M. "Review of Melody Bowdon and J. Blare Scott, Service-Learning in Technical and Professional Communication (New York: Longman, 2003)". Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy, vol. 8, no. 3, 2009, pp. 151-154.

Anson, Chris M. "Student Plagiarism: Are Teachers Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?" Essays on Teaching Excellence: Toward the Best in the Academy, vol. 15, no. 1, 2004-2005. Professional & Organizational Development Network in Higher Education.

Dannels, Deanna P., Paula Berardinelli, Chris M. Anson, Lisa Bullard, Naomi Kleid, Dave Kmiec, and Steven Peretti. "Instruction and Assessment of Multidisciplinary Teaming in Senior Design." Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Washington, D.C., American Society for Engineering Education, 2003.

Kmiec, Dave, Chris M. Anson, Paula Berardinelli, Lisa Bullard, Deanna P. Dannels, Naomi Kleid, Steven Peretti, and James J. Spivey. "Integrating Teaming, Writing, and Speaking in CHE Unit Operations Lab." Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. Washington, D.C.: American Society for Engineering Education, 2003.

Anson, Chris M., Leonhard E. Bernold, Cathy Crossland, Joni Spurlin, Molly McDemott, and Stacy Weiss. "Empowerment to Learn in Engineering: Preparation for an Urgently-Needed Paradigm Shift. Proceedings of the 6th UICEE Annual Conference on Engineering Education, Cairns, Queensland, edited by Zenon J. Pudlowski. Melbourne, Australia: Monash Engineering Education Series, Monash University, 2003. 127-30.

Spurlin, Joni E., Leonhard E. Bernold, Cathy L. Crossland, and Chris M. Anson. "Understanding How Freshmen Engineering Students Think They Learn." Proceedings of the 2003 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition, Nashville, TN. Available at: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/assessment/articles/LESSONSASEE.doc

Anson, Chris M. "Errors at Pound Ridge." Case written, posted, and mediated as part of the McGraw-Hill Teaching Composition Web-Enhanced Listserv. ©McGraw-Hill, 2000.

Anson, Chris M., and Deanna Dannels. "Writing and Speaking: They're Everyone's Business." Emphasis on Teaching and Learning, vol. 8, no. 4, (1999, pp. 1-3.

Anson, Chris M. "Hateful Teaching." Comp Tales, edited by Richard H. Haswell and Min-Zhan Lu. Longman, 1999.

Anson, Chris M. "Review of Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition, ed. Gary A. Olson and Todd W. Taylor. State U of NY P, 1997." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 2, 1999, pp. 89-92.

Anson, Chris M. "In the Service of Learning." The Generator, vol. 12, 1998, 6. [full text]

Anson, Chris M. "Learning About Service Learning." Rethinking Tradition: Integrating Service with Academic Study on College Campuses, edited by T. Y. Kupiec. Campus Compact, Brown University, 1993. 77-81.

Anson, Chris M. "Teacher Development in the Program in Composition." Preparing Graduate Students to Teach, edited by Leo M. Lambert and Stacey. L. Tice. American Association of Higher Education, 1993.

Anson, Chris M. "Review of A Sense of Audience in Written Communication, ed. G. Kirsch and S. Roen." College Composition and Communication, vol. 43, 1992, pp. 93-95.

Anson, Chris M. "Service-Learning Works Wonders: A Faculty Member Tells His Story." The Generator, vol. 11, no. 2, 1991, 3.

Anson, Chris M., and Richard Beach. Research on Writing to Learn: The Interesting Case of Academic Journals. ERIC Document Reproduction Service. (Abstracted in Resources in Education, February, 1991)

Anson, Chris M., Bruce R. Maylath, and Michael J. Loupe. "Using Writing to Assess Skills in Scientific Inquiry." Notes from the National Testing Network in Writing, vol. 10, 1991.

Anson, Chris M., and Robert L. Brown, Jr. "Large-Scale Portfolio Assessment in the Research University: Stories of Problems and Successes." Notes from the National Testing Network in Writing, vol. 9, 1990, pp. 8-9.

Anson, Chris M. "Review of John R. Abercrombie, Computer Programs for Literary Analysis, and Jeanne W. Halpern and Sarah Liggett, Computers and Composing." Library Software Review, 1987.

Anson, Chris M. "Cambridge Press." The Dictionary of American Book Publishing. Bruccoli-Clark-Gale Research, 1986. 71-72.

Anson, Chris M. "Capra Press; Robert McBride & Co."The Dictionary of American Book Publishing. Bruccoli-Clark-Gale Research, 1986. 224-227.

Anson, Chris M. "Perishable Press; Mahlon Day" (pp. 114-115). The Dictionary of American Book Publishing. Bruccoli-Clark-Gale Research, 1986. 114-115.

Anson, Chris M. "A Selective Annotated Bibliography of Reading/Writing Relationships in Composition Instruction." Robert A Schwegler, Patterns in Action. Prentice-Hall, 1985. 25-35. (IM; invited)

Anson, Chris M. Composition and Communicative Intention: Exploring the Dimensions of Purpose in College Writing. ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 257 076, 1985. (Abstracted in Resources in Education, Oct. 1985).

Anson, Chris M. Review of Roger Garrison, How A Writer Works. Indiana English, vol. 6, 1982, pp. 159-170.

Anson, Chris M. "From Goal to Grade: An Elastic Approach to Evaluation." Teaching and Learning, vol. 5, no. 1, 1981, n.p.

Anson, Chris M. "Bound to be Free." Quarry, vol. 9, 1981, pp. 37-46. [Fiction]

Anson, Chris M. "A Coming of Age." Syracuse Review, Spring, 1979, pp. 36-38. [Fiction]

Anson, Chris M. "The Night Factory." Syracuse Review, Fall, 1977, pp. 38-39. [Fiction]
 


OTHERS' REVIEWS, COMMENTARY, AND INTERVIEWS

"Current Issues in WAC: An Interview with Chris Anson," The WAC Reader, Issue 3, Feb., 2022. Interview available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sY9y8VAt6I&feature=youtu.be

Anson, Chris M. "Writing Across the Curriculum." Pedagogue Bonus, 2020. [podcast interview]

Melzer, Dan. "'It Doesn't Come in a Box': An Interview with Chris Anson." Writing on the Edge, vol. 29, no. 2, 2019. 5-15.

Anson, Chris M., and Head, Karen. "Using Technology in Classroom Instruction for Writing Support." UIB Write: On Teaching in HigherEd. University of Bergen, Norway, 2019. [podcast interview]

"Chris Anson." How Writing Faculty Write: Strategies for Process, Product, and Productivity, edited by Christine E. Tulley. Utah State University Press, 2018. 92-100.

Anson, Chris M. New Media and Multimodality in Composition Studies: An Interview with Chris Anson. Produced by Toby Coley and Joe Erickson. Available at: http://www.mydigitaldiscourse.com/Anson/index.html

"A conversation with Chris Anson, author of “The Pop Warner Chronicles: A Case Study in Contextual Adaptation and the Transfer of Writing Ability” (18:22)," College Composition and Communication podcast, https://cccc.ncte.org/cccc/ccc/podcasts/anson

Rose, Shirley K. "Aspen and Honeysuckle: How Faculty Development for Teaching Writing Grows--An Interview with Jessie Moore and Chris Anson," WPA: Writing Program Administration, vol. 39, no. 2, 2016, pp. 122-137.

Anson, Chris M. Electronic interview on using digital oral commentary to respond to student writing. Ed. Gregory Zobel. Adjunct Central. New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, Nov. 2007. Available at: http://adjunctcentral.com/index.php/site/dr_chris_anson_on_oral_commentary_yack_pack/

"Learn From the Best: Notable Professors at Research Universities."http://onlinephdprogram.org/notable-research-professors/

"Q & A With Chris Anson." Council Chronicle, vol. 21, no. 2, 2011, pp. 22-23.

"Professor Chris Anson: Writing Across the Curriculum is the Way Forward." Noor Al-Hekma: Dar Al-Hekma College Bi-annual Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010-2011. 22-23. [based on workshop visit]

Remark, Tricia. "Professor Advocates Blogging in the Classroom." New Mexico Daily Lobo, Feb. 18, 2010, 1, 3.

Hale, Gwendolyn. "Chris M. Anson." COMPbiblio: Leaders and Influences in Composition Theory and Practice, edited by Allison D. Smith, Trixie G. Smith, and Karen Wright. Fountainhead, 2007. 3-8.

Burmester, Beth, Tanya Cochran, and Beth Godbee. "Echoing Narratives: Chris Anson at Work and Play." Southern Discourse, vol. 8, no. 1, 2004, pp. 5-6, 9.

Rutz, Carol. "WAC and Beyond: An Interview with Chris Anson." The WAC Journal, vol. 15, 2004, pp. 7-17.

The Campus Writing and Speaking Program: A National Model for Cross-Curricular Innovation. North Carolina State University, 2000. [documentary videotape describing program]

Blumner, Jacob S. "Where is WAC Heading?" The WAC Journal, vol. 14, 2003, pp. 119-123. [review of Anson, The WAC Casebook]

"Under Construction," review of Farris and Anson, Under Construction. Rhetoric Review, 1999, pp. 189-192.

"Under Construction," review of Farris and Anson, Under Construction. College Composition and Communication, vol. 51, no. 1, 1999, pp. 133-34.

"The Classroom Meets the City," 1997 Annual Report, College of Liberal Arts, Univ. of Minnesota. 7.

"Writing Expert to Speak at Carleton." Northfield Times, 19 Oct. 1997.

"Journals in the Classroom," Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, vol. 40, no. 2, 1996. [book review]

"Writing Across the Curriculum," College Composition and Communication, vol. 45, 1994, pp. 274-5. [book review]

"Who's Learning More?" Update, vol. 19, no. 6, 1992, p. 6.

"U Students Leave Classroom to Learn Life Lessons," Minnesota Daily, 12 Mar. 1991, p. 3.

"University of Minnesota Grad Students in Literacy Get Nine Professors for the Price of One," Composition Chronicle, October 1992.

"Schools Fail in Student Responsibility," Oklahoma Daily, 24 Sept. 1992.

Academic Keys Who's Who in Humanities Higher Education (WWHHE): http://humanities.academickeys.com/

Five Hundred Leaders of Influence. Raleigh, NC: American Biographical Institute, 1998.

2,000 Notable American Men. (3rd ed.). Raleigh, NC: American Biographical Institute, 1995.

Marquis' Who's Who in the World, 1995-pres.

Marquis' Who's Who in American Education, 1992-pres.

Marquis' Who's Who in the Midwest, 1991-pres.

Marquis' Who's Who in the United States, 1992-pres.

Men of Achievement. Cambridge: International Biographical Centre. 1992-pres.

"Responding to Student Writing," English Journal, Sept. 1990. [review of Writing and Response]

Soven, Margot. "On the Subjects of Teaching Thinking and Responding to Writing: Raising Questions and Challenging Assumptions." College English, vol. 52, 1990, pp. 323-328. [Review of Writing and Response]

Wallace, David A. "Chris M. Anson, ed. Writing and Response: Theory, Practice and Research." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 19, 1990, pp. 283-285. [review of Writing and Response]

"IU's Associate Instructors: Mediators in the Educational Transaction," Arts & Sciences, vol. 5, no. 2, 1982, pp. 1-3.



WORK IN PROGRESS

Note: List is arranged by closest to publication first.

Anson, Chris M. “Exploring the Relational in Teacher Response to Student Writing: New Directions for the Study of Linguistically and Socially Just Practices.” Reconceptualizing Response: Using Instructor Feedback to Promote Equity and Linguistic Justice in the Writing Classroom, edited by Kelly Blewett and Justine Post. [proposal accepted and in preparation]

Rose, Shirley K., Deborah H. Holdstein, Chris M. Anson, Chris Thaiss, and Kathleen Blake Yancey. "The Intellectual Work of Writing Program Review." Sites of Writing: Essays in Honor of Anne Ruggles Gere, edited by James Edward Beitler and Sarah Ruffing Robbins. The WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. [under contract and in preparation]

Anson, Chris M., and Federico Navarro. "The T-Unit on Trial: Prosecutorial Evidence from a Sample Study." For Written Communication. [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. "Instructors' Attitues Toward Students' Reuse of Their Own Writing: A Scenario-Based Survey." [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. "Using 'Facework' Strategies in Audiovisual Response to Student Writers: Enhancing Learning Among Diverse Students. Responding to Writing: A Sourcebook for Instructors, edited by Grant , Dana Ferris, Grant Eckstein, and Betsy Gilliland. [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M., and Tiane Donahue. "The Underepresentation of WAC Worldwide: Pressuring the Myth of Absence."Writing Worldviews, edited by Christopher Basgier, Magnus Gustafsson, Sue Hum, Maureen Mathison, Justin Nicholes, and Terry Zawacki. WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado. [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. “Writing Can Make You (Un)healthy: Instructional Implications of Contradictory Psychological Research on Writing and Well-Being." [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. "Further Challenges to the Concept of the Discourse Community: The Interesting Case of Text Recycling." College Composition and Communication. [in preparation]

Anson, Chris M. To the Best of Your Knowledge: Overcoming Intellectual Complacency. [in preparation]

 


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