Marcy+Taylor

Marcy Taylor is Professor and Chair of the Department of English Language and Literature at Central Michigan University. She taught middle level Language Arts before returning to graduate school, where she specialized in rhetoric and composition and English education. She now teaches composition and language arts methods classes to pre-service teachers,and she is a co-PI on the Chippewa River Writing Project grant.

Her research interests focus on adolenscent literacy--particular writing issues. She has recently been working with Liz Brockman, MaryAnn Crawford, and Melinda Kreth to interpret recent writing assessment data from CMU to help make changes to the university curriculum but also to make it easier for high school teachers to see what they can do to better prepare their students for college writing. We shared a draft of our //English Journal// submission on this topic at the Dinner and Dialogue in January 2009, and we would be happy to do more sharing of our results with English Departments in your district. Marcy also works with teachers to develop writing pedagogies that work in school settings; lately, she has focused on K-8 teachers, but she would be happy to get into the high schools again and talk about what is working and not working. In particular, she has done a lot of reading on how to prepare students for writing on demand (a.k.a. the ACT). If you have a PD day--or half day--that you would like to focus on writing, the CMU faculty would be very interested in joining the conversation.