Dr. Joe Essid

Director, Writing Center
Writing Center Boatwright Library Administrative Wing
Office: (804) 289-8935
Fax: (804) 289-8313

http://writing2.richmond.edu/jessid/

Dr. Essid directs the university's Writing Center, Writing-Across-the-Curriculum program, and the first-year composition course.  He's a Richmond native who earned a B.A. from the University of Virginia and an M.A. and PhD from Indiana University.  He studies changing patterns of literacy and their influence on student writing, especially how technology alters notions of "good writing."  He is a free-lance writer and blogger. His "In a Strange Land" covers the virtual world Second Life for Media General's local paper, the Richmond Times Dispatch.

Teaching:
Computers & Composition
Composition Theory
Literature, Technology, Society

Research:
Technology in the classroom
Virtual worlds
Writing centers
Writing Across the Curriculum

Education:
Ph.D., Indiana University

Selected Publications:
"Working for the Clampdown: Being Crafty at a 'Managed' University." Writing Lab Newsletter 30.2 (Oct. 2005): 1-5.

"Film as Explicador for Hypertext." Computers and Humanities 38 (2004): 317-333.

With Dona J. Hickey. "It's a Wrap: Digital Video & Tutor Training." The Writing Lab Newsletter 26.6 (Feb. 2002): 13-16.

" ' Cobwebs in the Sky': Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi as Hypertext." Kairos 6.2 (Fall 2001).

"Hard Books, Deep Reading, and Synchronous Conferences in the Humanities 'Pickle Factory.' " In the online edition of Computers and Composition.