Heidi Johnsen
Heidi L. Johnsen
Phone: 718.482.5663
Office: E-103 P
Schools Attended: Brigham Young University (B.A. , M.A.) State University of New York at Stony Brook (Ph.D.)
Area of Specialization: Rhetoric and Composition, Early American Literature, Women's Studies
Favorite Quotes about Writing: . . . with writing, you start where you are, and you usually do it poorly. You just do it-you do it afraid. And something happens. --Anne Lamott
Few of us make our living from writing, and the concept of writer tends to carry allsorts of cultural baggage, like creative genius and suffering. But if we write regularly, we are writers. I’ve found that students and adult professionals who write get a big boost by acknowledging that they are writers-a surprisingly mysterious and difficult inner adjustment of the mind and feelings. --Peter Elbow
You learn to write by reading and writing, writing and reading. As a craft it’s acquired through the apprentice system, but you choose your own teachers. Sometimes they’re alive, sometimes dead. --Margaret Atwood
Articles: Kate Chopin in Vogue: Establishing a Textual Context for A Vocation and a Voice. Rethinking and Rereading Kate Chopin. Ed. Heather Ostman. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
Conference Presentations: The Next Steps in a Difficult Dialogue: Facilitation through a Community of Practice, Society for Values in Higher Education Institute, CT, June 15-20, 2008 (co-presenter).
Wrestling with Writing: Using ePortfolios to Enhance and Assess Basic Writing Courses, Making Connections: ePortfolios, Integrative Learning and Assessment, LaGuardia CC, CUNY, April 10-12, 2008 (co-presenter).
The Ethics of High-Stakes Testing in a Basic Writing Class, College English Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, April 13, 2007.
A Study of High Stakes Testing Practices: The City University of New York and Beyond, Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, March 22, 2007 (co-presenter).
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