Ruth Boeder
Assistant Professor (Teaching)
5057 Woodward Ave, Suite 9205.3
Department
Department of English
Rhetoric & Composition Program
Ruth Boeder
Research interest(s)/area of expertise
Writing Pedagogy; Writing Assessment; Information Literacy; Research-based Writing; Multimodal Literacies
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, English (Rhetoric and Composition), Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2020
- Master of Arts in English (Rhetoric and Composition), Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2019
- Master of Library and Information Science (Concentration: Academic Libraries), Wayne State University Detroit, MI, 2011
- Bachelor of Arts (Major: English, Minor: Philosophy), Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI, 2009
Selected publications
“Thin-Slice Methods and Contextualized Norming: Innovative Assessment Methodologies for Austere Times.” In The Expanding Universe of Writing Studies: Higher Education Writing Research, edited by Kelly Blewett et al, Peter Lang, 2021, pp. 89-102. (co-authored)
"Looking to the Research Paper and Beyond: Information Literacy and Rhetorical/Composition Perspectives on Student Research and Writing Processes." LOEX Quarterly, 45.2 (Summer 2018). https://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1334&context=loexquarterly
“Do Community Members Have an Effective Voice in the Ethical Deliberation of a Behavioral Institutional Review Board?” Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 32.2 (March 2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/1050651917746460 (co-authored)
Courses taught by Ruth Boeder
Winter Term 2025 (future)
Fall Term 2024
Winter Term 2024
Fall Term 2023
Winter Term 2023
Fall Term 2022
Spring-Summer Term 2022
- ENG5785 - Academic Writing for Graduate Students
- ENG5850 - Introduction to Scholarly Writing for Non-native English Speakers