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John Charles Bean

Professor of English
Consulting Professor in Academic Writing
Website and Vitae

Engaging Ideas, Bean's Book

 

Biography

John C. Bean is a professor of English at Seattle University, where he holds the title of "Consulting Professor of Writing and Assessment." He has an undergraduate degree from Stanford (1965) and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington (1972). He has been active in the writing-across-the-curriculum movement since 1976. He is the author of Engaging Ideas: The Professor’s Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (Jossey-Bass, 1996) and is the co-author of four textbooks on writing, argumentation, and rhetorical reading. He has published numerous articles on writing and writing-across-the-curriculum as well as on literary subjects including Shakespeare and Spenser. In 2001, he was invited to present a keynote workshop at the conference of the European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. His current research interest is the development of institutional assessment strategies that promote productive faculty conversations about teaching and learning.

 

 

 

This conference was made possible by and funded in part by
a USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant.


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