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Melanie Burdick

Assistant Professor

English

College of Arts & Sciences

Contact: Morgan Hall
Rm 257

1700 SW College Ave
Topeka, KS 66621-1117
785-670-1409
melanie.burdick@washburn.edu

Degrees & Certifications: Longview Community College, Associate of Arts; Avila University, Bachelor of Arts; Univ of Missouri-Kansas City, Master of Arts; The University of Kansas, Doctor of Philosophy

Academic History

Washburn University, Assistant Professor, 2011-present

University of Missouri—Kansas City, Coordinator of Dual Credit English, 2008-2011

University of Kansas, Supervisor for Secondary English Student Teaching, 2008-2011

Metropolitan Community Colleges, Lecturer in English, 2005-2008

University of Missouri—Kansas City, Director of the Greater Kansas City Writing Project, 2000-2005

Teaching

EN 100 C, Developmental English
EN 101 5H, Freshman Comp
EN 101 5M1, Freshman Comp
EN 101 5M2, Freshman Comp
EN 101 5P, Freshman Comp
EN 101 5R1, Freshman Comp
EN 101 5R2, Freshman Comp
EN 101 5R3, Freshman Comp
EN 101 5T, Freshman Comp
EN 101 H, Freshman Comp
EN 135 5H, Intro To Literature
EN 135 5M, Intro To Literature
EN 135 5P, Intro To Literature
EN 135 5R, Intro To Literature
EN 135 5T, Intro To Literature
EN 135 5W, Intro To Literature
EN 200 5R1, Intermediate Comp
EN 200 5R2, Intermediate Comp
EN 300 A, Advanced Composition

Scholarly Interests/Activities: Teaching of writing in high school and college; relationship and overlap of creative and academic forms of writing; preparation of secondary English teachers; composition and rhetoric; service learning.

Service Interests/Activities: Director of Composition; liaison for English Concurrent Enrollment Program; English Education Assessment Committee.

Career Accomplishments

Peer-reviewed Publications:

Burdick M.N. (2011). Teacher negotiation and embedded process: A study of high school writing assignments. Journal of Teaching Writing, 26(2), 21-44.
Burdick, M. (2011). Researcher and teacher-participant found poetry: Collaboration in poetic transcription. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 12(SI 1.10).
Hallman, H.L. & Burdick, M.N. (2011). Service learning and the preparation of English teachers. English Education, 43, 341-368.
Burdick, M. (2009). Grading the war story. Teaching English in the Two Year College, 357-358.

Conference Presentations:

Writing Poetry to Illuminate Informative Texts. Round table presentation for NCTE-CEE Commission on the Teaching of Poetry at the annual National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference, Chicago, Illinois, November, 2011.
Dual Credit Curricular Alignment: Facing Context and Collaboration in High Schools and College. Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC), Atlanta, Georgia, April, 2011.
Blurring the Lines between “Creative” and “Academic” Writing. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference, Orlando, Florida, November 2010.
Researcher-Teacher-Participant Found Poetry: Collaboration in Poetic Transcription. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, April 30-May 4, 2010.
Curricular Extensions within a Multi-Grade Action Research Circle. Conference of College Composition and Communication (CCCC), San Francisco, CA March, 2009.
Writing Diversity through the Service Learning Cycle. National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference, New York, New York, November, 2007.

Awards and Other Professional Accomplishments:

Awarded $1,732.00 through the Council of Writing Program Administrators Research Grant, for study: "Sources of Professional Knowledge: How Do High School Teachers Define 'College-level Writing'?" March, 2012.

Winner of the Outstanding Dissertation Award from American Educational Research Association Narrative Research Special Interest Group, 2012.

Winner of the Sosland Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing; UMKC Department of English, 2007.