People
Faculty
Tony Cimasko
Title
- Visiting Assistant Professor
Education
- Ph.D. in English, Purdue University, 2009
- M.Ed. in Bilingual, ESL, Multicultural Education, University of Massachussetts, 2004
- B.S. in Environmental and Business Economics, Rutgers University, 1991
Teaching Interests
- L2 Writing
- Second Language Acquisition
- Professional Writing
- Technical Writing
- Qualitative Research
- TESOL Methods
Research Interests
- Professional and academic genres
- L2 writing
- Multimodal composition
Selected Publications
- Cimasko, Tony. “A Little More Relevance: (Attempting) to Connect ESL Freshman English with Writing Across the Curriculum.” What Is “College-Level” Writing, Volume 2. Ed. Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blauly (forthcoming).
- Shin, Dong-shin, & Tony Cimasko. “New Tools, Traditional Norms: Multimodal Design and Second Language Composition.” Computers and Composition 25.4 (2008): 376-95.
- Roberts, Felicia, & Tony Cimasko. “Evaluating ESL: Making Sense of University Professors’ Responses to Second Language Writing.” Journal of Second Language Writing, 17.3: 125-143.
Web Publications
- Writing for an Indian Business Audience
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/674/01/ - US Higher Education: A Cultural Introduction
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/684/01/ - Writing for a Chinese Business Audience
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/676/01/ - Writing in North American Higher Education: A Primer for International Students
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/683/01/
Grants and Awards
- Purdue Department of English Travel Grant — Support for travel and presentation at TESOL 2009 Convention — Spring 2009
- Purdue Research Foundation Grant — Dissertation research grant — Summer 2008
- Walter P. Johnson Award, Honorable Mention — Heavy Gate: Outer and Expanding Circle Scholars in TESOL Quarterly, 2007
Work in Progress
Tony Cimasko is beginning research on differences between “real-world” professional genres and the pedagogical versions of those genres, and is continuing research into ways in which second language writers can successfully use elements from their first languages. He is also co-editing a collection of papers on foreign language writing.