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 and Technical Writing
- Qualitative Research
- TESOL Methods
Research Interests
- Professional and academic genres
- L2 writing
- Multimodal composition
- TESOL Methods
Selected Publications
- Cimasko, Tony, and Melinda Reichelt, eds. Foreign Language Writing Instruction: Principles and Practices. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2011. Print.
- Cimasko, Tony. Rev. of Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple Perspectives on Written Academic Genres, ed. Rosa Lorés-Sanz, Pilar Mur-Deñas, and Enrique Lafuente-Millán. English for Specific Purposes July 2011:238-240. Print.
- Cimasko, Tony. “A Little More Relevance.’ What Is “College-Level’ Writing? Volume 2 (online supplement). Ed. Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blauly. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2010.
- 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
- US Higher Education: A Cultural Introduction
- Writing for a Chinese Business Audience
- Writing in North American Higher Education: A Primer for International Students
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.