People
Faculty
Contact Information
302C Bachelor Hall
Oxford Campus
513 529 5278
fullermj@muohio.edu
The Ohio Writing Project
Mary Fuller
Titles
- Associate Professor
- Ohio Writing Project Director
- Ohio Board of Regents’ Writing Institute Network Director
- Director of MAT Program
Education
- Ph.D, English, Florida State University, 1979
- M.A.T., English, Appalachian State University, 1974
- B.S., English, Appalachian State University, 1973
Teaching Interests
- Writing theory and practice
- English education
- Teacher research
Research Interests
- Writing program evaluation and administration
- Gender and authority
- Responding to student writing
- Composition and rhetoric
- Pedagogy
- Teacher training and research
Selected Publications
- Literature: Options for Reading and Writing. First and Second Editions. NY: Harper & Row, 1985 & 1989. With Donald Daiker and Jack Wallace.
- “Taking Reading/Writing Workshops to New Heights.” National Middle School Journal, Vol 34, No 3, January 2003. (Pp.20-27) With Ruth Pettitt
- “Constructing Authority: Student Responses and Classroom Discourse.” in Discourse Studies in Composition, eds. Ellen Barton and Gail Stygall. New Jersey: Hampton, 2002. (Pp. 353-375) With Jean Lutz
- “Teacher Training Abroad: The Ohio Writing Project International,” English Language Arts, Fall, 1998.
- “Teaching Style in Advanced Composition.” Teaching Advanced Composition, Eds. Katherine Adams and John L. Adams. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann/Boynton Cook, 1991. Pp. 119-132.
- “A Rose for Emily: Celebrating One Student’s Writing.” English Language Arts Bulletin. (Summer 1991): 20-25. I was first author with Gordon Allen, Donald Daiker, Max Morenberg, and Janet Ziegler.
- “Evaluation High School Writing: What Are English Teachers Really Looking For?” Writing Program Administration 10 (Fall/Winter 1987): 27-42. With Donald Daiker, Max Morenberg, and Janet Ziegler.
- “Miami University Freshman Composition Program,” New Methods in College Writing Programs. NY: Modern Language Association, 1986. With Don Daiker
- “Ohio Writing Project/Miami University,” School-College Collaborative Programs in English. NY: Modern Language Association, 1986. With Max Morenberg
- Editor, English Language Art Bulletin (ELAB). Volumes 27-33. Fall 1987 - Spring 1990, state-wide journal of Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts. Readership 3000.
Work in Progress
Dr. Mary Fuller directs the Ohio Writing Project and the Ohio Board of Regents’ Writing Institute Network. The programs have trained more than 3,000 teachers in on-site workshops, evaluated writing from 170,000 Ohio students, and offered inservice programs for more than 23,000 teachers. Fuller has received grants for over $6 million to support the programs. She currently directs the English Department MAT program, teaches a capstone for English Education majors, and regularly offers classes in the honors first-year writing program. Her most recent research includes an article on business writing and authority, co-authored with Jean Lutz, under consideration,Technical Communication Quarterly and an essay on grading, under consideration,The National Writing Project Quarterly.