University of Arkansas

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Contact Information

Office:  KIMP 718
Phone:  (479) 575-4301
djollif@uark.edu

David Al Jolliffe

Professor and Brown Chair in English Literacy
(Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin)

Teaching Interests:

Literacy theory and practice, history and theory of rhetoric, teaching of English

Selected Publications:

• Book and Monographs
  
  • Roskelly, Hephzibah, and David A. Jolliffe.  Everyday Use:  Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing.  New York :  Pearson/Longman, 2005; 2nd edition, 2008.
    
  • Joliffe, David A., ed. Reading and Writing Analytically. Everday Use: Rhetoric at Work in Reading and Writing.
  • Mulvaney, Mary Kay, and David A. Jolliffe.  Academic Writing:  Genres, Samples, and Resources.   New York :  Pearson/Longman, 2005.
    
  • Jolliffe, David A.  Pre-AP Strategies in English:  Rhetoric.  New York :  College Entrance Examination Board, 2004.
  • Jolliffe, David A., Michael Keene, Ralph Voss, and Mary Trachsel, eds.  Against the Grain:  A Volume for Maxine Hairston.  Cresskill, NJ :  Hampton Press, 2002.
  • Jolliffe, David A.  Inquiry and Genre: Writing to Learn in College.  Boston : Allyn and Bacon,1998.
  • Covino, William A., and David A. Jolliffe, eds. Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries.  Boston :  Allyn & Bacon, 1995.
  • Anson, Chris M., Joan Graham, David A. Jolliffe, Nancy Shapiro, and Carolyn Smith. Scenarios for Teaching Writing:  Contexts for Discussion and Reflective Practice.  Urbana , IL : National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.
  • Jolliffe, David A., ed.  Writing in Academic Disciplines.  Advances in Writing Research,Volume2.  Norwood , NJ :  Ablex, 1988.
  • Faigley, Lester, Roger D. Cherry, David A. Jolliffe, and Anna M. Skinner.
    Assessing Writers' Knowledge and Processes of Composing.  Norwood , NJ :  Ablex, 1985.

• Articles, Chapters, and Technical Reports
  • Jolliffe, David A., and Allison Harl, "Studying the 'Reading Transition' from High School to College." College English 70.6 (2008): 599-617.
  • Jollife, David A. "Learning to Read as Continuing Education." College Composition and Communication 58.3 (February 2007): 470-494.
  • Jolliffe, David A., and Allison Harl, "First-Year Students as Readers: Studying the High School-to-College Transition." All Things Academic 7.3 (September 2006): 1-10.
  • Jolliffe, David A., and Bernard Phelan, "Advanced Placement, Not Advanced Exemption: Challenges for High Schools, Colleges, and Universities." Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon, ed. Kathleen Blake Yancey. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, Boynton/Cook, 2006. 89-103.
  • Jolliffe, David A.  “Composition by Immersion:  Writing Your Way into a Mission- Driven University.”  City Comp:  Identities, Spaces, Practices, eds. Bruce McComiskey and Cynthia Ryan.  Albany :  State U of New York P, 2003.  159-171.
  • Sisserson, Kendra, Carmen Manning, Annie Knepler, and David A. Jolliffe, “Criteria For Measuring Authentic Intellectual Achievement in Writing.”  Practice in Context: Situating the Work of Writing Teachers, eds. Peggy O’Neill and Cynthia Moore.  Urbana , IL :  National Council of Teachers of English, 2002.  285-294.
  • Sisserson, Kendra, Carmen Manning, Annie Knepler, and David A. Jolliffe, “Authentic Intellectual Achievement in Writing.”  English Journal 91.6 (2002):  63-69.
  • Chaden, Caryn, Roger Graves, David A. Jolliffe, and Peter Vandenberg, “Confronting Clashing Discourses:  Writing the Space Between Classroom and Community in Service-Learning Courses.”  Reflections 2.2 (2002):  13-39.
  • Jolliffe, David A.  “Writing Across the Curriculum and Service Learning: Kairos, Genre, and Collaboration.”   Writing Across the Curriculum for the New Millennium: Strategies for  Continuing Writing Across the Curriculum Programs, eds. Susan McLeod, Eric Miraglia,  Margot Soven, and Christopher Thaiss.  Urbana , IL : National Council of Teachers of English, 86-108.
  • Jolliffe, David A.  “Discourse.”  The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, eds.Victor Taylor and Charles E. Winquist.  London : Routledge, 2001.  101-103.
  • Jolliffe, David A.  “Genre.”  The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism, eds. Victor Taylor and Charles E. Winquist.  London : Routledge, 2001.  152-154.
  • Jolliffe, David A.  "Preparing All Students for the New Workplace Literacy:  Avenues for English Instruction in High Schools and Colleges."  Expanding Literacies:  English Teaching  and the New Workplace, eds., Mary Sue Garay and Steven Bernhardt.  Albany , NY :  SUNY Press, 1998.  285-298.
  • Jolliffe, David A.  "Finding Yourself in the Text:  Identity Formation in the Discourse of Workplace Documents."  Changing Work, Changing Workers: Critical Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Skills, ed. Glynda Hull .  Albany , NY :  SUNY Press, 1997.  335-349.
  • Jolliffe, David A.  "Argument."  Keywords for Composition Studies, eds. Paul Heilker and Peter Vandenberg.  Portsmouth , NH : Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1996.  14-17.
  • Jolliffe, David A., and William A. Covino.  "Rhetoric."  Keywords for Composition Studies, eds. Paul Heilker and Peter Vandenberg.  Portsmouth , NH : Heinemann-Boynton/Cook, 1996.   213-216.