Lisa Arnold

North Dakota State University, English, Faculty Member

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I am an Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Writing at North Dakota State University. Previously, I spent four years as an Assistant Professor of English at the American University of Beirut (2011-2015), where I also directed the university's writing program. I graduated with my PhD in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of Louisville in May 2011.
Address: North Dakota State University
Fargo, North Dakota, USA

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After Implementation: Assessing Student Self-Placement in College Writing Programs

Journal of Writing Assessment, 2024

(with co-authors Holly Hassel and Lei Jiang) While a growing body of research provides instructio... more (with co-authors Holly Hassel and Lei Jiang) While a growing body of research provides instruction on how to implement directed self-placement (DSP) for college writing courses, there is a gap in the literature about how to evaluate DSP after implementation. This article offers strategies and recommendations for assessing DSP processes, based on the authors’ experiences of developing a new DSP mechanism and evaluating its effectiveness over several years. This article presents statistical data from our analysis of our institution’s DSP, which informs a heuristic set of questions that others can use to evaluate the effectiveness of their own DSP after implementation. This analysis demonstrates the value of evaluating DSP processes for writing programs, as well as outlining issues that may emerge and should be considered when analyzing DSP.

Literacy Narratives across Borders: Beirut and Dearborn as Twenty-First Century Transnational Spaces

Emerging Writing Research from the Middle East-North Africa Region

The International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Series publishes booklength manuscripts that ... more The International Exchanges on the Study of Writing Series publishes booklength manuscripts that address worldwide perspectives on writing, writers, teaching with writing, and scholarly writing practices, specifically those that draw on scholarship across national and disciplinary borders to challenge parochial understandings of all of the above. The series aims to examine writing activities in 21st-century contexts, particularly how they are informed by globalization, national identity, social networking, and increased cross-cultural communication and awareness. As such, the series strives to investigate how both the local and the international inform writing research and the facilitation of writing development. The WAC Clearinghouse, Colorado State University Open Press, and University Press of Colorado are collaborating so that these books will be widely available through free digital distribution and low-cost print editions. The publishers and the Series editors are committed to the principle that knowledge should freely circulate. We see the opportunities that new technologies have for further democratizing knowledge. And we see that to share the power of writing is to share the means for all to articulate their needs, interest, and learning into the great experiment of literacy.

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