JAMES P. PURDY
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
WRITING CENTER DIRECTOR
Office: College Hall 620
Telephone: 412.396.1293
E-mail: purdyj@duq.edu
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Office Hours March 2012:Sabbatical
EDUCATION
B.A., Penn State University
M.A., University of Illinois
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Dr. Jim Purdy received his doctorate in English with a specialization in writing studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research and teaching interests include digital writing and research, multimodal composition, new media technologies (particularly digital archives and plagiarism detection technologies), composition theory, and writing center theory.
He has published in the peer-reviewed scholarly journals Computers and Composition; Computers and Composition Online; College Composition and Communication; Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology; Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture; and Profession; as well as in the edited collections Reading (and Writing) New Media: A Collection of Essays and New Media, Teaching Composition, and Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. He has a digital book chapter forthcoming in the edited collection The New Work of Composing.
With co-author Joyce R. Walker, he won the 2010 Ellen Nold Award for the Best Article in Computers and Composition Studies and the 2008 Kairos Best Webtext Award.
His current research studies the ways in which digital technologies shape and are shaped by research and writing practices of scholars at all levels, including students completing academic research-based writing tasks and scholars publishing digital scholarship. His research provides a closer look at the digital spaces that are increasingly the primary site of writing and research for academic and civic tasks.
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. “Valuing Digital Scholarship: Exploring the Changing Realities of Intellectual Work” Profession (2010): 177-195. Print.
*Winner of the 2010 Ellen Nold Award for the Best Article in Computers and Composition Studies
Purdy, James P. “Wikipedia Is Good for You!?” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Vol. 1. Ed. Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Fort Collins, CO and West Lafayette, IN: WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, 2010. 205-224. Print/Web. <http://writingspaces.org/essays/wikipedia-is-good-for-you>.
Purdy, James P. “The Changing Space of Research: Web 2.0 and the Integration of Research and Writing Environments.” Computers and Composition 27.1 (2010): 48-58. Special issue on Composition 2.0. Print.
Lovett, Maria, James P. Purdy, Katherine E. Gossett, Carrie A. Lamanna, and Joseph Squier. “Writing with Video: What Happens When Composition Comes Off the Page?” Reading (and Writing) New Media: A Collection of Essays and New Media. Ed. Jim Kalmbach and Cheryl E. Ball. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2010. 287-304. Print.
Purdy, James P. “When the Tenets of Composition Go Public: A Study of Writing in Wikipedia.” College Composition and Communication 61.2 (2009): W351-W373. Print/Web. <http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/CCC/0612-dec09/CCC0612When.pdf>.
Purdy, James P. “Anxiety and the Archive: Understanding Plagiarism Detection Services as Digital Archives.” Computers and Composition 26.2 (2009): 65-77. Print.
Purdy, James P., and Joyce R. Walker. “Digital Breadcrumbs: Case Studies of Online Research.” Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 11.2 (2007). Web. <http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/11.2/binder.html?topoi/purdy-walker/index.htm>.
*Winner of the 2008 Kairos Best Webtext Award
Purdy, James P. “Calling Off the Hounds: Technology and the Visibility of Plagiarism.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 5.2 (2005): 275-295. Print.
Reprinted in Teaching Composition: Background Readings. 3rd ed. Ed. T. R. Johnson. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 305-324. Print.
Purdy, James P., Douglas Eyman, Joyce R. Walker, and Colleen Reilly, eds. Online Research, Writing, and Citation Practices. Special Issue of Computers and Composition Online (Fall 2007). Web. <http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/edwelcome_special07.html>.
