Department of English

West Chester University

Contact Info
Dr. Vicki Tischio
532 Main Hall
West Chester, PA 19383
610-436-2822
VTISCHIO@WCUPA.EDU


Jeff Sommers

  • Assistant Professor of English
    Ph.D., New York University

  • Research Interests & Activities
    Composition and rhetoric, writing assessment, professional journal editing, pedagogy

  • Editor, Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC), a National Council of Teachers in English (NCTE) journal.

  • Recent Publications
    Sommers, Jeff, and Max Morenberg.  The Writer's Options: Lessons in Style and Arrangement (8th Edition).  New York: Longman, 2007.

  • Sommers, Jeff.  "Self-Designed Points: Turning Responsibility for Learning over to Students." Teaching English in the Two-Year College 38:4 (May 2011): 406-419.

  • Sommers, Jeff.  "Gendered Behavior in Classroom Discussion: Constructing Knowledge through an Ethnographic Writing Assignment."  In Diversity in the Composition Classroom, Gwen Hale, Michael Mutschelknaus, and T.A. Holmes, eds. Atlanta: Fountainhead Press, 2010. 59-70.

  • Additional Publications, Grants, and Research Projects