Research Projects
Up one levelProjects currently underway by students and faculty in the English Department.
The Antislavery Literature Project
The goal of the Antislavery Literature Project is to increase public access to a body of literature crucial to understanding African American experience, US and hemispheric histories of slavery, and early human rights philosophies. (Geoffrey Sauer et al., 2001-)
ABE Student Portfolio Assessment
A student porfolio assessment tool developed for the Iowa State Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering program. [username: 'guest', password: 'guest'] (Anthony Ellertson, 2003-04)
EServer
A research project into electronic publishing which investigates methods of sustainable publishing practices, with over 280 members publishing over 34,000 works in the arts and humanities to more than 1.25 readers per month. (Geoffrey Sauer et al, 1990-)
i-WRITE
internet Writing Resource for the Innovative Teaching of English. (Volker Hegelheimer, 2003-)
Group for Research on Internet Case-based Education (GRICE)
This site provides details about the continuing development and study of multimedia cases across the curriculum at Iowa State University. Our working group consists of a number of faculty and graduate students interested problem-based learning using cases.
ISUComm
ISUComm is an approach to university communication instruction that is contemporary in its attention to new information technology and comprehensive in addressing the many forms of communication practice. (Don Payne, Quinn Warnick, et al., 2003- )
Iowa DOT Electronic Reference Library
A funded research project for the Iowa Department of Transportation to develop a standards-compliant content management system for engineering specifications documentation. (Geoffrey Sauer, Rebecca E. Burnett, Lee Honeycutt, 2004-)
MyCase
A website and research group that studies the use of multimedia cases across the curriculum. (David R. Russell, Anthony Ellertson, Dave Fisher et al, 2003-)
MIAP
This site contains units that faculty may find beneficial for incorporating into ESL classes. The units contain vocabulary building exercises and skill-building sections that primarily develop listening; however, reading and writing are addressed as well. (Volker Hegelheimer, 2003-)
Omega Molecular
A Flash/ColdFusion-based online case study to promote active learning, through self-directed learning and problem-solving, collaboration and writing. [username: 'guest', password: 'guest'] (Dave Fisher et al, 2003-)
Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory
An XHTML version of Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory, derived from the 1856 translation of the Rev. John Selby Watson. (Lee Honeycutt, 2003-)
Technical Communication (and Technical Writing) Library
A project to develop a modern database-driven XML-based digital catalogue, which encourages research studies into taxonomy, information design, experience design and web usability. (Geoffrey Sauer, Rebecca E. Burnett et al, 2001-)
Visual Rhetoric Interest Group
This is a space for discussion, grant/proposal development, collaborative writing and readings of interest to the visual rhetoric interest group.
2006 English Department Bibliography