Rate My Professor Chris Weaver

Weaver's research focuses on composition and rhetoric, peer review practices, online writing environments, grading writing, electronic writing and recorded speech, disciplinary discourse, plagiarism, and writing program administration. He has co-edited several key books in the field, including Rethinking Peer Review: Critical Reflections on a Pedagogical Practice with Phoebe Jackson (Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse/Colorado State University Open Press, 2023), Writing in Online Courses: How the Online Environment Shapes Writing Practices with Phoebe Jackson (Myers Education Press, 2018), and The Theory and Practice of Grading Writing: Problems and Possibilities with Frances Zak (State University of New York Press, 1998; second printing 1999), which received Choice's 35th Annual Outstanding Book Award for Best Book of the Year in the Field of Education. Notable publications also include “A Troubled Practice: Three Models of Peer Review and the Problems Underlying Them” (2023), “Shifting Again: Electronic Writing and Recorded Speech in Online Courses” (2018), “The Rhetoric of Recovery: Can Twelve Step Programs Inform the Teaching of Writing?” (Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, 2002), and “Readings and Misreadings: Building Interpretive Communities in Different Disciplines” (Teaching in the 21st Century, 1999). Weaver has delivered presentations at conferences including the National Council of Teachers of English, Conference on College Composition and Communication, International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, and Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. He chairs the Program in Writing and Rhetoric Committee, Curriculum Scheduling Committee, and has served on search committees, assessment committees, and UFRAC.