Rate My Professor Thomas Mitchell

Mitchell's research contributions include numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals. Notable works encompass 'Analysis and Argument in First-Year Writing and Beyond: A Functional Perspective' (2024, co-authored with Silvia Pessoa and Pía Gómez-Laich), 'Argument not optional: The language of alternatives and recommendations in the case analysis genre' (2023), 'Degrees of Reasoning: Student Uptake of a Language-Focused Approach to Scaffolding Patterns of Logical Reasoning in the Case Analysis Genre' (2021), 'Scaffolding the Case Analysis in an Organizational Behavior Course: Making Analytical Language Explicit' (2021), and 'Using the Onion Model to Scaffold the Case Analysis Genre in Information Systems' (2021). His paper 'Scaffolding case analysis writing: A collaboration between information systems and writing faculty' (2019) received the Best Paper award from the Journal of Information Systems Education. Mitchell has participated in the SLATE-Q project, funded by the Qatar National Research Fund, to develop tools for academic literacy development in Information Systems. More recently, he and colleagues Pia Gómez-Laich and Silvia Pessoa were awarded a QRDI Academic Research Grant for 'Scaffolding analytical and argumentative writing in higher education: Developing tools and assessing outcomes.' Additionally, Mitchell has been appointed president-elect of the TESOL International Association, presented research at conferences including the Qatar TESOL Conference and Texas A&M Qatar, and organized the Badir event for the Qatar Teaching and Learning Forum. His efforts have advanced writing pedagogy in higher education through design-based research and mixed-methods studies.