Michael Day

Professor
Director, First-Year Composition Program
Rhetoric, Technical Writing, Composition Pedagogy

Office: RH 215B
Phone: 815-753-6603
Email: mday@niu.edu

Conference on College Composition and Communication Outstanding Technology Innovator Award, 2011.
Patricia L. Francis Award for Outstanding Service to the Department of English, April 2008.
The Computers and Composition Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field, May 2006.
David Raymond Award for the Use of Technology in Teaching, March 2003.

With Tawanda Gipson and Christopher Parker: “Undergraduate Mentors as Agents of Engagement: Peer Advocates in First-Year Writing Courses.” First-Year Composition and Retention, Beth Brunk-Chavez, Heidi Estrem, Todd Ruecker, and Dawn Shepherd, editors. Utah State University Press, 2017.
(Editor) Takako Day. Show Me the Way to Go Home: The Moral Dilemma of Kibei No No Boys in World War Two Incarceration Camps. (Middlebury, VT: Wren Song Press, 2014).
With Randall McClure and Mike Palmquist, eds. “Composition in the Freeware Age: Assessing the Impact and Value of the Web 2.0 Movement in the Teaching of Writing” Computers and Composition 27.1 (March 2010)
“Influencing Learning Through Faculty and Student Generated Outcome Assessment.” Chapter 12 in Electronic Portfolios 2.0: Emergent Research on Implementation and Impact, Barbara Cambridge, Darren Cambridge, and Kathleen Yancy, editors. Stylus Publishing, 2009.
“The Administrator as Technorhetorician: Sustainable Technological Ecologies in Academic Programs.” Chapter 6 in Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment, Danielle DeVoss, Heidi McKee, and Richard Selfe, editors. Computers and Composition Digital Press, 2009.
With Carol Lipson (ed). Technical Communication and the World Wide Web. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005).
With Susanmarie Harrington and Rebecca Rickly (eds). The Online Writing Classroom. (Cresskill, New Jersey: HAmpton Press, 2000).