Dr. Debbie Williams

	E-mail: debbie.williams@acu.edu Areas of scholarship or expertise: rhetoric composition studies 20th Century American Literature hypertext literacy studies
Courses typically taught: Rhetoric as Written Discourse: Rhetorical Analysis Business and Professional Writing first year composition courses Seminar in Teaching Composition

Published works:

• Bibliographer. Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. Conference on College Composition and Composition. 1996, 1997 eds.
• De-Frocking the President as Priest: The Role of Christian Language in the Presidency of George W. Bush. Yone Sugita, editor. Monograph series in progress. Tokyo, Japan, 2005.
• "Effective Peer Evaluation in Learning Teams" with Drs. Doug Foster, Bo Green, Paul Lakey, Raye Lakey, Foy Mills, and Carol Williams. To Improve the Academy. Vol. 22 (2004).
• "Frederick Beuchner." Shadow and Light Teacher's Handbook. Eds. Darryl Tippens and Steve Weathers. Abilene, TX: ACU Press, 1998.
• "Issues of Access." Interchapter response in "Computers and Writing Community Voices."  In Computers and Writing: The Cyborg Era. By James Inman. Laurence Erlbaum, Associates, Publisher. 2003.
• Student Development Theory: A Framework for Informing Choices of Pedagogies. E-Source for College Transitions. http://www.sc.edu/fye/esource/index.html. August 2004.
• “Teaching with Technology or the Technology of Teaching:  Reconstructing Authority in the Classroom.” ACE Journal  (1 Spring-Summer) 1997: 41-49.

 Originally from: Texas

Work of literature, art or music you would recommend: Works of social activist Paulo Freire, Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, and Tom Stoppard

Person who influenced your life: Drs. Bill Walton and Clyde Austin; Drs. James Berlin and Janice Lauer

Why you do what you do: I love the experience of learning and sharing knowledge: I find few things more exhilarating.

What you want to give your students: I expect to be a godly model of critical thinking, discipline, humility, and empathy.

What you expect from your students: I expect students to engage in thorough, thoughtful communication while performing their scholarship in a godly, good-faith effort, just as I expect to do for them.

Why you are at ACU: I teach at ACU because I wanted to take advantage of the opportunities offered by Christian education to overtly frame my vocation in Christian world view.

Favorite anecdote: Teaching barefoot because I forgot to wear my shoes.

Outside interests:

• environmental issues
• advocacy issues (healthcare)
• piano
• my children’s extracurricular activities
• travel

Personal:

• spouse: Rocky
• children: Lacey, Jillian, and Ian
• a host of pets, including all-time favorites Breca the dog and Gorgias the fish