Gregory Colomb

(1997)
Professor
Writing Studies, 18th Century Literature, Theory

Degrees

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 1978
M.A. University of Virginia, 1974
B.A. Rice University, 1973

Books

  • A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (a.k.a.
    Turabian), with Wayne C. Booth and Joseph M. Williams, 7th ed. (University of Chicago Press: 2007)
  • The Craft of Argument with Readings, with Joseph M. Williams, readings also edited by Karen Tracey, and Jon D’Errico, (Longman, 2003)
  • Guide to Teaching The Craft of Argument with Readings, with Joseph M. Williams and Karen Tracey, (Longman, 2003)
  • The Craft of Argument; Concise Edition, with Joseph M. Williams, (Longman, 2003)
  • The Craft of Argument, with Joseph M. Williams, (Longman, 2000; 3rd ed. 2006)
  • Guide to Teaching The Craft of Argument, with Joseph M. Williams, (Longman, 2000; 3rd ed. 2006)
  • The Craft of Research, with Wayne C. Booth and Joseph M. Williams (University of Chicago Press, 1995; 3rd ed. 2008) The Critic’s Choice Award, 1996.
    • Chinese translation. Meei-shia Chen, trans. (Tainan, Taiwan: National Cheng Kung University, 2008)
    • Russian translation: Essledovanie: Shestnadtsat Urokov dla Nachenafshchekh Avtorob. Andrey Stanislavskiy, trans. (Moscow: Flinta, 2004)
    • Spanish translation: Cómo Convertirse en un Hábil Investigador. José A.
    Álvarez, trans. (Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa, 2001)
    • Portuguese translation: A Arte Da Pesquisa, Henrique A. Rego Monteiro, trans. (São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2000)
    • Korean translation: Haksulnonmum Jakseongbeob, Yang Ki-seok, trans.
    (Seoul: Nanam Publishing House, 2000)
  • Designs on Truth: A Poetics of the Augustan Mock-Epic, (Penn State University Press, 1992)
  • Style: Toward Clarity and Grace, Joseph M. Williams with two chapters coauthored by Gregory G. Colomb. (University of Chicago Press, 1990; reissued in paperback, 1995)
  • Discourse Structures, with Joseph M. Williams, Research Report (University of Chicago Writing Programs, 1987)

Multimedia

  • Writing Effective Presentations [Interactive, web-based text on business presentations], with Joseph M. Williams (Unext.com, 2002)
  • Designing Effective Slides [Interactive, web-based text on writing in PowerPoint], with Joseph M. Williams (Boston Consulting Group, 2002)
  • Writing for Readers, Style [Interactive, web-based text on business communication], with Lawrence J. McEnerney and Joseph M. Williams (Unext.com, 2000)
  • Writing Essentials, Structure [Interactive, web-based text on business communication], with Lawrence J. McEnerney and Joseph M. Williams (Unext.com, 2000)

Pedagogical Innovations

  • The Little Red Schoolhouse (instructional materials for advanced writers in the academy and the professions; four separate versions of liberal arts, business, technical writing, and law), with Joseph M. Williams, Francis X. Kinahan, and Lawrence D. McEnerney. Writing Programs of the University of Chicago and Programs in Professional Writing of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1982-2008).
  • Successful Papers in Academic Writing (instructional materials for first-year students), with Joseph M. Williams. Programs in Professional Writing, University of Illinois (1993-1996).
  • Writing About Literature (instructional materials for upper-level undergraduates), with Joseph M. Williams. Programs in Professional Writing, University of Illinois (1993-1995).
  • Effective Advocacy Writing (instructional videotape and workbook), with Joseph M. Williams and Francis X. Kinahan. LawLetters/International Association of Defense Counsel (1993).
  • Mastering Legal Writing & Editing (instructional videotapes and workbook), with Joseph M. Williams and Francis X. Kinahan. LawLetters (1987).

Articles and Chapters

  • “Framing Academic Articles,” with Joseph M. Williams, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 16, Winter 2008
  • “Le Mot Juste,” with Joseph M. Williams, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 15, Winter 2007
  • “The Right Deal in the Right Words: Effective Legal Drafting.” with Joseph M.
    Williams, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 14, Winter 2006, pp. 98–106
  • “Client Communications: Designing Readable Documents,” with Joseph M.
    Williams, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 14. Winter 2005, pp.
  • “Coherence on and off the Page: What Writers Can Know about Writing
    Coherently,” with June Griffin, New Literary History, 35, Number 2, Spring
    2004, pp. 273-301
  • “Client Communications: Delivering a Clear Message,” with Joseph M. Williams, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Winter 2004, pp. 127–131
  • “Delivering A Persuasive Case: Organizing the Body of A Pleading,” with Joseph M. Williams, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 11. Winter 2003, pp. 84-89.
  • “Framing Pleadings to Advance Your Case,” Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 10, Winter 2002, pp. 92-97
  • “So What? Why Should I Care? And Other Questions Writers Must Answer,” with Joseph M. Williams, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 9, Spring 2001, pp. 136-41
  • “Well Begun is Half Done: The First Principle of Coherent Prose,” with Joseph M. Williams. Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 8, Spring 2000, pp. 129–133
  • “The Writer’s Golden Rule,” with Joseph M. Williams. Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 7, Fall 1999, pp. 78-81.
  • “Who’s on First,” with Joseph M. Williams. Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, 6, Winter 1997, pp. 16-20

Papers and Public Lectures

  • “Another Take on the Liberal Arts,” [invited speaker] Montserrat Colloquium, Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, June 2, 2008
  • “The Well-Crafted Assignment: What Works, What You Can Do, And What You Should Do,” [invited speaker] Willamette University, Salem, OR, May 19, 2008
  • “Permanent Evolution: How to Sustain a Critical Mass of Willing Teachers,” (invited speaker) Stonehill College, Easton, MA, May 12, 2008
  • “The Complete Academic Writer,” [invited speaker] Mellon Interdisciplinary
    Graduate Fellows Program, Institute for Social & Economic Research & Policy, Columbia University, April 25, 2008
  • “The Pig Story.” [invited speaker] Executive Veterinary Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, February 7, 2008
  • “Professional Writing / Professionals Who Write,” (invited speaker) The Graham School, University of Chicago, October 4, 2007
  • “Student Writing: What Works, What You Can Do, And What You Should Do,”
    Faculty Growth Lecture Series, (invited speaker) Marywood University,
    Scranton, PA, September 19, 2007
  • “Effective Legal Writing,” (invited speaker) Illinois State Bar Association,
    Bloomington, IL, June 1, 2007
  • “What Works: Year Two,” (invited speaker) Stonehill College, Easton, MA, May 22, 2007
  • “How to Do Things with Stories: Some Cognitive Grounds for Persuasion,” (invited speaker) University of Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, March 9, 2007
  • “Reads Books and Leaves: Cognitive Sources of English Studies’ Grammar
    Problem,” (invited speaker] University of Louisiana Lafayette, Lafayette, LA,
    March 8, 2007
  • “Effective Legal Writing,” (invited speaker) Illinois State Bar Association, Rockford, IL, January 12, 2007
  • “The Craft of Research in Action,” (invited speaker) Faculty Reading Group,
    Carleton College, Northfield, MN, November 9, 2006
    “Communication Tools for the Digital Professional: Finding the Right Medium for the Message,” (invited speaker) Graham School, University of Chicago, October 19, 2007
  • “Sustainable Growth: Motivating the Second Generation of WAC Faculty,” (invited speaker) Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, September 28, 2006
  • “What Works: Staring a Writing Program from Scratch,” (invited speaker) Stonehill College, Easton, MA, May 24, 2006
  • “In Memory of Jim Slevin: Setting Workable Goals for Writing Instruction,” (invited speaker) Georgetown University, Washington, DC, May 22, 2006
  • “The Craft of Think Tank Research,” RTI, Research Triangle, NC, May 19, 2006
  • “Cognitive Salience, Text Production, and Text Reception,” Cognitive Science and Literature Conference, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, April 7, 2006
  • “Why Some Advice Matters: Cognitive Salience and Value of Rules,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, March 23, 2006
  • “Power Point and the American Way,” (invited speaker) Infosys Corporation,
    London, UK, February 2, 2006
  • “What Writers Can Know and What Teachers Can Teach,” (invited speaker)
    Columbia University, New York, NY, April 27, 2005
  • “Distributed Coherence,” (invited speaker) Columbia University, New York, NY, April 27, 2005
  • “Science Writing,” (invited speaker) Columbia University, New York, NY, April 26, 2005
  • “Fair Argument: Managing and Teaching Civil Discussion,” (invited speaker)
    Columbia University, New York, NY, April 26, 2005
  • “We Don’t Wash Windows and We Don’t Teach Grammar: Beyond Correctness,” Carleton College, Northfield, MN, April 12, 2005
  • “Working on the Page,” (invited speaker) Carleton College, Northfield, MN, April 10, 2005
  • “Rethinking Coherence, Rethinking Texts,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 17, 2005
  • “The Little Red Schoolhouse as Grammar,” (invited speaker) The University of Georgia, Athens, GA, December 6, 2004
  • “Effective Legal Writing,” (invited speaker) Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago, IL, November 29, 2004 and Bloomington, IL, December 1, 2004
  • “Yet Another (Re)Definition of Grammar,” Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, Newark, DE, July 16, 2004
  • “What Writing Standards Can and Can’t Measure,” Conference on College
    Composition and Communication, San Antonio, TX, March 25, 2004
  • “Designing Workable Writing Programs,” (invited speaker) Wilkes University,
    Wilkes-Barre, PA, January 30, 2004
  • “Effective Legal Writing,” (invited speaker) Illinois State Bar Association, Chicago, IL, December 11, 2003
  • “Forum, Service and Stakeholders: Who Owes What to Whom,” Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, July 12, 2003
  • “Effective Legal Writing,” (invited speaker) Illinois State Bar Association Summer Meetings, Lake Geneva, WI, June 20, 2003
  • “Where Has All the Grammar Gone? The Avoidance of Textual Knowledge in the Writing Classroom,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, NY, March 20, 2003
  • “Not Disappointed: The Value of the WPA,” Panel Organizer and Chair, Writing Program Administrators Annual Conference, Park City, UT, July 13, 2002
  • “Disciplinary Secrets Revisited: The Last(?) Wave of WAC,” (invited speaker) McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 8, 2002
  • “Communicating Decisions,” (invited speaker) Annual Training Conference of the National Appeals Division, United States Department of Agriculture, Nashville, TN, May 16-17, 2001
  • “The Tackle and the Dot-com: Some Lessons on Visual Learning for Writers,” Pedagogy in Practice, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, May 12, 2001
  • “Introducing Argument in the First-Year Class,” (invited speaker) University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, May 8, 2001
  • “Writing for Journals,” (invited speaker) American Association of Orthopedic
    Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, March 1, 2001
  • “My Enemy is My Friend: Conflict and Cooperation in Western Argumentation,” (invited speaker) International Education Center, Tokyo, Japan, July 28. 2000
  • “Effective Administrative Decisions,” (invited speaker) Managing Hearings,
    Developing the Record, and Writing Decisions for Administrative Law Judges,
    National Association of Administrative Law Judges, Madison, WI, May 19, 2000
  • “Confessions of an Ex WAC Missionary,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, MN, April 13, 2000
  • “Effective Medical Writing,” (invited speaker) American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons, Orlando, FL, March 17, 2000
  • “The Personal Essay,” Barnes & Noble, Charlottesville, VA, January 3, 2000
  • “The Complete Legal Writer,” (invited speaker) Illinois State Bar Association,
    Chicago, IL, December 11, 1999
  • “Diversity? Duh!!” Talk Soup: Language Variation in the Classroom. (invited speaker) Conference sponsored by the Center for Liberal Arts. Charlottesville, VA, October 23, 1999.
  • “Publishing in Medical Journals,” (invited speaker) American Association of
    Orthopedic Surgeons, Los Angeles, CA, February 5, 1999
  • “The Pig Story.” [invited speaker] Executive Veterinary Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, December 11, 1998
  • Workshop: Teaching Argument, (invited speaker) Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, May 14, 1998
  • “The Student’s-Eye View,” Conference on Teaching English, (invited speaker) The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 18, 1998
  • “The Seeds of Dispute: Why is Argument like War?” Conference on College
    Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, April 3, 1998
  • “Publishing in Medical Journals,” (invited speaker) American Association of
    Orthopedic Surgeons, New Orleans, LA, March 20, 1998

Faculty Development Seminars

  • Writing in the Liberal Arts, Holy Cross College, Boston, MA, June 13-14, 2008
  • Writing Across the Curriculum, Willamette University, Salem, OR, May 19-21, 2008
  • Writing Across the Curriculum, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, May 12-13, 2008
  • Writing Across the Curriculum, Marywood College, Scranton. PA, September 19, 2007
  • Writing Across the Curriculum, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, May 22-23, 2007
  • Writing Across the Disciplines, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, November 9-10, 2006
  • Writing Across the Curriculum, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, September 28-29, 2006
  • Writing Across the Curriculum, Stonehill College, Easton, MA, May 24-25, 2006
  • Reinventing a Writing Program, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, May 22- 23, 2006
  • Teaching Writing, Columbia University, New York, New York, April 27, 2005
    Writing Across the Disciplines, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, April 12, 2005
  • Responding Across the Curriculum, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA, January 31, 2004
  • Argument in the First-Year WAC Class, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, May 8, 2001
  • Teaching Argument, Faculty Development Program, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA. May 14-15, 1998

Honors

  • The Critics' Choice Award for The Craft of Research: 1996
  • CFAC Grant, Computer Classroom: 1995
  • Apple Seedlings Grant, Hypertext Implementation of The Little Red Schoolhouse: 1992