In How Writing Faculty Write , Christine Tulley examines the composing processes of fifteen faculty leaders in the field of rhetoric and writing, revealing through in-depth interviews how each scholar develops ideas, conducts research, drafts and revises a manuscript, and pursues publication. The book shows how productive writing faculty draw on their disciplinary knowledge to adopt attitudes and strategies that not only increase their chances of successful publication but also cultivate writing habits that sustain them over the course of their academic careers. The diverse interviews present opportunities for students and teachers to extrapolate from the personal experience of established scholars to their own writing and professional lives.   Tulley illuminates a long-unstudied corner of the discipline: the writing habits of theorists, researchers, and teachers of writing. Her interviewees speak candidly about overcoming difficulties in their writing processes on a daily basis, using strategies for getting started and restarted, avoiding writer’s block, finding and using small moments of time, and connecting their writing processes to their teaching. How Writing Faculty Write will be of significant interest to students and scholars across the spectrum—graduate students entering the discipline, new faculty and novice scholars thinking about their writing lives, mid-level and senior faculty curious about how scholars research and write, historians of rhetoric and composition, and metadisciplinary scholars.   “Tulley ultimately delivers a valuable resource, but the biggest thrill will surely come from readers in writing and rhetoric who recognize, as subjects, their peers and professional role models. . . . I wish more scholarship on writing were as reflective. ” —Journal for Scholarly Publishing Christine E. Tulley is professor of rhetoric and writing and founder and director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing Program at the University of Findlay. She also serves as the Academic Career Development Coordinator for the UF Center for Teaching Excellence to support faculty scholarship productivity on campus. She is the former Praxis section editor for Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy , the reviews editor for Computers and Composition , and winner of the Ellen Nold Award for Best Article in Computers and Composition for 2014. How Writing Faculty Write Strategies for Process, Product, and Productivity By Christine E. Tulley University Press of Colorado Copyright © 2018 University Press of Colorado All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-60732-661-8 Contents Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Faculty Writing as a Research Area for Rhetoric and Composition, 1 Cynthia Selfe, 2 Joseph Harris, 3 Dànielle DeVoss, 4 Melanie Yergeau, 5 Jessica Enoch, 6 Jonathan Alexander, 7 Kathleen Yancey, 8 Chris Anson, 9 Duane Roen, 10 Cheryl Glenn, 11 Malea Powell, 12 Howard Tinberg, 13 Thomas Rickert, 14 Jacqueline Royster, 15 Kristine Blair, 16 Carving Out a Writing Life in the Discipline of Rhetoric and Composition:, What We Can Learn from Writing Faculty, Afterword, Appendix: Sample Interview Questions, References, About the Author, Index, CHAPTER 1 CYNTHIA SELFE CYNTHIA L. SELFE is, in her words, "blissfully retired." A former humanities distinguished professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University and founder and previous co-editor of Computers and Composition: An International Journal, Selfe has a prolific publishing record. To date she has published both print and digital form, four single authored books, a co-authored book, ten edited collections, nineteen book chapters, and sixty-five journal articles. In 2007, Selfe co-founded the Computers and Composition Digital Press. Selfe has served as the chair of the national Conference on College Composition and Communication and the chair of the College Section of the National Council of Teachers of English and held a variety of administrative roles. In 2014, Selfe won the Conference on College Composition and Communication's Exemplar Award. Selfe began her career at Michigan Technological University, a science and engineering focused institution of seven thousand students located in the Upper Peninsula, and worked there for twenty-four years before taking a position at Ohio State. Along the way, she taught courses in computers including Hypertext Theory and Computers and Writing, composition, scientific and technical communication, and literature, including a course titled Literature and Lore of the Upper Peninsula, among others. Over the course of her career, she has served in a variety of administrative positions including chair of the English Department and director of the writing center at Michigan Tech. Selfe's interview took place on May 19, 2013, in her office at Ohio State University. christine: Why aren't we studying ourselves as writers? We've studie