Wendy Olson

About Wendy Olson

I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric and composition. I also serve as the Director of Composition and oversee Writing Assessment on the Vancouver campus.

Research

Broadly, my research and publications focus on writing transfer and writing in the disciplines, social justice writing pedagogies, and cultural rhetorics.

Select Publications

Inoue, Asoue, Wendy Olson, and Siskanna Naynaha, editors. In Memoria: Essays in honor of Victor Villanueva. Studies in Writing & Rhetoric. NCTE, 2024.

Kim, Dave, Aref Majdara, and Wendy Olson. “A Pilot Study Inquiring into the Impact of ChatGPT on Lab Report Writing in Introductory Engineering Labs.” International Journal of Technology in Education 7.2 (2024): 259-289.

Olson, Wendy, and Dave Kim. “An Exploratory Study of Far Transfer: Understanding Writing Transfer from First-Year Composition to Engineering Writing-in-the Major Courses.” Across the Disciplines 18.3-4 (2022).

Kim, Dave, and Wendy M. Olson. “Using a transfer-focused writing pedagogy to improve undergraduates’ lab report writing in gateway engineering laboratory courses.” IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication 63.1 (2020): 64-84.

Olson, Wendy. “Economies of Composition: Mapping Transnational Writing Programs in U.S. Community Colleges.” Transnational Writing Program Administration. Ed. David Martins. Provo: Utah State University Press, 2015. 289-306.

Margot Soven, Dolores Lehr, Siskanna Naynaha, and Wendy Olson, editors. Linked Courses for General Education and Integrative Learning: A Guide for Faculty and Administrators. Stylus Press, 2012.

“The Politics of Pedagogy: The Outcomes Statement and Basic Writing.” The WPA Outcomes Statement: A Decade Later. Eds, Nicholas Behm, Gregory Glau, Deborah Holdstein, Duane Roen, and Edward M. White. Anderson SC: Parlor Press, 2012. 18-44.

 “The Shape of a Mother’: Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Feminist Rhetoric in Cyberspace.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 19 (Summer 2009).