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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

Argumentation and Persuasion; Literacy Narratives; Critical Analysis; Research Writing

Research areas

Reading, Genre, English for Academic Purposes, Student Plagiarism

Education

PhD, Rhetoric, Composition, and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona, United States
MA, English with an Emphasis in Literacy, Technology, and Professional Writing, Northern Arizona University, United States
BA, Liberal Arts, St. John's College, United States

Professional experience

Writing Instructor at University of Arizona, United States(2013 - 2018)
Writing Instructor at Arizona Western College, United States(2009 - 2012)

Memberships

College Composition and Communication - present
College Reading and Learning Association - present
Middle Eastern and North Africa Writing Centers Association - present

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2637

Dr. Rachel Buck

Assistant Professor
PhD in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English, University of Arizona, USA

Rachel Buck has taught in writing programs for almost 10 years at various institutions including Arizona Western College and the University of Arizona. Her areas of teaching and research interests include reading and literacy studies, genre pedagogies, professional and technical writing, writing program administration and first-year composition. Prior to her academic career, she worked as a librarian at various libraries in the US including the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

Publications

Christine Tardy, Rachel Buck, Brad Jacobson, Madelyn Palowski, Jennifer Slinkard, “It’s Complicated and Nuanced”: Teachers’ Perspectives on Genre-focused Instruction in FYW, Revising to Resubmit, Research in the Teaching of English, 2020
N Kaddoura, Philip McCarthy, Rachel Buck, A Thomas, Khawlah Ahmed, Counter-Argument Integration and Associated Metadiscourse Features, In Preparation; Not Yet Submitted, English for Academic Purposes
Philip McCarthy, A Al-Harthy, Rachel Buck, Khawlah Ahmed, Nick Duran, A Thomas, N Kaddoura, A Graesser, Introducing Auto-Peer: A Computational Tool Designed to Provide Automated Feedback, Revising to Resubmit, Asian ESP Journal
Tammy Gregersen, Peter MacIntyre, Rachel Buck, Using character strengths to address English writing anxiety: A mixed methods study, Submitted, Theory and Practice in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
Rachel Buck, Nalan Kenny, Elvan Eda Işık-Taş, Huang Jian, Undergraduate students’ expectations of persuasion and argumentation: A pilot study at a Middle Eastern university, Published, pp. 27-52, 2020
Rachel Buck, “Understanding Purpose(s): Connecting Students' Metacognitive Awareness of Genre and Reading Practices, Accepted, Currents in Teaching and Learning, 11, 1, pp. 20-34, 2019
Rachel Buck, Susan Miller-Cochran, Advocating Together: Pros and Cons of Cross-Rank Collaboration as a Strategy for Advocacy, Revising to Resubmit, 2018

Conference Presentations

Rachel Buck, Reading with a Purpose: Engineering Students' Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies, International Conference on Writing in STEM, Sharjah, Ash Shariqah, November, 2019
Rachel Buck, Undergraduate Students’ Expectations of Persuasion and Argumentation: A Pilot Study at a Middle Eastern University, International English for Specific Purposes Conference, Liverpool, United Kingdom, November, 2019
Rachel Buck, Building a Metacognitive Awareness of Genre and Reading Practices, United Arab Emirates University Writing Symposium, Al Ain, October, 2018

Grants and sponsorships

AUS Seed Grant, American University of Sharjah

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