Associate Professor of English
Director, Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC)
Office
354 Moreland Hall (English Department)
125B Waldo Hall (WIC)
Phone
541-737-1663 (English Department)
541-737-3711 (WIC)
Email
vicki.tolarburton@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. Auburn University 1993
M.A.T. Duke University 1968
B.A. Wake Forest University 1967
Areas of specialization
History of Rhetoric, Teaching of Writing, Writing Across the Curriculum, Eighteenth/Nineteenth
Century British Literature
Selected publications
Spiritual Literacy in John Wesley's Methodism: Reading, Writing,
and Speaking to Believe (Book project in progress).
"'Something for the People to Read': John Wesley's Book Invenetory,
1791." John Wesley: Life, Legend, ad Legacy. Ed. Jeremy
Gregory. Manchester, UK: University of Manchester Press (Forthcoming).
"John Wesley and the Liberty to Speak." College Composition
and Communication. 53 (September 2001): 65-91.
"Investigating the Practices of Student Researchers: Patterns of
Use and Criteria for Use of Internet and Library Source." Computers
and Composition. 17.3 (Fall 2000): 309-28 (with Scott Chadwick).
"The Speaker Respoken: Material Rhetoric as Feminist Methodology."
College English, 61 (May 1999).
"The Account of Hester Rogers: Rhetorical Functions of a
Methodist Mystic's Journal." New Directions in Women's Rhetoric.
Ed. Christine Sutherland (1999).
"Freewriting in the Middle of Things: Self-Help for Writers Across
the Curriculum." Self-Assessment and Development in Writing.
Eds. Kathleen Blake Yancey and Jane Bowman Smith (1999).
"Personality and Reading Response Journals." Understanding
Literacy: Personality Preference in Rhetorical and Psycholinguistic
Contexts. Eds. Alice Horning and Ron Sudol (1997).
"Picturing the Writing Process: Personality Clues to a Pedagogy
of Library Research." Most Excellent Differences: Essays on
Using Type Theory in the English Classroom. Ed. Tom Thompson (1997).
"Women's Voices and Women's Silence in the Tradition of Early Methodism."
Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical
Women. Ed. Molly Meijer Wertheimer (1997).
"Walking in Light, Walking in Darkness: The Story of Women's Changing
Rhetorical Space in Early Methodism." Rhetoric Review, 14
(Spring 1996): 336-54.
Rielly, Loretta, Sarah Beasley, Vicki Collins, Danielle Fagan, Christopher
Langdon, and Janet Webster.
"Case Study: Oregon State University," Writing Across the
Curriculum and the Academic Library. Ed. Jean Sheridan. (1995).
"Personality Type and Collaborative Writing." Collaborative
Technical Writing: Theory and Practice. Eds. Richard Louth and Ann
Martin Scott. Minneapolis: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing,
(1989): 111-116.