» Mr. Doug Sweet

Instructor, Director, Undergraduate Writing Program

Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of English

Office:

DH 133

Office Hours:

M/W/F 9-11 a.m., T 9 a.m.-12 p.m.

Phone:

(714) 744-7060

Email:

dsweet@chapman.edu

Education

Oregon State University, Bachelor of Science
Oregon State University, Master of Arts in English

Biography

M.A., Oregon State University

Doug Sweet is Director of Undergraduate Writing. His published articles focus on epistemology, rhetorical theory and academic labor. Professor Sweet is co-author, with Jeanne Gunner, of Grounds for Writers (Pearson 2008) and author of Contexts & Choices: a guide to practical writing (Kendall-Hunt 2012). His research interests of examining ideological literacies in El Salvador resulted in a documentary film, Futuro en Comunidad (2006).  Professor Sweet has been the recipient of several outstanding teaching awards in his career and contributes frequently to national and international conferences in his field.

Recent Publications:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter: "Released from the Ghosts of Platonic Idealism" (2012)  

 

Forum in Identity: College English. March, 2011.

Contexts & Choices: A Guide to Practical Writing. Kendall-Hunt Publishing 2011.

Grounds for Writers: Critical Perspectives in Reading, co-authored with Jeanne Gunner; Pearson, 2008.

"Blinded by the Enlightenment" in Learning to Argue in Higher Education. Ed. Sally Mitchell and Richard Andrews. Heinemann, 2000.

"When Language is Just Another Commodity" in Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village. Ed. C. Jan Swearingen. Erlbaum, 1999.

Futuro En Comunidad, a 41 minute documentary that traces the development of cooperative communities at the sites of civil war massacres in El Salvador.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

Contexts & Choices: A Guide to Practical Writing. Kendall-Hunt.

College English. March 2011. Selected scholar for Special Issue of journal.