Published Academic Writing
and other fine writing
"Writing-in-Action: Preliminary Results from a New Method of Teaching Technical Writing" analyzes the preliminary introduction of Writing-in-
Action during the 2019-20 academic year and fall 2020 semester in three settings: a senior level “bookend” sustainability seminar, a first-year introduction to sustainability course, and a first-year English class.
Bruce Goff's Bavinger House was an icon of 20th century architecture; Ray Bradbury's House was a modest house but the home of one of the 20th century's most important writers. Each of these houses was demolished in the early 21st century. What can we learn from these parallel stories?
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Can technical writing be better taught by following the model of the architecture studio, or what Donald Schon calls the "reflective practitioner"? This paper is an introduction to a proposed research project that will test that thesis.
Writing-in-Action: Teaching Technical Writing Through the Lens of the Reflective Practitioner
Starting with the 1973 oil embargo, this paper looks at the history of teaching energy in architecture, making the case that the technical or "informational" barrier has been removed by advances in software.
Many universities are looking to diversify their faculty, but the work of diverse faculty members does not always fit the model of "standard" scholarship. Presented to the 2018 Conference of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), this paper argues that recognizing Ernest L. Boyer's call for public scholarship would help young, diverse scholars.
"At the Vital Center: The Small Town Studio at Ferris State University," © 2017 by Paul W. Long and me, argues that the Small Town Studio at Ferris State University serves the service-learning mission of architecture programs envisioned by Ernest L. Boyer and Lee D. Mitgang in their report Building Community: A New Future for Architectural Education and Practice.
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How can universities defend objective truth? One path could be endorsing a "scholarship of reporting."
Scholarship Reconsidered for the Post Truth Era
What kind of scholarship should Facility Management faculty pursue? This question is addressed in my paper "FM Scholarship in the University Community: Building on Boyer and Schon" published in the IFMA Academic and Research (A&R) Track Proceeding 2016 (but not currently available from IFMA).
What is the role of expertise in the age of Big Data? Using the field of architecture as the primary frame of reference, this paper published in Cogent Social Sciences looks at the problem of Big Data, junk data, and the necessity of an expert to make critical decisions.
Building on Ernest Boyer's expanding concept of scholarship, this paper argues for the creation of three new forms of university scholarship: the scholarship of design, the scholarship of reporting, and the scholarship of speculation. "Enriching Architectural Scholarship by Building on Boyer" is published in the proceedings of the 103rd Annual Meeting of the ACSA.