Kendon Kurzer

Aug: 3- Sept. 11: Writing Center operations are modified Aug. 3-Sept. 11 due to construction on the fourth floor of the Teaching and Learning Complex. Consultations will be virtual and center staff will relocate to Room 1211 in the Teaching and Learning Complex. Read our update for details.

Lecturer

Voorhies 350
Office Hours
W 11:00-12:30 Zoom (https://usfca.zoom.us/j/81989894513), R 12:00-1:30

Research Areas:

Writing Across the Curriculum and multilingual writing, language/grammar support, multilingual writers in writing program administration contexts Select Research Publications: (2022). Accuracy gains from unfocused feedback: Dynamic Written Corrective Feedback as meaningful pedagogy. Journal of Language and Education. (2021). More than just grammar deficiencies: Moving faculty in the disciplines toward a difference-as-resource pedagogical paradigm. In E. Lee, N. Fahim, J. Johnson, and B. R. Schreiber (Eds.), Building a more linguistically just campus: Theory, pedagogy, and advocacy. (2018). Student perceptions of dynamic written corrective feedback in developmental multilingual writing classes. Journal of Response to Writing. (2018). Dynamic written corrective feedback in developmental ESL writing classes. TESOL Quarterly. Ferris, D. R., Evans, K., & Kurzer, K. (2017). Placement of multilingual writers: Is there a role for directed self-placement? Assessing Writing.

Teaching Areas:

Multilingual writing, writing in various disciplines/contexts (business, education, food science, nursing), antiracist pedagogies

Education:

Ph.D. in Education, Language, Literacy, and Culture, with an emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies, UC Davis

M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

B.A. in Linguistics