Faculty & Staff : Lucas Niiler

Associate Professor Luke Niiler received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1995. His teaching interests include graduate and undergraduate composition, creative nonfiction, and J.R.R. Tolkien. His research interests include writing center assessment and environmental ethics in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. He is currently working on a book-length study that uses statistical analysis to examine tutoring processes and outcomes.

Articles

"Grounds for Growth: A Territorialist Perspective on Graduate Students in the Writing Center." In (E)Merging Identities: Working with Graduate Students in the Writing Center, edited by Melissa Nicolas. Forthcoming on Fountainhead Press.

With David Beams, "How Engineering Students Learn to Write:  Third-Year Findings from the Engineering Writing Initiative."  Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. June 2007.

With David Beams, "How Engineering Students Learn to Write: The Second Year of the Engineering Writing Initiative at the University of Texas at Tyler." Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. June 2006.

"Tolkien, Leopold, and the Land Ethic." In Proceedings from the Tolkien Society Annual Conference. August 2005.

With David Beams, "Preliminary Findings of the Engineering Writing Initiative at the University of Texas at Tyler: A Longitudinal Study of How Engineers Learn to Write." Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. June 2005.

"The Numbers Speak (Again): A Continued Statistical Analysis of Writing Center Outcomes." January 2005. 13-15.

With David Beams, "Improving Technical Writing Through Published Standards: The University of Texas at Tyler Electrical Engineering Laboratory Style Guide." Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education. June 2004.

"Timely, Again: Tolkien's Fantastic Ecology." Academic Exchange Quarterly 7:4. Winter 2003. 97-101.

Review of The Call to Write by John Trimbur. NY: Longman, 2002. In inReview [sic] 1:1. Fall 2003. Available at www.asu.edu/inreview; follow the "Big Books" link.

"The Numbers Speak: A Pre-Test of Writing Center Outcomes using Statistical Analysis." The Writing Lab Newsletter. March 2003. 6-9.

"Green Reading: Tolkien, Leopold and the Land Ethic." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 10:3. Winter 2000. 276-285.

"Adjunct Advocacy: The Articulation of Ethical Hiring Practices." Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing. Fall 2003. Available at www.bedfordstmartins.com/lore; follow the "archives" link.

With Linda Bergmann, "Problem-Posing Learning in the Computer Writing Classroom." Computer Enhanced Learning: Vignettes of Best Practices. David G. Brown, editor. Bolton, MA: Anker. (2000). 229-232.