Ocotillo Textbook & Technology Day 2005

Mike Palmquist (author for Bedford/St. Martins Publishers)

Mike Palmquist is a Professor of English and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he directs the composition program and co-directs the Center for Research on Writing and Communication Technologies. His scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and the use of hypertext/hypermedia in instructional settings.

His work has appeared in journals including Computers and Composition, Written Communication, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Engineering Education, Kairos, Council of College Teachers of English Studies, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. He coordinates the development of Writing@CSU, the University's Online Writing Center and is the founding editor of Academic.Writing, a refereed journal focusing on interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across the curriculum. He also coordinates the Online Writing Center Consortium.

He is the co-author, with Kate Kiefer, Jake Hartvigsen, and Barbara Godlew, of Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms, published in 1998 by Ablex, and co-author, with Don Zimmerman, of Writing with a Computer, published in 1999 by Allyn and Bacon. He is the author of The Bedford Researcher, a research-writing handbook published in August 2002, with a second edition to be published in December 2005. Other Bedford/St. Martin's books include Writing by Design, and a forthcoming brief rhetoric. In addition to Bedford/St. Martin's books, he has been active in the design of software and associated WWW sites, both for the books and as a general resource for Bedford/St. Martin's, he has also authored The Bedford Research Room WWW site.