Michael Neal
MICHAEL NEAL, Associate Professor, Ph.D. University of Louisville (2001), M.A. Ball State University (1994), B.A. Taylor University (1993). Neal's research interests explore the intersections of composition, writing assessment, and digital technologies. His current research includes a book project on generative artificial intelligence as well as articles and chapters on a range of digital writing and assessment topics: disabilities and assessment, online writing instruction, reflective writing, digital narratives, undergraduate research, and digital archives. Neal teaches undergraduate courses in the Editing, Writing, and Media track of the English major and graduate courses in digital composition, visual rhetoric, research methods, and writing program administration. He serves on the Artificial Intelligence in Education Advisory Committee at FSU and is currently the Chief Reader for Advanced Placement (AP) English Language and Composition.
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
- Orchard, Amory, Neal, Michael, Wimberly, Ashleah, & Ayers, Amanda. (2024). “Open-Media Assignment Design to Address Access and Accessibility in Online Multimodal Composition.” In Amy Cicchino and Troy Hicks (Eds.), Better Practices: Experts Explain How They Teach Writing Online. WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/better/chapter12.pdf
- Wimberly, Ashleah, Ayers, Amanda, Neal, Michael, and Orchard, Amory. (2024). “Scaffolding for Collaboration and Multimodal Assignments.” In Amy Cicchino and Troy Hicks (Eds.), Better Practices: Experts Explain How They Teach Writing Online. WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/docs/books/better/chapter4.pdf
- Neal, Michael, Stark, Katelyn, Cicchino Amy, Healy, Michael, and Albert, Kamila (2023). “Institutional matters: The localized conditions of WPA labor.” In Leigh Graziano, Kay Halasek, Susan Miller-Cochran, Frank Napolitano, and Natalie Szymanski (Eds.), Making Administrative Work Visible: Data-Driven Approaches to Understanding the Labor of Writing Program Administration (pp. 185-203). Louisville, CO: University of Colorado Press. https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/6312-making- administrative-work-visible
- Neal, Michael, Stark, Katelyn, and Cicchino, Amy. (2021). “More than replication: Online pedagogy informing face-to-face writing instruction.” In Will Banks, and Susan Spangler (Eds.), English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities (pp. 16). Clemson, SC: Parlor Press.
- Neal, Michael. (2018). “Digital Portraits: Engaging Students in Personal Essay Writing through Video Composition.” In Laura A. Gray-Rosendale (Ed.), Getting Personal: Teaching Personal Writing in the Digital Age. SUNY.
- Neal, Michael. (2016). “The Perils of Standing Alone: Reflective Writing in Relationship to Other Texts in Portfolio Assessment.” In Kathleen Blake Yancey, (Ed.), A Rhetoric of Reflection. Utah State UP.
- Neal, Michael, Bridgman, Katherine, and McElroy, Stephen. (2015). “Many Happy Returns: Student Archivists as Curators of Public Memory.” In Laurie Grobman and Jane Greer (Eds). Pedagogies of Public Memory: Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Archives, and Memorials. Routledge Press.
- Neal, Michael, Bridgman, Katherine, and McElroy, Stephen. (2013). "Meaning Making at the Intersections: Developing a Digital Archive for Multimodal Research" with Katherine T. Bridgman and Stephen McElroy. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 17.3 (Summer 2013). http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/17.3/topoi/neal-et-al/index.html
- Neal, Michael. (2010). Writing Assessment and the Revolution in Digital Texts and Technologies. NY: Teachers College Press.
Awards
- Computers and Composition Michelle Kendrick Outstanding Digital Production/Scholarship Award. 2013.
- The Ralph Stair Prize for Innovative Education, Florida State University Teaching Award. 2013.
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