CURRICULUM VITAE


Ted Knoy, On-line Writing Lab Coordinator

Office Address
Planning and Marketing Division
Union Chemical Laboratories
Industrial Technology Research Institute
Section 2 No. 321
Kuang Fu Road
Hsinchu, Taiwan R.O.C. 300
tel.886 3 5732016

Home Address
Ta Hsueh Road
#50, 8F - 3
Hsinchu, Taiwan R.O.C. 300
Tel.886 3 5724895
e-mail:tedaknoy@ms11.hinet.net
URL:http://mx.nthu.edu.tw/~tedknoy

Biographical Data
Birthdate: September 20, 1965
Place of Birth: Shelbyville, Indiana (U.S.A.)
Citizenship: United States
Permanent resident of Taiwan

Responsibilities
 The On-line Writing Lab (OWL) Coordinator is responsible for encouraging faculty and students to use the OWL, providing pedagogical assistance for the faculty, developing and implementing an asynchronous learning based technical writing certificate program, designing distance learning language curricula for Ministry of Education approved courses (such as technical writing-graduate level, technical writing-undergraduate level, and technical oral presentations ) and intensive training (such as copyediting, technical correspondence, and research paper organization), and maintaining day-to-day operations. More specifically, the Coordinator is responsible for implementing the following services:

  • On-line and face-to-face tutoring. Native speaking English tutor(s) answer any questions via e-mail regarding writing, ranging from simple grammar to advice with a dissertation. More specifically, the OWL helps students and professors (a) understand an assignment, (b) generate ideas, (c) pre-write, (d) develop a thesis, (e) analyze an audience, (f) organize and develop ideas, (g) revise earlier drafts, (h) improve proofreading and editing skills, and (i) discover their own writing process. However, tutors do not proofread, edit, ghostwrite or research any writer's work.

  • Faculty services: Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC). The OWL encourages, implements, and facilitates the use of writing in courses throughout the university. The OWL Coordinator will be available online daily and for face-to-face consultation to help faculty members research writing in their disciplines, devise appropriate writing assignments for their courses, suggest a variety of evaluation approaches, and assist in locating further electronic sources for enhancing their courses. The OWL Coordinator will work with faculty members to adapt the OWL to fit their diverse needs.

  • Technical Writing Certificate: The OWL is developing a 8 unit-credit technical writing specialization delivered via asynchronous learning that introduces students to the technical writing profession and also provides them with tools relevant to a range of writing situations. While focusing on technical communication as a set of problem-solving strategies, the Technical Writing Certificate program provides students the opportunity to create a writing portfolio that demonstrates their strengths and abilities.

  • Curriculum development: The Chinese Technical Writers Series. In line with the Certificate of Technical Writing delivered on-line, the OWL develops technical writing curriculum materials for asynchronous-based learning, known as "The Chinese Technical Writers Series." The Series seeks to provide a sound technical writing curriculum and, on a more practical level, to provide valuable reference guides for Chinese technical and managerial professionals. The Series concentrates on aiding Chinese technical writers in the following areas:
    Writing style
    The books in the Series seek to transform archaic ways of writing (often result- ing from literally copying phrases from other texts) into a more active and direct writing style that makes the author's maid ideas easier to identify.
    Structure and content
    Another issue facing technical writers is how to organize the structure and contents of manuscripts and other common forms of writing in the workplace.
    Quality
    Technical writers must inevitably prepare their manuscripts to meet the expectations of editors, referees and reviewers, as well as to satisfy journal requirements. The books in this Series are prepared with these specific needs in mind.

  • In-service training: Ministry of Education approved technical writing course
    delivered by asynchronous learning. The OWL has developed a Ministry of Education approved technical writing course delivered by asynchronous learning that can be used as a tool in graduate level seminars to help doctorate students satisfy their English language requirements. Instead of teaching a course on technical writing, the OWL serves as a virtual English tutor assistant to the instructor of the graduate level seminar to ensure that a graduate student can organize, write and revise his or her thesis prior to graduation.

Education
PhD student at the School of Education,
the University of East Anglia
Norwich, England
Researching topics related to autonomy and independence in language learning as well as pedagogical issues related to teaching ESL writing via asynchronous learning

Masters of Public Administration, Spring 1989
American International College
Springfield, Massachusetts

Bachelors of Arts in History, Spring 1987
Franklin College of Indiana
Franklin, Indiana

Work Experience

Associate Researcher, Planning and Marketing Division
Union Chemical Laboratories/Industrial Technology Research Institute
1993-now

Responsible for developing language development materials and training as well as editing and proofreading of research papers and materials for international conferences

Created and coordinates an on-line writing center that provides on-line tutor and editing as well as distance learning curricula for Chinese authors of English manuscripts (1997-now)

Curriculum development consultant, C Web Technology
Innovation Incubator Center, National Tsing Hua University

Responsible for developing language development materials
1999-now

Publications - Books

  1. An English Style Approach for Chinese Technical Writers (1992) Taipei: Hua Hsian Yuan
  2. English Oral Presentations for Chinese Technical Writers (1994) Hsinchu: Industrial Technology Research Institute
  3. A Correspondence Manual for Chinese Technical Writers (1995) Hsinchu: Industrial Technology Research Institute
  4. An Editing Workbook for Chinese Technical Writers (2000) Hsinchu: C Web Technology
  5. Advanced Copyediting Practice for Chinese Technical Writers (2000) Hsinchu: C Web Technology

Publications - Articles

  1. "Overcoming Chinese-English Colloquial Habits in Writing" The Internet TESL Journal (Japan) (February 2000)
  2. "Introducing Technical Correspondence to an ESL Writing Class" The Chinese On-line Writing Lab (March 2000)
  3. "Editing for Conciseness and Clarity in an ESL Writing Class" The Chinese On-line Writing Lab (April 2000)
  4. "Increasing the Vocabulary Power of Chinese ESL Writers Through Contrastive Rhetoric" The Chinese On-line Writing Lab (May 2000)

Conference Presentations
Invited Speaker at the Annual Awards Presentation of Outstanding Technical and Scientific Journals sponsored by the National Science Council of the Republic of China. May 1996 Presentation title: "How to Promote the International Level of Domestic Technical and Scientific Journals in Taiwan"

Teaching Experience

Instructor of Technical Writing, National Chiao Tung University
Elective Course Division 1989-1991
Department of Information Management 1992 - now
Department of Communications Engineering 1997 - now

Have taught graduate students with engineering and scientific backgrounds how to organize, revise and prepare papers for publication.

Instructor of Technical Writing, National Tsing Hua University
Department of Chemical Engineering 1992-1994
Department of Chemistry 1994-1999
Department of Electrical Engineering 1994-1998
Department of Power Mechanical Engineering 1995-1996
Department of Computer Science 1999-now

Have taught graduate students with engineering and scientific backgrounds how to organize, revise and prepare papers for publication.

Professional References available upon request