Dan Melzer
Professor and Director of First-Year Composition
University Writing Program
University of California, Davis
dlmelzer@ucdavis.edu


​About me:
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I'm the Director of First-Year Composition in the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis. I teach undergraduate composition courses and graduate courses in the theory and practice of teaching composition. I was formerly the University Reading and Writing Coordinator at California State University, Sacramento, where I directed the Writing Across the Curriculum Program and the University Reading and Writing Center for tutoring in reading and writing. My research ​interests include writing across the curriculum, writing program administration, and response and assessment. On this website you can find my vita, teaching philosophy, teaching portfolio, and information about my consulting services. 

I've published the monograph Assignments across the Curriculum (2014) and coauthored with Michelle Crow and Jeff Galin the book Sustainable WAC (2018) and with John Bean the third edition of the book Engaging Ideas (2021). You can find out more information about the Whole Systems Approach to building sustainable and transformational WAC programs on the Sustainable WAC website.

​Recently my research has focused on response and assessment. Data from my national study of teacher response, peer response, and student self-assessment across the curriculum in U.S. institutions of higher education is reported in my new book, Reconstructing Response to Student Writing: A National Study from Across the Curriculum, which will be published by Utah State University Press in spring 2023. I'm currently working on a book project that explores the impact of grading on students, teachers, and institutions through institutional ethnography. You can follow me on my Research Gate webpage to view my current and past research.   

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