Joseph M. Moxley - Joe Moxley

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BIO

Joseph M. Moxley, Ph.D., is a professor of English at the University of South Florida (USF). Academic CV.

Books

In his role as a professor Moxley has written, coauthored, or edited the following books:

  1. Fox, E., Moxley, J., Feizabadi, S., & Weisser, C. (2004). Electronic theses and dissertations. CRC Press.
  2. Gale, F., & Moxley, J. (1992). How to write the winning brief. American Bar Association.3.
  3. Kirklighter, C., Vincent, C., & Moxley, J. (Eds.). (1997). Voices & visions: Refiguring ethnography in composition. Heinemann.
  4. Moxley, J. (1992). Publish, don't perish: The scholar's guide to academic writing & publishing. Greenwood Press.
  5. Moxley, J. (2014). 成功發表論文，讓您獨占鰲頭 [Successfully publish your paper and stand out as the best] Greenwood Press.
  6. Moxley, J. (1994). Becoming an academic writer: A modern rhetoric. D.C. Heath.
  7. Moxley, J. (2000). Web of danger. Saint Gaudens Press.
  8. Moxley, J. (2003). College writing online. Pearson Education.
  9. Moxley, J. (Ed.). (1989). Creative writing in America: Theory and pedagogy. National Council of Teachers of English.
  10. Moxley, J. (Ed.). (in press). Creative writing in America: Theory and pedagogy [Chinese translation]. Creative Writing Research Institute of Shanghai University.
  11. Moxley, J., & Fox, E. (Eds.). (2001). The guide for electronic theses and dissertations. UNESCO. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1162&context=eng_facpub
  12. Moxley, J., & Gale, F. (1993). Teaching legal writing: A modern rhetorical approach. American Bar Association.
  13. Moxley, J., & Lenker, L. T. (Eds.). (1995). The politics and processes of scholarship. Greenwood.
  14. Moxley, J., & Taylor, T. (Eds.). (1997). Writing and publishing for academic authors (2nd ed.). Rowman & Littlefield. Moxley, J., Vieregge, Q., Stedman, K., & Mitchell, T. (2012). Agency in the age of peer production. National Council of Teachers of English.

Articles

Additionally, Moxley has published peer-reviewed articles on a wide range of topics, including agency, datagogies, corpus linguistics and big data, composing, writing pedagogy, creativity, learning communities, assessment, writing analytics, peer production and participatory learning, open education, scholarly publishing, electronic theses and dissertations, ethnography, and research methodologies.

Awards

  1. Professor Moxley has been awarded the
  2. John Lovas Award. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 2023
  3. Teaching and Learning Innovator Award. Campus Technology. 2016
  4. Writing Program Certificate of Excellence Award. College Composition and Communication & NCTE, 2011/2012
  5. Distinguished Book Award for College Writing Online. Computers and Composition. 2004
  6. Microsoft Scholar Award ($100,000). Microsoft Corporation. 2000

Teaching

Since joining the USF faculty, Professor Moxley has directed or served on 55 theses and dissertation committees, with his students achieving significant accomplishments, including publishing books, receiving endowed chair positions, and serving as departmental leaders. At the graduate level, he has taught courses such as composition theory, research methods, rhetoric and technology, and scholarly publishing. Currently, he teaches Writing with AI and Research Methods in Professional and Technical Communication, and Professional Writing.

Professor Moxley has been awarded four university-wide awards for exemplary undergraduate teaching:

  1. USF President's Award for Faculty Excellence, 2003
  2. USF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1996
  3. USF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1993
  4. USF Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 1990

Grants

Moxley has been awarded grants from NSF ICORPS, NSF PRIME, NSF SBIR, and the Department of Education (FIPSE). His contributions to educational technology were also recognized through the Microsoft Scholar Award, which included a $55,000 gift and a $50,000 in-kind contribution from Microsoft Corporation.

Writing Program Administration

Moxley directed the first-year writing program at USF between 2003 and 2018. Under Professor Moxley's leadership, the writing program received the CCCC (College Composition and Communication) Certificate of Excellence Award.

My Reviewers

Professor Moxley founded My Reviewers, a software application, with the goal of improving response to writing, peer review, and writing-program assessment. To help develop My Reviewers, Moxley secured $3.4M in funding from NSF and revenue funds to develop the project. By 2018, MyReviewers was used by approximately 18,000 students at USF and another 10,000 students at other universities, including MIT, Dartmouth, Penn, NCSU, Tartu.

Writing Commons

Additionally, as an act of public service, Moxley has self-published numerous articles at Writing Commons, an open education resource (OER) designed to support writing teachers, students, professional writers, and the broader public. The project, which provides free and accessible content on writing, has been accessed by over 15 million users worldwide, making a significant contribution to the democratization of knowledge and education.

For Moxley, Writing Commons is an exploration of

  • the affordances and constraints of digital tools for writers.
  • authorship, agency, and self publication (Moxley 2013, June 17; Vieregge et al. 2012)
  • commons-based peer production (Benkler 2006; Vieregge et al. 2012)
  • open education, copyright, and intellectual property (Moxley 2013).

Major topics at Writing Commons include