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My research agenda revolves around questions of how writing and the teaching of writing evolves due to technological changes. I position myself less as an advocate or critic of technological change and more as a reflective practitioner. I study and publish on a variety of related topics including, writing assessment, digital writing, artificial intelligence, multimedia composition, reflection, undergraduate research and mentoring, writing program administration, online writing instruction, and disability studies 

Writing Assessment and the Revolution in Digital Texts and Technologies

 

 
 
 
Written for a secondary and postsecondary audience of English language arts and writing teachers, this book provides frameworks for thinking about technologies as well as assessing new media writing.

Teachers College Press (2010)

“Grounding his inquiry in stories and humor, Michael Neal presents a lucid exploration of how technologies and assessments illuminate and shape each other. Remarkably, Neal blends a robust command of relevant theories with a deep reverence for the nuanced complexities of actual students and teachers working in specific learning contexts.”

—Bob Broad, professor of English, Illinois State University

Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Assessment

  • Neal, M. R. (forthcoming). “Following the North Star: Movement Toward Universal Writing Assessment Practices.” Journal of Writing Assessment.

  • Neal, M. R. (forthcoming). “Descriptive Evaluation: Providing Personalized Feedback and Grades on Students’ Multimodal Compositions.” In Gavin P. Johnson, Ashanka Kumari, and Shane A. Wood (Eds.), Made Not Only in Grades: Multimodal Assessment in the Social Justice Turn. Computers and Composition Digital Press.

  • Neal, M. (2016). The Perils of Standing Alone: Reflective Writing in Relationship to Other Texts. In Yancey, K.B. (Ed.), The Rhetoric of Reflection (pp. 19). Utah State UP.

  • Neal, M. R. (2010). "Review Essay: Assessment in the Service of Learning." College Composition and Communication, 61.4, 746-758.

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Multimodal Composition and Digital Archiving

  • Orchard, A, Neal, M., Wimberly, A., & Ayers, A. (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/books/perspectives/better/

  • Wimberly, A., & Ayers, A., Neal, M., Orchard, A. (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/books/perspectives/better/

  • Neal, M. (2017). 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 (pp. 15). SUNY.

  • Neal, M., Bridgman, K. T., & McElroy, S. (2016). "'Many Happy Returns': Student Archivists as Curators of Public Memory." In Grobman, L., & Greer, J. (Eds.), Pedagogies of Public Memory: Teaching Writing and Rhetoric at Museums, Archives, and Memorials (pp. 117-131). Routledge Press. 

  • Neal, M. R., Bridgman, K. T., & McElroy, S. J. (2013). Meaning-Making at the Intersections: Developing a Digital Archive for Multimodal Research. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy, 17.3, 30. Retrieved from http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/17.3/topoi/neal-et-al/index.html​

 

Writing Program Administration and Online Writing Instruction

  • Neal, M. R., Gresham, M., & Enoch, J. “Invention.” (forthcoming). Kathleen Blake Yancey A to Z: Festschrift in a New Key [video article].

  • Neal, M., Stark, K., Cicchino, A., Healy, M., & Albert K. (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.

  • Neal, M. R., Stark, K., & Cicchino, A. (2021). More than replication: Online pedagogy informing face-to-face writing instruction. In Will Banks, & Susan Spangler (Eds.), English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities (pp. 16). Clemson, SC: Parlor Press.​
 
Undergraduate Research and Mentoring
  • Palmer, R., Hunt, A., Neal, M., & Wuetherick, B. (2018). Mentored undergraduate research: A multi-institutional investigation of students' perceptions of identity shifts within this learning sphere. In Maureen Vandermass-Peeler, Paul C. Miller, and Jessie Moore (Ed.), Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research (pp. 20). Counsel of Undergraduate Research.
  • Palmer, R., Hunt, A., Neal, M., & Wuetherick, B. (2018). A Closer Look at Mentored Undergraduate Research: Students' Perceptions of its Influence on Identity Development. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR), 2.2, 11. Retrieved from https://www.cur.org/what/publications/journals/spur/issues/
  • Palmer, R., Hunt, A., Neal, M., & Wuetherick, B. (2015). Mentoring, Undergraduate Research and Identity Development: An Integrative Conceptual Review and Research Agenda. Mentoring and Teaching: Partnership in Learning, 17. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13611267.2015.1126165​​​​​​

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