SUU ENGL 1010 Introduction to Academic Writing

About the Professor

    After finishing her Master of Science Degree in "theory of writing" at Utah State University,  Dr. Julie Clark Simon left her position of city editor of the Logan (Utah) Herald Journal  and her 12-year career as a reporter and editor to join the SUU faculty in 1989 as a composition specialist.  Formerly the departmental director of composition,  Dr. Simon now directs the writing center, a program which she initiated in 1993. Her writing center work provided the background for her doctoral dissertation on the possibilities of  conducting collaborative research in a writing center setting.   Dr. Simon earned her PhD in English in 2002 from New Mexico State University.

    Dr. Simon presented papers on her research at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in 2003, 2005,and 2008 and at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in 2004, 2005, and 2006.  She and a team of SUU Writing Center tutors have presented papers at the Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference for the past three years. Last March, she led the SUU Writing Center in hosting the Peer Tutoring Conference.

    The associate professor has served on the Faculty Senate and on the  English Department's Assessment Committee.  She also has been a member of  the Journal advisory board and a recent member of the Departmental Curriculum Committee and the University Institutional Effectiveness Committee. Among her departmental responsibilities include programs that emphasize collaboration between SUU and area high schools, including the annual high school creative writing conference, which she took a major role in initiating three years ago. Her recent publications include "'Tutorizing' Certification Programs," which was featured in The Writing Lab Newsletter (January 2009). Another of Dr. Simon's essays, “Voiceprinting—How Its Failures Speak," which appeared in an anthology entitled Negotiating a Meta-Pedagogy (February 2009).

    Her past service has also included work on the State Writing Taskforce, the HSS Subcommittee on  Accreditation, and the First Year Program Committee and the  Academic Computer Users Committee, which she chaired 2003-2004.  In the past, her credits have included the Utah Literary Board, the state General Education Standards Writing Subcommittee, the campus General Education Revision Committee, SUU Faculty Senate.  She has won the Utah Arts Council's Original Writing Contest in the personal essay (first place) and short story (second place) categories.  In 1995-97, she successfully wrote a $100,000 technology grant and collaborated with USU and Salt Lake Community College to create an on-line composition course.

    A native Montanan,  she is married to Duane Simon, a house designer. The two have more cats than they want to admit to in a public forum.