About the Author

Tricia Serviss is associate director of entry level writing in the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis. She has published articles in Writing Pedagogy, College English, Assessing Writing, and Across the Disciplines and chapters in Crossing Borders, Drawing Boundaries: The Rhetoric of Lines across America and The Handbook of Academic Integrity. Current research projects include a longitudinal study of first-generation college student STEM major literacy practices and longitudinal study of a transdisciplinary faculty development team leading a writing and research initiative to strengthen undergraduate learning. She is a principal researcher of the Citation Project (citationproject.net).

Sandra Jamieson is professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Drew University. She co-edited Information Literacy: Research and Collaboration Across the Disciplines, and Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum (winner of the WPA Best Book Award), and is co-author of The Bedford Guide to Writing in the Disciplines. A Citation Project principal researcher, she has also published on various aspects of student writing.

Reviews

"Makes an indispensable contribution to revitalizing data-driven research in writing studies by rethinking RAD research as a distributed process for collectively making transcontextual knowledge from local studies. All students of method should heed this book's call for transparency in reporting research processes."
—Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Emeritus Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Syracuse University

“For over a decade, the Citation Project has stood at the center of writing studies. In this excellent new volume, the editors conceptualize source-based research structured in new ways that invite us to deepen our contextual understanding of student literacy. Points of Departure is a landmark volume that will be a welcome addition to our field.”
—Norbert Elliot, Research Professor, University of South Florida