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Danielle Zawodny Wetzel

Teaching Professor
Director of Writing & Communication Program

Bio

Danielle Zawodny Wetzel focuses on teacher training, curriculum design and assessment for first-year writing. Her work centers on helping linguistically diverse students make mindful, data-informed and culturally aware writing choices. She is especially interested in how to support and assess the rhetorical reasoning behind those choices.

Each spring, Dr. Wetzel teaches Theory and Design of Writing Instruction, a core course for English Ph.D. students who teach first-year writing. She also teaches a range of first-year writing courses, including shorter “mini” courses designed to support students in their transition to college writing.

Currently, Dr. Wetzel collaborates with the DocuScope team (Dave Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Necia Werner and David Brown) on ways to adapt a research-based tool into a learner-centered classroom resource. This partnership informs much of her recent research.

As the writing program administrator, she leads the university’s foundational writing and communication courses and works closely with Core Competencies initiatives to keep these courses relevant to students’ needs across campus.

Her approach is shaped by years of professional service, including serving as chair of the College Board’s AP Language & Composition Test Development Committee and chair of the Second Language Writing Interest Section for TESOL.

Education

Ph.D., Â鶹´å

M.A., Kent State University

B.A., Grove City College