Vicki Tolar Burton
125 Waldo Hall (WIC Office) (541)737-3711
354 Moreland Hall (English Office) (541)737-1663
vicki.tolarburton@orst.edu

Associate Professor of English
Director of the Writing Intensive Curriculum
Ph. D. Auburn University

Professor Tolar Burton directs the OSU Writing Intensive Curriculum Program and teaches courses in history of rhetoric, the teaching of writing, English grammar, eighteenth-century British literature, and literary theory.

She sits on the editorial board of Dialogue, A Journal for Writing Specialists and serves on the board of the National Writing Across the Curriculum Network.

Her articles and chapters on the teaching of writing and the writing process have appeared inWriting Across the Curriculum and the Academic Library (1995), Most Excellent Differences: Essays on Using Type Theory in the English Classroom (1997), Understanding Literacy: Personality Preference in Rhetorical and Psycholinguistic
Contexts (1997), Self-Assessment and Development in Writing (1999), Kentucky English Bulletin (Fall 1999, Spring 2000), Computers and Composition (Fall 2000), and Reflections on the Researching Processes (forthcoming). Her articles and chapters on eighteenth-century Methodist rhetoric have appeared in Rhetoric Review (Spring 1996), College English (May 1999), Listening to their Voices: The Rhetorical Activity of Historical Women (1997), and The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric (1999).

She is currently working on a book project, Spiritual Literacy: Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric in John Wesley's Methodism.