Stephen Witte

Stephen Witte (1943-2004) was founding editor of Written Communication^[1], one of the leading journals of writing research and served as Editor in Chief until his death^[2]. He was also a major scholar and theorist in writing studies. His final academic position was the Knight Professor of Composition Theory at Kent State University. He was previously a professor at the University of Texas at Austin^[2]. Among his over seventy publications were a co-authored book (with Lester Faigley) on evaluation of university writing instruction and programs^[3], an article on topicalization patterns in writing which won the Richard Braddock Memorial Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication^[4], and a co-written article (with Chris Haas) on writing in the workplace which won the National Council of Teachers of English 2001 award for Best Research Article^[5].

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