Nancy Patterson

"ReadWriteThink is a marvelous resource for both my undergraduate and graduate students. It is extremely important for us all to understand that theory and research must ground classroom practice. What I particularly like about ReadWriteThink is that it clearly shows how each lesson relates to theory and research."

Nancy is assistant professor of Literacy Studies in the School of Education at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She also serves as Literacy Studies Program Coordinator. Nancy taught middle school and high school English for almost 30 years in a rural district in mid-Michigan. During her last years there, as she was working on her Ph.D. in English, Nancy became interested in technology integration into the language arts. She now serves as chair of NCTE's Assembly on Computers in English (ACE) and as the Technology Liaison for the Red Cedar Writing Project, a National Writing Project site at Michigan State University.

Nancy contributed the chapter “Join the E-Generation: Integrating Computers into the Writing Classroom” to the NCTE title Teaching Writing: Craft, Art, Genre (2005).