Sandra Jamieson is the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Drew University, overseeing the course-embedded undergraduate Writing Fellows Program that anchors Drew’s vertical writing curriculum.  She teaches in the Writing and Communication Studies track of the English major, including authorship studies, digital writing, writing for Wikipedia, travel writing, Intro. to Writing & Communication Studies, WAC tutor pedagogy, and the capstone course for all English majors. At the graduate level, she teaches in the “Teaching in the Two-Year College” and “Teaching Writing” concentrations of the Doctor of Letters Program, and works with students earning a Graduate Certificate in Teaching Writing. She also leads study abroad courses, facilitates international service trips with the Drew Honduras Project, and works with Drew’s Civic Scholars program, including teaching a Drew Seminar on the complexities of civic engagement. In Fall 2024 she will be the Resident Director of Drew’s Semester in London.

Recent publications include “Patchwriting, Plagiarism, Pedagogy: Definitions and Implications” (in Handbook of Academic Integrity, 2023), “The AI “Crisis” and a Return to Pedagogy.” (in Composition Studies 50.3, Fall 2022);  and “Developing and Managing Collaborative Scholarly Projects” (with Rebecca Moore Howard) in MLA’s Publishing and Scholarly Communication in the Humanities (MLA, 2022). She is working on a book about the pedagogical implications of artificial intelligence.

Sandra is a principal investigator of the Citation Project (a collaborative, multi-site, data-based study of college students’ use of sources in researched writing), and a co-researcher and US coordinator of the Partnership on University Plagiarism Prevention [PUPP] (a seven-year international research project exploring the ways college students select and use digital sources in written texts–in French and English–funded by a Partnership Grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council). Research is underway — more to come! 

Concern about the erosion of tenure & shared governance, Florida HB999. AAUP +MLA joint statement  MLA statement.

For more details on scholarship & research, see Academic Biography.