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Dr. Dan Fraizer

Dan Fraizer has been teaching writing courses and directing writing support activities at Springfield College since 1995. For ten years, he directed the Writing Center, training and supporting student tutors who worked one-on-one with all students at the College. He also introduced Writing Studio to the College, a nationally recognized alternative to basic or remedial writing courses. He has led many Writing Across the Curriculum initiatives at the College that have included writing workshops and writing policy changes.

Dr. Fraizer has long been interested in the political and social uses of writing as they affect people in their communities and the way writing is taught at the college level. His research on writing textbooks and alternatives to textbooks has appeared in The Writing Instructor, Michigan Academician, Teaching English in the Two Year College, and The Politics of Writing in the Two-Year College. His service learning requirements in his Springfield College writing courses led to publications in The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning and The Literacy Connection. His critique of the Massachusetts Tests of Educational Licensure (MTEL) appeared in The Journal of Writing Assessment. His most recent publication examines the use of writing assignments related to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and will appear in the online journal Composition Forum in January 2009.