Empowering Students with Choice in the First Year

Elizabeth Hildinger teaches in the Program in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a Ph.D. in old english philology and Anglo-Latin from the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto and an M.A. in linguistics from the University of Texas. Before joining the staff of the Program in Technical Communication, she worked as a Research Scientist on the University of Michigan’s Middle English Dictionary Project and as an Assistant Professor of English at Indiana State University. She is interested in rhetorical grammar and in the special concerns of engineering students writing in English as a second language.