Dr. Jim Warren

For Faculty

Assistant Professor
English
Liberal Arts

UT Arlington Faculty

Jim Warren received his PhD in English with a concentration in Rhetoric and Writing from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. He earned an MA in English from the University of Virginia in 1999 and a BA in English from the University of Oklahoma in 1997. His research focuses on adolescent-to adult literacy, in particular the transition from high-school English Language Arts to postsecondary reading and writing. He also studies the rhetoric of academic disciplines, with a specific focus on the type of reading, writing, and thinking required of active scholars in English. He teaches undergraduate courses in honors freshman composition, the history and theory of rhetoric, and rhetoric and composition for pre-service high-school English teachers. He teaches graduate courses in writing assessment, argumentation theory, and the foundations of rhetoric and composition.

Service Learning Class

ENGL 5359: Argumentation Theory

The main objective and first priority of this course is to prepare Graduate Teaching Assistants at UT-Arlington to teach ENGL 1302, the University’s required first-year course in written argumentation. This course also provides students with the theoretical background to teach argument-based written composition in more advanced courses and at other postsecondary institutions. The course is strongly practical, with students completing the same major assignments as ENGL 1302 students, but also theoretical in that students draw on current research in rhetoric and composition to examine the ENGL 1302 curriculum.

Academic Outcomes

Analyze arguments from a variety of perspectives.
Develop argumentative essay assignments.
Complete typical ENGL 1302 argumentative essay assignments.
Assess their own and others’ argumentative essays.
Compose a course syllabus for ENGL 1302.

Service Learning Project

ENGL 5359: Argumentation Theory prepares graduate students to teach written argument at the postsecondary level, but the course often attracts graduate students who are full-time high-school teachers. To better meet the needs of these students/teachers and to maximize their professional development, I work with them outside of class to adapt curricular materials to their specific teaching situations.

Teams and responsibilities:

Sarah Shelton, Lake Ridge High School, Mansfield ISD

Kim Amyett, Grapevine High School, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD

Monica Prochnow, Amon-Carter Riverside High School, Ft. Worth ISD

Wendy Wood, UME Preparatory Academy, Dallas