WILLIAM
P. PEIRCE
13915 Crest Hill Lane
Silver Spring MD 20905
E-mail: wpeirce@verizon.net
Faculty
Website: http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce
Phone: 301-384-3629
Woodworking Website: http://mysite.verizon.net/respcjwi/
CURRENT POSITIONS
University
of Maryland University College,
1991-present
Adjunct associate professor
Course chair, COMM 394, Business Writing
Retired
Prince
George's Community College, 1965-2007
Professor of English
Coordinator, Reasoning Across the Curriculum, 1994-2007
Coordinator, Academic Outcomes Assessment, 1999-2003
Chair of Writing Department, 1980-91, 93-94
Teaching experience includes first-year composition, honors
composition,
argument and persuasion, business writing, introduction to literature,
teaching
thinking (workshop course for teachers), British literature, world
literature,
science fiction.
RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
AFACCT
As Coordinator of the Reasoning Across the Curriculum Program at
Prince
George's Community College, I conduct
semi-annual
workshops for faculty on various aspects of teaching thinking in all
disciplines. In addition, since 1996 I have presented workshops on
assessment
and on teaching thinking at the annual conference of AFACCT, an
association of Maryland
community college faculties. Recent presentations at AFACCT have
been
2007 Understanding
Students' Difficulties
in Reasoning: Perspectives from Several Fields
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/underst06.html
2006 Designing Rubrics to Assess Higher Order Thinking
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/Designingrubricsassessingthinking.html
2005 The Year of Critical Thinking at Prince George's
Community College
2004 Improving
Students'
Metacognition to Improve Their Thinking and Learning
2003 Strategies
for Teaching
Thinking in Online Classes
2002 English and
Technology
at Prince George's
Community College.
Presentation of Title III project
2001 Assessing
General
Education Outcomes: The Experience of Prince George's
Community
College.
2000 Understanding
Students'
Difficulties in Reasoning: Perspectives from Learning Styles and
Cognitive
Styles.
1999 Understanding
Students'
Difficulties in Reasoning: Perspectives from Several Fields
1998 Designing
Writing
Assignments that Promote Thinking
1996 Teaching
Reasoning
Dialectically
Other Recent Presentations
2006 Promoting and Assessing Critical thinking in
Courses. Anne Arundel Community
College.
May 18
2006 The Year of Critical Thinking at Prince George's
Community
College. Faculty of the Future Conference 2006.
Bucks County Community College. June 2.
2006 Building Bridges: Integrating
Writing,
Critical Thinking, and Information Literacy. University
of Maryland
University College
July Writing Conference. July 28 (Co-presenter).
2005 Connecting Course Goals,
Assignments, and Assessment:
Faculty Development for Student Success. Middle States Association
Annual
Conference, Baltimore, MD, December 5.
http://academic.pgcc.edu/assessment/connecting.html
2004 Assessing Course Outcomes at Prince George's
Community College. North
Carolina
State
Undergraduate Assessment Symposium, Cary,
NC,
April 17.
http://academic.pgcc.edu/assessment/OverviewandHistoryofCourseOutcomesAssessment.doc
2001 An English 101 Research Paper
Guide/Log. Two-Year
College
Association, 36th Northeast Regional Conference, Washington,
DC,
October 5.
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/title3.html
2001 Teaching Thinking Online:
Strategies for
Promoting Disciplinary Reasoning, Intellectual Growth, and Critical
Consciousness. COADEC/MDL annual conference, Ellicott City,
MD,
April 20.
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/ttol.html
2000 Teaching Thinking Online: Strategies for Promoting
Disciplinary
Reasoning, Intellectual Growth, and Critical Consciousness, Sixth
International
Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks, University
of Maryland
University
College, November 4. http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/ttol.html
2000 Teaching Critical Thinking
Online: Better
or Worse than Face to Face? Syllabus 2000 International Conference on
Technology in Education, Santa Clara, California,
July 24.
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/ttol.html
2000 Teaching Disciplinary Thinking Online: Better or Worse than
Face to Face? International Conference on Learning
with
Technology, Temple
University,
Philadelphia,
March 9.
http://academic.pg.cc.md.us/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/tdtol.html
PUBLICATIONS
Online Study Guide and online
learning
modules for Business Communication Today, 9th edition, 2007.
Online Study Guide and online learning modules for Business
Communication Essentials, 3rd edition, 2007.
Online Study Guide and online learning modules for Excellence
in Business Communication, 7th edition. 2006.
"The Year of Critical Thinking at Prince George's
Community College: An Integrated Professional Development Program," in Critical
Thinking: Unfinished Business. Ed. Christine
McMahon.
New Directions for Community Colleges volume no.
130, (July
2005) pp. 79-85. Jossey-Bass.
Handbook of Critical Thinking Resources for the
Year of
Critical Thinking. Prince George’s Community College. 2004. http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR/handbook.pdf
Strategies for Teaching
Thinking and
Promoting Intellectual Development in Online Classes," in Electronic
Communities: Current Issues and Best Practices. Ed.
Sorel Reisman.
U.S. Distance Learning Association. Information
Age Publishing, 2003.
Assessment Handbook.
Prince
George's Community College
http://academic.pgcc.edu/assessment/Handbook.doc
Study Guide:
Business Communication Today, 7th edition. Upper Saddle
River, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 2002.
Online Study Guide: Business
Communication Today,
7th edition. 2002.
Online Study Guide: Excellence
in Business Communication, 5th edition. 2001
"Using the Distinction Between Fact and Interpretation to
Promote Intellectual Development," The Successful Professor,
(May 2001; sample issue). http://www.thesuccessfulprofessor.com
"Myers-Briggs Personality Types: What Do They Tell
Us
About Understanding Students’ Difficulties in Thinking?" Faculty Focus:
A
Journal for the Faculty of University of Maryland University
College (Fall
2000): 2-5.
"Online Strategies for Teaching Thinking," Syllabus 14 (September
2000): 21-24.
"World Wide Web URLs for Resources for Teaching Reasoning and Critical
Thinking," Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 19
(Autumn
1999): 28-29.
Course Guide: ENGL 396, Critical Analysis in Reading and Writing. University
of Maryland
University College, 1996. A 350-page textbook on critical
thinking for a
six-credit online course.
"Prince George’s
Community College." Programs That Work: Models and Methods for
Writing Across the Curriculum. Eds. Toby Fulwiler and Arthur
Young.
Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, l990. [Coauthor with several others]
"The Epistemological Style of Ford's The Good Soldier." Language
and Style 8 (1975): 34-46.
"The Structural Unity of 'Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves.'" Renascence
23 (1971): 213-19.
"An Artistic Flaw in Heart of Darkness." Conradiana 1
(1969): 73-80.
OTHER
EXPERIENCE AND RECOGNITION
- Received the Faculty Senate Excellence
Award from Prince George's
Community College, 2006.
- Received the Stanley
J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award from University
of Maryland
University College, 2003.
- Received the Faculty Mentor award from
University
of Maryland
chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 2000.
- Received Teaching Recognition Award
from University of Maryland
University College, 1998.
- Initiated and maintain the website of
the Maryland Community College Consortium for Teaching Reasoning.
http://academic.pgcc.edu/~wpeirce/MCCCTR.
- Initiated the
website of the Academic Outcomes Assessment Committee, Prince George's
Community College. http://academic.pgcc.edu/assessment.
- Provided extensive workshop materials
and my own articles on critical thinking to the University
of Maryland
- National University of Rwanda Partnership Project, a US AID grant to
the University of Maryland Center for
International Development and Conflict Management.
- Designed the web versions of COMM 394,
Business Writing, and ENGL 396, Critical Analysis in Reading
and Writing, for University of Maryland University College.
- Selected for Title III faculty team at
Prince George’s
Community College to write EGL 101 course materials that combine active
learning, cooperative learning, and educational technology under a
grant from the U.S. Department of Education, 2000-2001.
- Reviewed 17 textbook manuscripts for
publishers since 1997.
- Wrote the research paper and argument
chapters for the first edition of Diana Hacker,
The Bedford
Handbook.
- Editor of and major contributor to
Faculty Evaluation Plan at Prince George's
Community College until 1990.
- Began the
Writing Across
the Curriculum program at PGCC in l981.
- Elected to Faculty Senate and
Grievance Committee at PGCC (approximately 1967-81).
- Received one-year fellowship from
National Endowment for the Humanities to pursue independent
study: Using nonprint media to teach
literature (1972).
- Writer/editor U.S. Bureau of the
Census, 1963-68.
EDUCATION
1965-1976 Doctoral candidate, English Department,
University
of Maryland.
All but dissertation; courses and comprehensive
exams
successfully completed.
1963
M.A. English, University of Maryland,
College Park, MD
1960
B.A. Westminster
College, New Wilmington,
PA