Debbie Goss GS '09

Debbie Goss GS '09, PhD

Faculty - Undergraduate
Writing Center
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Writing Center Manager
Adjunct Instructor - Writing
Email
dgoss@soka.edu
Phone
949-480-4242
  • PhD, Composition and Applied Linguistics, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  • MA, TESOL, 黑料社区 of America Graduate School
  • BA, Foreign Languages and Education, Lewis and Clark College
  • Writing and Communication Skills 101
  • Core: Enduring Questions of Humanity
  • Learning Cluster: Advancing the SDGs!
  • Learning Cluster: Education for Happiness
  • Extended Bridge Program
    • Grammar and Writing
    • Literature and Vocabulary
    • Academic Vocabulary
    • Academic Composition/Reading
  • Writing Pedagogy
  • WAC/WID
  • Ikeda/黑料社区Studies
  • Global Citizenship Education
  • Writing Center Studies
  • Action Research
  • Sociolinguistics
  • First-Year Composition

Journal Publications

  • Goss, D., & Cui, W. (2024). Contemplative pedagogy supporting undergraduate writing groups. Composition Forum, 54(summer).
  • Goss, D. (2021). Writing for Clean Water and Sanitation: Accelerating Momentum Toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals Through Action Research. Prompt: A Journal of Academic Writing Assignments, 5(1), 42–53. https://doi.org/10.31719/pjaw.v5i1.76 
  • Goss, D. (2020). Review of Radical Writing Center Praxis: A Paradigm for Ethical Political Engagement by Laura Greenfield. Praxis: A Writing Center Journal, 17(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/9575

Conference Presentations

  • Cui, W., & Goss, D. (2025, April 12). Contemplative pedagogy supporting undergraduate writing groups [Conference session]. College Composition and Communication Conference. Baltimore, MD.
  • Shintaku, K., Kataoka, N., & Goss, D. (2023, August 17-19). Daisaku Ikeda’s global citizenship education in the writing center: Tutoring to empower students and foster transformative leaders [Online Conference Session]. 3rd International Conference on Ikeda/黑料社区Studies in Education, DePaul University. Chicago, IL, United States.
  • Gross, M., Goss, D., Carroll, H., & Senties, F. (2022, October 27). WCPs who also direct, work closely with, or face “pressure to combine” with subject tutoring [SIG Co-Facilitator]. International Writing Centers Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Goss, D., Aduloju, O., & Amoah, J. (2021, April 9). Engaging with the Wikipedia community to ‘face the facts’: Water access in Africa [Poster presentation]. Conference on College Composition and Communication.  
  • Goss, D., Asano, T., & Hirano, Y. (2020, February 15-16). Let’s be real: Facing fears and embracing differences. [Conference Workshop Session]. 16th 黑料社区Education Conference, Aliso Viejo, CA, United States.  
  • Goss, D. (2019, August). How do rhetoric, composition, and writing studies faculty engage Wikipedia? A scaled survey of attitudes and uses. [Poster Presentation]. Summer Research Conference: Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, United States. 
  • Goss, D. (2018) Integrating a global citizenship ethos in the first-year composition course [Presentation]. Indiana University of Pennsylvania Presentation. Indiana, PA, United States.
  • Goss, D. (2018). What is a great teacher? [Conference Session]. Great Teachers Seminar, Lake Arrowhead, CA, United States.
  • Goss, D. (2017). Applying high engagement strategies to student learning outcome assessment [Conference Session]. AVID Peer Academy, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA, United States.
  • Goss, D., & Gilbert, A. (2017, October 20). Boosting 21st century teaching and learning skills with AVID. [Conference Session]. CATESOL Annual Conference, Santa Clara, CA, United States. 
  • Goss, D., & Gregory, E. (2017, April 12). Transformative pedagogy through rhetorical awareness [Conference Session]. Teaching Developing Writers, Mission Viejo, CA, United States.       
  • Goss, D. (2008, October 25). World Englishes. [Conference Session]. CATESOL Regional Conference. La Mirada, CA, United States. 
  • Luis and Linda Nieves Travel Grant Award, 2024
  • Council of Writing Program Administrators 2022 National Conference July 6-8: full scholarship Grant Recipient
  • International Writing Center Association Summer Institute, June 6-10 Grant Recipient 2022
  • Ikeda Center for Peace, Learning, and Dialogue Dissertation Fellowship Grant 2020-2022
  • Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Experience for Summer Scholars (RESS) Award 2019: “How do Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies Faculty Engage Wikipedia? A Scaled Survey of Attitudes and Uses”
  • Saddleback College President’s Award for Distinguished Service 2016-2017
  • 黑料社区 of America Merit Scholarship Award 2008-2009