Bonnie Devet
Professor and Director of the Writing Lab
Bonnie Devet teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition. Since 1989, she has also been the Director of the Writing Lab at the College of Charleston. During this time the Writing Lab has been honored by receiving the Outstanding Peer Tutor Award, Student Employee of the Year Award, and Outstanding Scholarship Award (article). The Writing Lab is also the first writing lab in SC to be certified.
Education
Ph.D., English with a concentration in Composition, University of South Carolina
M.A., English, University of Missouri - Columbia
B.A., English, University of South Carolina
Research Interests
Recent Honors and Awards
Honorable Mention for Grammar Teacher of the Year Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar July 2019
the Achievement Award Southeastern Writing Center Association Southeastern Writing Center Association February 2019
Certification of Writing Lab through Southeastern Writing Center Association, 2nd college in S.C. to be so honored
Recent Publications
“Establishing the writing Center's Educational Role in the Academy by Stressing Peer Tutor Development” SDC: A Journal of Multiliteracy and Innovation July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2019, pp. 28-45.
Guest editor (with Dr. Dana Driscoll IUP) of WLN A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship
Special issue on Transfer of Learning and the Writing Center. Vol 43, nos. 1-2 (Sept.- Oct. 2018)
“How Transfer of Learning Writing Helps Tutors of Academic Writing.” Journal of Academic Writing accepted and forthcoming as of July 2018.
“Establishing the Writing Center’s Educational Role in the Academy by Stressing Peer Tutor Development.” accepted and forthcoming (as of July 2018) Southern Discourse in the Center: A Journal of Multiliteracy and Innovations
“IPA as A Research Tool in the Writing Center.” WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship
accepted and forthcoming as of July 2018