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Angie Carter

Faculty Member

Angie Carter

Biography

Angie McKinnon Carter is a Senior Lecturer at Utah Valley University in the English and Literature Department. Her most recent article “‘Why Do You Think I’m Asking?’: How Misunderstood Requests Impede Student Agency in Writing Conferences” was published in Journal of Teaching Writing. This article focuses on the ways requests are made and interpreted in teacher-student writing conferences. Her work focuses on examining the social construction of interactions, language, and rhetoric. She is particularly interested in the ways sociocultural backgrounds influence group dynamics in pedagogical situations. Her research interests include discourse analysis, speech-act theory, writing conferences, undergraduate research, and improving her teaching of editing as well as first-year and upper-division composition. As an avid Marvel Cinematic Universe fan, she mines the films to create Marvel-derived metaphors that demonstrate her research findings and illustrate the writing process. She is currently working on a Marvel-inspired textbook for first-year composition students.

Education

PhD, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), 2018

Major: English: Composition and Applied Linguistics

MA, Brigham Young University, 1999

Major: English: Rhetoric and Composition

BA, Brigham Young University , 1990

Major: English Teaching (Secondary)

Teaching

ENGL 2050

Editing, Spring 2025

ENGL 2010

Intermediate Academic Writing, Spring 2025

ENGL 201H

Intermediate Academic Writing CC, Spring 2025

EDSC 4850

Student Teaching Secondary, Spring 2025

EDSC 4850

Student Teaching Secondary, Spring 2025

Presentations

Carter, Angie McKinnon, AI for Teaching and Learning Conference, "Otterly Useful_ Start Essays Readers Want to Read Using Transcription AI (Otter.ai)", University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. (July 22, 2024)
Carter, Angie , CHSS Teaching Committee Workshop_ Ideas for AI in CHSS, "Empowering Creativity_ The Power of Speech-to-Text for Overcoming Writer’s Block", CHSS Teaching Committee, UVU. (April 10, 2024)
Carter, Angie McKinnon (Author Only), Carter, Angie (Chair), National Conference of the Popular Cultural Association American Culture Association, "A Marvel-ous Metaphor for Writing_ Iron Man, Spiderman, and Black Panther-Inspired Takes on Revision", Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association, San Antonio, TX. (April 8, 2023)
Carter, Angie McKinnon (Author Only), GSOLE, "Beyond the Typical Learner_ Transforming First-Year Writing across Modalities to Increase Accessibility and Responsiveness", Global Society of Online Literacy Educators, online. (February 3, 2023)
Carter, Angie McKinnon, Lancaster, Zac , Hancock, Craig , Hanson, J. , Kies, S. , Paraskevas, C. , Conference on College Composition and Communication, "Performing corpus analysis_ Putting corpus findings into pedagogical practice". (March, 2019)
Carter, Angie McKinnon, Gegg-Harrison, Whitney , Hancock, Craig , Launspach, C. , Morrison, D , Rossen-Knill, Deborah , Wang, S. , Woodring, S. , Conference on College Composition and Communication, "Discourse, sociolinguistics, and code-meshing". (March, 2018)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Carter, Angie McKinnon, Lovejoy, Kim Brian, Rossen-Knill, Deborah F., Hancock, Craig , (2021) "'Why Do You Think I'm Asking?: How Misunderstood Requests Impede Student Agency in the Writing Conference" (Issue: 1, vol. 36). United States: Journal of Teaching Writing. https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/teachingwriting/article/view/26245

Awards

UVU Faculty Excellence Award

Utah Valley University Faculty Senate - April, 2020

The purpose of the Faculty Senate Faculty Excellence Award is to recognize full-time and adjunct faculty who have made significant contributions to UVU's mission through demonstrated excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service. Through this award, UVU intends_
1. To publicly acknowledge the achievements of its faculty members in creating an academically engaged environment at UVU.
2. To demonstrate to the community the exemplary standards of academic professionalism to which the faculty members of UVU are dedicated;
3. To encourage faculty within UVU to pursue the highest levels of excellence in every aspect of their work (consistent with the best of academic traditions).(Taken from the UVU Faculty Senate "Faculty Excellence Award" webpage.)