Alice S Horning

Title: Professor
Office: 302 O'Dowd Hall
Phone: 248-370-4134
Fax: 370-2748
E-mail: horning@oakland.edu

Biography
Alice Horning teaches an array of courses in Writing and Rhetoric, for the Honors College, and in the Department of Linguistics, chiefly dealing with language and literacy development. Her research focuses on the psycholinguistics of reading and writing. She has published books and articles in this area.

Degrees
B.A. English, Boston University, 1967
Ph.D. English, Michigan State University, 1977

Publications
Alice Horning's book, to be published next year, is tentatively entitled Reading, Writing and Digitizing: Understanding Literacy in the Electronic Age. It will be published by Cambridge Scholars Press in England.

She recently had an article published in Across the Disciplines called "Where to Put the Manicules: A Theory of Expert Reading."

Interests
In 2011, Alice Horning served on the Faculty Learning Community "Savvy Readers," a community of OU instructors delving into how students approach reading and how they improve reading skills.

Teaching Philosophy
Every course is a reading course and a writing course. Skills in critical reading, writing and thinking are the most important by-products of a college education.

She teaches WRT 102, 140, 150, 160, 320, 335, and 382.