Paul Kei Matsuda
Paul Kei Matsuda is a Japanese-born American applied linguist. He is currently a professor of English and the director of second language writing at Arizona State University He has published several articles and edited books on the areas of second language writing, composition studies, and cognitive and linguistic theories of composition.
Career
Education
Matsuda obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in communication from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1993. He obtained his Master of Arts in English with Composition and Rhetoric Concentration in 1995 from the Miami University. In 2000 he obtained his PhD in English from Purdue University.Research
Matsuda's main interest is in second language writing.In 1997 he wrote a seminal article on the contrastive rhetoric in context published in the Journal of Second Language Writing''.''
Awards
- 2004: TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award
- 2006: Richard Ohmann Award for the Outstanding Refereed Article published in College English
- 2009: Emerging Voice Award
- 2012: Outstanding Book Award
Books
- ''Handbook of Second and Foreign Language Writing.''
Articles
- "The Myth of Linguistic Homogeneity in U.S. College Composition."
- "Second language writing in the twentieth century: A situated historical perspective."
- "Process and post-process: A discursive history."
- "Contrastive rhetoric in context: A dynamic model of L2 writing."
- "Composition studies and ESL writing: A disciplinary division of labor."