Areas of focus: Techncial Communication; Rhetoric; Composition Pedagogy; Theories of Technology; Critical Theory (Power, Agency, Ideology, Language)
Areas of focus: Composition Pedagogy; Rhetoric; Computers and Composition
Trim, Michelle. “Going Beyond Good Intentions: Reconsidering Motivations and Examining Responsibility in Composition-based Service Learning.” Modern Language Studies. 39.1:66-81, 2009.
Trim, Michelle. “Articulating a Rhetoric of Agency for Pregnancy through Intersectionality: NAPW -The National Advocates for Pregnant Women.” The 21st Century Motherhood Movement: Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly. Bradford, Ontario: Demeter Press. 2011.
Trim, Michelle D. and Megan Lynn Isaac. “Reinventing Invention: Discovery and Investment in Writing” Writing Spaces. Eds. Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press. 2010.
Trim, Michelle. Corrections, repudiations, and revisions: how computing made 2020 a year for change ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 49 (3), 11-13, 2021.
Trim, Michelle. Essentialism is the Enemy of the Good: How the Myth of Objectivity is Holding Computing Back ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 49 (2), 11-13 2020.
Trim, Michelle. Moving from Consciousness-raising to Fostering a Social Conscience ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 49 (1), 11-12. 2020.
Trim, Michelle. Computing's social obligation. ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society 48 (3-4), 13-14 2019.
Branscomb, H. Eric and Michelle Trim. Research Navigator Guide: English. 2e. New York: AB Longman/ Pearson Education Publishing. 2006. ISBN 0-321-49601-9
Trim, Michelle. What Every Student Should Know About... Practicing Peer Review. New York: AB Longman/ Westwood Publishing. 2006. ISBN 0-321-44848-0
Trim, MD. and H. Nishad. We Learn by Doing: Modeling Inclusive Pedagogy in a Graduate CS Ethics Course2019 Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2019, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/RESPECT46404.2019.8985698.
Ursula Wolz, Lina Battestilli, Bruce Maxwell, Susan Rodger, and Michelle Trim. 2018. Best Practices in Academia to Remedy Gender Bias in Tech. In Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 672-673. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3159450.3159618
Trim, Michelle. Increasing ethical awareness in [future] software developers using audience-based writing Michelle Trim August 2017 SIGDOC '17: Proceedings of the 35th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication
Michelle Trim, Neena Thota, Marc Liberatore, Tim Richards, Gordon Anderson, and William T. Verts. 2017. Innovation with scale: turning large class sizes into opportunities for pedagogical innovation. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 32, 6 (June 2017), 183-186.
Trim, Michelle. “Instructions Not Included: How Writing Conferences Can Erect Barriers to Success for First Generation College Students” International Journal of Learning, 10, 2003.
Trim, Michelle. “Review: Helen A. Berger and Douglas Ezzy, Teenage Witches: Magical Youth and the Search for Self “(New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007), Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, 6:4, 2012.
Trim, Michelle. “Review: Figueira-McDonough, Josefina, and Rosemary C. Sarri, eds. Women at the Margins: Neglect, Punishment, and Resistance” International Social Science Review . Fall, 2003.
Trim, Michelle. “Counterfeit capital: searching for a silver lining in Bernadette Longo’s Spurious Coin.” ACM Journal of Computer Documentation 25(2): 63-65, 2001.
March 14-17 2018. CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. “Classing Expertise: Language, Collaborative Labor, and WID”
February 20-24, 2018. SIGCSE '18. Baltimore, MD. Best Practices in Academia to Remedy Gender Bias in Tech Ursula Wolz, Lina Battestilli, Bruce Maxwell, Susan Rodger, Michelle Trim.
July 18-21, 2013. Council of Writing Program Administrators national conference, Savannah, GA, “Who Watches the Watchers: Rethinking the Role of WPA as Sole Observer”
Mar 13-17, 2013. Research Network Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Las Vegas, NV, “Understanding Student Uses of Written Feedback” also served as discussion leader for both morning and afternoon sessions
May 24-27, 2012. Rhetoric Society of America, Philadelphia, PA, “Tea Shall Overcome: Questioning the Appropriation of Civil Rights Movement Rhetoric”
Mar 29-31, 2012. College English Association National Conference, Richmond, VA, “Trespassing Expertise: Partnering with Undergraduates in Composition Research”
Sep 23-24, 2011. Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy, Savannah, GA, “Resisting Automatic Adoption and Uncritical Use of Technology in Student Research”
Mar 17-20, 2010. CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY, “Research Paper Redux: Dialectic as Democratic Writing and Researched Argument”
Nov 12-15, 2009. National Women’s Studies Conference, Atlanta, GA. “Post-Feminist Amnesia: Negotiating Resistance to Feminist Histories”
Mar 29-30, 2008. College English Association National Conference, St. Louis, MO. “Just Because We Can: “The Good Rhetor as an Alternative to Fostering a Social Conscience”
Mar 22-25, 2006. CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, “Mind the Gap: Ethically Balancing Student [Under]-Preparedness with Institutional Expectations for Growth and Retention”
Mar 15-19, 2005. CCCC Conference on College Composition and Communication, San Francisco, CA, “Taking Responsibility for Community in Community-Based Learning Courses”
Nov 16-18, 2003. International Conference on Civic Education and Research, New Orleans, LA, “University or Community Service: Ethical Challenges Faced by Service Learning Approaches to Writing Instruction”
Jul 15-19, 2003. International Learning Conference, London, UK. “Instructions not included: Barriers to success for first generation college students in graduate school”
April 7-8, 2017. Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges — Northeastern Region, Albany, New York, “Innovation with Scale: Turning Large Class Sizes into Opportunities for Pedagogical Innovation” (Panel – with co-presenters Gordon Anderson, Marc Liberatore, Tim Richards, Neena Thota, and William Verts)
Oct 17, 2009. North Carolina Symposium on Writing, Raleigh, NC. Co-presenter with Megan Isaac, “Stressing Invention: Cultivating Investment in Writing After Years of Testing”
June 15, 2001. Computers and Writing Conference, Muncie, IN. “The Hypertext of Collaboration: Using a Web-based MOO to Facilitate Postmodern Collaboration in the College Classroom
2016. Teaching for Inclusiveness, Diversity and Equity Ambassador. $1500 award. In addition to attending multi-day workshop in summer and retreats throughout the academic year, charged with developing an inclusive teaching project to be disseminated at the college or university level. UMass Amherst.
2011. “How do students use feedback.” Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Scholar (SoTL research fellowship including $4000 research budget & 4 course releases over 2 yrs), Elon University.
2010. “Togetherness in Difference” Elon College of Arts and Sciences Fund for Excellence Grant (with Stephen Braye, Barbara Gordon, Kathy Lyday-Lee, and Amanda Gallagher).(~$3000) Grant funded multi-event visits for two linguistic scholars. Visitors gave public lectures, hosted student Q&A sessions, and directed faculty development workshops. Elon University.
2010. Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning Grant for research examining student learning outcomes to the final project in GST 373:Technology and Human Agency. ($600) Funds supported an IRB-approved, filmed, focus group session with students from two previous semesters. Elon University.
2009-2010. Recipient of Elon Faculty Research and Development Grant, awarded as one course Release. Grant supported work on revision of traditional research paper assignment to dialectical research project in first year writing.
Spring 2021. Awarded the ADVANCE Peer Faculty Mentor Award for CICS
Spring 2020. Awarded the CICS College Outstanding Teaching Award
Fall 2018. Nominated for the University Distinguished Teaching Award
Spring 2018. Nominated for the University Distinguished Teaching Award. UMass Amherst.
Fall 2017. Nominated for the University Distinguished Teaching Award. UMass Amherst.
2013. College of Arts and Sciences Nominee for University Faculty Excellence in Service Award.UNH.
2006. Departmental and College Nominee for the Young Faculty Teaching Award. Lander University.
2002. Campus Campaign Fellowship University “First Prize Award for Service.” Michigan Technological University.
