Dr. Randall William McClure, PhD
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Writing and Linguistics
Georgia Southern University
Statesboro, GA

Keynote Presentation: Living in a Googlepedia World: What Writing Teachers Should Know About Information Behavior

Dr. Randall William McClure chairs the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. He also facilitates the University's Faculty Learning Community on Information Literacy.

Formerly Associate Professor and Director of First-Year Composition at Florida Gulf Coast University, Dr. McClure has also directed the First-Year Writing Program at Cleveland State University and the Composition program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He previously taught at Marymount College, The University of Findlay (Ohio), Chapman University and Bowling Green State University.

Dr. McClure's expertise in instruction includes developing and teaching First-Year Writing Program courses; undergraduate and graduate writing courses; and written and oral communication courses, all in traditional and computer classrooms. He has also taught composition in hybrid and online environments; taught composition and technical writing in traditional and computer classrooms; and taught English as a Second Language courses.

He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in English, specializing in Rhetoric and Writing, from Bowling Green State University. He holds two master's degrees -- an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in English Literature -- from Chapman University. Dr. McClure began his academic career with a degree in English Education from Bowling Green State University.

His many publications include "Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills," which will be published in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2 in 2010, and "Composition in the Freeware Age: Exploring the Web 2.0 Movement in the Teaching of Writing" in a special issue of Computers and Composition Online (spring 2009), with editors Michael Day and Mike Palmquist.