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New Jersey Institute of Technology
University Heights Newark, NJ 07102
Office: (973) 596-3276
FAX: (973) 642-4689
e-mail: "LYNCHR@ADMIN.NJIT.EDU
Web Page: http://megahertz.njit.edu/~lynchr
Education: B.A. (magna cum laude), St. Francis
College, 1962
M.A. (English), New York University, 1963
Ph.D. (English), New York University, 1971
Teaching Experience:
1964-67 Brooklyn
College, Full-time Lecturer, English Dept.
1967-
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Humanities Dept.
Instructor (1967-71), Assistant Professor (1971-78),
Associate Professor (1978-83), Professor (1983- ).
Courses Taught:
| Basic Skills Reading and Writing |
English Composition |
| Technical Report Writing |
Urban Literature |
| Culture and History |
Literature and Film |
| Shakespeare/Shakespeare on Film |
Historical Literature |
| Communicating in Organizations |
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| Advanced Technical Editing (Graduate) |
Advanced Technical and Research Writing (Graduate)
Academic Assessment Activities:
Basic Skills Council of New Jersey: Member 1984-92,
Chair 1987-91. The Council oversaw a testing and
assessment program in Reading, Writing, Computation, and
Algebra for public colleges in New Jersey. It provided the
Chancellor and the Board of Higher Education: annual reports
on Results of NJCBSPT; periodic reports assessing the
Effectiveness of Remedial Programs in Public Colleges and
Universities (most recent presented to BHE in January 1992.
New Jersey Reading and Writing Advisory Committee: Member
1986-92,
Chair, 1987-89. This committee assessed and
prepared new annual forms of the reading and writing sections
of the New Jersey College Basic Skills Placement Test (taken
by c. 60,000 students statewide each year).
Reader and Table Leader, Holistic Scoring Program, New
Jersey
College Basic Skills Essays, ETS, 1978- ; Rater, Test of
Spoken English, ETS, 1988-
Funded Grants:
N. J. Department of
Higher Education, "Focus on Freshmen,"
$200,000, 1988-90,
Co-Principal Investigator.
National Science Foundation:
CAUSE (Comprehensive
Assistance to Undergraduate
Scientific Education) $250,000,
1976-79, Project Coordinator,
1977-79.
Consultant Activities:
Educational Testing Service: Verbal Advisory Committee,
Computer
Adaptive Placement
Test, 1994-
Fairleigh Dickinson University: University Core Curriculum
Program,
Edward Williams
College, Fall, 1993; external consultant,
English Faculty
self-study, Spring, 1995
New Jersey Department of Education: Academic Advisory
Committee, PATHS
(Grade 4 Progressive Academic Test of
Higher Skills),
1995
Advisory Committee on Academic Preparation Curricula in
New
Jersey High
Schools: Member 1989-90. Represented higher
education on
a ten-member committee appointed by the
Commissioner
of Education.
Governor's Task Force on Pre-College Preparation: Member,
1982-84.
This task force, which worked jointly for the
Chancellor of
Higher Education and the Commissioner of
Education, issued
its report to the Boards of Education and
Higher Education
in January, 1984
Technical Writing Experience:
Technical Writing Courses for Industry:
Western Electric
Co. (Newark, NJ), 1980-82
Ingersoll-Rand
Co. (Phillipsburg, NJ), 1981
ARRADCOM
(Dover, NJ), 1981-82
Decision
Data Computer Corp. (Horsham, Pa.), 1983-84
NWL Transformers
(Bordentown, NJ), 1985
New York
Power Authority (White Plains, Indian Point,
Niagara Falls, Utica, NY), 1986-87
UNISYS
Corp. (Flemington, NJ), 1988
Selected Professional Activities:
University Service:
University
Program Assessment Committee: 1990-
Undergraduate
Curriculum Review Committee: 1979-90;
Chair, 1987-89;
Institute
Promotion and Tenure Committee: 1987-89;1992-93,
Chair, 1988-89
Acting
Chair, Humanities Department, 1982-83, 1993-95
Associate
Chair, Humanities Department, 1979-86
Committee
on General University Requirements, 1986-88
Institute Retention Committee: Chair, 1981-84
Search Committees:
Dean of College of Science and Liberal Arts, 1985-86 (Chair)
Dean of College of Science and Liberal Arts, 1994-96 (Chair)
Dean of NJ School of Architecture, 1991- 92) (CSLA Rep.)
Chair, Humanities Department, 1976-77 (Member)
Chair, Humanities Department, 1996 (Chair)
Chair, Department of Speech and Theater Arts, Newark
College of Arts and Science, Rutgers U. 1988-89
(NJIT Rep.)
Associate University Librarian, NJIT, 1997-98 (Faculty Rep.)
Memberships in Professional Associations:
New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame, Member, Governing Board
Modern Language Association of America
National Council of Teachers of English
New Jersey Association of Developmental Educators
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
Society for Technical Communication
American Association of University Professors.
Publications:
Books: PROFESSIONAL WRITING: FORMS AND TASKS,
with
Norbert Elliot. Boston: Ginn,
1993; 2nd edition, Simon &
Schuster CP, 1997.
THE EXAMPLE OF SCIENCE: AN ANTHOLOGY
FOR COLLEGE COMPOSITION,
ed. with Thomas Swanzey.
Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall,
1981; 2nd edition, Simon &
Schuster CP., 1997
Articles:
"Agincourt, Battle of." International Military
Encyclopedia.
Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International
Press, 1996, III, 84-88.
"The Assessment of Technical Writing: A Case Study." Journal
of
Technical Writing and Communication
24:1 (1994): 19-36;
with Norbert Elliot and Margaret
Kilduff.
"The Challenger Tragedy: A Case Study in Organizational
Communications and Professiona
Ethics." Business and
Professional Ethics Journal
12:2 (Summer, 1993): 91-108
with Norbert Elliot and
Eric Katz.
"Defying Expectations," in Other Voices, Chancellor's
Report to the
Board of Higher Education,
April 24, 1992: 4-6.
"Large Scale Assessment in an Age of Autonomy," in Proceedings
of the Fourth International
Conference on Assessing Quality
in Higher Education,
Knoxville: Center for Assessment
Research and Development,
1992.
Essay-entries on Frederick Forsyth, Thomas Keneally, Leonard
Michaels, and John Mortimer in
Contemporary Novelists,
London: St. James Press, 1972;
rev. ed., 1982, 1986, 1991,
1996.
"Designing a Critical Thinking Model for a Comprehensive
Technological University," in
Inquiry, May, 1991: 9-11 (with
Norbert Elliot, John Opie, and
Karl Schweizer). Reprinted in
NJADE Newsletter, New Jersey
Association of Developmental
Educators, Fall, 1991: 1, 7, 10.
"Making Access Meaningful: Assessing the Quality of Developmental
Programs in New Jersey,
in Proceedings of the Second
International Conference
on Assessing Quality in Higher
Education, Knoxville:
Center for Assessment Research and
Development, 1990: 333-342.
"Assessing the Quality of Higher Education in New Jersey,"
in
Proceedings of the First International
Conference on
Assessing Quality in
Higher Education, Knoxville:
Center for Assessment Research
and Development, 1989: 39-44
(with Edward Morante).
"Goodbye Columbus and Howard Street: Two Tales of a City,"
in
From Riot to Recovery: Newark
After Ten Years, ed. Stanley
B. Winters. Washington,
D.C.: University Press of America,
1979.
"Shakespeare in Context," review-article on Shakespearean
Tragedy by Roy Battenhouse and
Hamlet and the Word by
Harold Fisch, Clio: An Interdisciplinary
Journal, June,1974:
378-81.
"Chronicle Plays" and "Pastoral Drama," essay-entries
in The Reader's
Encyclopedia of World Drama,
ed. John Gassner and Edward Quinn.
New York: Crowell, 1969.
Sixteen entries on Shakespeare's influence on subsequent
British writers
in The Reader's Encyclopedia
of Shakespeare, ed. O. J. Campbell
and Edward Quinn.
New York: Crowell, 1966.
Reviews: Downstream by Paul Brodeur, Saturday
Review of Literature,
April 1, 1972; The Dramatist
and the Received Idea by Wilbur Sanders,
Clio, October, 1972.
Selected Oral Presentations:
"I Helped Make That," Presentation on the ETS-Accuplacer,
Computer-Based Placement Tests, at 30th Annual Conference
of the College Reading and Learning Association,
Sacramento, CA,
October 23, 1997 (with Michelle Rosenthal).
"Quantitative Analysis of Verbal Placement Tests," Basic Skills
Workshop, New Jersey Institute Collegiate Teaching and
Learning,
Stockton State College, June 9, 1994 (with Dorothy Minkoff).
"Reporting Assessment Results to the Public: The Why's and Why Not's,"
Assessment Institute: Turning Results into Improvement,
Elizabeth, NJ,
March 1, 1993.
"Pressure on the Seams: The Challenger Disaster and Technical
Communications," Annual Convention of the Modern
Language
Association, New York, December 30, 1992 (with
Norbert Elliot).
"Large Scale Assessment in an Age of Autonomy," Fourth International
Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education,
University of
Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, July 29, 1992.
"The Challenger Tragedy: A Case Study in Professional Ethics and
Communication," National Conference on Ethics and
the Professions,
University of Florida, Gainesville, February 1,
1992 (with Norbert Elliot
and Eric Katz).
"A Case Study For the Technical Writing Classroom: The Challenger
Disaster," InterChange Conference on Technical Writing,
University
of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, March 19, 1991
(with Norbert Elliot).
"Not By Magic: The Development of the NJ College Basic Skills
Placement Test," Conference of the New Jersey Association
of
Developmental Educators, Jamesburg, NJ, November 30, 1990
(with Lewis Hirsch, Rutgers University).
"Setting and Keeping Writing Placement Standards," Conference, National
Testing Network in Writing, New York, November 11, 1990
(with
Dr. A. Lutkus).
"Making Access Meaningful: Assessing the Effectiveness of Developmental
Programs in New Jersey," Second International Conference
on Assessing
Quality in Higher Education, University of St. Andrews,
Scotland,
July 26, 1990.
"Kenneth Branagh's HENRY V," Conference on Literature, History, Film,
and the Humanities, Salisbury State University,
Salisbury, Maryland,
June 9, 1990.
"Issues in Standardized Testing," Public Education Institute, Rutgers
University,
May 25, 1990.
"Collaboration and Commitment: The New Jersey College Evaluation System,"
First International Conference on Assessing Quality
in Higher Education,
Robinson College, Cambridge, England, July
25, 1989 (with E. Morante).
"Three Issues in Large-Scale Writing Assessment," Conference, National
Testing Network in Writing, Montreal, April 10,
1989 (with A. Lutkus and
P. Ramsey).
"Technical Communications, the Bureaucratization of the Intellect, and
the
Challenger Disaster," New Jersey Writers'
Conference, NJIT, March 4, 1989
(with Norbert Elliot).
"Focusing on Freshmen in a Technological University," National Conference
on the Freshman Year Experience, Univ. of South
Carolina, Columbia,
Feb. 20, 1989 (with Dorothy Levy)
"Scoring Pre-and Post-test Essays for Program Evaluation: The New Jersey
Plan," Conference, National Testing Network in Writing,
Minneapolis,
April 16, 1988 (with A. Lutkus).
"The Graphical Presentation of Numerical Data: Some Issues of Integrity,"
New Jersey Writers' Conference, NJIT, Mar. 12, 1988
"The Historical Present in Olivier's HENRY V," Conference on Teaching
Shakespeare Through Performance, University of Wisconsin-Parkside,
February 26, 1988.
"Persuasion in Technical Writing: An Analysis of the Memo that Could
Have
Prevented the Three-Mile Island Accident," New Jersey
Writers'
Conference, NJIT, March 14, 1987.
"Writing in Science and Mathematics Classes," a program for teachers
from
the Central Regional School District, Bayville, NJ; Nov.
7, 1984 (with Arthur
Greenberg).
"Shakespeare's HENRY V and the Battle of Agincourt," delivered
at the
Conference on Literature, History, and Film; Salisbury
State College,
Maryland; June 21, 1980.
"Case Study of a New Freshman Engineering Program," delivered at
Frontiers of Education Conference; Lake Buena Vista, Florida,
Oct. 22, 1978 (with Frederick Lehman and Joan Shyers).
"Two Tales of a City," delivered at the Conference on an Assessment
of Newark, 1967-1977; NJIT, Oct. 1, 1977.
"The Rhetoric of Fact and the Rhetoric of Fiction," delivered at the
Conference
on College Composition and Communication; St. Louis,
Missouri; April, 1975.
"Sister Carrie: Dreiser's Tale of Two Cities," delivered at the Urban
Literature
Session, Modern Language Association, Annual Convention,
New York;
Dec. 28, 1974.
(last update: Sept., 1998)
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