Cengage Guide to Research

Susan K. Miller-Cochran, now Executive Director of General Education at The University of Arizona, helped shape the writing programs at The University of Arizona from 2015-2020 and North Carolina State University from 2007-2015. Prior to that, she was an English/ESL faculty member at Mesa Community College in Arizona. Dr. Miller-Cochran served as president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators (2015-2017). Her work focuses on the intersections of technology, second-language writing and writing program administration. A widely published and popular presenter, Dr. Miller-Cochran is also a co-author with Rochelle L. Rodrigo on the "Cengage Guide to Research" (Cengage Learning). She received both her Master of Teaching English as a Second Language (MTESL) and her Ph.D. in English, with a concentration in Rhetoric/Composition and Linguistics, from Arizona State University. In addition to being the 2024 NCTE President, Rodrigo is the Senior Director of the Writing Program; Associate Professor in the Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English (RCTE) and Associate Writing Specialist (Continuing Status) in the Department of English at the University of Arizona. She researches how newer technologies better facilitate communicative interactions, specifically teaching and learning. Her scholarly work has appeared in Computers and Composition, C&C Online, Technical Communication Quarterly, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, Enculturation? Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching, as well as various edited collections. In 2018, she became an Adobe Education Leader; in 2014, she was awarded Old Dominion University's annual Teaching with Technology Award; in 2012, the Digital Humanities High Powered Computing Fellowship and in 2010, she became a Google Certified Teacher/Innovator.