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Paul M. Rogers is an Associate Professor of Writing Studies and Director of the UCSB Writing Program. He is a proud alumnus of UCSB’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, where he completed his PhD in 2008. Paul is the former Director of the Northern Virginia Writing Project and a co-founder and former chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research. Dr. Rogers has published numerous journal articles and book chapters and is co-editor of ten collections, including Building Literate Communities (2025), The Legacy of James Moffett (2024), and Writing as a Human Activity (2023). He is a recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Award for leadership in higher education and a co-recipient of the Janet Emig Award for research in English education. He teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses, including courses in academic writing, business writing, research methods, composition theory, and social entrepreneurship.
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The UCSB Study of Cognition, Language, and Writing extends the empirical and ethical inquiries we advance in our forthcoming book with the University of California Press Crafting Ethical Scholarship, where, in collaboration with Dr. Karyn Kessler and Dr. Paul Michiels, we combined think alouds, retrospective interviews, and text analysis to examine how expert academic writers develop, engage with sources, and ethically participate fully in communities of practice. Building on this foundation, the current study explores how cognition, language, and writing intersect in the development of source-based writing and disciplinary expertise, with particular attention to the ethical and intellectual challenges posed by emerging technologies, like generative artificial intelligence. Our latest focus investigates how expert writers integrate AI into their disciplinary practices, and what this reveals about evolving conceptions of expertise, integrity, and responsibility. Using a blend of textual analysis, interview-based inquiry, and visual data representations this study seeks to advance understanding of how writing practices can support ethical action, inclusion, and social contribution in a rapidly changing world.
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The Education of Changemakers is an interdisciplinary research and writing project led by Dr. Rogers that investigates how individuals develop the capacity to drive social, environmental, and cultural change. Blending the science of learning with the art of teaching, the project explores the mindsets, experiences, and conditions that foster changemaking, drawing on diverse data sources from autobiographies to case studies. With a focus on actionable insights rather than idealized models, the work offers tools and frameworks, like the “iceberg of changemaking” to help educators, leaders, and communities cultivate more changemakers capable of building a just, sustainable, and humane future.
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Selected Recent Publications
Books
Kessler, K., Michiels, P. & Rogers, P.M. (forthcoming). Crafting Ethical Scholarship. University of California Press.
Co-edited Volumes
Skar, G., Rogers, P.M., & Marine, J. (In Press). Writing: From Early Literacy Learning to Writing in Professional Life. Volume 1. Colorado State University Open Press, University Press of Colorado, The WAC Clearinghouse.
Skar, G., Rogers, P.M., & Marine, J. (In Press). Writing: From Early Literacy Learning to Writing in Professional Life. Volume 2. Colorado State University Open Press, University Press of Colorado, The WAC Clearinghouse.
Buchan K., Vinz, R. & Rogers, P. M.. (Eds). (2025). Building Literate Communities: In Conversation with Sheridan Blau. National Council of Teachers of English.
Blau, S., Marine, J.M., Rogers, P.M., & K. Kelly. (Eds.). (2024). The Legacy of James Moffett and his Shaping Influence on Writing Studies, English Education, and the Teaching of English. National Council of Teachers of English.
Rogers, P.M., Russell, D., Carlino, P & Marine, J.M. (Eds). (2023). Writing as a Human Activity: Implications and Applications of the Work of Charles Bazerman. Colorado State University Open Press, University Press of Colorado, The WAC Clearinghouse.
DOI 10.37514/PER-B.2023.1800
Marine, J.M., Rogers, P.M., Blau, S., K. Kelly. (Eds.). (2023). James Moffett's Holistic and Spiritual Pedagogy: Toward a Re-emergence of the Student-Centered. Peter Lang Verlag.
Alexandrowicz, A. & Rogers, (Eds.) P.M. (2022). International Models of Changemaker Education: Programs, Methods, and Design. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Journal Articles
O’Meara, J. & Rogers, P.M. (2024). The TAMIU Cultivating Hispanic, Access, Success, & Mobility (CHASM) Program: Building Equity Pathways for Bridging Community Divides. Journal of Education for Teaching. 50(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2024.2305378
Leon, K., Rogers, P.M., Quezada, R. & Velasquez, S. (2024). A Justice Oriented Examination of Teacher Education through the Lens of Deans’ Innovations and Leadership in Schools of Education. Journal of Education for Teaching, (50)2.
https://doi.org/10.1080/02607476.2023.2296446
Rogers, P.M. (2023). Reconceptualizing Response to Writing from a Longitudinal Perspective: Writing Development and Dialogic Interaction. Perspectiva Educacional 62(2), 60-86. https://doi.org/10.4151/07189729-Vol.62-Iss.2-Art.1415
Michiels, P., Kessler, K., & Rogers, P.M. (2023). Paraphrase Patterns of Expert Academic Writers: Implications for Writing Development, Writing Pedagogy, and Plagiarism Policies. Literatura y Lingüística, (46). https://ediciones.ucsh.cl/index.php/lyl/article/view/3133
Rogers, P., Quezada, R., León, K., & Velázquez, S. (2022). Learning and adaptation during the Covid-19 pandemic: Colleges of education as centers of leadership and innovation. Educatio Siglo XXI , 40(3), 251–266. https://doi.org/10.6018/educatio.535441
Rogers, P.M., Marine, J., Ives, S., Parsons, S., Horton, A., & Young, C. (2022). Validity evidence for a formative writing engagement assessment in elementary grades. Assessment in Education. Principles, Policy & Practice 29(2).262-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2022.2054942
Book Chapters
Marine, J.M., Rogers, P.M. & Jacques, T. (2024). Implications of Longitudinal Writing Research Methods for Lifespan Perspectives on Writing Development: Results of a Systematic Review. In Phillips, T. & Dippre, R. (Eds.) Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing. Colorado State University Open Press, University Press of Colorado, The WAC Clearinghouse. DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2024.2289.2.10
Jacques, T., Marine, J.M. & Rogers, P.M. (2024). Improving Systematic Reviews of Longitudinal Writing Research: Definitions, Questions, and Procedures. In Phillips, T. & Dippre, R. (Eds.) Improvisations: Methods and Methodologies in Lifespan Writing. Colorado State University Open Press, University Press of Colorado, The WAC Clearinghouse. DOI: 10.37514/PER-B.2024.2289.2.09
Kessler, K. & Rogers, P.M. (2023). Writing and social progress: Genre evolution in the field of social entrepreneurship. In Rogers, P.M., Russell, D.,Carlino, P. & Marine, JM. (2023). Writing as a human activity: Implications and applications of the work of Charles Bazerman. Colorado State University Open Press, University Press of Colorado, The WAC Clearinghouse.
Marine, J.M., & Rogers, P.M. (2023). Moffett's Turn to the Spiritual and Meditative. In Marine, J.M., Rogers, P.M., Blau, S., & Kelly, K. (Eds.). James Moffett's Holistic and Spiritual Pedagogy: Toward a Re-emergence of the Student-Centered. New York: Peter Lang Verlag. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370714531_Moffett's_Turn_to_the...
Kessler, K. & Rogers, P.M. (2023). Writing and social progress: Genre evolution in the field of social entrepreneurship. In Rogers, P.M., Russell, D., Carlino, P & Marine, JM. Writing as a human activity: Implications and applications of the work of Charles Bazerman. Colorado State University Open Press, University Press of Colorado, The WAC Clearinghouse. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wf1w805
Ives, S. T., Parsons, S. A., Marine, J., Rogers, P. M., Horton, A., & Young, C. (2022). Students' Writing Engagement. In Hodges, T. (Ed.). Handbook of Research on Writing Instruction Practices for Equitable and Effective Teaching. (pp. 155-172). IGI Global. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3745-2.ch008
Rogers, P.M., & Alexandrowicz, A. (2022). Changemaker education: Reframing learning and teaching for a world of change. In Alexandrowicz, A. & Rogers, P.M., (Eds;) International Models of Changemaker Education: Programs, Methods, and Design. Lanham, MD. Rowman and Littlefield. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/370046702_Changemaker_Education...
Special Issues
Anson, Chris., Marine, J. Navarro, F., & Rogers, P. M. (Eds.). (2023). Writing Research Across Borders: Papers from the 2021 Virtual Writing Research across Borders Conference. Literatura y Linguistica. (46). https://doi.org/10.29344/0717621X.46.3416
Courses:
Writing 2 Academic Writing
Writing 107B Business and Adminstrative Writing
Writing 107G Writing for Global Careers
Writing 107WC Writing for the Web
Writing 502 Proseminar in Writing Studies