Welcome to my website
In August of 2008, I graduated from Purdue University with a PhD in English Language and Linguistics, with additional concentrated coursework in both Professional Writing and ESL. My dissertation, Do you want to come with?: A cross-dialectal, multi-field, variationist investigation of with as particle selected by motion verbs in the Minnesota Dialect of English, is an in-depth analysis of come with (and semantically-related constructions) in Minnesota. In carrying out this analysis, I employed methodologies from the historical, syntax, and phonetic sub-fields of linguistics.
Currently, I am a post-doctoral teaching fellow in the English Department at Purdue University where I teach English 227: Elements of Linguistics, English 420: Business Writing, and English 420E: Business Writing for Entrepreneurs.
Recent Publications and Conference Presentations
Linguistics
Below, please find a list of recent publications and conference presentations related to my linguistics persona.
Publications:
Spartz, J. M. (2008). Can prosodic cues accurately identify constituent boundaries with cross-dialectal homophones?: With as a particle in the Minnesota English dialect. Emily Tummons and Stephanie Lux (eds.). Proceedings of the 2007 Mid-America Linguistics Conference, Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics (KWPL), Vol. 30, [329-342].
Conference Presentations:
Spartz, J. M. (November, 2008). Cross-dialectal homophonous categorial demarcation using prosodic cues: With as a particle in the Minnesota English dialect. American Dialect Society session of the 50th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA) Convention, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Spartz, J. M. (October, 2007). Can prosodic cues accurately identify constituent boundaries with cross-dialectal homophones?: With as a particle in the Minnesota English dialect. Mid-America Linguistics Conference 2007 (MALC), Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas.
Writing Studies
Below, please find recent scholarship related to my life as a writing instructor and researcher.
Publications:
Conard-Salvo, T., & Spartz, J. M. (under review). Listening to revise: Mainstream uses of text-to-speech software in the writing center. The Writing Center Journal (WCJ).
Spartz, J. M. (2007). Matched guise in the composition classroom: Assessing student attitude toward lexical selection. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii: ISSN # 1541-5899.
Conference Presentations:
Conard-Salvo, T., & Spartz, J. M. (April, 2008). Listening to revise: Mainstream uses of text-to-speech software in the writing center. Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), New Orleans, Louisiana.
Works in Progress
Linguistics
Spartz, J. M. (in preparation for American Speech). Employing prosodic analysis to the constituency identification of come and go with in Minnesota: Extending cross-dialectal, variationist methodologies.
Writing Studies
Spartz, J. M., & Weber, R. P. (in preparation for Journal of Entrepreneurship Education). Rhetoric, identification, and entrepreneurship: A rhetorical approach to entrepreneurship education.
What's Happening
I am currently working on two articles, one related to the fourth chapter of my dissertation and one to the approach to teaching 420E: Business Writing for Entrepreneurs--specifically as it relates to the inculcation of rhetorical principles for entrepreneurship education. This second article is co-authored by Ryan P. Weber, a PhD candidate in the Rhetoric and Composition Program at Purdue University.
Contact information
John M. Spartz, PhDPurdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
E-mail: jspartz@purdue.edu