Fleming Wins 2019 Richard Ohmann Award from National Council of Teachers of English

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David Fleming, professor of English, has won the 2019 Richard Ohmann Award from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). The award recognizes the outstanding article in the past volume year of “College English,” the council’s flagship journal for scholarship and research in college English studies. The award is given in the name of Richard Ohmann, editor of “College English” from 1966 to 1978.

Fleming’s article, “Fear of Persuasion in the English Language Arts,” was published in the July 2019 issue of the journal. In it, he traces the declining fortunes of persuasion in the modern English language arts, looking both at post-secondary college composition in the United States over the past half century and at secondary English in the U.S. since the rise of the Common Core State Standards.

The award presentation will take place during the NCTE Annual Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, on Saturday, Nov. 23.