Howard B. Tinberg (born March 6, 1953) is an American academic who is a retired professor of English at

Bristol Community College Bristol Community College (Bristol) is a public community college with four campuses in Southeastern Massachusetts. History The college was originally established in December 1965 when it was instituted by the Massachusetts Board of Regional C ...

Fall River, Massachusetts Fall River is a city in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. Fall River's population was 94,000 at the 2020 United States census, making it the List of municipalities in Massachusetts, tenth-largest city in the state, and the second- ...

Teacher

Tinberg taught

composition Composition or Compositions may refer to: Arts and literature *Composition (dance), practice and teaching of choreography * Composition (language), in literature and rhetoric, producing a work in spoken tradition and written discourse, to include ...

and

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

, and encouraged

ethnographic Ethnography is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. It explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject of the study. Ethnography is also a type of social research that involves examining ...

research by his students into literacy among their families and communities.

Awards

He was awarded the title Outstanding Community College Professor of 2004 by the Carnegie Foundation. He is a former Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the premier, national organization for teachers of college writing. He was selected as Museum Teaching Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a recipient of the Nell Ann Picket award for service to the two-year college. His essay, “Reconsidering Transfer at the Community College: Challenges and Opportunities,” received the Mark Reynolds award for best article of the year in the journal, “Teaching English in the Two-Year College.”

Editor

He is a former editor of the journal '' Teaching English in the Two-Year College.''

Author

He has authored ''Writing With Consequence: What Writing Does in the Disciplines,'' and ''Border Talk: Writing and Knowing in the Two-Year College.'' He has co-authored or co-edited, “The Community College Writer: Exceeding Expectations,” “What is College-Level Writing, Vols, 1 and 2,” “Teaching Learning and the Holocaust,” and “Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom.”

References

2004 Professor of the Year

Bristol Community College
1953 births Living people People from Fall River, Massachusetts American academics of English literature {{US-English-academic-bio-stub