Rate My Professor Danielle Wetzel

Wetzel’s academic interests focus on teacher training, curriculum design, and assessment for first-year writing, with emphasis on enabling linguistically diverse students to make data-informed, mindful, and culturally aware writing decisions. She explores motivation and assessment of rhetorical reasoning underlying those decisions. Currently, she collaborates with the DocuScope team—Dave Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Necia Werner, and David Brown—to adapt research-based tools into learner-centered pedagogical resources. Her professional service includes serving as Chair of the College Board’s AP Language & Composition Test Development Committee and Chair of the Second Language Writing Interest Section for TESOL. Wetzel received the Barbara Lazarus Award for Graduate Student and Junior Faculty Mentoring in 2023 and was appointed Dean’s Innovation Scholar for FY 2019–2020. Notable publications include Wetzel et al., “Computer-Assisted Rhetorical Analysis: Instructional Design and Formative Assessment Using DocuScope” (Journal of Writing Analytics, 2021); Kaufer and Wetzel, “Rhetoric, Composition, and Design” (Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies, 2017); Wetzel and Reynolds, “Adaptation across Space and Time: Revealing Pedagogical Assumptions” (Transnational Writing Program Administration, 2015); and Taguchi, Crawford, and Wetzel, “What Linguistic Features are Indicative of Writing Quality?” (TESOL Quarterly, 2013).