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Professor Maggie Sokolik

Education: PhD in Applied Linguistics

Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley, USA

Address:

Maggie Sokolik

Director, College Writing Programs

112 Hearst Gymnasium

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-2500

USA

Phone: +1-510-642-9491

Fax: +1+510-642-6963

Mobile:

Email: sokolik@berkeley.edu

Web: https://writing.berkeley.edu/people/maggie-sokolik


Vita

Maggie Sokolik has a PhD in applied linguistics from UCLA. She has taught writing and technical communication on the Berkeley campus since 1992. She has taught Reading & Composition courses, advanced composition, American Cultures courses, and a full range of courses for multilingual student writers. She is the author of more than thirty ESL and composition textbooks, including Sound Ideas, co-authored with former KQED Forum Host, Michael Krasny. She has also written for and been featured in several educational video projects in Japan. She travels frequently to speak about grammar, writing, and instructor education, most recently in New Zealand, Nepal, Belarus (virtually during the pandemic), Australia, and Laos. Her main areas of interest include online education, LLMs and AI in writing, student engagement, writing for social justice, and fiction writing and editing.

Education

Selected Publications

Sokolik, M. E. (2022). How to write an essay (2nd ed.). Wayzgoose Press.
Sokolik, M. E. (2022). Academic and business writing (2nd ed.). Wayzgoose Press.
Sokolik, M. E. (2014). Digital technology in the second language classroom. In M. Celce- Murcia (Ed.), Teaching English as a second or foreign language (pp. 409-422). Heinle/Cengage.
Sokolik, M. E. (1996). The Newbury House guide to writing. Newbury House/Heinle & Heinle Publishing Co.

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