Writing in Professional Cultures and Interdisciplinary Writing
Digital Writing and Professional Editing
Research Interests
Rhetorics of Science and Medicine
Rhetoric and Composition and Science Literacy
Honors
Fulbright Lecturer, Bulgaria, 2009
York College Summer Research Grant, 2003, 2005
Health Communications Fellowship, National Cancer Institute, 1990
Recent Publications
Zerbe, Michael J. Composition and the Rhetoric of Science: Engaging the Dominant Discourse. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
DelliCarpini, Dominic, and Michael J. Zerbe. "Remembering the Canons' Middle Sisters: Style, Memory and the Return of Progymnasmata in the Liberal Arts Writing major." What are We Becoming?: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors. Eds. Gregory Giberson and Thomas Moriarty. Logan: Utah State university Press, 2010. 177-203.
Zerbe, Michael J. "From the Frontiers of IMRAD: Non-Traditional Medical Research in Two Cancer Journals." Rhetoric of Healthcare: Essays Toward a New Disciplinary Inquiry. Eds. Barbara Heifferon and Stuart Brown. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2008. 203-220.
Service
Member of and grant writer for the Harrisburg Choral Society