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Tony Cimasko

Introduction

Tony Cimasko is a senior lecturer in the Department of English, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on second language writing and TESOL. His research interests include second language writing, multimodal composition, genre analysis and learning, and TEOSL professional development.

Research Interests

• Professional and academic genres 
• L2 writing 
• Multimodal composition 
• TESOL Methods

Courses Taught

• TESOL Practicum (ENG 616)
• Teaching Practicum II (ENG 607)
• English as a Second Language: History, Theory, and Practice (ENG 601)
• Second Language Writing and Reading: Teaching and Theory (ENG 417/517)
• Advanced Composition (ENG 225)
• English for International Graduate Students (ENG 119)
• Composition and Rhetoric (ENG 111) 
• Composition and Rhetoric for Second Language Writers (ENG 109)
• US Cultures and Composition for Second Language Writers (ENG 108) 
• Writing Studio (ENG 104/105)

Education

• Ph.D. English, Purdue University (2009) 
• M.Ed. Bilingual/ESL/Multicultural Education, University of Massachusetts (2004) 
• B.S. Environmental and Business Economics, Rutgers University (1991)

Publications

• Shin, Dong-shin, Tony Cimasko, & Youngjoo Yi. (Eds.) Multimodal Composing in K-16 ESL and EFL Education: Multilingual Perspectives. New York, NY: Springer, 2021.
  
• Kang, Hyun-Sook, Dong-shin Shin, & Tony Cimasko. (Eds.) Online Education for Teachers of English as a Global Language. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.
  
• Shin, Dong-shin, Tony Cimasko, & Youngjoo Yi. "Development of Metalanguage for Multimodal Composing: A Case Study of an L2 Writer's Design of Multimedia Texts." Journal of Second Language Writing 47 (2020): 100711.
  
• Cimasko, Tony, & Dong-shin Shin. "Multimodal Resemiotization and Authorial Agency in an L2 Writing Classroom." Written Communication 34.4 (2017): 387-413.
  
• Silva, Tony, and Tony Cimasko. "Knowledge Consumer to Knowledge Producer: Preliminary Exams and the Prospectus." Graduate Study in Second Language Writing (pp. 170-189). Ed. Tony Silva & Paul Kei Matsuda. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2015.
  
• Cimasko, Tony. Review of Constructing Interpersonality: Multiple Perspectives on Written Academic Genres, ed. Rosa Lorés-Sanz, Pilar Mur-Deñas, and Enrique Lafuente-Millán. English for Specific Purposes July 2011:238-240.
  
• Cimasko, Tony, & Melinda Reichelt. (Eds.) Foreign Language Writing: Principles and Practices. Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2011.
  
• Cimasko, Tony. "A Little More Relevance.' What Is "College-Level' Writing? Volume 2 (online supplement). Ed. Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blauly. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 2010.
  
• Shin, Dong-shin, & Tony Cimasko. "New Tools, Traditional Norms: Multimodal Design and Second Language Composition." Computers and Composition 25.4 (2008): 376-95.
  
• Roberts, Felicia, & Tony Cimasko. "Evaluating ESL: Making Sense of University Professors' Responses to Second Language Writing." Journal of Second Language Writing, 17.3: 125-143.

Work in Progrss

Tony Cimasko is conducting research on ways in which ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵ writers use multimodal texts for their arguments. He is also beginning research into reading difficulties among first-year ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈÊÓƵs and how first-year composition can be used to enhance reading skills.