About
I'm Charles Nelson, an assistant professor of ESL writing at Kean University, Union, NJ, USA, and I've been here teaching first-year composition to non-native speakers of English—mostly immigrants who have attended U.S. public schools—since September, 2002. Before that, I taught basically the same course to international students at The University of Texas at Austin (1997-2002) and a mix of reading and writing to students in the Preparatory Program of Marmara University, Istanbul (1990-1994).
Teaching first-year composition to non-native speakers of English and researching how people learn in general, and more specifically learn to write, is a lot of fun. If you have similar interests and would like to add comments to my weblog, either use the comment form or email me