Biography

Professor of the Practice

Thompson Writing Program

Duke University

Cary Moskovitz is Professor of the Practice in Writing at Duke University and director of the NSF-funded Text Recycling Research Project. Cary served as Director of Writing in the Discplines at Duke from 2006-2023 and was the founding director of the Duke Reader Project. He holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from North Carolina State University and a Masters of Architecture from Virginia Tech.  He served on the faculties of Virginia Tech, Westbrook College, and the University of New England, before joining the Writing Program at Duke in 2001. His articles and essays related to the teaching of writing or text recycling have appeared in such publications as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Science, College Composition and Communication, Research Integrity and Peer Review, the Journal of College Science Teaching, and Advances in Engineering Education. He has served as a consultant on writing pedagogy and led faculty workshops at colleges and universities across the U.S..

Undergraduate courses he has taught include Academic Writing; College Algebra; Engineering Mechanics; Introduction to American Architecture; Revolutions in Physics; Science, Technology and Society. His graduate courses have included Teaching Writing in the Disciplines and Writing in the Natural Sciences. His research interests include text recycling (“self-plagiarism”), student writing in the undergraduate science curriculum, and new approaches to providing feedback to student writing—including audio (spoken, recorded) feedback techniques.  Cary lives in Chapel Hill with his spouse Lauren and has two children, Max and Milo.