Paul Kei Matsuda

Paul Kei Matsuda (born 1970) is a Japanese-born American applied linguist. He is currently a professor of English and the director of second language writing at Arizona State University He has published several articles and edited books on the areas of second language writing, composition studies, and cognitive and linguistic theories of composition.

Career

Education Matsuda obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in communication from the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1993. He obtained his Master of Arts in English with Composition and Rhetoric Concentration in 1995 from the Miami University. In 2000 he obtained his PhD in English from Purdue University.

Research Matsuda's main interest is in second language writing.

In 1997 he wrote a seminal article on the contrastive rhetoric in context published in the Journal of Second Language Writing.

Awards 2004: TOEFL Outstanding Young Scholar Award (Educational Testing Service) 2006: Richard Ohmann Award for the Outstanding Refereed Article published in College English (National Council of Teachers of English) 2009: Emerging Voice Award (College of Liberal Arts, Purdue University) 2012: Outstanding Book Award (Conference on College Composition and Communication)