Andreas Karatsolis
Associate Director of Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Teaching and Learning
Learning is, for the most part, habit-formation, and a direct result of goal-directed practice and actionable feedback by experts (practitioners and teachers). As a teacher, I have spent the past 25 years in three different continents, supporting the learning experiences of students and faculty with a diverse set of needs. My background in Rhetoric has allowed me to help them learn how to respond to a diverse set of complex knowledge problems: mainly how analyze audiences, purposes and contexts in order to develop their own expertise.
Research Interests
- Communication Assessment and Feedback
- Language learning collaborative environments
- Outcomes-based educational assessment
- Classical Rhetorical pedagogy
- Methodologies of analyzing text
- Data Visualization and Storytelling
Select Courses
At Massachusetts Institute of Technology
21W.015 Writing and Rhetoric: Writing about Sports
21W.747 Rhetoric
16.995 Doctoral Research and Communication Seminar
4.053 Visual Communication Fundamentals (writing expert)
3.014 Materials Science Laboratory (communication lead)
At Carnegie Mellon University Qatar
76-270 Writing in the Professions
76-478 Online Information Design
76-373 Contemporary Public Discourse and the Classical Rhetorical Tradition
76-318 Communicating in the Global Marketplace
15-221 Technical Communication for Computer Science
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At other Institutions
Principles of Communication in Health Professions (ACPHS)
Business Communication for MBA students (ALBA)
Writing for Classroom and Career (Rensselaer)
Select Publications
Lane Suzanne, Andreas Karatsolis, Leslie Roldan, Susan Ruff, Malcah Effron, Jessie Stickgold-Sarah and Michael Trice (2022). “Mapping the Relationship of Disciplinary and Writing Concepts: Charting a Path to Deeper WAC/WID Integration in STEM.” Writing Across the Disciplines
Ibrahim, Z., Papadopoulos, P., & Karatsolis, A. (2017). ‘Arabiyyatii: An Innovative Technology-Based Curriculum for Teaching Arabic to Native Speakers. In Handbook for Arabic Language Teaching Professionals in the 21st Century, Volume II. Routledge.
Andreas Karatsolis, Suguru Ishizaki, Marsha Lovett and Stacie Rohrbach (2016). “Supporting Technical Professionals’ Metacognitive Development in Technical Communication through Contrasting Rhetorical Problem Solving.” Technical Communication
Andreas Karatsolis (2016). "Rhetorical Patterns in Citations across Disciplines and Levels of Participation." Journal of Research in Writing
Nicholas Cifuentes-Goodbody and Andreas Karatsolis (2015). “More Than a Mirage: The Role of Assessment in International Accreditation.” In Assessment of Learning in Higher Education, Claus Nygaard, John Branch & Paul Bartholomew editors, Libri Press
Suzanne Lane, Andreas Karatsolis and Lily Bui (2015). “Graphical Abstracts: A Taxonomy and Critique of an Emerging Genre” Proceedings of SIGDOC 2015 International
Brief Bio
Andreas Karatsolis is the Associate Director of Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication (WRAP) within the department of Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He previously taught professional Communication and Information Design at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar and directed the Qatar campus Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
About WRAP
Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
50 Ames Street, E18-228
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-3039
wrap at mit dot edu
WRAP is the recipient of the 2021-2022 CCCCs Writing Program Certificate of Excellence