Sarah Mansfield

Ph.D. Student

Area of Study

PhD in Rhetoric

Bio

I am interested in evidence-based writing and communication pedagogy designed for students in STEM disciplines, with a particular focus on later undergraduate and graduate-level students. My dissertation is focused on process-based learning in these contexts. I am also interested in the differences between human and AI-generated communication, and what process-based learning can show about the affordances and limitations of AI-based tools.

Education

• BA in English, Tufts University
• MA in Rhetoric, Carnegie Mellon University

Research

writing studies, process, STEM communication, graduate-level STEM writing, corpus analysis, generative AI communication tools

Publications

Wolfe, J., & Mansfield, S. (2025, July). Using Point-Predict Observations to Improve Mechanical Engineering Students' Research Article Introductions. In 2025 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm) (pp. 321-322). IEEE.