Gail W. Pieper

Introduction

At Argonne, I am MCS coordinator of writing and editing. My current professional activities include book editing, proposal writing, and preparation of press releases and other PR material. Previous projects included managing editor of the Journal of Automated Reasoning and technical editor of the Association for Automated Reasoning newsletter. I continue to assist the AAR president in preparing his periodic column.

Until 2011, I was also an adjunct professor at Benedictine University, where I taught classes in editing, research writing for the biological sciences, and literature of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Awards

  • Pacesetter Award (with J. Feigl and K. Cobb), Argonne National Laboratory, 2006
  • Extraordinary Performance Award, Argonne National Laboratory, 1993
  • Pacesetter Award, Argonne National Laboratory, 1988
  • Books

    (with J. Pellech) Comprehensive Handbook of Constructivist Teaching: From Theory to Practice (Information Age Publishing, 2009) provides a detailed description of a Constructivist classroom, with numerous examples from the elementary level to college level.
    Stoogeology (McFarland, 2007) provides a look at the Three Stooges' comedy and their effect on 20th-century culture.
    This book (published 2003) provides the basis for diverse courses in logic, mathematics, and automated reasoning; teaches how research can be successfully conducted; and presents results that had eluded various masters for many decades. Key to obtaining these results is the use of strategies and methodologies, detailed in this book, and the program OTTER. A CD-ROM is included.
    Malcolm S. MacLean, Jr., was director of the School of Journalism at the University of Iowa in the late 1960s. This new book contains a selection of MacLean's writings--many of them never published before--and of contributions (mostly by some of his former colleagues and graduate students) that will help readers understand MacLean's ideas and their implications for journalism education and research.

    A new text about automated reasoning entitled A Fascinating Country in the World of Computing: Your Guide to Automated Reasoning by Larry Wos and Gail Pieper

    A collection of published papers by L. Wos entitled Collected Works of Larry Wos by Larry Wos with Gail Pieper
    Please see the Web site for further details and purchasing information.
    This book contains critical essays on newspaper comics, including an article by John A. Lent on the comic strip in Asia, an article by Jim Iaccino on Jungian archetypes in American comic strips, and an article by A. Sassu on comics in 20th century Italy.

    Selected Papers and Reports

  • ``Writing a Good Bad-News Letter to the Stockholders,'' Issues in Writing 4, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 1992) 175-185

  • ``Commentary on Don Bush's Review of Unlocking the English Language by Robert Burchfield,'' Issues in Writing 5, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 1993), 208-210

  • (invited co-editor, with L. Wos) Special issue on Automated Reasoning and Its Applications, Computers and Mathematics with Applications 29, no. 2 (January 1995)

  • (with Susan M. Picologlou), ``Technical Editing and the Effective Communication of Scientific Results,'' Proceedings of the Second Technical Women's Symposium, Argonne National Laboratory, 1996, pp. 151-154

  • (with L. Wos), "The Hot List Strategy," Journal of Automated Reasoning, 22, no. 1 (January 1999) 1-44

  • Address

    Mathematics and Computer Science Division
    Argonne National Laboratory
    9700 S Cass Ave
    Argonne, IL 60439

    pieper@mcs.anl.gov