
Maggie Sokolik
Director, College Writing Programs at University of California, Berkeley

Areas of expertise
- Second Language Writing
- Cross-Cultural Education
- Educational Technology
Major works
- How to Be a Successful MOOC Student, by Maggie Sokolik & Dorothy Zemach
- Sound Ideas, by Michael Krasny & Maggie Sokolik; Sokolik, M. (2014)
- What constitutes an effective language MOOC? In Martín-Monje, E. & Bárcena E. (Eds.)
- Language MOOCs: Providing learning, transcending boundaries (pp. 16-32), Warsaw/Berlin: De Gruyter Open
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About Me
• Dr. Sokolik received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. After her Ph.D., she did post-doctoral work in Paris, France, and has been a faculty member at Harvard University, MIT, Texas A&M, and Northern Arizona University. She has taught writing and technical communication at UC Berkeley since 1992, and is Director of College Writing Programs. She is the author of over twenty ESL and composition textbooks. She is an English Language Specialist for the U.S. Department of State, and travels frequently to speak about grammar, educational technology, writing, and instructor education, most recently to Turkey, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and New Zealand.
Courses and Programs taught by Maggie Sokolik
BerkeleyX
English for Journalists, Part 1
1 course
BerkeleyX
English for Journalists, Part 2
1 course
BerkeleyX
Writing for Social Justice
1 course
BerkeleyX
Academic and Business Writing
1 course