Dr. Tom Skeen is an Associate Professor of English at Grand Canyon University, where he is also the university's Career Specialist in grant writing. He holds a PhD in English (Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics), and his primary research interest is the relationship between writing studies, cognitive psychology, education, and learning transfer. Drawing from those disciplines, Dr. Skeen's scholarship focuses on writing pedagogy and learning transfer to maximize the benefit of writing instruction for students. Recent work includes a book chapter about focusing on cognitive problem solving by teaching writing as a design problem. Dr. Skeen is also a co-editor of a forthcoming encyclopedia about cognitive psychology, teaching writing, and learning transfer.