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Through seven semesters as instructor of record and ten semesters as a writing center consultant, I create a hands-on, interactive classroom space where all course members engage in intensive composing in technical environments while foregrounding the people their documents will serve.
My teaching emphasizes active textual production, informed by critical discussion, across a range of technological environments. I help students create texts that will improve their lives and the lives of those they serve. Through studio sessions, I initiate one-on-one conversations with students about the ideas and projects that matter most to them.
My approach to teaching is grounded in principles of digital making and mentorship. Ultimately, I help students study and practice multimodal composing in order to serve their communities as developing professionals.
Syllabus: Digital Media Composing
A section of Digital Media Composing designed to help students compose an argument in various environments using a range of digital technologies. Students choose a research topic and compose audio, image, and video artifacts related to their main claim.
Syllabus: Technical Writing
This course is designed to improve communication skills and career prospects for: (1) science and engineering majors preparing for technology-focused careers, (2) humanities majors interested in technical communication careers, and (3) students of any major interested in workplace writing.
Syllabus: First-Year Writing (Online)
Students develop their capacity for undertaking academic research and analysis through an original research project. They find materials to analyze, develop analytical research questions, explore secondary texts, and make claims connected to the evidence they discovered.
Assignment Prompt: Wayfinding Sequence
The goal of this assignment is to (re)design documents based on data collected through user experience and usability testing in a wayfinding context in order to help users complete a navigation-based task more effectively and more enjoyably.
Assignment Prompt: Project Outline
For each digitally composed artifact (audio, image, video), students consider and answer questions related to: sources and models; design elements; rhetorical situation; collecting assets; and drafting workflow.
Assignment Prompt: Literacy Narrative
This assignment encourages students to reflect on their literacy experiences (learning to read, write, speak, use computers, communicate in another language, etc.), and to remediate a familiar story from alphabetic to multimodal narrative.
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