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Introduction to Digital Writing (WRT200)
SU, Spring 2012
This SU Writing Program pilot course examines our interactions with “digital writing” by looking both backward and forward at writing as a socially situated, meaning-making act. The class introduces questions about the complexity, culture, and benefits/questions of writing in the digital age. It also highlights basic multimodal literacies for the creation of digital compositions and personal websites. Finally, the class pays special attention to the ways that digital writing transforms analog writing.
Writing Center Consultant
SU, Spring 2011 / Fall 2011
As a writing consultant for the SU Writing Center I consulted in face-to-face sessions, asynchronous email sessions, and synchronous Skype/IM sessions. While working with students, I drew attention to form, structure, style, rhetorical acumen and mechanics. My clients were from various majors at the graduate and undergraduate level.
Practices of Academic Writing I (WRT105)
SU, Fall 2009 / Fall 2010
Study and practice of writing processes, including critical reading, collaboration, revision, editing, and the use of technologies. Focuses on the aims, strategies, and conventions of academic prose, especially analysis and argumentation.
Student Evaluations: Fall 2009 / Fall 2010
Critical Inquiry and Research Writing (WRT205)
SU, Spring/Summer 2010, Summer 2011
Study and practice of critical, research-based writing, including research methods, presentation genres, source evaluation, audience analysis, and library/online research. Students complete at least one sustained research project.
Student Evaluations: Spring 2010 (1) (2) / Summer 2010
Rhetoric and Composition II (ENGL 122)
UTC, Spring/Fall 2006, Spring/Fall 2007, Spring/Summer/Fall 2008, Spring 2009
Review of competencies stressed in English 121 with emphasis on the extended essay; use of research matter in writing; attention to diction, figurative and symbolic language, relationship of style and meaning.
Western Humanities I (ENGL113)
UTC, Spring/Fall 2007, Spring/Fall 2008, Spring/Fall 2009
A historical approach to the pivotal ideas, systems of thought, and creations of the Western world from antiquity to approximately 1600 C.E. Emphasis on matters of literary structure, style, and content.
Developmental Writing I (ENGL100)
UTC, Fall 2007
This course is a review of basic writing skills and basic grammar intended to strengthen the student’s background and to prepare the student to move into English 101. Emphasis is placed on the composing process of sentences and paragraphs.
