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Central to my teaching are some key practices: reading difficult texts, workshopping student writing, rewriting the texts and ideas of others, and critical-creative tinkering. Please see my complete teaching philosophy.
At Wake Forest University, I specialize in teaching first-year composition, for which I've developed three distinct courses so far:
I've also had the pleasure of teaching an advanced writing course on the literary essay.
Below are some courses I taught at Wichita State University:
At Wichita State, I sucessfully proposed the following courses too:
Below are materials I developed while in graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, where I also served as a mentor and facilitator with the Committee for the Evaluation and Advancement of Teaching (CEAT), Pitt's teacher training program.
At Wake Forest University, I specialize in teaching first-year composition, for which I've developed three distinct courses so far:
I've also had the pleasure of teaching an advanced writing course on the literary essay.
Below are some courses I taught at Wichita State University:
- Theory and Practice in Composition, a course on composition theory and pedagogy for English Education majors
- Business, Professional, and Technical Writing, a general education course for business, criminal justice, and other majors
- Writing and Invention, a special topics graduate seminar for MA and MFA students
- Professional, Technical, and Scientific Writing and Editing, a mixed undergraduate and graduate course giving students advanced experience with different kinds of professional writing
At Wichita State, I sucessfully proposed the following courses too:
- Grammar and Style in Composition, a mixed undergraduate and graduate course for English and English Education majors
- Current Theories in the Teaching of Writing, a graduate course introducing students to research in the field of rhetoric and composition
- Writing and Research for Engineers, a graduate course focused on research writing for engineering students
Below are materials I developed while in graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, where I also served as a mentor and facilitator with the Committee for the Evaluation and Advancement of Teaching (CEAT), Pitt's teacher training program.
- Seminar in Composition, first-year composition
- Written Professional Communication, advanced composition for various majors
- Writing for the Public, advanced composition for various majors
- Introduction to Literature, writing-intensive introductory literature course for non-majors
