Teaching

This photo was taken on the last day of summer classes in 2014, when I was lucky enough to work with a great group of English language learners who were also visiting scholars at George Mason University.

Sample Syllabi

Writing for the Workplace, Summer 2021

This 200-level Writing in the Disciplines (WID) course asks students to work to understand and interrogate workplace discourse communities; consider, practice, and critically investigate what it means to conduct and communicate research professional settings; grapple with the concepts of agency, power, and ethics in workplace writing; critique and practice visual rhetoric of workplace documents; and write collaboratively.

Please Like Us: Selling With Social Media , Fall 2018

This syllabus is for a 100-level, themed, first-year writing course.

Internship and Workplace Writing, Summer 2016 (course description)

Students are concurrently enrolled in an internship while they take this 200-level summer course. We focus on key concepts like Communities of Practice, genre, and transfer while practicing discourse analysis.

Sample Assignments

What is College For? Remix Project

This Remix project and accompanying proposal asks students to reimagine the argument they made in their research paper for a new audience and a new medium of their choosing.

Truth and Memory Research Project Prompt

This scaffolded research project was developed for a themed first-year writing course that centered around truth and memory in creative nonfiction. Students are asked to choose a discipline, genre, or other area to use as a lens through which they'll answer our overarching course question: Where is "the line" regarding truth and/or memory in CNF?"

Selling with Social Media Blog Project

This project and the one below comprised the major writing endeavors for a first-year writing course with the theme "Please Like Us: Selling with Social Media." Students kept an industry-specific blog about social media throughout the semester and ultimately wrote a large-scale proposal for the company they deemed the weakest on social media.

Rhetorical Grammar, Mechanics, and Punctuation Lesson Plan

This lesson plan maps out a class session on rhetorical grammar, and includes both “mini-lecture” notes and an in-class group activity.