Jacksonville State Campus Visit

Welcome to my website! Here are the materials for my job talks on Wednesday, January 27, 2021.

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Teaching Slide Deck [link]

Research Slide Deck [link]

Teaching Materials

ENGL 306 (Introduction to Professional Writing)

Introduction to Professional Writing (ENGL 306) is a core course for students in the professional writing major and minor at Purdue University. When teaching this course in Fall 2018 and Spring 2019, I created a series of modules that offered students a “smorgasbord” of genres and practices that they might encounter in the workplace: web content development, media relations, technical documentation, and more. Introducing students to the wide range of careers available to them in professional writing, helping them develop a rhetorical and methodological toolkit to work towards their professional goals, and empowering them to share their expertise with their growing network of peers are all areas that I especially enjoy.

• Syllabus
• Course Calendar
• Module 1: Communications Audit
• Module 2: Media Kit
• Module 3: Documentation
• Module 4: Informational Interview Website
• Module 5: Employment Portfolio

ENGL 421-DIST (Technical Writing Online)

Technical Writing (ENGL 421) is a course required for students in engineering, technology, computer science, and agriculture programs at Purdue University. When teaching the course online in Summer 2020, I designed scenarios around the majors and programs of the students enrolled in my section; a practice that I plan to continue in future service courses.

• Syllabus
• Course Calendar
• Project 1: Correspondence
  • Correspondence Assignment Description
  • Correspondence Scenarios
• Project 2: Group Proposal
  • Group Proposal (Assignment Description)
  • Group Proposal Scenarios
  • Sample Student Proposal: Aerospace Engineering
• Project 3: Documentation
  • Documentation (Assignment Description)
• Project 4: Technical Description
  • Technical Description (Assignment Description)

Additional Materials

My work designing ENGL 106Y, Purdue’s first ever online introductory composition course, shows my teaching and administrative expertise. In addition to designing the curriculum and building standardized course shells, I also trained writing instructors (graduate teaching assistants and lecturers) in online writing pedagogy and teaching with technology.

#cwcon #f4: "Compose, Design, Educate: Designing a Digital Rhetorics Themed Online Writing Course" from Allegra Smith

My 2018 Computers & Writing presentation (paper available here) describes the development of ENGL 106Y, as well as next steps.

Additional information on my research and teaching, as well as sample documents, are available via the top navigation.