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ENG 331: Communication for Engineering and Technology is a course designed for upper-level undergraduate students who seek practice and knowledge about their chosen career field. Through assignments that function as discipline-specific genres and "real-life" scenarios, students learn how to communicate in varied situations for varied audiences.

Communication for Engineering and Technology

I have taught one course online thus far, but I have also been involved with curriculum redesign for hybrid courses. 

 

My online courses focus on creating a community of writers in a digital space through discussion forums, Google Apps, and extensive instructor response.

I have taught First-Year Composition as a Lecturer at UNC Charlotte for four years, and I am currently teaching ENG 101 as a Teaching Assistant at NC State University. 

 

The focus of my FYW courses at UNCC was "writing about writing" and included an e-portfolio. At NCSU, I took a "Writing in the Disciplines" approach and the students remediated their pieces on a writer's website for their culminating project of the semester.

 

I have taught multiple levels of First-Year Writing including an accelerated course and one focused on Global Englishes and International Students

One of my primary research interests is digital pedagogy with a specific interest in digital composition through writer websites and digital essays. 

 

As a pedagogical platform, my classes primarily use Wix to build their compositions because it can allow for digital rhetoric and design decisions without prior knowledge of coding.

First-Year Composition
Digital Composition
Online/Hybrid Experience
High School English
Journalism Advisor

While teaching Secondary English for five years at Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough, NC, I taught all four grades at all levels of classes. My primary assignment was sophomore English and I became very experienced with the NC Writing Test.

 

Aside from teaching English courses, I also developed and taught a mythology course. 

During my last years at CRHS, I served as the journalism adviser where I taught the journalism class as well as directed the publication of the student newspaper, The Ridge Review. During my time as adviser, the publication won several awards and several of my students have gone on to become career journalists.

Description of Teaching Experience

North Carolina State University

Teaching Assistant (August 2015-present)

  • Served as an instructor in the First-Year Writing Program and attended professional development, workshops, and peer group meetings to grow continuously as a purposeful instructor.

  • Developed syllabi, planned courses, and implemented course work according to new curriculum standards of Writing in the Disciplines and with new texts.

  • Taught English 101: Academic Writing and Research in a classroom environment that promoted agency and authority for writers by composing in different genres and in different rhetorical situations.

  • Currently teaching English 331: Communication for Engineering and Technology as a Distance Education course, but in a collaborative, community class atmosphere.

 

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Lecturer (August 2012 – May 2015)

Adjunct Writing Instructor (August 2011-May 2012)

  • Served as a member of the faculty in the First Year Writing Program and attended professional lectures, workshops, and peer group meetings to grow continuously as a purposeful instructor.

  • Taught English 1101, 1102, and 1103: Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I & II and Accelerated in a classroom environment that promoted agency and authority for writers of all abilities, as well as provided a forum for students to dialogue about their own writing, the writing of others, and the act of writing itself.

  • Served as the chair of the faculty development committee where we planned and implemented the inaugural University Writing Program’s Charlotte-area writing conference in September 2014.

  • Developed a 4-hour, hybrid, pilot course curriculum including an online digital writing lab component.Acted as the adjunct faculty representative in an effort to bring the concerns of the part-time teaching faculty to the entire department.

 

Cedar Ridge High School

English Teacher (August 2005-June 2010)

  • Developed a pedagogy based on the importance of critical thinking and analytical skills to create a community of lifelong learners in a classroom atmosphere focused on independent thinking and social change.

  • Acted as the journalism advisor and teacher for the school newspaper publication of The Ridge Review.

  • Journalism Teacher and Newspaper Advisor (January 2007-June 2010)

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