Teaching, Tutoring, Editing, and Researching
Teaching Adults Writing Since 2011
When I teach writing to adults, I have one main goal: connect my students’ professional and personal passion to writing clear and deep analyses and evidence-driven arguments. To engage in best writing pedagogy practices, I write alongside my projects, giving students access to my thinking and writing processes while I teach them the material.
In all of my blogs, you can see how each of them deals with how using evidence credibly forms the cornerstone of ethical academic and professional writing. In my piece about Kuypers’ definition of rhetorical criticism, I demonstrate how using a visual grid can help students differentiate their claims from the evidence, and their evidence from the reasoning they use to connect their evidence and their reasoning.
Granted, using grids for writing pedagogy is not new. However, in the way I use these grids, I think that students can learn how to do deeper and thorough rhetorical analysis, though they may not have much prior experience with rhetorical analysis. For me, I want to give my students opportunities to see the beauty of deliberating thinking through an analytical process, so they can also nuance, express, and express their most sophisticated ideas on the written or virtual page.
Writing is hard--even for experts in writing.
Do you need advice about how to start, how to continue, or how to end a piece of writing? If so, I’m here to help. I have a total of 13 years of teaching and four years of tutoring adults in academic and professional writing. With all my years of teaching and tutoring experience, I know how to get out of the way and help you find your best ideas that you didn’t even know you had! As such, through email correspondence and Zoom meetings, I can customize my help to your particular writing needs and goals.
A second set of eyes can only help your writing.
Along with teaching and tutoring experience, I have worked on three major editing projects so far. From editing dissertations to footnoting book chapters to helping adults revise their scholarship essays, I have experience in professional editing.
Studying STEM Writing, The Rhetoric of Science, and Information Literacy, and Writing in the Disciplines
Sometimes it’s hard for people to see how STEM connects to their non-STEM fields. But science, technology, engineering, and math touches everyone’s lives. From the ascendancy of AI to social media posters denying COVID, climate change, and credible medicine, we all need STEM literacy to navigate the rocky waters of the vast information ocean in which we find ourselves.
In my Ph.D. work, I analyzed how climate change blog sites use the same data visual for different purposes. Though all of these blogs affirmed climate change, they used the same data to make very different argument. Once I started working in the English Department at The Ohio State University, I started expanding on this work. This expansion included earned a certificate in Teaching Information Literacy, and teaching my first-year writing classes The Framework for Information Literacy in Higher Education. As I have done the assignments alongside my students, I have started shifting my work to analyzing climate change affirmation and denial and how it connects to other disciplines such as economic policy and conflicting interests in the climate change denial blogosphere.
With a mind that can see logical and creative connections among seemingly disparate areas of study, I would love to work with you to help you connect your disciplinary writing and research to the topics of online information literacy, STEM literacy, and/or the studies of Popular STEM Writing. Please see my blogs for how I research and write about STEM related topics in a interdisciplinary fashion.