Academic Teaching & Writing Expert
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Education Consultant
Available Faculty Workshops
“DEAL and Delve: Teaching and Assessing Metacognitive Assignments.” Strategies for designing, teaching, and grading reflective writing.
“Designing 360-Degree Assignments.” Strategies for fully integrating reflection, review, and revision into writing assignments.
“Building a Writing Theory: Noticing, Situating, and Implementing a Personal Writing Process.” Strategies for teaching and assessing a transfer-focused reflective writing sequence.
“Beyond ‘Good Job Jenny!’: Teaching Peer-Review Assignments Across the Disciplines.” Strategies for helping students prepare for, complete, and fully benefit from peer review opportunities.
“Teaching Writing as a Verb.” Strategies for emphasizing rhetorical awareness and problem-solving in a writing class.
Speaker & Presenter
Professional Presentations
“Reflection-Based Grading: Prioritizing Metacognitive Outcomes for Inclusive Writing Instruction in an AI Context.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2024.
“Administrating for Transfer (in a GPT World): A 10-Part Strategic Plan.” Writing Program Administration Conference, 2023.
“DEAL and Delve: Structuring, Integrating, and Evaluating Writing Student Reflective Practice.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2023.
“Grading for Transfer.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2019.
“Processes and Dispositions: Mapping Student Habits of Mind Onto Composing Skills.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2017.
“The Lightbulb Has To Want To Change: Guiding and Assessing Student Intention as a Pathway to Learning Transfer in FYC.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2016.
Author
Selected Publications
“Defining Dispositions: Mapping Student Attitudes and Strategies in College Composition.” Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing. WAC Clearinghouse Press, 2017.
“On Learning to Teach: Letter to a New TA.” WPA: Writing Program Administration 40.2 (Spring 2017).
“Peer Review for Peer Review’s Sake: Resituating Peer Review Pedagogy.” Peer Pressure, Peer Power: Collaborative Peer Review and Response for the Writing Classroom. Fountainhead Press, 2014.
“Ten Ways to Think About Writing: Metaphoric Musings for College Writing Students.” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2. Parlor Press, 2010.
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