Courses Taught at Montana State University
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WRIT 371: Digital Rhetorics
Students read and discussed theories of digital modes of communication and practiced multi-modal content development. The final project involved developing a full digital brand, including a professional website, video, and social media engagement plan.
WRIT 221: Intermediate Technical Writing
Part of my position at MSU entails integrating writing across the campus, especially in STEM majors. Along with the current 221 instructors, I am working on improving the course to be more useful for students in a variety of disciplines and having a cohesive final portfolio project that students can display proudly to potential employers.
ENGL 530: Writing and Rhetoric
Teaching a graduate course on writing and rhetoric to a group of Master’s students on either a literature track or an English education track presented a challenge of making the course engaging and relevant. This course ended up being one of my favorites to teach, as we focused of the power that rhetoric has in their various disciplines and pedagogical practices, and we all learned from each others’ diverse experiences.
WRIT 326: Advanced Writing
My section of this course focused on technical communication skills as they apply to students in a variety of disciplines. The most popular, though challenging, project was to write a UX project; each student wrote a set of instructions for a task they could ask someone else to follow, then silently observe that person as they attempted to complete the task and narrate the process, then revise the instructions and reflect on where they needed to be more clear or concise.
WRIT 494RH: Senior Capstone
The capstone course for writing majors focuses on professionalization and publication. For my section, students spend most of the semester developing a single, in-depth research project that they feel passionate about, developing and practicing good writing habits, workshopping with their peers, and revising.
WRIT 310: Researched Writing
I proposed and developed this course after learning from our writing majors that research was something that they all wanted to understand better but felt intimidated by. This course focuses on methods of research that professional and creative writers use most often, but also on the writing skills for integrating empirical research into those genres of writing.