Technical writing trainings for the workplace

I pair my years of teaching college-level technical writing with my years of experience in the publishing industry to develop custom curriculum for the workplace to enhance effective internal and external communications, especially technical and research communication. Trainings cover the entire writing process, from idea to polished product, or a specific area of concern, such as using generative AI effectively, revision, or understanding audience. Contact me today to find out what kind of trainings I could prepare for your workplace!

  • I put my years of experience in teaching and industry to work for you and your employees’ specific workplace communication needs.

  • I start by asking questions about your workplace, what you see as the greatest barriers to effective communication. Then I want to talk to your writers in the workplace and learn what they see as the barriers. Once I know where they are and where you want them to get to with their communication, we can decide together what kind of training would optimize their skillsets.

  • I am highly trained in the development of technical communication teaching and curriculum development, and I am a skilled researcher. I present only the most up-to-date techniques and can either create completely custom technical communication trainings or adapt practiced trainings to your situation and needs.

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. 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.