Teaching

I am a fourth generation educator, but I came to teaching and writing studies through non-traditional routes (shoutout to the Arkansas Teacher Corps & Texas A&M Texarkana's East Texas Writing Project). 

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As a high school teacher I taught primarily 11th and 12th grade students but also worked in our Alternative Learning Environment. I taught American and World Lit and used multimodal projects as a way to encourage students to re-examine their positions as writers. I was awarded the 2015 Hope Public Schools Secondary Teacher of the Year.  

At Ball State and Miami University, I have taught a variety of courses. 

ENG 104: Composing Research

ENG 111: Composition and Rhetoric

ENG 224: Digital Writing and Rhetoric

ENG 304: Background Theories and Research in Composition 

ENG 313: Technical Writing 

In each of my courses, I see the research and learning process as a way of questioning assumptions and believe students are contributing knowledge to academic conversations through primary and secondary research. I also believe that students have agency and should drive their own learning. 

My primary goals in teaching are to have students wrestle with and understand:

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• Everyone is writer/composer

• Everyone has more to learn

• Research and composing are recursive

• Reflection and revision are key components of the composing process  

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I was awarded the Ball State University Excellence in Teaching for the Master's Level for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Below you will find my text-only syllabi and schedules for ENG 104: Composing Research, ENG 224: Digital Writing and Rhetoric, ENG 304: Background Theories and Research in Composition, and ENG 313: Technical Writing. 

ENG 104: Composing Research

ENG/IMS 224: Digital Writing and Rhetoric

ENG 304: Background Theories and Research in Composition

ENG 313: Technical Writing