Composition and WPA Research

While I studied composition more formally for my Master's degree, my interest in teaching with technology has continued into my work in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media. We complete a core course titled "Teaching with Technology" for our degree, and some of my other course projects have taken this route, particularly with the first project featured below, my WPA Hybrid Guide.

Completed projects

Writing Program Administrator's Guide to the Hybrid Writing Classroom [Opens external site in new tab]

During Spring 2011, I took a graduate course on Writing Program Administration. My project for this course was the "WPA's Guide to Hybrid Writing Classroom," a website designed as a resource for WPAs to use in exploring adopting hybrid courses in their writing programs.

Solving Assessment Discrepancies with Grading Contracts: A Response to Peter Elbow [PDF]

This project examines Peter Elbow's argument for use of grading contracts in the composition classroom. Further, I developed a grading contract for potential use in the Writing Across the Curriculum first-year composition course here at NCSU.

Exploring Semiotics: Discovering an Artificial Myth [Opens external site in new tab]

My first exploration in semiotics, this essay explores fashion as a possible soure for Barthes' "artificial myths" and looks particularly at a 2009 piece by Catharine Malandrino as an exemplar of a third-order myth.