Book Review: "Grassroots Activisms"
This review explores the key themes of the edited collection, Grassroots Activisms: Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts, edited by Lisa L. Phillips, Sarah Warren-Riley, and Julie Collins Bates and published in January 2024.
Assignment Design: Student-Led Community
This assignment design asks students to craft a story in collaboration with students involved in university-affiliated student organizations. Focusing on how these student organizations foster community among themselves and engage with a broader community beyond the university campus, students will write either a panel interview, organizational profile, or reflective observation.
Assignment Design: Education Memoir
Drawing on scholarship from writing studies that articulate a meaningful assignment as one that encourages students to write about their own lives, this assignment is designed for students to draft a memoir specific to their experiences with education. As an assignment for a First-Year Writing course that largely includes students new to college, this offers students a chance to reflect on their educational journey thus far while also reflecting on their processes of writing about it.
Research Proposal: "Emerging Adults and the 'Idea Worker'"
With many Generation Zers reaching early adulthood, or "emerging adulthood", insight into the “ideal worker” discourses that these emerging adults are familiar with will be helpful for understanding how they interact in their workplaces. Whether or not these emerging adult workers agree with the “ideal worker” discourses that they know, understanding which ones they recognize can set a foundation for the kinds of organizational and interpersonal discourses they’ll engage with in the workplace.
Essay: "Gen Z Talk About Work"
Building off of existing work in discourse studies about workplace talk, I sought to research the discourses of work, particularly made by those within Gen Z. In this essay, I explored this idea using critical discourse analysis, identifying how linguistic choices and patterns highlighting the themes of “Work as Labor,” “Work to Live or Live to Work?,” and “Money, Capitalism, and Work.”
Teaching and Pedagogical Materials
Through my coursework in WRD 540 Teaching Writing and my Teaching Apprenticeship Program experience, I've curated a selection of my responses to student work and various class activities and materials.
In addition to the pedagogical genres used in the classroom, I also share my Teacher to Teacher presentation from 2025's Conference on College Composition and Communication.
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