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Emerging Adults and the 'Ideal Worker'

Winter 2025

Work Life Communication & Wellness

With many Generation Zers reaching early adulthood, or "emerging adulthood," insight into the “ideal worker” discourses that they are familiar with can help us understand how young adults interact in their workplaces.

Identifying which discourses these emerging adults recognize can inform and shape the organizational and interpersonal discourses they'll encounter in the workplace.

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"Grassroots Activisms" Book Review

Spring 2024

Topics in Teaching Writing: The Community-Engaged Classroom

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. I also share my impressions of the collection’s strengths and weaknesses.

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Student-Led Community Assignment

Spring 2024

Topics in Teaching Writing: The Community-Engaged Classroom

This assignment design asks students to craft a story in collaboration with university student organizations, focusing on how these organizations foster community among themselves and engage with a broader community beyond the university.

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Education Memoir Assignment

Winter 2024

Teaching Writing

Drawing on scholarship from writing studies that 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 educational experiences.