Teaching Areas: Introductory Technical, Scientific, Business, and Professional Writing Across the Disciplines
Biography:
Adjunct writing professor and researcher for Portland State University (PSU), as well as a technical writer for Resource Data, Inc., a copyeditor for the Simons Foundation, and a senior writer/editor at Cogitate Editing. Editorial experience includes more than 15 years editing and writing articles, books, grants, business proposals, and other technical documents. Word nerd and bookworm by heart with a love of studying discourse ecologies and being the creative midwife for writers of all types.
Publications:
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“Open Education Resources for Introductory Technical Writing Courses” with Dr. Sarah Read (coming Fall 2021)
- “OER Guide for WR 227 Instructors” (May 2020), Portland State University Library, DOI: 10.15760/pdxopen-26.
- “Disaster documentation: Oregon's evolving damage assessment methodology for emergency declarations” (October 2019), Proceedings of the 37th ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication, DOI: 10.1145/3328020.3353935.
- “Exo-genres: Case Study of State of Oregon ‘Stage Gate’ IT Review Process.” Professional and Technical Communication Program (May 2019), College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Portland State University, permalink: https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/32376.