These are two chapters I wrote for Key Concepts in Writing and Rhetoric, a textbook I helped edit and publish for Columbia College Chicago’s Program in Writing and Rhetoric. We worked with Fountainhead press to publish the first edition of the text in 2014. It’s now on its fourth edition. Here are the most recent versions of…

This essay introduces the book: The New Work of Composing, which I co-edited with Dr. Debra Journet and Dr. Cheryl E. Ball. It was an enormous undertaking spanning three years of editing and production. And like almost all elements of the project, we wrote this introduction together. You can read the full introduction here: The…

I produced this pair of recording hardware video tutorials for the Stories21 website. Each tutorial walks the user through the steps for recording their story’s narration using the Zoom H5 portable recorder. You can visit each of the individual web pages here: Zoom H5 Tutorial – Recording with Onboard Mics Zoom H5 Tutorial – Recording…

I produced this writing tutorial for my first-year writing course at Columbia College Chicago. It’s a good example of visually translating an abstract concept into a concrete process. I captured and edited the screen activity using Camtasia. I recorded the audio with a Zoom H6 portable recorder and Sennheiser Beta 87a microphone.

I’ve included this Stories 21 blog post as a copywriting example. In the post, I offer background information, frame the purchasing decision, and make several recommendations. You can read the post here.

I’ve included this blog post as a copywriting example. It’s the opening post of a nine-part series I wrote for Stories21. You can read the post here.

I co-wrote this chapter with two of my colleagues while in the PhD program in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville. We decided that we could collaboratively design a writing course that incorporated multimodal assignments and used those assignments as the focus for course discussion and analysis. We each taught our own discrete…

In this creative nonfiction essay, I explore the possibility that my father’s death may have been a suicide, despite the overwhelming family folklore of it being an accident. You can read the full essay here. Published in North Dakota Quarterly. Fall 2008.

Over the past twenty years, I’ve taught more than 170 courses. Each had its own syllabus. So. Many. Syllabi. Here are a few examples: Art Activism Community Project Introduction to College Writing Writing Digital Content I’ve also included a video I recorded walking them through a course syllabus. Click on the video above to watch.