Tony Bowers

Bowers, Tony

English

Associate Professor

Phone: (630) 942-2688

Office Location: BIC 2H05E

Email: bowerst@cod.edu

Office Hours

• Monday, BIC2H05 03:00-04:00 p.m.
• Tuesday, BIC2H05 11:00-12:00 p.m.
• Wednesday, BIC2H05 03:00-04:00 p.m.
• Thursday, BIC2H05 11:00-12:00 p.m.
• Friday, NETVIRTUAL 09:00-02:00 p.m.

Areas of Research Interest

• Accelerated Learning
• Developmental Writing
• Writing-as-content versus writing-as-rhetorical analysis (combining creative writing techniques with compositional writing)
• Language stylistics (focusing on dialog, regional accents, individual dialects, grammar, sentence length, active and passive voice, etc.)
• Constructivist Theory (Making meaning based on connecting experience with ideas)
• Applied Linguistic (Bringing together writing, reading, listening, speaking and critical thinking into one discipline focusing on "real world" language studies and expression)
• Creativity and the effects on cognition

Courses Taught

• English 1101 - Composition 1
• English 1102 - Composition 2
• English 2250 - Introduction to Creative Writing

Projects

• The accelerated learning pilot program for COD J&J's Jive Revue
  (a novel)

Selected Publications, Presentations, Performances, Books

• Expressions from Englewood Anthology: "Something Like Baseball"
• "On The Nine" a short story collection
• Essential Summer Reader: Elements Anthology: "Love is the Thing"

Education

• Masters in Teaching, June 2010 - National Louis University
• Masters in Creative Writing, June 2009 - Columbia College Chicago
• Bachelors in Marketing Communications, June 1995 - Columbia College Chicago