Tony Bowers
Instructor, English
Tel.: (630) 942-2688
Berg Instructional Center (BIC), Room 2H05E
bowerst@cod.edu
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
Recent Courses Taught:
- English 1101 - Composition 1
- English 1102 - Composition 2
- English 2250 - Introduction to Creative Writing
Current 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