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)
