—Courses & Materials

Sam Houston State University

Graduate Teaching Experience

TCOM 5099: Environmental Rhetoric

Course Description: TCOM 5099 helps students examine the evolving field of environmental rhetoric, exploring how language shapes our understanding of nature, environmental policies, and advocacy. Through interdisciplinary readings, discussions, and research projects, students engage with rhetorical theories, nature writing, and conservation discourse to develop critical perspectives on environmental communication.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Summer 2025 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
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TCOM 5370: Intercultural Technical Communication

Course Description: TCOM 5370 helps students explore the complexities of communicating technical information in intercultural contexts. By studying issues of how organizations, communities, and individuals communicate across cultures and national borders, students develop best practices for intercultural professional communication.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Fall 2024 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
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TCOM 5350: Writing Grants and Proposals

Course Description: TCOM 5350 helps students learn the processes of developing proposals and grants from writing small, internal requests to generating large documents based on external requests for proposals.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Spring 2025 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
  • Fall 2023 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
  • Fall 2022 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous 
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Undergraduate Teaching Experience

ENGL 4330: Writing in the Professions: Artificial Intelligence 

Course Description: ENGL 4330 helps students further build on their foundation in technical writing by applying the methods previously learned to prepare and edit specialized documents in various professional writing situations.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Summer 2024 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
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ENGL 3378: Designing Written Documents

Course Description: ENGL 3378 helps students analyze major rhetorical and visual design theories in order to create professional texts that integrate effective visual and written strategies and that create complete and compelling messages across a variety of workplace genres. 

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Spring 2025 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
  • Spring 2024 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
ENGL 4335: Studies in Rhetoric

Course Description: ENGL 4335 helps students investigate the methods of rhetoric. Topics include rhetorical theory, style and stylistics, rhetorical criticism, ethical issues in rhetoric, and rhetoric literature.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Summer 2024 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
  • Spring 2023 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous
ENGL 3330: Introduction to Technical Writing

Course Description: ENGL 3330 students study special problems of technical literature and technical report writing. Students also design content for written communications in business, industry, and government.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Spring 2025 | 2 Sections | Asynchronous Online & Face to Face
  • Spring, Summer, & Fall 2024 | 3 Sections | Asynchronous Online & Face to Face
  • Spring, Summer, & Fall 2023 | 3 Sections | Asynchronous Online & Face to Face
  • Fall & Summer 2022 | 3 Sections | Face to Face
  • Student Sample: Recommendation Report
ENGL 1302: College English II

Course Description: ENGL 1302 helps students build on their rhetorical knowledge, incorporating more complex methods in their writing processes, including using research in student writing, writing for specific contexts, and/or multimodal composing. Students integrate critical thinking skills into writing, including analysis, synthesis, interpretation, and evaluation.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Summer 2023 | 1 Section | Online | Asynchronous

Purdue University

ENGL 421: Technical Writing

Course Description: English 421 helps students become better technical writers across global audiences, for multiple purposes, and in a variety of media. The course’s work is centered on presenting technical material in written and visual formats that demonstrate an awareness of audience needs and contexts, achieve implicit and explicit rhetorical purposes, and work to effectively address workplace, social, or global problems.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

ENGL 420: Business Writing w/ Multimodal Composition

Course Description: English 420 helps students become better business writers, in multiple modes across diverse global audiences, for manifold purposes, and in a variety of media. The work of the course is themed on multimodal composition and digital rhetoric which means we will engage in presenting business-related material in multiple modes and formats utilizing different digital platforms that demonstrate an awareness of audience needs and contexts, effectively achieve implicit and explicit rhetorical purposes and work to effectively address workplace, social, or global problems.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

  • Fall 2020 | 2 Sections | Online | Synchronous
ENGL 420: Business Writing

Course Description: English 420 helps students become better business writers, in multiple modes across diverse global audiences, for manifold purposes, and in a variety of media. Students will engage in presenting business-related material in multiple modes and formats utilizing different digital platforms that demonstrate an awareness of audience needs and contexts, effectively achieve implicit and explicit rhetorical purposes, and work to effectively address workplace, social, or global problems.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching

ENGL 106: First-Year Composition w/ Digital Rhetoric focus

Course Description: English 106 is the standard 4-credit hour composition course for students at Purdue. The course provides students with the opportunity to interpret and compose in both digital and print media across a variety of forms. Students engage in active learning, which includes class discussion, learning in small groups, problem-solving, peer review, and digital interaction. English 106 is grounded in the idea that writing provides an outlet for sharing and developing ideas; facilitates understanding across different conventions, genres, groups, societies, and cultures; and allows for expression in multiple academic, civic, and non-academic situations. In short, writing is a way of learning that spans all fields and disciplines.

Semester, Sections, & Mode of Teaching