Quality Enhancement Plan
“ACE—Advising, Community, Engagement.” Quality Enhancement Plan. Craven Community College. July 2016. (Co-authored with the QEP Development Team.)
Digital Textbook
Affirm, Climb, Achieve. ACA Student Success Course digital textbook. Craven Community College. June 2018.
Proposals and Presentations
“Creating a Community of Online ReDesigners—CORD.” NC3ADL Regional Conference presentation. April 2019.
“Critical Thinking in Humanities Courses.” East Carolina University, Biennial Eastern Carolina Writing Symposium. Plenary speech, August 7, 2017.
“Finding Your Voice.” Carteret Writers’ Luncheon, September 2011.
“Tar River Writing Project.” The State of Things. Interview. North Carolina Public Radio. WUNC, Chapel Hill, 20 Aug 2008.
Book Chapters
“Digital Partnerships for Professional Development: Rethinking University Public School Collaborations.” Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices. Ed. Melody Bowdon and Russell G. Carpenter. Hershey: IGI-Global, 2011. 153-63. (Co-authored with Will Banks.)
“Going All In: Creating a WAC Program, Writing Center, and OWL through the QEP and Reaccreditation Process.” Reclaiming Accountability: Using the Work of Re/Accreditation to Improve Writing Programs. Ed. Wendy Sharer, et. al. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2016. (Co-authored with Jonathon Elmore.)
*Winner of “Best Book Award” for 2018 from the Council of Writing Program Administrators.
Magazines and Blogs
“In Search of the Virtuous Mean: Helping Student Writers Find the Sweet Spot.” Edutopia. The George Lucas Foundation. Mar. 2011.
“Top Secrets of Teachers.” Crystal Coast Parent and Eastern Carolina Parent. Aug. 2010: pp.12-13.
“Essential Conversations with Your Child’s Teacher.” Crystal Coast Parent. Aug. 2011: pp.16-17.
Crystal Coast Parent and Eastern Carolina Parent are no longer in publication. They were published by BellaGurl Advertising, Marketing, and Publishing, which is now BG Digital Group.
White Papers and Research
“Effective Communication and Collaboration among Instructors and Students in Online Environments.” Contracted white paper and PowerPoint for North Carolina Community College System, Virtual Learning Community, Quality and Assessment Center. 2016-2017.
“Standardization of Grading.” Contracted white paper and PowerPoint for North Carolina Community College System, Virtual Learning Community, Quality and Assessment Center. 2016-2017.
“Nonprofit Compliance: A Complex Problem with One Simple Solution.” Marketing white paper for Aware Copywriting. June 2016.
Graduate Course Work in Professional Communication
East Carolina University, English Department, MA–Technical and Professional Communication, 18 graduate credit hours completed
Summer 2008
ENGL 7665 Rhetoric and Composition, Tar River Writing Project Summer Institute
ENGL 7665 Rhetoric and Composition, Tar River Writing Project Summer Institute
Spring 2012
ENGL 7746 Training in Professional Communication: Training Adult Learners in Complex Problem-Solving)
Summer 2012
ENGL 7766 Special Studies Seminar in Communication and Emerging Technologies
ENGL 7765 Special Topics: Editing as Management (now 7721)
ENGL 7765 Special Topics: Advanced Teaching in Technical and Professional Communication (advanced version of 7745)
Research Papers
“Integration of Virtual Learning Environments and Multi-User Virtual Environments in Instruction.” 2012. ENGL 7766: East Carolina University.
Master’s degree in Education
University of Georgia, College of Education
Creative Non-fiction
“Better Left Alone” 2008
“Moonshine and Snuff” 1992
Write around the Block 