Graduate Teaching Experience
ENG 594: Teaching First Year Composition/Teaching Assistant Teacher-Training Practicum
Course Description: English 594 focuses on the theory and pedagogy of teaching writing. The course readings, activities, and assignments are designed to help us put theory into practice as we develop as teachers in the writing classroom. In the course, students will work in community to share and explore the challenges and opportunities that arise in their English 101 courses.
Semesters/sections taught:
- Fall 2018 | 1 section | In-person modality
- Spring 2019 | 1 section | In-person modality
- Fall 2019, 1 section | In-person modality
- Spring 2020 | 1 section | Online/synchronous modality
Undergraduate Teaching Experience
ENG 302: Business Writing
Course Description: English 302 Business Writing is an advanced, interdisciplinary writing course designed to improve the workplace writing competence of W.P. Carey School of Business professional and pre-professional students. The course focuses on the practice and study of selected types of discourse employed in professional business situations and helps prepare students for different kinds of writing they will encounter in their professional lives. Much of the course is conducted in a workshop format.
Semesters/sections taught:
- Summer 2021 | 2 sections | Online/asynchronous modality
- Fall 2022 | 2 sections | Online/asynchronous modality
ENG 391: Writing in Context
Course Description: ENG 391 Writing in Context is designed to familiarize students with rhetorical practices that position them to read, assess, and respond to the rhetorical demands of a wide range of writing contexts. The goal is to strengthen students’ existing rhetorical skill sets and problem-setting capacities for producing and circulating work (widely defined across material, print, and digital media) that responds to a range of problems in an applied manner. Quite simply, then, this is a course in assessing the rhetorical demands of writing contexts and in developing and producing tailored, audience-specific texts that forward work in public and professional environments.
Semesters/sections taught:
- Spring 2021 | 1 section | Online/synchronous modality
ENG 301: Writing for the Professions
Course Description: English 301 Writing for the Professions is designed to introduce students to writing within professional discourse communities. Specifically, the course focuses on the practice and study of selected types of discourse employed in professional workplace situations and helps prepare students for the different kinds of writing they will encounter in their professional lives. Towards that end, students will examine rhetorical issues related to documents found and used in professional contexts; particularly how differing rhetorical situations alter purpose, audience, writer, and text. Students will discover those documents, examine them, report on them, and model their own writing on them. Throughout this discovery process, students will engage in the writing process, including invention activities, drafting and revising, peer evaluation, group discussions, editing, and project collaboration.
Semesters/sections taught:
- Fall 2019 | 1 section | Hybrid
- Fall 2020 | 1 section | Online/asynchronous
ENG 215: Strategies of Academic Writing
Course Description: ENG 215 Strategies of Academic Writing is an advanced interdisciplinary writing course emphasizing critical reading and thinking, argumentative writing, library research, and documentation of sources in an academic setting. This course involves the practice and study of selected rhetorics of inquiry (for example, historical, cultural, empirical, and ethnographic) employed in academic disciplines to prepare students for different systems of writing in their academic lives.
ENG 216: Persuasive Writing About Public Issues
Course Description: English 216 Persuasive Writing About Public Issues is an advanced interdisciplinary writing course emphasizing major contemporary public issues. The course covers practice in and study of the logic by which writers construct arguments; the various means that writers use to persuade an audience; and the conventions of evidence, claims, and argument in persuasive discourses.
Semesters/sections taught:
- Spring 2018 | 1 section | In-person
ENG 101: First-Year Composition
Course Description: ENG 101 First-Year Composition aims to increase students’ abilities to develop innovative ideas, to express those ideas effectively, and to engage different literacies. Through the writing activities and projects assigned in the course, students will compose expository and persuasive writing by reflecting upon personal experiences to draw deeper conclusions about the world around them. By critically analyzing various reading materials such as articles, speeches, and other non-literary texts, students will understand more thoroughly the rhetorical process, the relation between audience and cultural context, and the role of audience in the writing process.
Semesters/sections taught:
- Fall 2016 | 2 sections | In-person
- Fall 2017 | 2 sections | In-person
- Fall 2018 | 2 sections | In-person
ENG 102: First-Year Composition
Course Description: ENG 102 First-Year Composition is designed to help students develop sophisticated, situation-sensitive reading and writing strategies. Students make arguments in formal and informal settings. Special attention is given to evidence discovery, claim support, argument response, and their applications to academic debate, public decision making, and written argument. In this course, students complete three formal written projects. Combined, the final drafts of these three projects should result in approximately 5,000 words (this is equivalent to about 20 pages using standard academic format). Additionally, a final reflection is required.
Semesters/sections taught:
- Spring 2017 | 1 section | In-person
- Summer 2018 | 1 section | In-person
POS 194: School of Politics and Global Studies Early Start
Course Description: POS 194: School of Politics and Global Studies Early Start includes an English and writing section that will focus on reflective writing and analytical writing. After the two week period, you should have a better understanding of both genres, and be more confident in your writing abilities. This class will give you a good indication of
writing expectations at the university level.
Semesters/sections taught:
- Summer 2017 | 1 section | In-person
- Summer 2018 | 1 Section | In-person
Kristin C. Bennett, Ph.D. 