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Crystal Bacon
Community College of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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I’m an Assistant Professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia where I teach English Composition 101 and 102. The 101 course is a linked course called CAP C, which joins ENG 101 with a course in Learning across the Disciplines, a credit bearing reading course for students who have been through some developmental reading courses and whose reading skills still need some support. I’ve been using both MyReadingLab and MyCompLab for the past year. Our department and institution are exploring the use of portfolios as assessment tools, and this is one feature that I hope to learn more about in MCL over this semester.
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Susan Grover
Brigham Young University, Idaho
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Bio to come.
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Kim Hall
Harrisburg Area Community College
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Kimberly Hall holds an MA in Linguistics from the University of Maryland. Her current research focuses on applied psycholinguistics, including translation theory as it applies to the teaching of composition. She is an Instructor in Writing and Literature at Harrisburg Area Community College in Lancaster, PA.
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Krista Jackman
University of New Hampshire
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Krista Jackman received a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1991 from the University of New Hampshire, and then went directly on to graduate school at UNH. She ultimately completed her degree at Rivier College, earning a Master of Arts in Teaching in English in 1993. Following graduate school, she taught High School English in the New Hampshire public schools.
During a transitional period during the late 1990’s, Krista began teaching adjunct courses at a variety of colleges and junior colleges. She found that she enjoyed the college classroom and the flexible schedule accommodated her family, specifically raising two small children. Thus, the balance shifted, and Krista left her high school position and entered the arena of post-secondary teaching. In 2004, Krista was hired as a full time Lecturer in the English Department at the University of New Hampshire, and remains such today.
The English Department at UNH is arguably a large and complex department where many programs, such as literature, creative writing, Journalism, linguistics, composition, teacher preparation, and ESL are structured together so as to support one another. It is an incredibly diverse, always process oriented department.
Krista teaches primarily in the Composition program, courses such as ENGL 401: First Year Writing, and ENGL 501: Creative Nonfiction, in addition to a variety of honors sections. In the past academic year, she has worked closely with the Honors Program and the Discovery Program to develop rigorous curriculum that integrates inquiry and involvement with the university dialogue, technology and the guidelines of first year composition. For several years, Krista has been actively involved in mentoring graduate students as they enter the composition program and their first composition teaching experiences. In the academic year 09/10 Krista will begin teaching several residential “Living Learning Community” sections of English 401. Students in Living/Learning Communities live on the same floor of their residence hall, and take a class together, which ideally bridges the academic and the social-residential culture for freshmen.
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Bev Neiderman
Kent State, Ohio
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I received a Bachelor of Science Degree in English and Speech from Bowling Green State University. I taught for many years in the Ohio Public Schools as I earned my Master’s in English. After a move to Rockford, Illinois where I worked in the Rockford Schools and raised three children, I returned to Ohio and began teaching part-time at both Kent State University and the University of Akron.
In 2000, I began teaching full-time at Kent State in literature and composition. I was the Assistant Writing Program Coordinator in AY 2003-04. Presently, I teach five writing courses a semester. These courses include College Writing I Stretch (a 2-semester version of College Writing I for students with writing weaknesses), College Writing I, College Writing II, Advanced Expository Writing, and Advanced Business and Professional Writing. The literature courses I have taught are Great Books I, Great Books II, and Major Modern Writers – British and American. I have also been the Director of a number of Senior Writing Portfolios required for the Writing Minor.
My recent work involves technology and multi-modal composing. Since 2002, I have researched and piloted freshmen and sophomore courses as a member of a Provost’s Committee which resulted in a new Kent State Tiered English Writing Program and a two-semester stretch course for introductory students to help students transition into college writing slowly under the direction of one instructor. I have also attended various classes and workshops on technology and multi-modal issues in composition such as Computers in the Writing Classroom (CIWIC) at Michigan Institute of Technology. The new program includes requirements in written, digital, and visual with options for audio and video composition.
I have recently completed work as a member of a learning community which received a 2007-2008 Ohio Learning Network Grant to revision one of the Tier III courses, Expository Writing, into an online and service-learning course. I have developed a hybrid advanced writing course has a required service-learning component and am presently piloting the course. I have shared my research and practice at presentations at CCCC in San Francisco, Chicago, and New Orleans, various Ohio colleges, and the Ohio Digital Commons for Education in Columbus, Ohio in addition to running many workshops at Kent State Campuses. Finally, I have also served as one of the MyWritingLab Faculty Advocates to explain and promote the program.
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Belinda Rafferty
Old Dominion University, Virginia
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Bio to come.
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Deborah Scaggs
Texas A&M University, Texas
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I have been studying Literature and Rhetoric since my undergraduate days at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where I double majored in English and Rhetoric and minored in Philosophy. After finishing my Master’s degree at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, working with adult learners in an urban setting, I worked full-time at Northeastern University for one year, working with yet another mixed demographic classroom. Then, I found myself in St. Louis, Missouri at Saint Louis University (SLU) for my terminal degree. At SLU, I had the rewarding opportunity to teach Early Modern Literature and Composition and to hone my skills in administration, for two years, as the Assistant Writing Program Director.
Now, I live and work in Laredo, Texas, at Texas A&M International University where I have been working with ESL/ELL students in the Composition classroom, both at the freshman and upper division levels. I have found the border area a rich environment for my interests in educating traditionally marginalized groups of students. This long journey has helped me to understand the mixed needs of a diverse population and, more important, has taught me that my students have much to teach me about them, their learning styles, and their own educational goals.
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Tonya Scott
Prairie View A&M University
Prairie View, Texas
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Professor Scott is a native Houstonian and a graduate of Bellaire High School, Prairie View A&M University English (B.A. in English with a minor in Psychology), Texas Southern University (M.A. in English with an emphasis in African American Literature and a cognate in British Literature), and Texas A&M University-Commerce (Ph.D. in English specializing in Theory and Practice of Written Discourse (Rhetoric and Composition)) with a cognate in Linguistics and a Teaching English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL) certificate. She has been teaching for thirteen years (three years as a middle school teacher and the rest as a college teacher)—currently as an Assistant Professor of English. She holds several professional, honorary, and fraternal memberships, and has published several scholarly texts, and currently serves Prairie View A&M University in various capacities.
See Tonya's: Syllabus (.doc)