Experience

Wenzhou-Kean University
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee
• English Instructor II

  • Aug 2018 - Present


WWWritingServices

• Writing and Editing

• Writing Consultant and Resume Specialist

  • Jan 1994 - Aug 2018

  Founder, Owner, WW Writing Services Specialize in writing resumes, cover letters, and providing job-seeking advice, advertising services in LinkedIn ProFinder and ThumbTack. (Business reviews available on these sites) PAST CLIENTS include: • Touchdown Media, Inc. sponsor of South Asian Spelling Bee • Dennis Hart, Massachusetts mystery novelist • MindEdge, Inc., higher education consulting firm specializing in etext modules • Two Erie area college professors--editing projects (master’s thesis and final project and book on technology in K-12 Show less



Lakeland Community College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Adjunct Faculty Member--English Department

  • Aug 2017 - May 2018

  Teach English Composition I and English Composition II --Select and order textbooks for course use, plan 16-week semester schedule, creating a syllabus, designing assignments, creating handouts, and incorporating supplemental course elements; --Provide parallel course integration with learning management system (LMS) Blackboard, including electronic assignment submissions and well-defined assignment rubrics providing for detailed written feedback; Select video, graphic, interactive, audio, and written supplements to apply multi-modal approach within Blackboard LMS to supplement in-class activities; --Use variety of writing workshop methods throughout course to encourage revision, and demonstrate and guide different methods of editing and proofreading techniques to student writing; --Use a portfolio approach within English Composition I to encourage revision and writing development; Use a sequenced-assignment approach with writing workshops to help students develop their research projects in English Composition II; and --Critique all assignments and determine final course evaluation and grades. Show less



Southern New Hampshire University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Faculty Member, English Department

  • Nov 2014 - Apr 2017

  Taught online classes in English Composition, Literature, and Linguistics; Created and posted multimedia lessons two to five times a week; Maintained detailed database of student data throughout the course and updating every week, encouraged lower-performing students to develop and submit stronger assignments in a timely manner; praised high-performing student work individually; engaged with every student at least once in three or four weekly discussion boards per term; used embedded rubrics with 4 to 10 criteria for each assignment to score student work, accompanied by specific, individualized, forward-facing, and robust feedback within each rubric category, detailed constructive summative, letter-length comments, along with brief overall suggestions, and in-text notations. Students completed one or two substantial assignments per week for 8 weeks, each of which was graded with written feedback within 7 days. Show less

• Subject Matter Expert

  • Apr 2015 - Apr 2015

  Served as Subject Matter Expert for SME Turbo Workshop to review/realign outcomes and assessments with team of Outcomes and Assessments Specialists using backwards design approach, April 8-10, 2015, COCE SNHU



Endicott College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Professional Writing Tutor, Endicott College Writing Center

  • Sep 2013 - May 2014

  Served as writing consultant to all levels of Endicott College clients, including faculty, staff, and students at undergraduate, master's, or doctoral levels; Conducted face-to-face and online writing tutoring sessions (SMS, audio, and video); Use WCOnline software for scheduling, reporting, evaluating all tutoring sessions; Advised writers in bibliographic style and revising plans; Provided half-hour tutoring sessions on sign-up and walk-in basis Kept records on each client served and submitted electronic summaries to director on daily basis; Suggested techniques to help writers with invention, planning, organizing, drafting, revising, and editing Show less



Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

• Data Analyst (CSAIL--Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab)

  • Jun 2013 - Feb 2014

  Data Analyst/ Linguistic Annotator for Story Workbench, Artificial Intelligence software developed by Dr. Mark Finlayson, CSAIL Research Scientist Worked with other analysts and an adjudicator marking all semantic roles in selected Russian folk tales Data Analyst/ Linguistic Annotator for Story Workbench, Artificial Intelligence software developed by Dr. Mark Finlayson, CSAIL Research Scientist Worked with other analysts and an adjudicator marking all semantic roles in selected Russian folk tales



Framingham State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Visiting Lecturer

  • Sep 2012 - Dec 2012

  Taught 2 sections of Introduction to College Writing Taught 2 sections of Introduction to College Writing



Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Professor (Tenured)

  • Aug 1988 - Oct 2012

  Taught ENGL 102: Specialized Writing & Research, Technical Writing, Business Writing, and College Writing, primarily. Also taught Detective Literature and Women in Literature, and selected individualized instruction classes; Incorporated Blackboard LMS in a large number of sections and created class websites for those not using the LMS; Served on University Technology Committee, as English Department Senator, on Universitywide Tenure Committee, and Continuous Improvement Committee. Named Technology Scholar in Spring and Fall 2007, and led Podcasting Workshops with Music Professor Dr. Dan Burdick. Show less



Miami University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Visiting Assistant Professor

  • Aug 2001 - May 2002

  Taught first-year composition and literature, and technical writing. Taught first-year composition and literature, and technical writing.



Waco Tribune-Herald

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Copy Editor

  • Oct 1985 - Aug 1986

  Worked with Managing Editor and Page Design Editor on inside sections of daily, two-edition newspaper. Primary responsibility consisted of editing all copy and writng all headlines and cutlines for photographs/art for Food, Lifestyle, Business, Regional, Entertainment, and Sunday Magazine sections. Secondary responsibility was editing and writing headlines for the front page and prime news and op-ed pages, the first section of the paper. Also responsible for approving all pasted-up newspaper pages before they went to the press room. Proofread all copy and oversaw composing room personnel to ensure exactness and alignment. Show less



Victoria Business Magazine

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations

• Assistant Editor of VBM

  • Jul 1985 - Oct 1985

  Wrote major feature stories for magazines, took photographs to go with features, covered general business news in city, used typographer machine to input material and print copy, pasted up copy to full-size page sheets to go to publisher. Wrote headlines, cutlines, captions, advertising copy, and okayed pages for press if needed. Wrote major feature stories for magazines, took photographs to go with features, covered general business news in city, used typographer machine to input material and print copy, pasted up copy to full-size page sheets to go to publisher. Wrote headlines, cutlines, captions, advertising copy, and okayed pages for press if needed.



University of Houston-Victoria

• United States
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Editor-in-Chief (UH-Voice) and Student

  • 1982 - 1985

  Recruited and trained 14 student volunteers to write, edit, and sell ads for the student newspaper; Tripled the advertising revenue of the student newspaper; Increased the frequency of the issues from 2-3 times a year to every two weeks; Wrote front-page features, editorials, and standard news articles; Wrote the majority of the headlines and cutlines for the paper; Interviewed speakers such as David Halberstam, Robert F. Buckley, Jr., and Kenneth Armbrister for feature articles; Laid out all the pages; Consulted with the University Chancellor about various policies; Supervised assistant editor and all reporters in their activities. Show less



Victoria Advocate

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Newsroom Clerk

  • 1981 - 1982

  Wrote obituaries, short news articles, Friday night football games, assembled births and deaths information, and input regular columnists' material. Wrote obituaries, short news articles, Friday night football games, assembled births and deaths information, and input regular columnists' material.

• Paste-up Artist

  • 1978 - 1980

  Pasted up the sports section of the daily paper, primarily, and on occasion, the lifestyle, entertainment, and inside news page material before the pages went to press. Also cut material to fit and made sure all the type, headlines, cutlines, and ads were straight and aligned properly. Pasted up the sports section of the daily paper, primarily, and on occasion, the lifestyle, entertainment, and inside news page material before the pages went to press. Also cut material to fit and made sure all the type, headlines, cutlines, and ads were straight and aligned properly.