I have been teaching at the college level for over 20 years, and I continue to learn as much if not more from my students each semester as they learn from me. These reciprocal relationships help build a community of learners willing to take risks and improve their writing, analysis, and research skills. Below is a list of the courses I have taught while at ECU. Many of my course websites were on a server that crashed. Over time, I hope to link to syllabi and future courses. If you see a course you want to know more about, feel free to email me.

Graduate Courses
5780: Advanced Writing for Business & Industry
6715: Technical Writing
7600: Research Methods in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication
7705: Ethical Issues in Professional Communication
7712: Grant & Proposal Writing
7765: Special Topics: Writing in/for the Health Professions
7766: Special Studies: Communication & Emerging Technologies–Digital Rhetoric & Writing
7785: History of Professional Communication
8300: Seminar in Professional Development
8601: Advanced Research Methods
8780: Seminar in Professional Communication: Scientific/Science Communication

Undergraduate Courses
1200: Composition II
3040: Introduction to Professional Writing
3820: Scientific Writing
3870: Introduction to Editing & Abstracting
3885: Writing and Document Design
3880: Writing for Business & Industry
3895: Topics in Technical and Professional Writing
4885: Digital Writing

Dissertations, Director

Davis, Carleigh. “Memetic Rhetorical Theory in Technical Communication: Re-Constructing Ethos in the Post-Fact Era,” 2018.

Buchko, Robert. “Hierarchies and Communication: Analyzing Negotiated Power Relationships within A Small Software Organization,” 2013.

Cranford, Christine. “Branding the North Carolina Museum of Art: Planning and Implementing a Public Identity,” 2013.

Dunn, Carolyn. “Power and Place : A Case Study Approach to Rethinking Crisis Communication,” 2010.

Dissertations, Committee Member

Baker, Alana. “Pragmatic Feminist Empiricism: An Original Analytical Framework for Technical Communication,” 2017.

Carr, Patrick. “Extending the Technological, Discursive, and Rhetorical Horizons of Academic Research Libraries’ Information Architectures: An Analysis of North Carolina State University’s James B. Hunt Jr.,” 2017.

Pennell, Therese. “Cross-Cultural Online Learning in Technical Communication Courses: Aiming for Intercultural Competence,” 2017.

Evans, Guyla. “Comparisons of Documentation Models Used by Emergency Physicians in a Community Hospital Setting,” 2015.

Hinson, Katrina. “Chronic Illness Narratives Through Facebook,” 2014.

Dennis, Elizabeth. “Advanced Placement English and First-Year Composition: An Analysis Using Activity Theory with Implications for Transfer,” 2014.

Chambers, Mary-Lynn. “The Rhetorical Challenge of Whiteness within Blackboard for African American Bidialectic Students at Elizabeth City State University,” 2013.

Hurley, Frank. “Visualizing Images in Writing: Pedagogical Implications of Critical Visual Analysis,” 2013.

Hisle, Melissa Place. “Cultural Targeting of Breastfeeding Discourse for African American Women,” 2012.