The collaborative, service-learning project in my Electronic Writing and Publishing course required my editorial team to create a website for the US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association of Georgia. The website  was a collaborative effort to take the content we received form our contact at the association and effectively display it in a manner that made navigation […]

Both my Editing and Electronic Writing and Publishing courses included required service-learning projects as a part of its final grade. Dr. Smith-Sitton set up a project with SAMLA where we wrote biographies of the Honorary Members as editorial teams. My job as Layout and Design Editor was to make each biography conform to the style […]

The Persona Analysis called for a short rhetorical analysis of a public figure, identifying the rhetorical tactics used for the figure to fully develop their persona. At the time, I had recently discovered the “Sexy Sax Man,” a saxophone player named Sergio Flores who is famous for wearing a specific costume and playing “Careless Whisper” […]

To say my Twentieth-Century Composition Theory and Practice course with Dr. Michael Harker was a joy would be a gross understatement. The course opened my eyes to so many literary theories and ideas about how education—and, more specifically, writing education—could be improved made me more passionate about how writing works in everyday life. The final […]

The text below comes from my Senior Seminar with Dr. Elizabeth Burmester. The assignment called for a stylistic analysis of a professional text, and we were allowed to choose any text we wished. I chose a memoir from The Paris Review, The Tender Night by Paula Fox, since I read the publication often and was struck by […]

The research paper included below was an Honors paper in my Practical Grammar course that required an exploration of grammar in an author or a piece of writing. During the same semester, I was taking a Single Author course on Jane Austen, which inspired me to explore Austen’s purposeful use of poor grammar to demonstrate […]

I was born on July 30, 1992, in Selmer, TN. I was raised, from age six, in Atlanta, Ga., where I spent free time reading, playing soccer, playing her flute, and spending time with friends and family. From elementary school, I devoured novels every chance she had, and in high school I joined the newspaper […]

My Senior Portfolio includes six works from each course I took in my Advanced Rhetoric and Composition degree: Introduction to Advanced Composition and Rhetoric (ENGL 3050), Twentieth-Century Composition Theory and Practice (ENGL 3100), Practical Grammar (ENGL 3105), Senior Seminar (ENGL 4320), Editing (ENGL 3140), and Electronic Writing and Publishing (3120). Below is my Critical Reflective […]