WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) Consultant

The role of writing consultant for WomenLead in Innovation and Entrepreneurship provides me the opportunity not only to think more deeply about writing and learning pedagogy but also led me to understand the competence expected of a professional in the field of business, entrepreneurship, and innovation. WomenLead’s signature experiences such as meetings with Delia Cochran (Consultant and former Global Capabilities Director, The CocaCola Company), Dr. Kristine Sickels, Kathy Waller (former chief financial officer of the CocaCola Company) enabled me to understand the data, trends and causes that preclude all women’s equitable representation in all roles and ranks in business, innovation, and entrepreneurship, and eventually help the student-writers to polish their resumes, portfolio, writing sample to become successful leaders in the world of business and entrepreneurship.

This writing consultancy provided me the scope to learn the design thinking process and goad me to think about the language of empathy and problem-solving approach that can be used in the teaching-learning process. Currently, Dr. Isabella Monlouis and I are working on an article on the correlation between classroom pedagogy and design thinking and aim to publish it in an academic journal. We aim to argue how the application of design thinking in pedagogy enhances the efficiency and skills of the students and how it can bridge multidisciplinary and multimodal approaches of learning. 

Other WAC responsibilities:

1. Meet students one-on-one to help them to brainstorm on topics of assigned writings.
2. Prepare them to articulate their natural and acquired leadership style, skills, and experiences through their writings.
3. Provide detailed feedback on their writings.
4. Discipline-based writing support.

Writing Studio Tutor (Georgia State University)

Responsibilities

1. Meet students one-on-one/online to help them with writing assignments, audience expectations, and academic genre conventions.

2. Brainstorm with the students on discipline-specific writing projects.

3. Help student writers from different disciplines (STEM, Medical, Humanities, and Law) with different writing styles (MLA, Chicago, APA).

4. Organized Write-In workshop on Statement of Purpose writing (Spring 2019) for the pre-med students’ application in the medical college.

5. Took part as a writing consultant in the Personal Statement Workshop Series presented by The Writing for National Awards Initiative (WNAI) – a collaboration between the Office of Undergraduate Research and Fellowships (OURF) and the Writing Studio.

Training in

1. Writing Studio Pedagogy

2. Multilingual and Multicultural Communication