Dr. K’s class was interactive and engaging[…]. He respected me as a student and scholar and treated me as such in conversations.”
–RPW 260 Student
At Ferris State University, I teach a range of courses across writing studies, including professional and technical communication, journalism, and business writing, and first-year composition. Each course I teach emphasizes rhetorical awareness and the importance for students to be effective twenty-first century communicators, which includes the use of digital and analog communication technologies. I achieve these broad goals through assignments and activities that encourage students to reflect on their own writing processes, write in a variety of genres for varying audiences in various contexts, research public issues and communities, and compose using an array of writing tools and technologies.
Check out my teaching philosophy to learn more about my approach in the classroom.