Resume

• 2013

  Aimee

  Blau

  Arizona State University

  Mesa Community College

  Mesa

  AZ

  Instilling a sense of confidence and authorship in students’ writing process; Encouraging creativity and play while upholding a back to basics approach to sentence fluency

  mechanics

  and organization; Exploring the characteristics of the genre of “Academic Writing”; Supporting and mentoring the diverse student population of the community college (i.e. veterans

  returning students

  working students

  students with young children

  Adjunct Instructor

  Mesa Community College

  Tempe

  AZ

  Emphasizing that research is a necessary and important part of scholarly and daily life; Encouraging students to be discerning in judging the merit of arguments and evidence and engaging in an intellectual conversation with that evidence; Showing students that good writing is a series of intellectual and writing tasks

  Full Time Instructor

  Arizona State University

• 2010

  Brigham Young University

  Introducing students to rhetorical strategies for effective critical thinking and writing; Integrating library resources and research methods for a research based paper; Implementing new media technologies into the writing classroom to increase student interest in the writing process and to encourage collaboration; Conferencing with students during the writing process to ensure that students are confident and competent writers; Emphasizing the importance argumentation and analysis in writing assignments; Fostering feelings of good will and comfort in student/teacher relationships.

  Instructor

  Provo

  Utah Area

  Brigham Young University

  Master’s Degree

  Research interests: Burke and Dewey’s rhetorical approaches to education and the writing classroom

  tropes and figures in Renaissance drama

  new media in the first year writing classroom

  and emotions in visual rhetoric.

  Rhetoric and Composition

  Brigham Young University

• 2007

  Bachelor’s Degree

  English Language and Literature

  General

  Brigham Young University