List of Courses

The links below connect cover sheets for the courses I have taught at Purdue. Each cover sheet gives a brief reflection and links to course materials. Additionally, where applicable, you'll find my course evaluation rankings from past semester (courses at Purdue are scored on a five-point scale). PDF's of complete course scores and student comments are forthcoming.

English 505t: Technical Mentoring
This course is not evaluated
English 505b:
This course is not evaluated
English 420: Professional Writing
Fall 2005:
  • Course Rating: 4.2 out of 5.0
  • Instructor Rating: 4.3 out of 5.0
  • Highlights:
    • "Instructor was enthusiastic about teaching this course": 4.7 out of 5.0
    • "I acquired skills working with others as a member of a team": 4.4 out of 5.0
    • "When I have a question or comment I know it will be respected": 4.4 out of 5.0
    • "Instructor was actively helpful when students had problems": 4.4 out of 5.0
    • "Instructor responses to assignments were beneficial to me": 4.3 out of 5.0
English 419: Multimedia Writing
Spring 2007
  • Course Rating: 3.9
  • Instructor Rating: 4.1
  • Highlights:
    • "I learned the principles of document design": 4.3 out of 5.0
    • "My instructor relates to me as an individual": 4.3 out of 5.0
    • "I am able to set and achieve some of my own goals": 4.3 out of 5.0
    • "I can apply information/skills learned in this course": 4.3 out of 5.0
    • "My instructor is readily available for consultation": 4.3 out of 5.0
    • I would include a lowlight (since this greatly contributes to my lower than expected overall ratings): "The textbook contributes to my understanding of the course": 3.1 out of 5.0 (obviously, I'll use different texts the next time around! I discuss the difficulties I faced teaching this course in my 419 reflection)
English 106: Introduction to Composition
Fall 2006
  • Course Rating: 4.6 out of 5.0
  • Instructor Rating: 4.9 out of 5.0 =)
  • Highlights:
    • "My instructor makes good use of examples and illustrations": 4.9 out of 5.0
    • "My instructor taught me strategies for finding and evaluating a range of sources for my writing projects": 4.8 out of 5.0
    • "My instructor uses class time effectively": 4.9 out of 5.0
    • "My instructor uses various activities that involve me in learning": 4.7 out of 5.0
    • "This course is of practical benefit to me as a student": 4.6 out of 5.0
Fall 2005
  • Course Rating: 4.1 out of 5.0
  • Instructor Rating: 4.2 out of 5.0
  • Highlights:
    • "This course emphasizes revision as an important part of the writing process": 4.5 out of 5.0
    • "My instructor comments usefully on my writing projects": 4.6 out of 5.0
    • "This course help me utilize technology in rhetorically effective ways for writing projects": 4.6 out of 5.0
Spring 2005
  • Course Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0
  • Instructor Rating: 4.3 out of 5.0
  • Highlights:
    • "My instructor shows respect for diverse groups of people": 4.8 out of 5.0
    • "This course challenges me to think": 4.4 out of 5.0
    • "This course helped me read and evaluate texts critically": 4.4 out of 5.0
    • "This course helped me develop my visual thinking abilities": 4.4 out of 5.0

Quintilian Awards

At Purdue's Writing Program Administrator, Rick Johnson-Sheehan, recognizes outstanding teaching, curriculum development, and program service with Quintilian Awards. In the past three years, I have received awards for:

Additional Materials

Web Standards Project

Originally developed for my multimedia writing course, my Guide to Web Standards Design of a Professional Web Presence provides a tiered introduction to W3C standards-compliant (x)HTML and CSS. The project currently subsists of two tutorials on (x)HTML and two tutorials on CSS. In the Spring of 2008 I will be adding an additional tutorial on (x)HTML, an additional tutorial on advanced CSS, a tutorial on coding conditional comments for Internet Explorer compatability issues, and a tutorial on using Fireworks to craft header and background images (techniques that my own tastes are moving away from but that many people still find useful).

Visual CoOperative Project

The Visual CoOperative Project showcases first-year composition students’ visual essay projects. Students in my first-year composition classes are asked to evaluate and revise previous projects in the collective and to make an original contribution. Visual projects are accompanied by explanatory essays that discuss the intended purpose of a project and detail the rhetorical and compositional decisions made during a project’s production.