Teaching & research archive
Digital Projects
Maps, markup, and experiments in teaching writing.
Selected projects from my teaching and dissertation research.
Pedagogical mapping
Writing Charlottesville
In Writing Charlottesville, students investigated local places, wrote about their observations, and connected their accounts through shared maps and a set of themes. The maps brought writing about bookstores, music, university spaces, and other parts of the city into conversation.
These examples from fall 2019 and spring 2020 appear in “Rerouting Place in Community-Engaged Teaching: Lessons from the Spatial Disruption of COVID-19,” my article with Charles Lesh in Reflections (2022).
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Dissertation research
Writing with markup
What happens when students help design the structures they write within? In two writing courses at Northeastern, students researched genres, developed shared XML schemas, and used those schemas to compose their own texts. Writing and revising gave them reasons to revisit the models they had built together.
These courses became the focus of my dissertation research on markup, authorship, and students’ experiences of writing. The project asked how designing and using markup might shape students’ understanding of their writing processes and their work in other contexts.
