Conference Presentations and Workshops
Peer-Reviewed Presentations
“Technical Writers for Good: Humanizing Proposal Writing Through Nonprofit Grants,”
at STC, May 2019, Denver, CO.
“Performing Public Writing: Toward More Meaningful Nonprofit Partnerships,” with Steve
Simpson and Angelica Perry at CCCC, March 2019, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Institutional Contexts and Programmatic Strategies for Assessing Student Writing”
with Steve Simpson and Jesse Priest, NMHEAR, February 2018, Albuquerque, NM.
“Flexible but Frequent: How Any Department Can Build Rich Relationships with Industry
Partners through Small, Manageable Techniques,” with Elizabeth Barteau, CEIA, April
2017, Denver, CO.
“Contextualizing Technical Writing in STEM and Beyond: Curricular Design and Assessment
Methodologies for Student Learning,” with Jesse Priest and Janet Kieffer, ATTW, March
2017, Portland, OR,
“Degree of Success: Measuring Student Outcomes and Retention/Persistence in a Technical
Communication Program,” NMHEAR, February 2016, Albuquerque, NM.
“Viable, Not Just Triable: Research to Discover the Necessary Conditions for a Program”
with Lars Soderland on the panel “Advisory Boards in Research and Practice.” CPTSC,
October 2015, Logan, UT.
“Developing a Long-term Non-profit Partnership” in the panel “Technical Communication
Client Projects and Non-Profit Partnerships: Programmatic Research, Student Voices
and Future Directions,” with Steve Simpson, Abi Smoake and Rachel Rayl at CPTSC, October
2015, Logan, UT.
“’The FDA Will Shut Us Down’: The Risks and Rewards of Non-Profit Sector Proposal
Writing in the Technical Communication Classroom” with Steve Simpson. CCCC, March
2015, Tampa, FL.
“The Assessment Coordinator Perspective” in the panel “A System of Assessment: The
Writing Program from Multiple Perspectives.” NMHEAR, Feb 2015, Albuquerque, NM.
“Internship connections” in the panel “Across Disciplinary Lines: Fostering Connections and Seizing Opportunities at New
Mexico Tech.” CPTSC, September 2014, Colorado Springs, CO.
“Technical communication internships as sites of learning and knowledge transformation.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2014, Indianapolis, IN.
“Data visualization in a classroom context.” ATTW, March 2014, Indianapolis, IN.
“Assessing through internships: Program assessment in research and teaching.” NMHEAR,
February 2014, Albuquerque, NM.
“Surprisingly Smooth: TC Interns Juggle the Messiness of the Workplace.” With Rosario
Durao and Steve Simpson, CPTSC, September 2013, Cincinnati, OH.
“Service Learning and Client-based Projects in the Undergraduate Technical Communication
Program.” ATTW, March 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada.
“Grades as a Measure of Student Success: Articulating the Evaluation of Writing in
Higher Education.” NMHEAR, March, 2013, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Student voices in discussions of teacher feedback.” Second Language Writing Symposium,
September 2012, West Lafayette, Indiana.
“Feedback from student voices: How students process and use teacher written commentary.”
Conference on College Composition and Communication, March, 2012, St. Louis, Missouri.
“Providing efficient and valid evaluation: Feedback on student writing.” NMEAR, February
2012, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Making spaces for students: Teacher feedback and student revision.” Conference on
College Composition and Communication, March 2010, Louisville, Kentucky.
“Who gives feedback to multilingual writers?” Symposium on Second Language Writing,
November 2009, Tempe, Arizona.
“Re-envisioning student authority in revision” Conference on College Composition and
Communication, March 2009, San Francisco, California.
“Constructing and re-constructing literacy: Second language students' negotiation
of teacher feedback and appropriation,” University of New Hampshire Literacy Conference,
November 2007, Durham, New Hampshire.
“Negotiating a Partnership: Communication between the Writing Center and Composition
Instructors”. North East Writing Center Association Conference, March 2007
“Write Back”. KOTESOL, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, 2006.
Workshops and Conference Service
“Opening Spaces for Multilingual Students: Curricular Designs and Pedagogical Innovations
for First-year Classrooms and Beyond.” CCCC, March 2014, Indianapolis, IN.
“Keeping multilingual writers in mind: How universal design can lead to inclusive
pedagogies and practices” (Part 3, with Christina Ortmeier-Hooper). Workshops, Sessions
MW.2 & AW.2. Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2009
Symposium Assistant at the 8th Symposium on Second Language Writing. Arizona State
University, November 2009.
Symposium Assistant at the Graduate Student Conference at the 7th Symposium on Second
Language Writing. Purdue University, June 2008.
Conference Assistant at the University of New Hampshire Literacy Conference, 2007.
