June 2016 Looking Through a . . .
Nov 2016 Heart of Rock
May 2017 Kurt Vonnegut: Looking . . .
Nov 2016 My Theory of Writing
May 2017 Covert Melancholy
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May 2017 Deconstruction
Nov 2016 Literature Review
March 2017 The Intentionality of . . .
April 2017 Writing Center Work . . .
March 2017 A Quick History . . .
Creative and Multimedia
Academic and Theory-Based
- Kurt Vonnegut 1971 -
“Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
Featured Writing
Writing Center Work as a Social and Collaborative Act of Reflection
Presented April 2017 at CWWTC Conference
Looking Backwards and Forwards: A Life in Retrospect
Capstone: Writing Design and Circulation
Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite writers. When the opportunity arose for me to write a book review of Slaughterhouse-Five I jumped on it. This review is meant to celebrate his life as one of the most successful American authors as we observe the 10th anniversary of his death this year as well as remember the impact of Slaughterhouse-Five as we approach the 50th anniversary of its publication.
Deconstruction
Capstone: Writing Design and Circulation
Literature Review: Reflection in the Writing Center
Teaching and Writing Literature
DISCLAIMER: This piece of writing is experimental: it is unfinished; it is a continuing WIP; it is slightly mortifying and maybe slightly horrifying; it may not even make sense. Read at your own risk.
This theory of writing began as an assignment I completed in November of 2016, yet it is an artifact that I have returned to several times in the past few months. I have revised, added sections, deleted sections, reorganized, and rethought this paper as my own theory of writing has evolved. It is definitely a concept that I intend to continue revisiting as I grow as a writer.
My Theory of Writing
Revised from Theories of Writing
Looking Through a Glass Onion: A Closer look at Fandoms and Fan Culture
Advanced Writing and Research
What is a ‘Fan’?
This is the question that led me down a rabbit hole full of fandoms, fans, and the many forms they can take. I explore the history of some of the most prominent fandoms on the Internet, the growing phenomena of sports fandoms, and the history of fanfiction even as I delve deeper into my own fandom: The Beatles.
The Intentionality of Occupying Negative Capability in Gravity's Rainbow
Opus Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
A Quick History: Technology in the Classroom
History of Education in the United States
This is a newsletter that I created for an education class that I took for the TEP Dual Degree program. This newsletter gives a quick history about technology in the classroom and then dives into how new technology is being implemented in classrooms around the world. I wrote this newsletter to educate a general audience consisting of other educators and parents of students.
Heart of Rock: Rock n' Roll in Denver
Theories of Writing
This short series was inspired by Joan Didion’s White Album and my own love of the music scene in Denver, Colorado. I explore the different music venues in Denver and their significance to the unique sound that each band brings to the city. Written in the creative nonfiction genre, this piece is a personal favorite of mine as it combines two of my favorite pastimes: writing and music.
This paper began as a literature review for a class that I was required to take as a new consultant at the University of Denver’s writing center. It evolved into a research paper and has served as the exigence for my interest in reflection and how it can be used at a tool for the transfer of knowledge and metacognition. This particular permutation of this paper was presented at the CWWTC 2017 conference and is perhaps my most revised paper to date.
This deconstruction is of my conference paper that was presented in April 2017. In this deconstruction, I reflect on my writing: looking at the rhetorical choices I made and evaluating their effectiveness as well as exploring why I made those choices. I began this assignment assuming it would be a relatively simple reflection and found that it allowed me to look at my writing from a new perspective.
Covert Melancholy
Life Walks 2017
This is the PDF of a book I created at the end of my senior year at the University of Denver. I have a continuing interest in integrating text and photography in a way that informs both practices, and this is my first self-published book that incorporates both mediums. For this project, I used photographs I took over the last four months of my undergraduate career and attempted to convey my state of mind as I concluded this chapter of my life.