About Me
I am an assistant professor in the Linguistics and English Language department at Brigham Young University, where I teach courses in editing and publishing. My primary goal in teaching is to help my students make practical connections between what they learn in the classroom and what they will do in the workplace after graduation. I build […]
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Teaching
Teaching is my first passion; I love working with students and preparing them to communicate effectively in the workplace once they graduate. I strive to develop new ideas each semester to help my students understand how important communication will be to their jobs, whether they plan to go into business, graduate school, engineering, veterinary medicine, […]
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Research
I study how communication actually works in the professional world, from how a manager persuades employees to accept change to how an individual uses interactive online tools to make decisions. Currently I have several research projects in progress, including articles on defining rhetorical myth in the workplace, managing organizational change through rhetorical myth, preparing accounting […]
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