The Rhetoric DiariesWriting · Technology · Belonging
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Work in motion

A dated account of what I am reading, writing, researching, teaching, building, and making.

01

Reading

Preparing for qualifying examinations across writing pedagogy, digital literacy, and writing with AI. I am especially interested in how rhetorical judgment, authorship, accessibility, confidence, and transfer intersect across these conversations.

02

Writing

Developing The Price of Sounding Like You Belong and revising the broader ghostwriter/co-author project. I am also drafting a proposal concerning multilingual rhetorical agency in AI-assisted professional communication.

03

Researching

Clarifying the relationships among English insecurity, linguistic legitimacy, shame, professionalism, private AI feedback, and the institutional conditions that make delegation feel safer than visible struggle. This work remains in development; I am currently refining its questions, claims, source relationships, and conceptual architecture.

04

Teaching

Revising composition and literature sequences that make rhetorical decisions, source use, feedback, revision, reflection, and appropriate AI roles visible across a semester.

05

Building

Developing the Co-Authoring Lab and Scaffold Studio as private prototypes currently in testing. Both projects translate emerging research and established teaching practices into tools that preserve human judgment, meaningful choice, and accessible alternatives.

06

Professional Work

Working as a Marketing and Communications Intern at NextEnergy while developing role-specific AI workflows, staff training, and organizational capacity-building plans.

07

Public Scholarship

Writing public-facing essays about AI, writing pedagogy, accessibility, academic culture, graduate education, and the institutional expectations that shape how people understand their own competence. Only completed and published pieces appear in the Public Scholarship archive.

08

Creative Work

Revising Three Versions of the Fire and developing selected fiction, creative nonfiction, folklore, and children’s-literature projects.

Updated August 2026

A dated snapshot

This page changes as projects, teaching, and professional work develop. It is a dated snapshot, not a productivity report.