Alexandra Carey
Part-Time Lecturer in English
Professor Carey teaches First-Year Writing in the Department of English, empowering students to develop their voices as writers. Believing firmly that students learn more from each other than they do from an instructor, she fosters a writing community in her classes. Her classes use a writing workshop approach and process-based pedagogy, drawing inspiration from expressivist rhetoricians such as Donald Murray and Peter Elbow and emphasizing self-reflection, as well as possibility and alternative for rhetorical choices within their compositions. She is certified in online higher education teaching, and builds online writing courses that encourage learner-to-learner interactions and utilize instructor presence. Her goal is for students to see and know themselves as writers, evolving and growing as part of a lifelong process of honing and sharpening this “human equipment.”
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Contact
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Address
Virtual
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Office Hours
Wednesdays 9-10 am (Zoom)
First-Year Writing
ENGW 1111
Designed for students to study and practice writing in a workshop setting. Students read a range of texts in order to describe and evaluate the choices writers make and apply that knowledge to their own writing and explore how writing functions in a range of academic, professional, and public contexts. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to conduct research using primary and secondary sources; how to write for various purposes and audiences in multiple genres and media; and how to give and receive feedback, to revise their work, and to reflect on their growth as writers.
