Ted Moss
Teaching Professor in English
Ted Moss teaches First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Disciplines. He previously taught composition at Emerson College and The New England Conservatory of Music. His academic interests include assessment, visual rhetoric, multimodal and digital writing, online and hybrid instruction/best practices, and creative writing (particularly creative non-fiction). Excerpts from his memoir manuscript, Hidden Things, earned a nomination for the 2006 Emerson College thesis prize. Ted currently lives with his husband in Hingham on a small farm, featured on News@Northeastern, where he enjoys taking care of his dogs, cat, goats, geese, ducks, chickens, rabbits, and bees.
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Education
MFA, Emerson College
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Contact
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Address
417 Lake Hall
360 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
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Offers writing instruction for students in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Students practice and reflect on writing in professional, public, and academic genres—such as proposals, recommendation reports, letters, presentations, and e-mails—relevant for careers in business. In a workshop setting, offers students an opportunity to evaluate a wide variety of sources and develop expertise in audience analysis, critical research, peer review, and revision.
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.
