writing samples
MASTERS THESIS
Digital City: Visual Communication via
Municipal Twitter Feed in the Urban Northeast
Contemporary cities are physical and virtual. This thesis describes the findings of a mixed-methods study concerning visual images of the city in the urban Northeast of the United States. I ground these approaches in existing literature concerning digital media, visual narrative, genre ecology, urban planning…
NEWS ARTICLE
Lexington Learns Together:
Rewriting the PD Script
Educators in the Lexington Public Schools experienced a professional development reboot in 2014 when the district’s Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Professional Learning reimagined the landscape for such programs. The result was a full day of workshops in fall 2015…
TECHNICAL WRITING
Functions and Features of Lucidchart Software
Lucidchart is a web-based software application used for designing and drawing. You can use it to create diagrams, graphics, flowcharts, mind maps, and mockups. This description of the software will highlight some of its significant functions and features…
LITERARY ANALYSIS
The Troubled Reader of Swift’s A Modest Proposal
Separating the voice of author Jonathan Swift and that of the speaker in A Modest Proposal is a problematic task for the reader. Swift seemingly conflates the two, carefully rebalancing the rhetorical scales when one voice begins to overshadow the other…