Resources
This page features advice of my own “what I wish I had known”s and the hard-won advice of a first-gen student-to-faculty. Areas include publishing, writing, teaching, and professionalization.
This page is always in progress, but if any of the google drive links do not work for you, please feel free to reach out. If sharing, please keep my attribution present.
Teaching Writing
First-year writing-based courses are often taught by graduate students, but guidance on how to teach writing is not always offered. I found a method of teaching paragraph construction that resonated with my FYS courses. Here, I explain what that method is, how I teach it, and what materials I give students.
Writing + Ritual
I was always frustrated by the “write every day” advice that’s common within academic circles. I try to explain how I came to a writing ritual that facilitated building the habit of writing every day. This was paramount during the dissertation phase and has helped as I’ve been publishing. Here, I share those ideas.
Seminar Papers ⇢ Publication
Seminar papers are where graduate students cultivate ideas and learn the how-tos of professional academic writing. That said, they’re not often translated into public-facing projects. Here, I share my experience and some best practices.
Organizing a Panel for NCA
Organizing discussion and paper panels is a great way for graduate students to network within the discipline as well as share emergent work more broadly. I have compiled tips on how to organize a panel specific to the National Communication Association convention. These tips can apply to regional Communication conferences, but they may or may not translate across disciplines. Here, I share that information.
More to come…
General Publication Advice
Navigating publishing, especially as a graduate student, can be difficult. There’s quite a bit of “hidden curriculum.” I have compiled some of the ins and outs as well as shared my own experience of establishing a scholarly presence. Tips included here can also be applied to coursework, but most are aimed at post-comps timeframes.
Information on Journals
This table features digestible information on the journals that I tend to consider first when thinking about the venue of an essay. This is by no means exhaustive, it’s just where I ground my initial thinking based on journals I have a familiarity with. Areas represented include Communication, Rhetoric, Media Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies. Here, I have aggregated their information.
Building Anti-Racist Research Practices
The Communication discipline, among others, has recently reckoned with the white supremacy rooted in its canon, practices, and culture. There are many great pieces on Comm and Rhetoric’s whiteness; rather than rehearsing those, I compiled a set of questions and practices to begin cultivating anti-racist research practices in reading and writing. Here, I share those.
as a note, the document is aimed at folks newly engaging and doing anti-racist work