I spent most of my time teaching at five different universities in the United States. During that time, I taught upper and lower division writing courses and literature courses. My expertise focuses on rhetorical devices for a variety of compositional approaches, such as argument, explanation, classification, example, definition, and comparison and contrast. I love how language and words come together to persuade and convince. As a fiction writer, I published a collection of short stories in 2011, and since then a variety of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in literary magazines. I look forward to helping students here at BrainMass.
If you are taking or have taken a creative writing class or workshop, your professor may have written comments about how your characters converse. He or she may have said that your characters are flat, that they are uninteresting on the page. He or she may have asked you to pump some life into them READ MORE »