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Composition for Career Readiness

Equipping Students with Writing Skills for the Future

  • Higher Education
  • Event
  • On-demand
  • English – First-Year Composition
  • Career Readiness
  • Composition Lunch & Learn
  • 50 Minutes
  • On-Demand Video

Description

While composition courses have traditionally aimed to prepare students for writing essays in college, they also need to help prepare students for writing in their careers. Showing students how they can apply various writing strategies in their careers helps to engage them more fully in the learning and writing processes and help them to experience greater success in college, in their personal lives, and in their chosen career fields.

About Your Speaker

  • Karin L. Russell -

    Karin L. Russell

    Karin Russell has been helping students achieve success for nearly 30 years. Russell earned her BA degree from Stetson University and her MS degree from Florida State University. She has taught a variety of composition and humanities courses for several Florida schools, including Eastern Florida State College, Nova Southeastern University, and several career colleges. For the past 24 years, Russell has been a full-time English instructor at Keiser University, where she also served as the English department chair for 12 years. Russell is especially interested in showing students how writing is applicable to their future careers and enabling students to develop their writing skills through a process-oriented, multimodal approach to composition. She passionately believes that nearly anyone can become a good writer with the right instruction and enough practice. Russell debuted the rhetorical star method of writing in her textbook Write Now.