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Dr. Kami Anderson |
Contact Information Ann Parker is a Lecturer in the English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts department. She taught as an Adjunct Instructor for many years before joining the full-time faculty in 2006. She currently coordinates and teaches the Regents’ preparatory courses and enjoys her time in the freshman composition classrooms, as well, where she teaches English 1101 and 1102. As a member of the Honors faculty, she teaches English 1102 to SPSU’s honor students. She has also taught World Literature and American Literature. Ann has presented around the country and the state at various conferences such as the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the National Council of Teachers of English, the Two-Year College Association, and Student Success in First-Year Composition. In 2006 she represented the ETCMA department at 4Cs in Chicago, participating in a presentation on exemplary adjunct working conditions within the ETCMA department. During the same year, she also participated with other ETCMA faculty at NCTE, presenting a demonstration of practical pedagogical uses of visual texts in the composition classroom, an area which she continues to research and incorporate into her own writing classes. Ann also promotes service learning as part of a college student's educational experience, and she takes her Honors composition students to serve breakfast at MUST Ministries each spring. As a result of this experience, she published an article in 2007 entitled "Service Learning in the Composition Classroom: What Difference Does It Make?" in the Honors in Practice academic journal for Honors programs around the country. She was also a panel member with other SPSU Honors faculty and students at the National Collegiate Honors Conference in Denver, CO, where she presented on alternative assessment practices in the classroom. She was the recipient of the Honors Faculty of the Year award in 2007, and in 2008 she received the Outstanding Faculty award for SPSU. Ann is a graduate of Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is married to Paul, a mechanical engineer, and is mother to a high school-aged daughter and a middle school-aged son. Her hobbies, outside of grading papers, include reading, gardening, working with Our Pal’s Place (a dog rescue and education organization) playing with her own two dogs, and chauffeuring her children.
Courses Prof. Parker specializes in the following courses offered by the ETCMA department:
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English, Technical Communication, and Media Arts Department is a part of Southern Polytechnic State
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