Julia Smith

School of Literature, Media and Communication

• Coach students through career plans and milestones

• Advise on courses to take and successful education practices

• Organize student involvement in the school and community

• Manage community relationships to encourage research growth at LMC

School of Literature, Media and Communication

• Implemented professional communication courses based on a client-based projects

• Taught a wide range of workplace and technical communication deliverables including

memos, letters, proposals, website design, and presentations

• Utilized strong presentation skills

• Designed and organized online curriculum materials to complement in-person course

• Performed daily, weekly, and monthly assessments to meet curriculum objectives for both the classroom and program

• Taught a variety of courses business and technical writing to writing across media to writing technologies.

• Developed the assessments and curriculum and training materials for all courses.

• Created courses in a range of classroom environments (in-person, computer-based

training modules, e-learning, and hybrid).

• Designed each course to educate adult learners about how the principles of written

discourse, rhetoric, and design can be implemented over a variety of media (digital,

written, oral, nonverbal)

• Introduced adult learners to persuasive communication practices in the business world

through real business communication case studies and practice.

• Contributed to the production of a professional communication e-manual and curriculum management wiki (training materials, examples, definitions, and

assessments) for the professional communication program.

Representative Consulting Experience

Ph.D., English with a Concentration in Writing Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, 2014.

M.A., Rhetoric and Composition, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 2008.

Post Graduate Diploma, Mediaeval Literature, St. Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland,

2005.

B.A., English, Summa Cum Laude, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, 2003.