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Hello, and welcome to the
Department of Language Arts at Trinity Valley Community College. I look
forward to having you in my class. My main goal for you will be to
learn as much as you can about writing and literature and have fun doing it.
My roots in higher education go back to my
days as a student at Texarkana Junior College in Texarkana, Texas. I enjoy
the community college atmosphere and am excited to be a member of the
TVCC Language
Arts faculty. I came to TVCC as a member of the administrative staff in
1992 after receiving my doctorate in Secondary and Higher Education from
East Texas State University (now Texas A&M —Commerce).
I have worked
as a news reporter and established the first full-time Office of Public
Information at ETSU, where I earned the Master of Science degree in 1967.
In Dallas, St. Louis, and San Antonio I worked in the public relations
offices of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company as a writer and editor of
publications and advertising materials. In St. Louis I worked as a staff
writer on Scene and Signal magazines in the corporate office.
I entered
graduate school at ETSU and received the Doctor of Education degree in
1990. On all degrees I earned a major in Journalism with a minor in
English. My dissertation examined the development of a new writing paradigm
for college freshman English composition. The study dealt with what the
research studies were saying as to how freshman English composition ought to
be taught in America’s colleges and universities. This new approach to
teaching composition became known as the “process” and called for
instructors to turn away from teaching composition as a “product.”
I have taught graduate education courses
for Texas A&M—Commerce and business writing courses for El Centro College in
Dallas and San Antonio College.
My wife, Gwen, and I live on the east side
of Athens. We operate (I mow the yard and she runs everything else!) a bed
and breakfast called Oak Meadow Bed and Breakfast. We have three grown
daughters who live in different parts of Texas. |
