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- 1. SUSAN KIM WYLE 2381 Sharon Road Menlo Park, Ca 94025 (650) 854-4006 sukywyle1@gmail.com Education 9/74-3/76 Stanford University M. A. English Stanford, California 9/70-6/74 Stanford University B.A. English Stanford, California Cum laude 9/73-3/74 Stanford in Italy Florence, Italy Completed the course "Multimedia and Education" at Stanford University the summer of 1996. Have studied a variety of educational multimedia products and have completed two multimedia Web pages for my classes," Literature of World War II" and "Writing the West. Stanford University 6/80-9/14 Program in Writing and Rhetoric Lecturer, Program in Writing and Rhetoric: taught a variety of courses, including Writing and World War II; Writing the American West; Writing1D for summer students; Writing 1D for summer athletes (football team), tutored undergraduate and graduate students in the Hume Writing Center. Developer, Researching with Primary Sources at Stanford, UAL web page for students to learn how to find and use research sources in Stanford libraries: http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/PrimarySourcesResources.html Advisor, Freshman and Sophomore students at Stanford 9/97-9/99 Program in Writing and Critical Thinking Associate Director; with Director, hired and evaluated lecturers and grad students,
- 2. reviewed annual budgets, served on University committees, revised courses, mentored graduate students, worked with University official to increase salaries and benefits of lecturers, taught in Program 50 % time. Coordinator, Community Writing Program. Worked as liaison between Haas Center and Freshman Writing; organized forums for teachers, staff, and community mentors to meet and discuss community writing projects and to develop new relationships with community agencies. Problem solved with teachers on all aspects of community writing classes, including students performance, community mentor expectations, scheduling issues, expectations. . 7/2002- 7/2005 Continuing Studies Program Lecturer, Behind the Scenes at the Hoover Archives, course for adult students to introduce them to searching and researching at the Hoover Archives; Writing and the Archives, research and writing summer course for adult students. 6/76 -9/2010 Educational Freelance Writing Writer for a variety of educational publishers, including Pacific Learning Corporation, American Institutes for Research , and Addison Wesley. Wrote reading materials for both elementary reading programs and high school history texts. Created a Powerpoint lesson on women in the American West for multimedia publisher. Wrote readings and multiple choice answers for the reading section of the MCATS. Publications Teaching with Primary Sources, Stanford Magazine ,Fall 2011 Revisiting America: Race, Culture, and Conflict, Prentice Hall, 2004 Composition text for first-year writing classes: combines primary and secondary sources, traces the history of major conflicts in the United States from the seventeenth century on (850 pages). "Chocolate from Onkle Hoover," Stanford Magazine , Stanford, California February , 1989
- 3. Completed the course "Multimedia and Education" at Stanford University the summer of 1996. Have studied a variety of educational multimedia products and have completed two multimedia Web pages for my classes," Literature of World War II" and "Writing the West. Page includes research links, scanned photographs, and posters from Hoover Archives: http://www.stanford.edu/~suky/ Conferences Attended Stanford Publishing Institute, July, 1988 Breadloaf Writer's Conference, July, 1990 Berkeley Rhetorician's Conference, 1995 Multimedia and Education, Stanford, summer, 1996 1998 AAUP Conference, San Diego, California 1998 AAUP Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico Stanford Continuing Studies Course, The American West, August 1999 Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Elko, Nevada, January 2000 San Francisco State Composition Conference, May , 2000 Stanford Continuing Studies Course, The Sea, August 2000 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Denver, 2001 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, 2002 Western Literature Conference, Boulder, Colorado 2008 Western Literature Conference, Spearfish, South Dakota, 2009 Talks and Papers Delivered "Teaching the Research Paper in Freshman English," delivered at Stanford University, November, 1988 "The Integration of Public Speaking into the Freshman English Classroom," delivered at Stanford University, March, 1989
- 4. "Student Participation in the Classroom: Three Techniques for Success," delivered at Stanford University, November1988; January, 1991 "Integrating the Web Page into Classroom Teaching," delivered at Stanford University, November 1996; December 1996 "Inspiring Student Writers: Primary Sources and the Research Paper," Denver CCCC, March 23, 2002 Persuasion on the Home Front, Then and Now, Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Meeting, Sonoma, California, November 7, 2003, Women Outlaws, Women Prisoners: Dichotomies of Discourse, presented at the CCCC in San Antonio, Texas, on March 26, 2004 Women Outlaws and Prisoners in the Media presented at Western Literature Conference in Boulder, Colorado 2008 Teaching the American West with Primary Sources: Student Panel presented at Spearfish, South Dakota, Western Literature Conference Honors and Awards Recipient, Hoover Institution Research Grant, 1989 1988 Hoover Presidential Foundation Scholar; recipient of Foundation Fellowship for study of "The Hoover School Feeding Program." Winner, Bread loaf Writer's Conference Scholarship (Middlebury College) Additional Information Member, Boothe Prize Committee Member, Lecturer Affairs Committee Recent multimedia classes taken include: Dreamweaver tutorials, elementary video production, scanning workshop, HTML workshop. Member, September Orientation Committee, 2011
- 5. Advisor , Stanford Axe Committee - for student publication on history or Stanford Stanford Academic Advisor, 2003-2010 Member, PWR Professional Development Committee, 2001-2002 Facilitator, PWR Curriculum Committee , 2000-2001 Member, PWR Lecturer Evaluation Committee, 2001-2002 Member, Area One Coordinating Committee, 1997-1999 Member, Writing and Critical Thinking Committee, 1996-1999 Member, Boothe Prize Selection Committee, 1980-1999 Member, Stanford University Lecturer Steering Committee, 1995 Associate Editor, Notes in the Margin, ( a publication of the Stanford Freshman English Program) Participant in 1988 Pilot Program to develop a public speaking component in Freshman English classes Master teacher, Stanford teacher training program, 1982-2005 Stanford Faculty Advisor for Freshmen, 1982-2004 Participant, Stanford Publishing Course , 1978 References : Available upon request
- 6. Advisor , Stanford Axe Committee - for student publication on history or Stanford Stanford Academic Advisor, 2003-2010 Member, PWR Professional Development Committee, 2001-2002 Facilitator, PWR Curriculum Committee , 2000-2001 Member, PWR Lecturer Evaluation Committee, 2001-2002 Member, Area One Coordinating Committee, 1997-1999 Member, Writing and Critical Thinking Committee, 1996-1999 Member, Boothe Prize Selection Committee, 1980-1999 Member, Stanford University Lecturer Steering Committee, 1995 Associate Editor, Notes in the Margin, ( a publication of the Stanford Freshman English Program) Participant in 1988 Pilot Program to develop a public speaking component in Freshman English classes Master teacher, Stanford teacher training program, 1982-2005 Stanford Faculty Advisor for Freshmen, 1982-2004 Participant, Stanford Publishing Course , 1978 References : Available upon request