d. arcurio

Snapshot: Seasoned Rhetoric + Composition instructor with seven years of experience teaching a range of First-Year and fourteen-content-based composition courses at Montclair State University and Fairleigh Dickinson University. A Literacy + Writing consultant specializing in the implementation of rhetorical and reflective writing practices with a Writing Across the Disciplines approach. Specialty areas: Digital Rhetorics; Visual Rhetorics; Workplace Writing; Technical Writing

Rhetoric + Composition | Pedagogy

Blending popular culture and visual communications in content-based learning
Encouraging student awareness and mindful practices on the digital page, along with guided peer review and active composition and editing tools
Emphasizing close reading skills, critical and creative thinking skills, and psychoanalytic lenses to deconstruct various rhetorical situations and audiences
Transforming the standard academic essay into a multimodal composition to promote skills of transfer to the workplace
Teaching an array of content-based courses from English Basic Skills to First-Year Composition as well as Rhetorical Theory and Digital Writing and Visual Rhetoric

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Grief After

The Borderline

Pen: Alex Nicchi

This collection of interwoven stories is based on stages of grief, pain, and emotional fallout from the chaos and instability of others. This is a work of fiction. A new stage/chapter will be published monthly.