Welcome

Early Literacy

I am Andrea Beaudin, currently with the English department at Southern Connecticut State University, where I teach first-year and intermediate composition. Although my graduate work reflects a concentration in medieval literature, thanks to the opportunities I’ve had to teach writing in wireless laptop labs, I have become passionate about—and therefore focused my teaching and scholarship on—technical communication and rhetoric. Though it may seem that my interests lie nearly a thousand years (and therefore an immeasurable gap of experience and understanding) apart, I find parallels in regards to information access, literacy, and empowerment.

In my classes, I employ a variety of communication and composition strategies to teach an awareness of rhetorical situations inside and outside of the university. Our students’ awareness of texts is changing, but more importantly, our students’ prospective audience’s textual expectations are changing. Effective communicators need to be able to critically analyze and create a variety of media. Through projects that range from proposals and reports to video essays and web portfolios, I aim to guide my students to recognize the influence and impact of others’ text and stylistic choices, and thereby better anticipate and shape the implications of and responses to their own compositions.

Please explore the site by clicking on the links on the menu to the left. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

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Andrea L. Beaudin | Composition and New Media | email andrea.beaudin@gmail.com