Author: Katie Walkup

Katie is a doctoral student in Rhetoric and Composition at the University of South Florida. Her research interests are rhetoric of health and medicine, mental health literacy, digital rhetoric, and writing program administration.

Hi there! I’m Katie, and I’m excited to be working as a DRC fellow this year. Digital rhetoric permeates my pedagogy, research, and administrative work. Hopefully I’ll be sharing resources related to those areas during my time here. Speaking of pedagogy and digital rhetoric, this semester I’m teaching a course on discourse communities in social media. We’re asking way too many questions about how communication circulates online. It’s an interesting exploration into audience awareness, rhetorical analysis, and what it means to be a citizen in these communities. One of my goals as a DRC fellow is to make digital pedagogy…

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