Matt Weiss

I am a teacher, a scholar, a writer, a technologist, a humanist, a Feminist, an Atheist, a Unitarian, and a gamer. I'm also not in the habit of updating this webpage frequently, so I hope you will forgive any out-of-date information posted here.

Penn State Composition Program

Undergraduate Writing Center

Graduate Writing Center

Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Courses I Have Taught:

English 005: Writing Center Tutoring, a once-a-week, one-credit course for individual students who would like extra help with their writing (primarily for English 015 students).

English 015: Rhetoric and Composition, a writing and argumentation course required of almost all Penn State freshmen.

English 202A: Writing in the Social Sciences, an upper-level writing course that focuses on the practice of ethnographic research: observations, literature reviews and research, interviews, and the synthesis of that variety of methods into one coherent ethnographic account.

English 202D: Business Writing, an upper-level writing course that focuses on Business communication of various sorts: reports, emails, resumes, cover letters, memos, etc.

English 202C: Technical Writing, another upper-level writing course, which focuses on professional writing for a variety of audiences, with an emphasis on practical, user-friendly design. Sample assignments include: a technical description, a job application package, an instruction set.

Click here to learn more about my practice of Teaching With Technology.

I have also worked in (and was the Coordinator of) the Graduate Writing Center.

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