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Shawn Apostel at
Clemson's Research Poster Forum 2003
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Current
Position
Graduate
Teaching Instructor, Michigan Technological University,
MI
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in Rhetoric and Technical
Communication, Michigan Technological University
(expected May 2009)
Masters of Arts in Professional Communication
Honors, Clemson
University
(2004)
Bachelor of Arts Magna cum Laude:
Journalism, Toccoa Falls College
(1999)
Graphic Design Technology, Miami-Dade College
(1995-1997)
Commercial and Advertising Art, Miami Lakes Technical
Institute (1994)
Music and Video Business, Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale (1991-1992)
Employment Record
Graduate Teaching Instructor, Michigan Technological
University, MI (2004-Present)
Teach "Revisions," (Oral, Written, and Visual Communication) a course designed to help students
learn to enhance/complement writing with visual
and oral forms of communication; understand
and experience the composing process in written,
visual, and oral communication; acquire extensive
practice in revising written, visual, and oral
communication; experience a range of written,
visual, and oral genres and understand how a
writer's purpose and sense of audience shape
these genres; experience both the personal and
social/collaborative dimensions of learning
and communicating; acquire practice in rhetorical
analysis and critical reasoning; and learn how
to conduct, communicate, and document research
for a substantial piece of argumentative writing.
Teach "Publication and Information Management," a course designed to cover the principles of information selection, editing, layout, and graphics essential to the scheduling, budgeting, and production of various print and digital publications.
Teach "Graphic and Information Design," a computer-intensive introduction to the principles for creating clear, effective graphic communication. Students critique the work of other designers in terms of the work's audience and intended effect, and they construct and critique their own design projects as well.
Team-Teach "Visual Media Analysis" (.doc syllabus) with Dr. Diana George, a course designed to introduce students to ways of thinking, talking, and writing about visual media-photography, advertising, television, film, comics, and other visual media.
Communication Consultant, Class of 1941 Studio
for Student Communication, Clemson University,
SC (Spring 2004)
Helped
students work with and transfer information
between different forms of communication, including
handouts, interviews, PowerPoint, posters, oral
presentations, written texts, and digital portfolios.
Graduate Research Assistant, Art Young, Campbell
Chair in Technical Communication and Professor
of English and Engineering, Clemson
University, SC
(2002-2004)
Assisted
Dr. Young in his research and teaching in professional/technical
communication; communication across the curriculum;
writing in the disciplines; electronic communication;
poetry across the curriculum; the history, theory,
and practice of rhetoric and composition; and
the transition from writing in college to writing
in the workplace; was also responsible for compiling
and publishing class and project booklets, proofing
manuscripts and letters, website design and maintenance,
promoting special events relating to his work,
and ordering library resources.
Public Information Coordinator, City of Toccoa, GA
(2001-2004)
Responsibilities
included preparing press releases; advising
the City Manager and department heads regarding
media and public protocol and information dissemination
techniques; maintaining and updating www.cityoftoccoa.com,
www.mainstreettoccoa.com,
and www.toccoanaturalgas.com;
notifying the media of public meetings; serving
media through the acquisition of information;
writing and designing city newsletters, brochures,
flyers, and advertisements; photographing city
events and scenic views for use in the city
calendar and other promotional material.
News Editor, The Toccoa Record,
Toccoa, GA
(1999-2001)
Reported
city, county, criminal, and court news; produced
feature and enterprise stories; photographed
news, features, and sporting events; handled
special requests and worked with the public
on news releases; edited for factual, grammatical,
and stylistic errors; helped the publisher with
newspaper design and web site maintenance; trained and
managed other beat reporters.
Adjunct Professor and Advisor, Toccoa
Falls
College, Toccoa, GA
(2000-2001)
Taught
Introduction to Journalism, Editing and Design,
and Newspaper Practicum; trained The
Talon staff to use Quark, digital cameras,
and digital photo-editing programs to produce
the school’s biweekly paper; advised the
editorial board of The Talon.
Graphic Designer, Toccoa
Falls College,
Toccoa,
GA
(1997-1999)
Designer
and Assistant Editor for The Forester,
Toccoa Falls College’s
yearbook; responsibilities included meeting
tight deadlines, teaching editors the Quark
program, and giving graphic design and production
advice to the editor.
Pre-press Manager, Graphic
Images, Inc., Opa-locka,
FL
(1994-1997)
Assistant
to the art director; aided with the design and
layout of printed material; assigned jobs to
printers; kept production and shipping at efficient
levels; trained pressmen and day-laborers.
Scholarly Publications and Presentations
"Thinking Through Persuasive Play: Encouraging a Reflective Gaming Experience," in Computers and Composition Online, "Reading Games" edited by Richard Colby and Rebekah Shultz Colby, proposal accepted -- webtext under review.
"Student Voices and Sites of Production for Electronic Written, Aural, Visual Expressions (E-WAVE)," workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication chaired by Dickie Selfe, presenting "YouTube your I-Search: Online multimodal research presentations," scheduled for April 2, 2008.
"Electronic Written, Aural, and Visual Expressions (E-WAVE): Students' Composition/Teachers' Pedagogies," workshop at the Conference on College Composition and Communication chaired by Dickie Selfe, presenting "I-Search ... We-Find: Written, Aural, and Visual Arguments for discovering problems and proposing solutions," March 21, 2007.
"Old World Successes and New World Challenges: Reducing the Computer Waste Stream in America," co-authored with Kristi Apostel, in Technological Ecologies and Sustainability: Methods, Modes, and Assessment, under review by Computers and Composition Online Digital Press.
"Shifting Trends: Evaluating the Credibility of CMC Information," co-authored with Moe Folk, in the Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication, Idea Group Reference, publication scheduled for May 2008.
"Ubiquity ---- Novelty: The Negotiated Tension Approach to Website Evaluation," co-authored with Moe Folk, in Digital Contexts: Studies of Online Research and Citation, under review by SIU press.
"Consensus Across the Curriculum: Using WAC to Develop Interdisciplinary Communication within Groupwork, Panel 3.2, presenting "From I-Search to a Community of Learners: Students across the Disciplines Engage in Problem-Solving Groupwork in a Composition Centered Course," Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, May 2006.
"Disciplining Design in/of the Composition Classroom," with Moe Folk, at the Research Network Forum at the Conference
on College Composition and Communication, 2006.
"First Phase Information Literacy on a Fourth Generation Website: An Argument for a New Approach to Website Evaluation Criteria," co-authored with Moe Folk, Computers and Composition Online, Spring 2005.
http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/apostelfolk/c_and_c_online_apostel_folk/apostel_folk.htm
Cover
Photo, co-authored with Kristi Apostel, College
Composition and Communication, December
2004, Volume 56, No. 2
"First Phase Information Literacy on a Fourth Generation Website: An Argument for a New Approach to Website Evaluation Criteria," with Moe Folk, at the Research Network Forum at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, 2004
"Visualizing
Military Service: How the Army, Navy, Air Force,
and Marines use human images to 'sell' military
service," PCA/ACA Conference, April 2004.
"Visualizing the Marines: How military
service is visually represented on the U.S.
Marine Corps recruitment website," Panel
47, PCAS/ACAS Conference, October 2003.
Assistant Editor, Language and Learning Across
the Disciplines, June 2003, Volume 6, No.
2
Editor, "’Oh that wonderful stuff’:
Selected Poetry by College and Middle School
Students," Language and Learning Across
the Disciplines, June 2003, Volume 6, No. 2
"Visually Evoking Transformation and the
Process of Learning," C.31, Conference
on College Composition and Communication, March
20, 2003. Proposals are blind reviewed by CCCC.
The acceptance rate is 32 percent.
"Transforming Possibilities: A Vision of
New York," program cover design, exhibited
at the New York Hilton, New York City, March
19-22, 2003, during the annual meeting of the
Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Pedagogical
Publications and Presentations
Assistant Instructor, with Kristi Apostel, EDU 202 Digital Portfolio, at Finlandia University (Spring 2008)
Guest Speaker, Introduction to Visual Rhetoric, Graduate Teaching Assistant workshop at MTU (Fall 2007)
Instructor, Video Production: Documentaries, A one week course for MTU's Summer Youth Program in which students filmed and edited short documentaries in I-Movie (Summer 2007)
Editor, I Want to be Made an English Teacher: A collage by
students of English 485/685 Composition for
Teachers (2003)
Editor, Reflections on The
Victorian Age, Fall 2003: A collage of poetry
and artwork by the students in English 417/617
(2003)
“Visualizing the Marines: how military
service is visually represented on the U.S.
Marine Corps recruitment website,” poster
design and mini-talk, Focus on Research Week,
Clemson
University
,
April 9, 2003.
"Can't Stop Now" - Photograph in Semantics,
Clemson's Premiere Art and Literary magazine,
Fall 2003
"Losing the Beard" - Photograph in Semantics,
Clemson's Premiere Art and Literary magazine,
Fall 2003
“Untitled”
- Poem in Semantics, Clemson’s
Premiere Art and Literary Magazine, Fall 2002
“I Know!” - Photograph
in Semantics, Clemson’s Premiere
Art and Literary Magazine, Fall 2002
Editor, Teaching Metaphors:
a collage by the students in English 485/685:
Composition for Teachers, Fall 2002 (2002)
Website Design
Website
designer for Art Young, Campbell Chair in Technical
Communication and Professor of English and Engineering,
Clemson
University
: <http://people.clemson.edu/~apyoung/>
(2003)
Website designer for The City
of Toccoa’s official website: <www.cityoftoccoa.com>
(2002)
Website designer for Toccoa Natural
Gas’ official website: <www.toccoanaturalgas.com>
(2001)
Website designer for
Toccoa
Main Street
’s
official website: <www.mainstreettoccoa.com>
(2001)
Projects and Responsibilities
Chair, Natural and Historic Resources
Committee, Vision 2020, Toccoa-Stephens County
Comprehensive Plan Update (2003-2004)
Graphic Designer, National Safety
Incentives, Inc. (2003-2004)
Event Coordinator, Earth Fest 2003,
Henderson
Falls
Park
,
Toccoa
,
GA
Secretary, Keep Toccoa-Stephens County Beautiful
(2000-2004)
Graphic
designer and website design advisor,
Blue
Ridge
Outdoor
Education
Center
(2002)
Event Coordinator, Earth Fest
2002,
Henderson
Falls
Park
,
Toccoa
,
GA
(2002)
Stringer, The Associated Press (2000-2001)
Promotions Director, Earth Fest (1999-2000)
Promotion
Assistant
,
Georgia
Wildlife Federation, Internship (1999)
Co-host, The Newser News Hour, a radio
show on The Eagle 89.7 FM (1999)
Senior Editor, The Talon,
Toccoa
Falls
College
student newspaper (1999)
Production Manager and Graphic
Designer, Epicentre, a literary magazine
at
Toccoa
Falls
College
(1997-1999)
Graphic Designer, The Talon,
(1997-1999)
Columnist, Not Seriously Speaking, bi-weekly
satirical column published in The Talon
(1997-1999)
Publicity Assistant for
Toccoa
Falls
College
’s Student Government Association
(1997-1998)
Tutor of Philosophy and English Composition,
Toccoa
Falls
College
(1998)
Technical Director, Tell me that you love
me, Junie Moon,
Toccoa
Falls
College
(1998)
Honors and Recognition
Clemson Graduate Student Government $280 Travel
Award recipient (2003)
First place, Feature Writing in 2000, Georgia
Press Association (2001)
Third place, Feature Photograph in 2000, Georgia
Press Association (2001)
First place, News Photograph in 2000, Community
Newspapers Inc. (2001)
National Deans List (1998, 1999)
The Toccoa Record Journalism Scholarship
(1999)
Delta Epsilon Chi Honor Society (1999)
National Honor Society (1999)
Phi Theta Kappa (1996-1997)
Computer Experience
Proficient in both the Mac and PC operating
systems.
Proficient in the following programs:
- I-Movie
- InDesign/Quark
- Illustrator
- PageMaker
- Photoshop
- FrontPage
- Microsoft Office programs
- Netscape
Composer
Currently
learning the following programs:
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