Project

Teaching and Writing Support

Writing consultation, large-lecture teaching support, and student-centered pedagogy grounded in real learning bottlenecks.

Reese teaching at the front of a classroom, presenting to seated students. — Teaching in the classroom — student-centered instruction and writing support.

Role
Graduate writing consultant, teaching assistant, learning diagnostician, and instructional designer
Areas
Teaching & Learning / Public Scholarship
Skills
Writing pedagogy, Tutoring, AI and learning, Student support, Instructional design

Overview

Students rarely arrive with a generic writing problem. They arrive with mismatched assumptions, unclear assignments, uneven confidence, and real constraints on time and attention.

This body of work treats teaching support as situated problem-solving rather than the delivery of canned study skills.

What to notice

The work centers on diagnosis: prompts, arguments, structure, evidence, and the moment a writer loses momentum.

At NC State, that meant graduate writing consultations and repeated teaching support in an 80-student U.S. Foreign Policy course.

Annotated teaching support board showing diagnosis, scaffolding, and revision pathways. — Visual / artifact Editorial diagram showing the consultation logic and scaffolding structure this page is meant to make visible.

Why it matters

The most important outcome is a repeatable practice of helping people move from uncertainty to agency in classrooms, writing centers, and any setting where explanation has to meet a real person at the point of need.