American Dancer
I started working for American Dancer in July of 2009, as a writer. Within months I stepped up as the Lead Writer/ Managing Editor and faced an extremely steep learning curve. I learned my way around the magazine with an overworked Editor-in-Chief. Two years later, we consistently produce an essential magazine to ballroom dancers with an ever increasing readership. Since I've taken over as the Managing Editor, I'm proud to say that we've been able to increase the design and content quality of the magazine.
American Dancer magazine is the official publication of USA Dance, reporting on social dance and DanceSport activities in the USA. With a readership of more than 30,000 readers nationwide, the magazine comes out bi-monthly and supports the efforts of USA Dance to make ballroom dancing an Olympic event.
According to the official mission statement of the organization, USA Dance is dedicated to improving the quality and the quantity of ballroom dancing in the United States. As a member organization of the United States Olympic Committee and the International DanceSport Federation, USA Dance acts as the governing body for DanceSport (the competitive aspect of ballroom) in the USA.
On Wellness
The On Wellness newsletter is the official publication of Brigham Young University - Idaho's Wellness Center. On Wellness is a monthly newsletter providing health information and tips for students and faculty alike.
While faculty supervised, On Wellness is a completely student run newsletter with health and nutrition students providing research and ideas for articles, and English major students drafting the content and creating the layout of the newsletter.
The Wellness Center helps students and faculty achieve their fitness goals. They offer full assessments of blood pressure and heart rate, BMI, muscular strength and endurance, body composition, and more.
While faculty supervised, On Wellness is a completely student run newsletter with health and nutrition students providing research and ideas for articles, and English major students drafting the content and creating the layout of the newsletter.
The Wellness Center helps students and faculty achieve their fitness goals. They offer full assessments of blood pressure and heart rate, BMI, muscular strength and endurance, body composition, and more.
BYU-Idaho MLA Formatting Page
Part of my undergraduate work at BYU-Idaho involved writing and editing BYU-Idaho's official MLA formatting web page. While working on the web page, we wrote the guidelines on how to use MLA as well as developed examples of what properly cited works look like.
The struggle here was to develop a page that was somewhat easy to use in the school's web template. In addition to that, we needed to determine the types of works that students would most likely use in their research papers. Trying to condense the entirety of MLA formatting into a few pages was difficult, but manageable.
The struggle here was to develop a page that was somewhat easy to use in the school's web template. In addition to that, we needed to determine the types of works that students would most likely use in their research papers. Trying to condense the entirety of MLA formatting into a few pages was difficult, but manageable.
GO !
GO !magazine was an undergraduate project in a senior level rhetoric class. We were given an assignment to create a magazine. Sounds simple enough right? Not quite. That was pretty much all of the criteria we were given.
GO ! was a magazine geared towards the male 18-25 year old audience of our college town, so named because we wanted our readers to read our magazine, and then GO out and do things. It included articles on dating, reviews of the local restaurants, local hiking and fishing, and other adventures. We had to research and write our own articles, design page layouts, and create all of our own advertising for the magazine. We even had to print 10 copies to make it look as professional as possible. In the end the 48 page project taught us a lot about the work involved with magazines and the "how-to's."
GO ! was a magazine geared towards the male 18-25 year old audience of our college town, so named because we wanted our readers to read our magazine, and then GO out and do things. It included articles on dating, reviews of the local restaurants, local hiking and fishing, and other adventures. We had to research and write our own articles, design page layouts, and create all of our own advertising for the magazine. We even had to print 10 copies to make it look as professional as possible. In the end the 48 page project taught us a lot about the work involved with magazines and the "how-to's."
Unpublished Articles
This section features a few articles that were never published, and only submitted as part of graduate school writing samples. These articles are mostly Human interest pieces detailing the how the individual is representative of a greater issue, blending fact with the storytelling needed to bring the people to life.
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