Position Title
Continuing Lecturer
Friday 1:00 to 2:00p.m. via Zoom
Research Areas:
Contract grading and assessment, disability studies, the rhetoric of Health and Medicine, the history of Technical Communication, student-centered pedagogy.
Biography:
Sarah Faye teaches a range of upper division writing courses, in particular writing in science and health sciences. Her classes focus on the rhetorical situation, genre analysis, and the writing process. English is her third language since she grew up in Brussels speaking French at school and Italian at home.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Technical Communication & Rhetoric, Texas Tech University, 2025
- M.A. in English, California State University, Sacramento, 2014
- B.A. in History, University of California, Davis, 2008
Selected Conference Presentations:
“Creating Equitable and Inclusive Grading Contracts for Online Contexts.” Computers and Writing, Davis, California, 2023.
“Compliance or Resistance to AI? A Workshop with Practical Applications for Using ChatGPT in Technical Communication Classrooms.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, online conference, 2023.
“Navigating Through Modalities: An ePortfolio for F2f, Hybrid, and Online Courses.” GSOLE Annual Online Conference, 2023.
“Contract Grading in the Ecosystem: Students, Faculty, and WPA Experiences of Contract Variations across a Program.” CCCC Annual Convention, 2021.
“International Students in Hybrid Courses: Using Grading Contracts to Create an Online Learning Community.” The Asian Conference on Education, Tokyo, Japan, 2019.
“Word Count and Helpfulness Ratings in Online Peer Reviews: Creating Effective Learning Environments.” European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Aachen, Germany, 2019.
“A Journey Through Contract Grading: Matching Pedagogy and Assessment.” Young Rhetoricians’ Conference, Monterey, California, 2019.
“Grading Contracts and Online Peer Reviews: Making Students Accountable to Themselves and Each Other.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2019.
“Multimodality and community-based assessment.” Teacher to Teacher. Conference on College Composition and Communication, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 2019.
“Strengthening Peer Review Practices while Fostering a Helpful Online Community through Eli Review.” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference, University of California, Davis, 2018.
“Bringing Innovation to Professional Genres: ‘Control and Carnival’ in Business Writing.” SIG Writing Conference, Antwerp, 2018.
“Aligning Grading and Pedagogy: Pioneering Contract Grading in a Writing Program: Interactive Poster Session.” Council of Writing Program Administrators, Sacramento, 2018.
“How Collaborating on Hybrid Courses Leads to Program Assessment and Faculty Development.” International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies, New York, 2018.
“Shareable Links: Engaging Students with Us, Themselves, and Others through Google Apps.” Council for Programs in Scientific and Technical Communication, Savannah, 2017.
“Course Outcomes: the Connection between Policy, Pedagogy, and Practice.” European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, London, 2017.
“Problem-Solving the Constraints that Hinder Collaboration.” Crossings: Exploring Shared Work in Writing, Reno, 2017.
“Writing (Differently) About Writing.” Research Network Forum, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Portland, 2017.
“Rhetorical Choices Are Political Choices: Uncovering Hidden Political Agendas in Academic Writing.” NCTE Annual Convention, Atlanta, 2016.
“The Effects of Programmatic & Institutional Constraints on the Implementation and Evaluation of Writing Pedagogies.” University of California Writing Conference, UC Santa Barbara, 2016.
“Bringing Context to the Forefront: Writing Assignments that Teach Discourse Community Awareness.” 5th Biannual Northern California Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Sacramento State University, 2015.
“Renovation Gone Wrong: New Banking Pedagogy in the Composition Classroom.” Renovation: an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, University of Nevada, Reno, 2013.