The Department of English has been
strengthening its expertise in
professional writing and communication,
with the goal of supporting strong
instruction across the disciplines at both
undergraduate and graduate levels.
Two new faculty were hired to start this
September, and both will contribute to
new initiatives in graduate professional
education.
Candice Welhausen
Phil Mink
"Improving students' skills in oral and
written communication is critical in all
fields, but many faculty members worry
that they don't have the time in their
curriculum or the training to incorporate
a lot of this type of instruction," said
English department chair Matt
Kinservik. "Our goal is to continue to
develop ways to share the expertise of
our writing experts with faculty across
the disciplines in order to improve the
communication skills of our students—
something everyone agrees is a priority."
Candice Welhausen earned a Ph.D. in
English from the
University of New
Mexico and brings
over 10 years of
workplace
experience as a
professional
technical communicator in the health
care field. Her research interests include
visual rhetoric, rhetorical theory and
technical communication. Most recently,
Welhausen taught technical
communication and professional
communication for pre-med students
at the Georgia Institute of Technology
through the Brittain Fellowship postdoctoral
program.
Phillip Mink has
been teaching
writing at the
University of
Delaware since
2005 as a part-time
faculty member.
He earned a J.D.
from the University
of Mississippi and also was a Hoyns
Fellow at the University of Virginia,
studying writing under the mentorship
of Peter Taylor. His 20 years' experience
practicing law give him a unique
perspective on teaching, and he has
consistently earned extremely high
ratings from his students.
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