This report used the successful video game series Grand Theft Auto as a case study on how packaging and logos are powerful tools to convey a specific identity across a series of products.

Professional and technical writers may not consider their work highly emotionally charged, but this short study looks at an important piece written by Steven Katz that serves to remind us what can happen if we fail to acknowledge the ethos inherent to communication.

A case study on Newgrounds.com, focusing on the aspect of Web 2.0 user content control.

After completing my redesign of the Professional Writing program's website, I also wrote a memo to the program director explaining my design decisions. In addition, I also used the redesign as my final project for a course, and presented my analysis to the class.

This Powerpoint presentation looks at how Spike TV's promotional commercials for the movies and shows they air attract a specific audience. Analyzing this has allowed me to better understand how to target my niche and keep them attentive.

As part of my internship with the Writing In Digitial Environments Lab at Michigan State as a website consultant, it was my job to write memos for interested area non-profits seeking a better web presence. This memo was my first, and probably my favorite, since I finally got to proverbially crack my knuckles at the chance to apply everything I learned in class.

As above, this is another memo produced in the course of my work with WIDE. This memo was written as not only a critique, but especially as a way to help them do most of the work themselves, in terms of deciding on content to include and the general information architecture of the site.

In 2006, through my work with Michigan Assoociation for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and Michigan Hands & Voices, two prominent deaf advocacy and service groups, I was invited to speak as the keynote speaker for the 2006 Michigan Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Conference. I was asked to present on my personal experience with hearing loss, specifically related to the support I received throughout my education, and offer first-hand advice to the wide variety of audience members, ranging from professionals in the field to parents of children with hearing loss.