David Sharpe

Objectives

Experienced designer of internet-based courses in writing, a published college instructor, wants to create, adapt, and/or maintain websites for educational or retail clients. Seeks contract work, communicating mainly through the same web and internet methods used within the projects themselves.  Independent or collaborative.  Off-site only.

Experience

Websites designed and currently maintained

• Writing and Rhetoric II (English 308J, Ohio University, lab-based)
  • at www.ohio.edu/sharpe/eng308 

• Writing and Rhetoric II online (English 308J, Ohio University)
  • at www.ohio.edu/independent/online/eng308j
     
• Writing and Rhetoric I (English 151, Ohio University, lab-based)
  • at www.ohio.edu/sharpe/eng151

• The Buckeye House Rabbit Society
  • at ohare.org

Independent writing- and website-consultant via write-sight.com

Websites designed and maintained, no longer available

• Internet Writing
  (Technical Writing, English 305J, Ohio University)  
• Buchanan's Furniture -- Interiors  
  (quality furniture store and custom shop in Lancaster, Ohio)

• Communication Skills for Supervisors 
  (adapted and monitored for TOPS, an agency of Jobs and Family Services, State of Ohio)

• Supplemental Writing Skills for Human Services Caseworkers 
  (adapted and monitored for TOPS, an agency of Jobs and Family Services, State of Ohio)

• Managing Priorities, Time, and Information as an Agency Supervisor 
  (adapted and monitored for TOPS, an agency of Jobs and Family Services, State of Ohio)

Teaching

OHIO UNIVERSITY

English

• Writing and Rhetoric I  2009 to present

  Freshman, on-campus, lab-based

• Writing and Rhetoric II  2006 to present

  Junior, on-campus, lab-based

• Writing and Rhetoric II, Independent Study Program, 1996 to present

  Junior, taught completely on internet -- email, online conference, and website

• Writing and Film  2005 to 2009

  Freshman, on-campus, classroom-based

• Internet Writing (Technical Writing) 1997 to 2006

   

  Junior, on-campus -- computer lab, email, internet

   

• Writing and Computers (on-campus -- computer lab, email, internet)

 

Advanced Composition, 1996-97 (Junior)

Freshman Composition, 1995-96

 

• Advanced Composition, 1988, 1993-94
• Creative Writing: Fiction, 1992-95
• Freshman Composition, 1994
• Great Books (Modern), 1988

 

Computer Science

• Computer Literacy, 1994-1999

  lab instructor

   

CONNECTICUT COLLEGE

• Stylistics, 1987 (fiction and non-fiction)

 

BROWN UNIVERSITY

• Junior Composition, 1986
• Intermediate Fiction Writing, 1985

Publications

• one non-fiction book (Rochdale: The Runaway College)
  
• twelve short stories (plus three repeated in anthologies)
  
• twelve poem series (plus one translated into French)
  
• various reviews and articles

Detailed List

Education

M.A., Brown University, 1986, Fiction Writing

(two-year program with John Hawkes, Robert Coover)

M.A., University of Alberta, 1972, Modern Literature

(thesis: Joyce and Film: Montage in Ulysses)

B.A., University of British Columbia, 1971, Literature

Awards

• College of Arts and Sciences, O.U., Special Assignment: On-Line Advanced Composition, Spring 96
• Center for Teaching Excellence, O.U., Email Demo Project, 1995
• Banff Centre for the Arts, six weeks residence, 1989
• Brown University, M.A. Fellowships (3), 1984-86
• Yaddo, four weeks residence, 1985
• Tamwood Writers Retreat, Writers Development Trust, three weeks residence, 1982
• Canada Council, Short Term Grants (2), 1978, 1982
• Ontario Arts Council, Artist Grants (7), 1977-1986

References

For a list of references, please e-mail me directly ().