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 Elizabeth J. Giddens, Associate Professor of English, teaches a number of applied writing courses, including managing writing in organizations, advanced applied writing, grant and proposal writing, technical writing, professional and academic editing, and public policy writing. In these courses, she focuses on providing students with insights into current communications trends and issues as well as the skills they need to work as writers, editors, and communications professionals in the corporate, nonprofit, and government sectors. Many of her students have been hired as writers after completing their MAPW degrees.
During her graduate school years, Dr. Giddens focused on rhetoric and composition and co-authored, with Don Richard Cox, Crafting Prose, a composition text published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. After teaching several years, she shifted into the nonprofit sector where she held positions as an editor and associate director of communications at the Southern Regional Education Board in Atlanta, Georgia, and later as a writer and communications director at RAND in Santa Monica, California. In these positions Dr. Giddens performed a broad range of communication and writing tasks, including serving as a press liaison, writing policy summaries of research findings, pulling proposals together, and crafting an organization's message and image in annual reports, case statements, meetings, and web sites. She was among the author team of Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain (RAND 2000), an extensive, peer-reviewed book about class action issues and practices.
Since her return to academe, she has published articles about the rhetoric of education policy; about the knowledge, skills and behaviors that lead students to successful writing careers; and about the environmental rhetoric of nonprofit organizations and community groups. In addition, she edited a collection of articles, titled Wintering into Wisdom (Kennesaw Press 2008), which explores the ways educators and other leaders integrate their personal values into their professional lives.
Dr. Giddens is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators, the National Association of Teachers of English, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
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Office: English building 265
Phone: 770-423-6766
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