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David Sharpe

10775 Rosewood Lane, Athens OH 45701
phone 740-797-3085
email sharpe@ohio.edu  |  homepage oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~sharpe 

Objective

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.

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Keywords

Writer, Website Designer, Technical Writer, Frontpage, PhotoShop, HTML, Communication Skills, Consulting Services, Technical Course Developer, Tech Training Development and Delivery, Course Development, Instructional Design, Training Manual, Technical Writer 2, Technical Writer 3, Communications Specialist, Marketing Communications, Technical Documentation, Computer Consultant, Writing Consultant

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Experience

Websites designed and currently maintained

• Internet Writing (Technical Writing, English 305J, Ohio University)
  • at www.ohiou.edu/~sharpe/eng305

• Writing and Rhetoric II (English 305J, Ohio University)
  • at www.ohiou.edu/~indstu/online/eng308j

• Writing and Film (English 153, Ohio University)
  • at www.ohiou.edu/~sharpe/eng153

• The Buckeye House Rabbit Society
  • at ohare.org

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

Websites designed and maintained, no longer available

• 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)

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Teaching

OHIO UNIVERSITY

English

• Writing and Film 2005 to present

Freshman, on-campus, classroom-based)

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

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

• Internet Writing (Technical Writing) 1997 to present

   

  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

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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

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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

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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

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References

For a list of references, please e-mail me directly (sharpe@ohio.edu).

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Revised September 23, 2006.
This file (http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~sharpe/resume.htm)
is maintained by David Sharpe.
Please email comments or suggestions to sharpe@ohio.edu