Adrian Finley Email & Phone Number

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

As a Composition and rhetoric Graduate Student focusing on copywriting, technical writing as well as other forms of the digital humanities, I've curated various strategies of communication while also teach students about the wonders of college composition. Furthermore, I plan to also bring the knowledge gathered to study the mysteries of artificial.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

• Goal: Introduce first-year students coming into English 100 with the standards and knowledge about collegiate writing as an Research Assistant/Teacher.
• Value: Promoted and enhanced their writing styles by introducing effective written communication and critical thinking skills, while also bridging the transition from high-school to college.Contributions:
• Assisted over 50+ students with introducing them to college writing, provided hybrid consultations to alleviate any concerns and anxieties relative towards their writing/college experience.
• Created 2-3 weekly presentations across the fall and spring semester using Microsoft PowerPoint, to instruct, guide and monitor their growing knowledge of different collegiate writing topics.
• Hosted 30+ meeting conferences outside of class with first-year students to answer their questions and concerns regarding the midterm and final essays.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

• Assisted as a representative of all Master students within the English department.
• Collaborated with different heads of master programs that the department offers.
• Took part in different meetings about the university graduate school and its relationship to the university.
• Discussed 3+ incentives for graduate students to receive proper placements for teaching, scholarship resources for summer downtimes, and streamlined the admission process.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

• Goal: Introduce first-year students coming into English 100 with the standards and knowledge about collegiate writing.
• Value: Promoted and enhanced their writing styles by introducing effective written communication and critical thinking skills, while also bridging the transition from high-school to college.Contributions:
• Assisted over 50+ students with introducing them to college writing, provided hybrid consultations to alleviate any concerns and anxieties relative towards their writing/college experience.
• Created 2-3 weekly presentations across the fall and spring semester using Microsoft PowerPoint, to instruct, guide and monitor their growing knowledge of different collegiate writing topics.
• Hosted 30+ meeting conferences outside of class with first-year students to answer their questions and concerns regarding the midterm and final essays.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

• Monitor, mentor and collaborate with the undergraduate and graduate writing consultants within the center, to further enhance the writing center’s own tutoring services. I also ensured that with faculty and staff.
• Provided monumental amounts of positive learning environments through the center’s tutoring sessions, writing workshops and collaborative events sponsored/hosted by the writing center. Intensified different variations.
• Overseen a group of 7+ undergraduate, graduate writing consultants and writing center interns to understand the best practices for the writing center.
• Collaborated with faculty and staff to create a detailed infographic related to thesis statements in which would be published within the university’s Lloyd Hall.
• Met with different professors from various departments to host 10+ in-class workshops, instructing, directing, and motivating students to positively learn more about the writing center’s services, as well as a specific.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

• Goal: Provide extensive writing care and support to clients, as well as develop consistent writing skills to succeed with their college classes.
• Value: Incentivized positive growth and academic support throughout the university’s online-only semester(s).Contributions
• Started as intern through the Writing Center’s English 317 class, then later promoted to writing consultant within 2 months of the course.
• Worked 5+ hybrid hours per week while enrolled for 12 hours of coursework.
• Tutored 5+ students and faculty ranging across the graduate and graduate areas throughout the spring semester
• Monitored student works to ensure that their writing processes were incorporated and kept with high integrity, as well as motivated their changes to relate well with its requirements.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

During my undergraduate career, I was given the opportunity to assist the Ferguson Student Center (now known as the Student Center) as a Conference Coordinator. My responsibilities included: completing room reservations from the university or privatized companies; from setting up props and seating to serving as a point of reference at the center's.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

• Was a part of the university’s first ever African-American orientation specifically catered to first-year students. Assisting them within their collegiate career as an orientation leader.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Within my first-year at the university, I was given the opportunity to partner with the office of Orientation and Special programs as an Orientation Leader for the Avanti Program. This program serves along the summertime programming brought by the university to incorporate aspiring students. For the remainder of the summer, not only have I been gratefully.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

• Mentored a group of 10 incoming students to discuss the university’s image and likeness, safety tips and procedures and knowledge about clubs and opportunities during it’s Week of Welcome event.