University of Minnesota
First-Year Writing
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First-Year Writing.

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Kimberley Strain

612-624-7991
Wesbrook Hall Room 206A

Department Affiliations

Narrative

Kim Strain (Lecturer) (M.A., TESOL, Southern IL University, Carbondale) teaches undergraduate and graduate composition to nonnative speakers of English as well as tutors in the Student Center for Writing to students across the curriculum.  Her current interests are discourse analysis as it relates to second language acquisition, especially at the graduate level, and writing center pedagogy as it applies to different multilingual populations, such as international, immigrant, and ASL populations.


Educational Background

  • M.A.: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Southern IL University, Carbondale, IL, 1998.

Courses Taught

  • EngC 1011 Basic Composition for Nonnative Speakers (NNS) of English, EngC 5051 Graduate Research Writing for NNS of English
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