K. Beachy

I'm teaching first-year composition and working on my creative writing MFA.

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 WVU Writing Project

http://www.as.wvu.edu/wvuwp

 CNN.com Offbeat News

http://www.cnn.com/offbeat/

 Purdue Online Writing Lab

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

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K. Beachy

C/o Graduate English Department

Stansbury Hall

West Virginia University, Morgantown

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Current Projects

Developing a thesis.

How can I thematically link stories of flying women, stolen babies, and little boys obsessed with guns?

Developing my teaching skills

How can I devise purposeful, meaningful, writing assignments? How can I tailor my response to help individuals grow as writers throughout the revision process?

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Biographical Information

(Chronologically)

Indiana, Virginia, Indiana, West Virginia, Virginia, West Virginia.

Postmodern Mennonite.

Would-be scientist, would-be musician, would-be philosopher/theologian, actress, preschool-teacher, espresso-girl, impoverished writer, writer with a GTA, spouse, teacher-researcher, road-tripper, palindrome-writer.

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Last Revised: 23 July, 2004

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