Arcadio Quintana III

1208 Livesay St.

PO Box 963
Anthony, NM 88021
arcadioq@gmail.com
arcadio@nmsu.edu
(915) 526 6320

Education:
2013
Master of Arts, Rhetoric & Professional Communication;
with honors
New Mexico State University; Las Cruces, New Mexico
Writing Program Coordinator; Paideia 15 Editor
Primary Areas: Critical Cultural Studies, Rhetorical and
Composition Theory,
Composition Pedagogy, Technical and Professional
Communication and Pedagogy
2013

Graduate Minor, Government; with honors

New Mexico State University; Las Cruces, New Mexico
Primary Areas: Comparative Politics and American Indian Law

2010

British Studies, Shakespeare in London

Queen Mary University of London; London, England
Study Abroad via Midwestern State University

2010

Bachelor of Arts, General English Studies

New Mexico State University; Las Cruces, New Mexico

Languages: Speak fluently, basic reading and writing skills in Spanish

(bilingual)

Instruction and Tutoring Experience:

2013 Present

Adjunct Faculty Member

New Mexico State University (NMSU)
Doa Ana Community College (DACC)
Courses:

2011 13

CCDE 110: General Composition

A developmental research and writing course that
presents a rhetorical approach to college-level
writing, as well as audience awareness.
English 111: Rhetoric and Composition
An argument and research course that introduces
students to academic writing for the university
environment.

English 203: Business and Professional

Communication
A professional communication and research course
that introduces students to business and professional
communication skills by practicing rhetoricallycentered writing, research, and presentations.

English 218: Technical and Scientific

Communication
A technical writing course that introduces students to
technical and scientific writing focused on a students
career path. A rhetorically-centered approach
afforded students with strategies that require them
to assess the rhetorical situation in their writing.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

New Mexico State University
Courses:
English 111: Rhetoric and Composition
An argument and research course that introduced
students to academic writing for the university
environment.

English 111: Rhetoric and Composition

Integrated Learning Community (ILC)
An argument and research course with a focus on
technical writing for prospective engineering
students.

English 111: Rhetoric and Composition College

Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP)
An argument and research course integrated with
migrant or seasonal farm worker students, which
introduced students to academic writing for the
university environment.

2011 12

Writing Center Consultant

New Mexico State University
Provided one-on-one writing consultation services for
members of the NMSU community across all
disciplines and levels of education.

Administrative Experience:
2012 13

NMSU Writing Program Coordinator

Assisted Writing Program Administrator in the
training of graduate students, development of firstyear composition curriculum, helped develop and
facilitate professional development seminars,
participated in textbook reviews and selection of new
textbook for first-year composition, and assisted in
revising Paideia 15, the custom textbook developed
for first-year students by the Writing Program
Coordinators.

Publication/Editor:
2013
NMSU

Paideia 15: Research, Writing, and Argument in English 111 at

Eds. Jennifer England, Omar Montoya, Arcadio Quintana III,
and Dylan
Retzinger. Plymouth, MI: Hayden McNeil, 2013.

Professional Development:
June 2014 Applying the Quality Matters Rubric, DACC
Online workshop to review online courses
Feb

2014 Reading Across the Curriculum

Approaches on reading material from the social sciences
Workshop by Cathilia Flores on approaches to reading material
from the social
sciences and the scientific disciplines for first- and second-year
composition courses
April 2013 Facilitating Language Development in the Writing Classroom
Workshop by Dr. Paul Kei Matsuda on strategies for teaching
second language

learners
May 2013 Faculty Seminar in Writing Across the Curriculum, NMSU
Nov

2011 The Citation Project

Presentation by Dr. Rebecca Moore Howard

Aug

2011 Tutoring Skills Workshop, NMSU

Aug

2011 Teaching Skills Workshop, NMSU

References:
Dr. Susan Wood, Ph. D., Chair of English & Communications Department,
DACC
sandrusw@nmsu.edu
Dr. Christopher Burnham, Ph.D., Regents Professor, NMSU
cburnham@nmsu.edu
Dr. Patti Wojahn, Ph.D., Associate Department Head, Writing Program
Director, NMSU
pwojahn@nmsu.edu