Resume

Objective
To obtain a technical writing position in which I will create helpful end-user documentation and
continue to improve and gain new technical writer skills.
Skills Profile
Communication Skills
Understand complex subject-matter ideas and restate them, written and orally, to an
audience in a comprehensive and comprehendible manner
Provide step-by-step instructional guidance to help perform a task or reach a goal
Express information clearly and convey it in a variety of different ways for knowledge
transfer to target audience
Listen to and accommodate the needs of an audience
Conduct, compile, and organize research
Present research through easily understandable written and verbal communications,
tailored to a target audience
Index research findings to help facilitate efficient searching and locating of materials
Conform written content to meet style guide rules
General Skills
Perform long-term assignments independently
Introductory knowledge of the basic concepts of technical writing.
Ability to collaborate
Excellent grammar skills
Learn quickly how to use computer programs and databases

Work Experience
Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax County, VA
Aug. 2012-Present
Substitute Teacher
Instruct students (K-12) and maintain classroom in absence of regular teacher.

Centreville High School, Clifton, VA

Mar. 2014-Jun. 2014
Long-Term Substitute Teacher
Aided in instructing ninth grade World History I classes in absence of regular teacher

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Aug. 2015-Present
Graduate Research Assistant
Aid a professor in her academic research
Read scholarship and write notes in a clear and concise manner that communicates
the subject-matter of the texts and the usefulness of the criticism for the professors
scholarship goals
Conduct, collect and index research on multiple different topics into readily
accessible bibliographies that meet the professors need
Education
M.A. in English, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Fall 2012-Present (expected

date of graduation Spring
2016).

B.A. in English, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Minor in French, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Spring 2012
Spring 2012

Relevant Education Courses

Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric,
George Mason University, Fairfax, Va

Fall 2015

Conferences
Opaque Reflections: Cosmetics as an Alternative Mode of Spectation for Women in the
Eighteenth-Century Public Sphere. British Women Writers Conference. Binghamton University,
NY, 2014.
Awards
Excellence in the Study of the English Language and Linguistics Award, James Madison
University, 2012.