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Hi! I'm "Dr. L-V"

As an adjunct communication professor at The College of Charleston, I couldn't love teaching at CofC any more than I do. The historic campus, the dedicated faculty and the motivated students make this a great place to do what I love doing the most - helping students navigate the evolving world of media.

And I have a very simple premise for teaching any communication course - it is imperative students learn how to write well.

Good writing is the foundation for communicating information and/or good ideas in any medium, for any purpose. Whether it is for a press release, a client email, a social media update, a blog post, a feature magazine cover article, a video script or even a text, writing must be concise, informative and interesting if the message is going to be communicated as intended.

Even in this new era of AI-generated text, students benefit from becoming competent writers. It is the foundation of organized, critical thinking. ChatGPT can write for you, but it cannot think for you.

With so much media inundating our lives, it is more important than ever not to just tell students good writing is crucial but to show them the impact it can have in our political, social, scientific, pop cultural world for changing minds and communicating big ideas.

Laurie Lattimore-Volkmann

PROFESSOR, EDITOR, BLOGGER

Email:

lattimorevolkmannla@cofc.edu

Find me online:

Twitter: @docllv

Instagram: @docllv51

LinkedIn profile

My sites:

Mile High Report (SBNation blog)

CofCExplained (Capstone website)

CougarBuzz (COMM 310 student blog)

Resumé

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

EXPERIENCE

Adjunct professor

2011-present

Adjunct professor/Faculty adviser

2007-2013

COLLEGE of CHARLESTON

Since beginning my CofC teaching stint in 2011, the Department of Communication has made a significant curriculum change in order to broaden the program and give majors more opportunity to design their own experience according to their various interests within the field. This shift has made the class I primarily teach - Message Design and Influence - a crucial one for their experience in the professional media world.

DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY

I joined the small staff at Dominican to help revamp the communication program to more of a journalism focus, where I taught multimedia journalism, media law and public relations courses from 2007-2011. After moving to Charleston, I continued teaching online for Dominican through 2013.

Visiting professor/Faculty adviser

2004-2006

GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY

After getting married in 2003 and commuting two hours back-and-forth from Atlanta to Macon, Georgia, I decided to take a visiting professor position at Georgia State University where my teaching focused on public relations courses - from the intro-level course to the campaigns course. I also rekindled the Public Relations Student Society of America chapter at Georgia State and served as the faculty adviser. I was also the faculty adviser for the Hip Hop Club, which was just cool.

Assistant professor/Faculty adviser

2001-2004

MERCER UNIVERSITY

I joined the Department of Communication as a tenure-track assistant professor at Mercer and taught journalism-related courses in every discipline - print, broadcast, public relations - as well as media law and ethics. I also served as the faculty adviser for the weekly student newspaper, The Cluster.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

Senior Writer/Editor

2014 - present

MILE HIGH REPORT

After the Denver Broncos lost Super Bowl 48 in fantastic fashion (43-8), I wrote a blog post, "Dear Mr. Manning," to lament all the pundits claiming his legacy was tarnished due to losing. That piece was picked up by The Denver Post and opened the door to a regular blogging gig at SBNation's Broncos blog, Mile High Report, where I now serve as co-editor and write 3-4 posts a week.

Contributor

2015- present

PURPOSE 2 PLAY

I love to write feature stories about people doing great things, and this Fansided site (sponsored by Sports Illustrated) highlights all the positive stories in sports. I've written about the first female big-wave surfer, a blind skim boarder, a dyslexic marathoner, a former college quarterback fighting CTE and the inspiring story behind the local race, "Peyton's Wild & Wacky 50K."

Freelance Writer

1997-present

VARIOUS

I have published two op-eds in the Post and Courier (in 2017 and 2019), have written several articles over the year for magazines such as Liberty and Baptist News Global related to ethical and constitutional issues that impact our faith and culture.

Social Media Manager/Blogger

2013-2014

MASSAGEBOOK

For this Charleston-based tech startup, I helped get the social media channels going - mainly Facebook and Instagram - while also writing a blog post for the company site 1-2 times/week.