Portfolio
Edited from 2018–2021
A Selection of Manuscripts
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Academic Articles
- Ephemeral Ponds are the Dominant Source of Depression-Focused Groundwater Recharge
Exacerbation of Autumn Droughts in Southwest China by Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions from Eastern China - The Projection of Canadian Wind Energy Potential in Future Scenarios Using a Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Model
- Using Big Data Analytics to Synthesize Research Domains and Identify Emerging Fields in Urban Climatology
The Geographical Patterning of Food Security with Emphasis on Socioeconomic, Cultural and Political factors Among All Provinces in Rural Iran - Agricultural Irrigation and Water Conservancy Projects in China During Reforms and Sustainability Transformation: A Policy Synthesis and Discussion of Emerging Issues
- Can the Private Media Be Strengthened to Investigate and Expose Corruption in Ghana? Understanding Ghanaian Perspectives
- Democratic Accountability in Times of Crisis: Executive Power, Fiscal Policy, and COVID-19
PhD Dissertations
- From Transitions to Decisions: Moving Decentralized Energy Forward by Filling the Gap Between Public Engagement and Decision-Making
- Modelling Land Surface Heterogeneity in Land Surface and Regional Climate Models (part of PhD)
- Using Multiple Linear Regression Modelling to Predict the Effects of Surface Water Chemistry on Vanadium Toxicity to Daphnia Pulex and Oncorhynchus Mykiss
- Knowledge, Use, and Change in the Saskatchewan River Delta: Assessing the Changing Livelihoods of Cumberland House Métis and Cree Nation
- Shifting Institutional Control: Changing Indigenous Policy Goals through Métis and First Nations Identity Assertions
- Effect of Iron-Fortified Lentils on the Iron (Fe) Status Among Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh—A Double-Blind Community-Based Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial
- Examining Accountability in Socially Focused Non-Profit Organizations
Master’s Theses
- An Alternative Method for Characterization and Comparison of Plant Root Shapes
- Application of Remote Sensing and GIS In Modelling Bison Carrying Capacity in Mixed-Grass Prairie
- Biomass Energy Sources for Small Scale Businesses in Rural Saskatchewan
Global Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation and Variation of Climate Types from the Köppen-Geiger Classification Using Different Datasets
Change Management at Jim Pattison’s Children’s Hospital - The End of the Policy Analyst? Testing the Capability of Artificial Intelligence to Generate Plausible, Persuasive, and Useful Policy Analysis
Latest News & Resources
Writing a Winning Scholarship Application
The fall term has barely started, and already graduate students are writing to me for advice on how to craft their scholarship applications. This blog provides some advice on how to prepare a successful application.
“This” what? Pairing “This” with a Noun
Have you ever read a sentence starting with “this” that perplexes you because you don’t know what “this” refers to? Sentences starting with “this” often confuse readers. The ambiguity occurs when the reader can’t identify the noun “this” replaces. I call “this” with no clear antecedent noun an orphaned “this.” Technically it’s known as a dangling demonstrative pronoun.
Decluttering Your Writing
Do you want to express hard ideas in crisp, powerful sentence? Even better, do you want to engage your readers? In this blog, I want to show you how to “declutter” your sentences, ejecting excess words and stripping the writing of unnecessary complexity. There once was a time when convoluted sentences and long words were the hallmark of academic sophistication. No longer. Writing plainly is the new requirement.
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Credentials
For my entire career, I’ve been immersed in academic writing and editing. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English and a Master of Arts in Library Science, I worked in academic publishing, where I was Acquisitions Editor and later Publisher and Editorial Director for a large textbook publisher in Toronto. In 1999, I established my own business as a project manager and editor of nursing textbooks. In 2012, I completed my credentials for teaching English as a Second Language and then began teaching academic and scientific writing to graduate students at the University of Saskatchewan. Later, I became the university’s Graduate Writing Specialist. In this role, I coached individual students and gave numerous workshops across campus on how to craft theses and dissertations, journal papers, grant and scholarship applications, and statements.
I currently work part time at the University of Saskatchewan as Student Writing Advisor for the School of Environment and Sustainability. I am also Student Writing Advisor at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, where I teach academic and professional writing courses.