ePortfolio
This page is a curated collection of my best work -- spanning blog posts, commentaries, and research essays -- to showcase my skills, style, and experience. The ePortfolio demonstrates my abilities as a writer, scholar, and researcher.
Diamond's Hidden Gems is the first and longest-running blog I created in my employment with the UCF Library. The installments display my ability to interview, gather relevant information, curate digital designs, and create writing that simultaneously informs and entertains readers.
Video Spotlights is a series in which I watched UCF Libraries research videos and provided detailed summaries for the convenience of readers. This blog displays my analytical skills, as well as my judgment in determining the importance of information in long-form videos.
Know Your Library is the daughter of Hidden Gems. Similar in everything but its namesake, this blog also details library services, events, and faculty members for the awareness of the UCF community.
Individual Works
Language Variation in Writing Instruction, created in a theory of tutoring class as part of my employment with the UWC, is a literature review that catalogs prominent responses to Students' Rights to their Own Language (SRTOL). This work tracks the topic of language variation from the SRTOL resolution to contemporary scholarship surrounding linguistic justice.
Dismantling the Master’s House: English as a Master’s Tool & the Illusiveness of SRTOL, created on the curtail of "Language Variation in Writing Instruction," contains my personal commentary on the illusiveness of students’ right as an African American student and writer. This work centers the works, voices, and perspectives of anti-racist scholars who prioritize deconstructing white supremacist and colonial ideals and understandings of language, literacy, and rhetoric.
Sports and Rhetorical Marginalization: A Case Study of Angel Reese & Caitlin Clark, completed through UCF's Honors Undergraduate Thesis program, explores the manifestation of racism, sexism, and capitalism in the language and rhetoric of sports media through a case study of WNBA players Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark.
The Pied Piper: How K-Pop Standom Can Facilitate Social Activism, completed in employment with MacMillan and the EasyWriter Handbook, explores how K-pop standom builds interpersonal identities, establishes figures to rally around, and teaches modern methodologies for activism.
BTS’ Significance to the K-pop Genre and Beyond is an essay that details the history of K-pop group BTS and questions the aspects that make them so distinct amongst other musical groups. Overall, it summarizes the importance of genres and lyrical writing.
The Rhetorical Appropriation of Black Lives Matter, published in UCF’s Convergence Rhetoric, details the history of the Black Lives Matter movement and the rise of "blue lives matter" as a counter-movement. The essay details how the latter phrase generates victimhood amongst police officers rather than acknowledging how they can be perpetrators of violence against racial and ethnic minorities.
The Importance of Cultural Literacy in Criminal Justice, published in UCF’s FPEP Post – Issue 1.2, explores the varying definitions of literacy with time, context, and environment. There is a particular focus on how cultural literacy among first responders – particularly police officers – can improve the experience of criminal justice for citizens of diverse backgrounds.
The Importance of Books in Prison, published in UCF’s FPEP Post – Issue 1.1, details the importance of books and general creative outlets for incarcerated individuals as a method of expression and rehabilitation.
The Virtue of Primary Representation in Various Forms of Media is an essay completed in coordination with several other writers. The text weighs the advantages and benefits of having primary representation in various forms of media.
The Immorality of Forced Penal Labor is an essay that details the history of penal labor in the United States of America, its connection to slavery, its modern justifications, and how it contains a variety of immoral methods.