Van Buskirk, Linda Post
Senior Lecturer
Linda Van Buskirk specializes in the teaching of professional and academic writing, emphasizing the analysis of situation and audience, appropriate prose style, and clarity of thought. Her secondary specializations are gender communication, with a focus on teaching theories of the development of self-identity.
research
research areas
- communication | collaborative research area (CALS)
- community development | collaborative research area (CALS)
- small business | collaborative research area (CALS)
affiliations
academic staff in
- Communication (COMM) | Cornell department
- Continuing Education Winter and Summer Sessions | Academic Program Office
teaching
teaching focus
I have taught two of the department`s important writing courses for many years, and I am teaching for the first time a new writing course that will help students understand and write for any of the new forms of media. My gender and communication course is a theory-based course that dispels stereotypes about gender. My goal is always to increase students` ability to think analytically.
teaches
- COMM 2630 - Organizational Writing (MWF 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2009 class
- COMM 2630 - Organizational Writing (MWF 11:15:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2009 class
- COMM 2840 - Sex, Gender, and Communication (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- FGSS 2840 - Sex, Gender, and Communication (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2009 class
- COMM 1310 - Writing about Communication (TR 01:25:PM-02:40:PM) | spring 2009 class
- COMM 1310 - Writing about Communication (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | spring 2009 class
- COMM 1310 - Writing about Communication (TR 10:10:AM-11:25:AM) | spring 2009 class
- COMM 2630 - Organizational Writing (MWF 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | spring 2009 class
- COMM 4970 - Individual Study in Communication (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- COMM 4980 - Communication Teaching Experience (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- COMM 4990 - Independent Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- COMM 2630 - Organizational Writing (MWF 10:10:AM-11:00:AM) | fall 2008 class
- COMM 2630 - Organizational Writing (MWF 11:15:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2008 class
- COMM 2840 - Sex, Gender, and Communication (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
- FGSS 2840 - Sex, Gender, and Communication (TR 02:55:PM-04:10:PM) | fall 2008 class
service
outreach focus
With my Ph.D. in English literature, I have recently begun leading discussion with Cornell Alumni groups on the Cornell Reading Experience.|I maintain a position on the Cayuga County Business Development Loan Committee, which seeks to support business development in Cayuga County through the allocation of a revolving loan fund.
background
featured in
- Merrill scholars honor high school, Cornell teachers | Cornell Chronicle feature
Keywords: academic writing, gender and communication, gender communication, professional writing, writing in social sciences, writing in the social sciences