Michel LaCrue, PhD, teaches first-year writing courses such as Composition I and II, as well as technical writing in the Writing for Engineers course. To engage students in learning about writing and the different genres we use in our personal, academic, and career lives, she focuses on writing as a recursive process: pre-writing/brainstorming, drafting, peer reviewing, revising, and finally, editing/proof reading. She also trys to create an interactive classroom that prioritizes student voices and allows for the exploration of ideas while building skills that will transfer to different rhetorical situations.
LaCrue's research interests include the rhetoric of health and medicine, immigrant rhetorics, and writing theory. She is interested in how people make meaning out of everyday communication practices as well as how rhetoric is used to persuade people in different ways in different situations.
She also loves to be outdoors doing activities like paddleboarding, hiking, and canoeing. Basically, the outdoors is where she resets and finds peace so that she can be happy and productive in her life.
LaCrue, Michel. "Digital Literacy: Evaluating Online Sources for Research." Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric in the First Year. Ed. Megan McIntyre, July 2024, McGraw Hill.