Patricia Hamill

Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills. Enthusiastic educator with several years of experience instructing students with wide range of learning abilities. Project manager, editor, and writer of research, textbook materials, and assessments for multiple educational publishers in the NY/NJ area, Mexico, and for NAEP; reviewer of academic journal articles and publications; technical writer and editor of biotech, pharmaceutical, and engineering documentation. Adjunct professor of literature and composition, successful in encouraging student participation and self-motivation; Owner and founder of Heron Moon Press and Education Services (writing, editing, ELA tutoring grades 7–12, and college essay development).

• Editing and Writing: Technical editing and writing of proposal responses (i.e., RFPs) for government and commercial contracts (forms include ISO-9001: 2008, SF254, and SF255) executive summaries, project descriptions, process reports. Technical editing and writing of scientific findings and for rheology study results. Office Action Patents. Newsletters and promotional materials for businesses in Hunterdon County, NJ. Manuscript and query letter review for various freelance/independent writers. Fiction and nonfiction for independent authors and businesses in the NY/NJ area, including personal essays, fiction and nonfiction for children, ELA passages/items (Grades 3–7), social studies assessment, AP history, young adult fiction.
• PUBLICATIONS: Compass, Reading Log, Levels 2–5, Richmond Publishing (forthcoming). Mindful Practice and Meaningful Words: Moving with Openness to a New Written Path, Watkins Publishing (in review). Skyrocket Your Grammar, Student’s Book, Level 5, Richmond Publishing (January 2014). "Illumination," in Sacred Fire, Adams Media (2005). “The Week of Revelations,” in The Book of Forty, Medieval Institute Publications (May, 2005). “The Trickster in Literature: Knave and Hero” in Transactions, Dyson Society of Fellows (September, 2002).
• PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS: “Barbie Goes to College: Teaching Cohesion and Coherence Through the Lens of Children’s Literature” presented at the English Department Composition Colloquium, RVCC, December 2017. “Extracurricular Expertise: Melding Nonprofit Publishing with Composition Pedagogy” presented at the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship Adjunct Panel, RVCC, December 2017. “Teaching with Turnitin.com: Student-Centered Resources for Promoting Ethical Standards in Research and Composition” presented at the Teaching with Technology Day faculty development sessions, Pace University, July 2010. “Representations of Women in Irish Literature” presented to post-performance audience of The Pirate Queen, Hilton Theatre, NYC, April 12 and 26, 2007. “The Medievalist Teaching the Modern” presented at the ninth annual GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, March 2004. “The Buile Suibhne as Educational Text” presented at the Princeton Medieval Graduate Conference entitled “Instruction and Identity: Education in the Middle Ages,” Princeton University, March 2003.
• PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: Writing Adjudicator, Scholastic Writing Awards/National Writing Project, 65 hours professional training—nonfiction, short fiction, poetry, personal essay/memoir evaluation (December, 2020). "Teaching and Learning Conference: Implementing Research-Based Practices in Your Classroom;" Middlesex County College (December, 2017). 18th Annual New Jersey Writing Alliance Conference; Rutgers University (May, 2017). Center for Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (CTLS); RVCC: Summer Institute - Supporting learning with Technology (May/June 2017). Center For Student Success, New Jersey Council of County Colleges: College Readiness Institute (May, 2017).
• UNIVERSITY SERVICE: Member, STDV Reimagineers Raritan Valley Community College, 2017. A multidisciplinary committee of faculty and staff dedicated to establishing end-of-term accountability and establishing records of long-term success for students in STDV (college success) courses. Essay Evaluator and Student Placement Pace University, 2006-2015. Reading and evaluation of freshman and transfer student placement essays. Evaluations based on demonstrated reading comprehension and written communication, including content, organization, grammar, and vocabulary, students are placed in appropriate expository writing classes. Consulting Editor Pace University, 2011-2016. Transactions, the journal of Dyson College’s Society of Fellows.
• HONORS, GRANTS, & AWARDS: Project Pericles Fellowship Grant, 2007. Teaching grant for civic engagement/academic service learning course entitled “The Individual and Society: Folklore and Fairy tales” offered via the English Department, Pace University. Fellow Member, Dyson Society of Fellows, Dyson College, Pace University, NY. Inducted April, 1998. Requirement for induction: scholarly achievement.
• AFFILIATIONS: New Jersey Council of Teachers of English. Reading in the Disciplines Faculty Interest Group (FIG), RVCC. Dyson Society of Fellows, Pace University. Early Book Society.
• CERTIFICATES: ESE certification, Florida, nonrenewable temporary, 2024. Flamingo Literacy Matrix Completion (Florida Reading Endorsement forthcoming), Lastinger Center for Learning, University of Florida (June, 2024). Temporary Teaching Certificate, ELA, in Florida middle and high schools, issued 2022. Provisional Teaching Certificate, ELA in New Jersey middle and high schools, issued 2021. Scholastic Awards Adjudicator for National Writing Project, 2020.