My pedagogy is informed by my training in rhetoric, technical communication, and the health humanities, along with my experience teaching in university classrooms, research labs, and community organizations. In my courses, students hone their rhetorical awareness of disciplinary norms, values, and genres and use writing as a tool for both social and professional change. I design my classroom as a space grounded in curiosity, accessibility, and care, where all members of our community are encouraged to reflect, collaborate, and apply their knowledge in purposeful, meaningful ways.
In the Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy (WRL) Program at OSU, I teach courses on technical and professional communication and the rhetorics of health and medicine.
If you are interested in seeing or adapting teaching materials, such as slide decks, lesson plans, assignment sheets, or syllabi, please email me at kalodner-martin.1@osu.edu.
✏️ 3305: Technical Writing
This course examines how technical communication shapes the ways people create, interpret, and use information in professional, scientific, and public contexts. Students learn how to analyze audiences, translate complex information for diverse users, design accessible documents, and communicate effectively across genres and technologies. Through hands-on projects like usability testing, postmortem reports, multimodal instruction sets, and more, students practice applying rhetorical principles to create clear, effective, and user-centered communication.
💊 3031: Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Wellness
This course examines how rhetoric shapes the ways we understand, communicate about, and act on issues of health, illness, and wellness. Students analyze medical discourse, patient narratives, public health campaigns, and digital health communication to explore how language, technology, and culture influence ideas of evidence, expertise, and care. Through rhetorical analysis and critical inquiry, students investigate how health communication shapes knowledge, decision-making, and relationships among patients, providers, institutions, and communities.
🔬 Writing in the disciplines courses across a wide range of technical fields, including mechanical, civil, and electrical engineering, computer science and informatics, chemistry, biology, brain and cognitive science, and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
🍎 Graduate-level writing courses in nutrition science and health policy at Tufts University.
💻 Technical writing and digital rhetoric courses in the Professional Writing and Technical Communication (PWTC) program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.