Writer, speaker, journalist, photographer, teacher and mother of four are just a few of the many words you can use to define Linda Sherwood.
An experienced journalist for both print and online publications, Linda teaches English composition and journalism at the college-level, in both traditional and online classrooms.
Linda is currently at work writing a nonfiction memoir, Fat Man’s Daughter, which focuses on the impact weight can have on parenting and perceptions. For most of her life, Linda’s dad weighed more than 400 pounds, but despite his morbidly obese status, Linda thought of him only as Dad until he died in November 2003, and she was left to deal with her anger caused by her acceptance and his actions that allowed the limits weight placed on his life.
She lives in northern Michigan with her husband, Steve, and their four children, Autumn, Amanda, Maxine, and Justin, and an assortment of animals.
A Professional Becomes a Professor
In 2005, Linda accepted a position to teach journalism and advise the student newspaper at a local community college. It was a part-time position, and Linda planned to still work for a newspaper, but teaching energized her in a way she didn’t expect. She soon began looking into grad schools.
In January 2006, she began grad school at Central Michigan University. For most of her time in grad school, Linda worked full-time as a reporter, part-time teaching at the community college and taking at least two classes a semester. Although she officially submitted her resignation in December 2005, Linda continued to work as a journalist until January 2008. She finished her thesis in early June 2007, and she graduated with a master’s degree in English: Compostion and Communication in August 2007.
Linda is currently a visiting assistant professor at Ferris State University where she teaches developmental writing and sophomore-level English focusing on rhetoric (argument) and research.
Linda continues to pursue a number of academic interests including plagiarism policies, online teaching and digital rhetoric.
About this site
Linda used the free theme Mimbo for this blog. For the blog’s header, Linda used the image created by Salvatore Vuono, and you can see his portfolio at FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
