During my senior year, I was the SNC English Teaching Assistant. While I did traditional TA duties as well, the bulk of the work I did involved managing the SNC ENGL Instagram and handling the department’s communications. Here, I developed marketing skills while creating content that promoted events we held and student engagement.
Two of my goals as the English TA were:
- broader community engagement
- Involvement of English majors/minors
For this assignment, I created a survey and sent it to our ENGL faculty and students to share their favorite autumn book recommendations.
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Then, I did research into the tropes, genres, and top quotes from the book. To present the results, I tapped into a popular “BookTok” trend by creating trope teaser–style posts to showcase the recommendations. The response was enthusiastic, and this post received significantly more engagement than many of our previous posts! This project helped create a more interactive and representative snapshot of our English community’s reading life.
