Publishing & Programs
Dr. Woodworth has been writing and creating writing programs since 1988 when her first text was published. She has always been invested in the organizational change that can happen when creativity and writing occur to mold ideas and actions. She saw change happen first hand because of writing at a fixed base operation where she managed public relations in the late 1980s--because of writing--strategic communication, their industry ranking rose from 51st in the nation to 16th in only one year.
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In December 2023, she published, "A Story is a Good Start: Civil Discourse and Strategic Communication" in the Journal of Military Conflict Transformation published by the USAF Negotiation Center. The article considers the importance of storytelling, rhetoric, and empathy in the role of senior leaders who are invested in quality strategic communication.
In August 2020, she published, "Bringing Classical Rhetoric to the Modern Warfighter" in Teaching Public Diplomacy and the Information Instruments of Power in a Complex Media Environment: Maintaining a Competitive Edge, prior to developing a course for the Air War College, "Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Strategic Leader" (offered in Fall of 2020). In 2019, she co-wrote a book chapter with long-time collaborator, Dr. H. Brooke Hessler for Transforming Organizations: Narrative and Story-Based Approaches. From 2010-2015, she created a master's degree at Auburn University at Montgomery, the Master's in Teaching Writing with a certificate option. It debuted in Fall 2015. From 2005-2007, she developed classroom libraries and literacy materials for the middle grades, testing materials for intermediate grades, created a teacher website for children's and YA literature, and also managed the development of Spanish language materials for second grade. During 2000-2005 she was the editor or the writer of over 100 different literacy products for students on grade-level to those readers and writers striving toward grade-level proficiency. In those same years, she created a professional archive of over 2,000 books and 4,000 articles on education focused on literacy development in K-12. Also, during this time as a literacy expert, Dr. Woodworth trained or created training materials for teachers in 48 of the 50 United States and for educators in the Department of Defense.
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As the director of a university writing program for ten years, she created and managed 45+ hours of professional training per year for faculty teaching writing or writing-infused courses. Besides that programmatic training and creating a master's degree for college teachers, Dr. Woodworth continued to consult on teacher development--including training materials to accompany K-12 curriculum, children's or YA literature, and pedagogical development.
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She has written responses to student writing in multimodal journals, scholarly essays for literary journals, and higher education feature articles for business magazines. She's published short stories, poetry, and creative nonfiction (her most recent creative nonfiction essays appeared in a National Collegiate Honors Council proceedings text on Memorials and Monuments).
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For seven years she wrote alongside her students, blogging for her students, for her colleagues, and for herself in classes ranging from honors freshman writing to Victorian literature to detective fiction (see some of the pictures on this page). She also collaborated with other professors and students at universities such as Oklahoma City University and Auburn University. Collaboration was always part of her teaching philosophy--she and Dr. H. Brooke Hessler founded the non-profit company, Write to Succeed, in the mid-1990s to connect elementary student writers with college writers in semester-long partnerships. Eventually, Write to Succeed programs helped over 27,000 students at universities in Texas, California, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Write to Succeed eventually also developed writing programs for women in shelters.
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Download her CV for more about her writing and professional development experience on the Details Page. Or contact her at: edwoodworth@gmail.com.
