Technical Writer Karen Hansen, M.S. Earth Sciences, has researched and written 1000s of technical citations into both the spoken and written word to present, to persuade and to promote.
As a CBS Let’s Get to Work writer Karen tracked down local leaders to write about their career paths as scientists, engineers, doctors and nurses, and administrators and entrepreneurs as a community service sponsored by the University of Phoenix.
- Sacramento Heats Up Clean Energy State Mandate
- Sacramento Nurse Supports Hospitalist Approach to Healthcare
- Veterans Association Director Takes Care of Nation’s Heroes in Sacramento
Her writings in CBS Business Pulse involved interviewing CEO’s and presidents of new technology companies in order to serve as an example to other business owners who then might learn enough to overcome hurdles in their own business plans.
- Social Age Media CEO Relies On Hard Data
- Foreign Businesses Adjust To US Requirements
- Organizations Can Fund Themselves Through ‘Upcycling’
As a Senior Certified University of Phoenix online instructor nationwide and beyond, Karen facilitated within the College of Natural Sciences having generated as many as ten 300-500 word article posts per day.
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Making use of the school’s proprietary social media platform She kept the discussions lively with socratic questions designed to illicit concerted response posts from working students for the nation’s premier online educational institution- the University of Phoenix.
As a site monitor and moderator, Karen integrated social media into the classroom. A challenge was to engage and provide enough incubator posts to reach all students from which they could relate to and stem further posts to help them to reach their participation requirements.
Here are some sample postings of main classroom participation posts: A measure of how effective a post was by the number of responses it generated. In this case, 15 students created 86 response posts.
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As an online instructor, Karen also became known for her quick step-by-step instructions that served as a helpline that enabled busy non-traditional students able to finish coursework while learning necessary technology to submit the work and participate simultaneously.
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Note too, the feedback from students on their learning experiences in her classrooms
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Aside from the main classroom discussions, Karen helped developed classroom curricula and examinations for hundreds of courses.
She also reported on technology relevant to her formal background in the Earth Sciences for 5 years for both San Francisco and Sacramento Local and National Examiner.
- Sample examiner article [NEED LINK TO SPECIFIC ITEM(S)]
In between teaching and writing she interviewed over 1000 local leaders and entrepreneurs on assignment, that she then wrote copy for into directory listings and articles for both AOL and CBS local Sacramento.
See these selected articles:
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Having served on numerous boards, Karen used her penmanship yet again to have written editorials and even resolutions.
As an active member of the community, she has a history of working in writers groups writing letters to editors of newspapers, and even resolutions through various influencer networks.
As member of the Clear Cut Subcommittee for the California Sierra Club writing group, Karen penned “The Lorax Lives in Los Angeles.” [NEED LINK]
- See example editorial LA times. [NEED LINK]
Here is an example of a resolution that led to the enthusiastic endorsement from entrepreneurs and environmentalists throughout the entire State of California.
- See example Clean Energy Resolution [NEED LINK]
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