Published Feature Stories
Ryan Michael Gilliam
Writing Center Consultant
United States of America
Ryan Gilliam is a Creative Writing major and Film Studies minor at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri. He plans to graduate in Spring, 2017. He has held two separate writing related positions since coming to MSU. First he was a Student Writer at the Missouri State University Office of University Communication, then he became a Writing Consultant at the writing center on campus.
At the Missouri State University Office of University Communication he worked on many pieces to promote students, faculty members, and professors at MSU. He wrote many blog posts and feature stories that were posted onto the MSU News website. He also conducted several video interviews that were posted along side feature stories. Finally, he wrote a few larger features that were published in the Springfield News-Leader, the largest local paper.
At the writing center, he has been able to approach writing from another side. Most days consist of meeting with students and improving their writing over several sessions. Students bring in papers, and instead of simply editing the pages, consultants are encouraged to help grow the student's writing abilities through exercises and advice.
