Charlene Jimenez
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Experience


Writer
  • Hundreds of blog posts about interior design, window coverings, and bedding.
  • 180+ product descriptions for window coverings.
  • Press releases, how-to guides, buying guides, web content, marketing materials, safety inserts, and more for a home decor company.
  • 500+ articles, press releases, blogs, and pages of web content on the topics of adoption, foster care, pregnancy, parenting, and adoption reunion.
  • Was the sole writer for an adoption-related e-magazine, brainstorming and writing five unique, targeted articles each month for over four years.
  • Wrote work-at-home articles for Wahm.com.
  • Researched for and wrote three e-books. Topics included general back pain, back pain in women, and general nutrition.
  • Business and technology staff writer/columnist with AGBeat.com for a year and a half. One of my articles was featured on the New York Times Blog.
  • Wrote full-time and on a freelance basis for an SEO agency, on topics ranging from weight loss pills to trucking companies to outdoor furniture.
  • Hundreds of articles, blogs, and pieces of web content for an e-Learning company. Topics included food handler training, contractor associations, and food safety.

College Professor

Rio Salado College
  • CRW 170 - Introduction to Writing Fiction
  • CRW 201 - Portfolio
  • CRW 271 - Topics in Writing: Fiction
  • ENG 235 - Magazine Article Writing

Brigham Young University-Idaho
  • ENG 106 - Basic Writing
  • GS 120 - Life Skills
  • FDENG 301 - Advanced Writing and Research

Curriculum Developer
  • I rewrote the curriculum for the ENG235 - Magazine Article Writing course. The fourteen-week program teaches students the ins and outs of breaking into the magazine writing industry.
  • After completing this course, I was interviewed, and that interviewed appeared in the Tempe Republic. The interview was also posted on the Rio Salado blog, which can be found here.
  • Rewrote the course for CRW170 - Introduction to Writing Fiction .

Education


M.A.L.S. in Arts & Culture with a Creative Writing Concentration
I graduated from University of Denver in 2011. While a lot of focus was placed on creative writing, I had varied areas of study within the graduate program. Some of these include:
  • Writing the Short Story
  • Children's Literature
  • Graduate Research and Writing
  • The Writer's Workshop
  • Nonfiction
  • Fiction
  • World Literature
  • The Effects of Globalization
  • World Visual and Performance Art
  • Best Practices in the Arts
  • Cultural Participation and Planning

B.A. in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis and a French Minor
I graduated from Brigham Young University-Idaho in 2006. Because I was on the fast-grad program, I completed my four-year degree in three years. Some of my areas of study included:
  • Grammar
  • Rhetoric
  • Fiction
  • Nonfiction
  • American Literature
  • French Literature
  • British Literature
  • Business and Technical Writing
  • Writing for Children
  • Children and Young Adult Literature
  • Creative Writing
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  • About Charlene
  • Resume
  • Portfolio
  • Contact
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  • Blog