Health Sciences Faculty Writing Consultant

Laupus Library introduced a new program that seeks to better support scholarly writers on ECU’s Health Sciences campus with a Health Sciences Professional Writing Consultant. Faculty from Nursing, Allied Health Sciences, Brody School of Medicine, and the School of Dental Medicine can schedule appointments to meet with Kerri Bright Flinchbaugh, the former Medical Writing Specialist for Brody School of Medicine and current Assistant Director of the University Writing Program. She is available to consult with writers on projects like peer reviewed articles, grant proposal, conference presentations, and other scholarly writing projects.

A typical consultation begins with the writer contextualizing their writing project along with their specific areas of concern. After collaboratively constructing an agenda, the writer and consultant work together through the revision process, whatever that may look like at the time. By the end of the consultation, writers should have a revision plan for the text by talking through any range of drafting concerns, be they organizational, grammatical, or formatting.

As a PhD candidate in Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication with a background in education, Kerri has a wealth of writing experiences and resources to pull from and share with writers. While working as Brody’s Medical Writing Specialist, Kerri helped over 40 faculty place manuscripts in key journals of their field. While she is not an editor, Kerri is committed to cultivating learning experiences that offer support at all stages of the writing process while supporting the development of writing strategies that can also be applied to future writing projects. With face-to-face meetings, Kerri is able to individualize writing instruction to meet writers where they are.

To schedule an appointment, Health Sciences faculty may email Kerri at flinchbaughk@ecu.edu .