ZACHARIAH DECKER CHATTERLEY portrait
  • Associate Writing Program Administrator, Writing and Rhetoric Studies
  • Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Writing and Rhetoric Studies
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Biography

Zachariah Chatterley (MA, English/RhetComp, University of Utah) is an Instructor Lecturer in the University Writing Program. He has taught Introductory Writing, Intermediate Writing, Writing in the Humanities, and Scientific Writing. He also helped to develop the course, Writing in the Humanities. He is involved in a summer preparation course for incoming scholarship athletes, where he teaches a course on adapting to university writing. Currently, Mr. Chatterley oversees the placement essay program at the University of Utah. He has written numerous sentence structure primers for use by other teachers, and he is presently preparing an article on the rhetorical structure of medical reports. He has given several presentations to students in the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) on writing abstracts. He also contrinbuted to a joint article on the need for better communication between scientists and the public.