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    Leah Davis has extensive experience in editing and tutoring. She received a BA in Elementary Education from BYU in 2015, with minors in TESOL and editing. As a writing fellow and ESL tutor at BYU, she provided feedback to students on writing skills and grammar. She has held various volunteer editing roles for student publications, including senior editor for a linguistics journal. Davis also served a mission for her church in California, where she taught religious lessons in Spanish and led other missionaries.

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    Leah Davis has extensive experience in editing and tutoring. She received a BA in Elementary Education from BYU in 2015, with minors in TESOL and editing. As a writing fellow and ESL tutor at BYU, she provided feedback to students on writing skills and grammar. She has held various volunteer editing roles for student publications, including senior editor for a linguistics journal. Davis also served a mission for her church in California, where she taught religious lessons in Spanish and led other missionaries.

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    Leah Davis has extensive experience in editing and tutoring. She received a BA in Elementary Education from BYU in 2015, with minors in TESOL and editing. As a writing fellow and ESL tutor at BYU, she provided feedback to students on writing skills and grammar. She has held various volunteer editing roles for student publications, including senior editor for a linguistics journal. Davis also served a mission for her church in California, where she taught religious lessons in Spanish and led other missionaries.

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    Leah Davis

    745 N 400 E #8
    Provo, UT 84606
    801-228-7823
    leahdavisbyu@gmail.com

    Education
    Brigham Young University, 20102015 3.99 GPA
    BA Elementary Education 4.0 Major GPA
    Minors: TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
    Editing

    RelevantCoursework
    Genre & Substantive Editing
    writing articles; revising organization and content
    Basic Editing Skills
    applying principles of copyediting
    English Grammar
    applying grammar rules in editing contexts
    Modern American English Usage
    using conventions of diction and punctuation
    Honors Advanced Writing and Pedagogy
    writing academic research papers; training to be a writing tutor for other
    university students
    Intro to Print Publishing
    creating images and documents in Adobe InDesign & Adobe Photoshop
    Mass Communication & Society
    exploring print & digital media in society
    Advanced French Writing
    writing personal essays, comparative literature essays, and research papers

    Editing Work Experience


    Writing Fellow; BYU English
    Language Department; Apr. 2012 to
    Apr. 2013, Jan. 2015 to present
    Collaborate on assignments
    with BYU professors of
    Pioneers & Persecution and
    Writing for International
    Students courses
    Provide written feedback on
    content and grammar for six to
    eight students per class
    Tutor students on writing skills
    at conferences twice a month

    ESL Writing Tutor; BYU English


    Language Department; Aug. 2012 to
    Apr. 2013
    Tutored English as a Second
    Language students from all
    disciplines on writing
    assignments
    Trained other tutors on
    grammar principles and writing
    skills

    Editing Volunteer Experience


    Senior Editor; Schwa: Language and
    Linguistics (published BYU student
    journal); Jan. 2015 to present
    Collaborate with editors to
    choose articles on linguistics for
    Winter 2015 issue
    Edit two articles for content
    Input team members comments
    into Word Document drafts
    Staff Editor; A Womans Experience:
    Journal of Womens Studies (published
    BYU student journal); Feb. 2013 to
    April 2013, Jan. 2015 to present

    Collaborated with editors to


    choose articles for 2013 issue
    Worked with an author to
    improve content and
    organization of article
    Staff editor; Stance for the Family
    (published BYU student magazine);
    Sept. 2012 to Dec. 2012
    Copyedited ten articles about
    issues related to the family for
    Fall 2012 issue
    Wrote a nonfiction book review
    for Winter 2013 issue

    Staff editor; Journal of Family Studies


    (published BYU student journal);
    Sept. 2012 to Dec. 2012
    Copyedited and proofread three
    scholarly articles

    Used InDesign to format


    articles for publication

    Presentations and Publications


    Adapting ESL Journals:
    Accommodating Learner Agency
    to Increase Writing Fluency;
    Intermountain-TESOL Cultural
    Literacy Mini-Conference; Feb.
    2013
    Presented a ten-page paper
    based on peer-reviewed
    sources, outlining strategies
    in writing pedagogy for ESL
    students
    Direct Versus Indirect Written
    Feedback in Tutoring ESL
    Students; Rocky Mountain Peer
    Tutoring Conference; Nov. 2012
    Co-presented research from
    peer-reviewed sources in
    order to train writing tutors at
    BYU

    The Imprisonment of Parley P.


    Pratt: Character Building behind
    Bars; BYU Religious Education
    Symposium; Feb. 2012
    Presented a ten-page paper
    based on primary and
    autobiographical sources,
    describing the feats of a
    historical figure
    Phrase by Phrase, Clause by
    Clause: An Analysis of Ellipsis in
    The Hunger Games; Schwa Journal
    of Linguistic Analysis (published
    BYU student journal); Fall 2012
    Published a linguistics article
    using peer-reviewed sources,
    geared toward aspiring
    young-adult novelist

    Additional Volunteer Experience


    Full-Time Missionary; The Church
    of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints;
    May 2013 to Nov. 2014
    Spoke Spanish daily to contact
    members of the Hispanic
    community near Los Angeles,
    California
    Read and wrote in Spanish to
    prepare lessons on religious
    principles
    Collaborated with local
    Church leaders to plan and
    carry out activities and visits to
    the congregations
    Served as a regional leader
    over a group of four other
    missionaries
    Taught at training meetings for
    a group of 30 other
    missionaries
    Trained two people in their
    first twelve weeks as
    missionaries

    French & Spanish Tutor for Preservice Missionaries; Missionary


    Training Center; Aug. 2012 to Apr.
    2013
    Assist senior couple
    missionaries in studying
    French & Spanish grammar
    principles
    Provide feedback weekly for
    young adults in French
    conversation and lesson
    delivery skills
    Activity Council President; BYU
    Residence Halls Association; Aug.
    2010 to Apr. 2011
    Worked with advisor and
    student coordinator to address
    needs of residents
    Created agendas for weekly
    council meetings to plan
    monthly events for 2000
    residents
    Delegated tasks to council in
    setting up, staffing, and
    cleaning up of eight major
    events

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