Allan McDougall

Current

• Publisher's Representative at Broadview Press
• Researcher at University Health Network

Past

• Teaching Assistant at University of Waterloo
• Copywriter at Punch Integrated Communications
• Server at Fairmont Hotels and Resorts

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Education

• University of Waterloo
• University of Alberta
• High School

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Allan McDougall’s Summary

I am a recent Master of Arts graduate from the Department of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. During my time at Waterloo, I also completed an eight month cooperative work placement term as a copywriter for Punch Integrated Communications, a marketing company specializing in employee communications.

While at Waterloo I work as a Teaching Assistant for a Business Writing course where I oversaw the work of 35 students. I was also hired by Professor Lorelei Lingard and Dr. Glendon Tait as a Research Assistant for analyzing psychotherapeutic, end-of-life interviews with palliative care patients (publications forthcoming).

The University of Waterloo is renowned for its Engineering and Computer Science programs, and I was fortunate enough to take on a consulting role with the Inkpot Natural Language Processing group in the UW Artificial Intelligence Lab. Based on our work with Inkpot, myself and several teammates also produced an award-winning research paper on rhetorical strategies in health communications (publication forthcoming).

My MA thesis focused on Alternative Measures programs and the potentially therapeutic aspects of reading groups for criminal offenders. I believe alternative measures and alternative sentencing can prevent crime, and I have seen this first hand in my volunteer work with young offenders at the John Howard Society of Canada.

Today, I am looking for opportunities as a copywriter/copy editor, research writer, or technical writer.

Allan McDougall’s Specialties:

Research, writing, copyediting, proofreading, public relations, press releases, discourse analysis, academic writing, blogging, technical communications

Allan McDougall’s Experience

• Publisher's Representative

  Broadview Press

  (Publishing industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Researcher

  University Health Network

  (Non-Profit; 10,001 or more employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  I use discourse analysis techniques to study palliative care patients' legacy interview transcripts.

• Teaching Assistant

  University of Waterloo

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

  Teaching Assistant for English 210F: Business Communications.

• Copywriter

  Punch Integrated Communications

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  April 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 2 months)

• Server

  Fairmont Hotels and Resorts

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years )

Allan McDougall’s Education

• University of Waterloo

  MA , English , 2007 — 2009

  Co-operative Education Program graduate

  Activities and Societies:

  Student Associate for Graduates in English (MA representative and Webmaster), Inkpot Natural Language Processing Group (researcher/project manager), Collaborating Across Disciplines (co-founder),

• University of Alberta

  BA , English , 2002 — 2007

  Activities and Societies:

  Honours English Society

• High School

Additional Information

Allan McDougall’s Interests:

Copywriting, Academic Writing, Editing, Demographics, Psychology, Organizational Behaviour, Communications, Social Media, Cyberculture, Social Marketing, Advocacy

Allan McDougall’s Groups:

Society for Technical Communications
Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing
Changing Lives Through Literature
John Howard Society
Inkpot Natural Language Group
Association for Computing Machinery

•    Society for Technical Communication
•    Waterloo Alumni
•    University of Alberta Alumni
•    ACM SIGDOC

Allan McDougall’s Honors:

- Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design of Communication's Best Student Research Paper Award, SigDoc, 2009
- Special Graduate Entrance Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2007
- Calvin Coolidge Travel Scholarship, Changing Lives Through Literature, 2008.
- Undergraduate Achievement Scholarship, University of Alberta, 2005-2006.

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