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Janny Fritzen Teaching Fellow
Email Address: jfritzen@smu.edu.sg
Phone: +65 6828 0564
Janny brings over twelve years of global experience as an educator and researcher, with expertise in rhetoric, discourse studies, academic writing, and communication.
She believes that the best writing begins long before words appear on the page—it begins with asking better questions.
Her teaching encourages students to use writing as a process of inquiry rather than simply a means of presenting polished answers.
Her current research explores how generative AI can serve as a thinking partner that challenges assumptions, broadens perspectives, and strengthens reasoning while preserving students' intellectual ownership of their work.
Qualifications:
- PhD, Communication, University of Washington, USA, 2021
- PhD, Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China, 2013
Research Interests:
- Writing pedagogy
- Rhetoric and discourse studies
- Human–AI collaboration in learning
- Generative AI in higher education
- Critical thinking and reasoning
- Academic communication
- Communication and digital media
Course(s) Taught in SMU:
- Writing and Reasoning
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