Since joining the faculty at Ryerson in 2005, she has taught courses in business communication, technical communication, communication and law, and a graduate course in risk communication in the Master of Health Sciences in Nutrition Communication program. She has received a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Ryerson Internal Grant to conduct research into forms of computer-mediated communication and discourse and the impact of new media on language change. She is the author of The Reader: Contemporary Essays and Writing Strategies (Prentice Hall Canada, 2001) and Communicating for Results: A Canadian Student's Guide, 2nd ed., (Oxford University Press, 2010), a professional writing textbook first published in 2007 and now used at over 20 colleges and universities across Canada.