Fall 2025

Section 0287 of ENGLC1000
Academic Reading and Writing -- : Aug 18 - Dec 12 2025

Section 0486 of ENGLC1000
Academic Reading and Writing -- : Oct 20 - Dec 12 2025

Summer 2025

Section 8692 of ENGL1A
College Composition -- : Jun 16 - Aug 10 2025

Spring 2025

Section 4843 of ENGL5
Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking -- : Jan 27 - May 11 2025
This is an online course. (No Zoom and no Face-to-Face meetings).

Section 6366 of ENGL1A
College Composition -- : Feb 03 - May 16 2025

No office hours

2018
Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA
Online Special Expertise Certificate in Canvas

2009
Cerro Coso College, Ridgecrest, CA
Certificate in Online Teaching

2005-2006
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Certificate in Teaching Post-Secondary Reading

2003-2006
Portland State University, Portland, OR
Masters Degree in English
Emphasis: Rhetoric & Composition, Early American Literature

1998-2000
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature

1996-1998
Mendocino College Ukiah, CA
Associate of Arts Degree in English

Academic Experience

Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA: Fall 07 - present

  • English 100 (Academic Reading and Writing)
  • English 1A (Reading & Composition)

Mendocino College, Ukiah, CA: Fall 2005 - Fall 2010

  • English 60 (Writing Lab)
  • English 80 (Introduction to College Reading and Writing)
  • English 200 (Reading & Composition I)
  • Business Math

Dawn of Understanding: 2005-2010

  • Owner/manager of Dawn of Understanding Educational services, providing private tutoring as well as SAT preparation workshops

Midcounty Memo Newspaper: 2001-2003

  • Department Editor

...Plus over ten years of private tutoring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Presentations and Publications

After being frustrated with the available textbooks, L. Dawn Lukas wrote a textbook for teaching college English: information appears below. Many books were bloated and hard to understand for students. Lukas' textbook is focused on practical matters: it contains concise, straightforward, and most of all, useful information about how to read and write effectively. The textbook is currently in the fourth edition.
 

College Composition and Reading:
Information and Strategies, 4th revised edition
By L. Dawn Lukas
ISBN: 978-1-7924-3254-5


The textbook is available through Amazon and through the publisher, Kendall-Hunt, at https://he.kendallhunt.com/lukas-comp