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A Waverly Consultants Novel
Book 1: Detroit, Michigan
Melanie Sullivan expected to save a business from bankruptcy but never intended to ruin a prestigious Detroit family.
A potential turnaround project at Shore Industries forces her to confront the family of her former colleague and lover, Carl Walker. Are family members to blame, or is the company’s CFO, Adam Barnes, the true bad guy?
Melanie watches a prominent family self-destruct, her former lover navigate divorce and the loss of his children, and the mysterious Adam face potential criminal charges.
The Hustings: A Family Web
This story follows the life a woman from birth to age seventy. Veronica Husting is born into wealth but left motherless at birth. Beginning at a young age, Ronnie learns how to get what she wants in life. She seeks to keep the luxury of her upbringing at the forefront, but eventually the lack of family relationships takes a toll on her.
Through a near-death experience, she comes to understand what is most important in life and sets out to regain all that she lost. When Veronica returns home hoping to reclaim her early love and the family estate, she must reveal family secrets that nearly destroy everything she hoped to recapture.
The Hustings: Ronnie’s Resurrection
Veronica Emma-Mae Husting has reinvented herself more than once in a chase for elusive happiness. Ronnie finally comes home but experiences a near-death accident that forces her to face the past, present, and possible future during a visit to the afterlife. She learns what’s important without totally abandoning the riches she’s always adored.
In this fiction novel that challenges religious beliefs, a haunting past is resolved when Ronnie confronts visions from heaven, faces evil that devastated her family, and supports unthinkable actions to reconcile past wrongs.
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Academic Publications
Published works by D. L. Gollnitz
Work in the area of academic writing continues to get my attention. In early days of automated essay scoring (AES) software, educators debated the effectiveness of these tools. This technology has helped students improve written language by providing consistent and immediate feedback with grammar instruction.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is now prevalent and gaining greater acceptance for daily applications. AI tools help authors generate ideas, develop characters, and create fictional worlds. Ownership of text produced with AI presents a very different argument than those focused on AES as a learning tool.
Is using grammar assistance cheating? How was this story created? The difference in these questions is not subtle!
Academic Publications Related to Literacy Skills
Gollnitz, D. (2014). Automated Essay-Scoring Software. In , R. E. Ferdig, T. V. Rasinski & K. E. Pytash (Eds.), Using Technology to Enhance Writing: Innovative approaches to literacy instruction (pp 211-218). Solution Tree Press.
Horning, A. & Gollnitz, D. (2014) What is College Reading?: A college-high school dialogue. In P. Donahue, H. Bastian & M. Mulrooney (Eds.), Reader: Essays in reader-oriented theory, criticism, and pedagogy. (No. 67, Fall 2014). Lafayette College.
Horning, A. S., Gollnitz, D. & Haller, C. R. (Eds.). (2017). What is College Reading? The WAC Clearing House.
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