Writing

Jennifer is an experienced educational, business, and humor writer. She specializes in making educational topics humorous and engaging. Just as her comedy is chock full of philosophy and punctuation, so too is her professional work chock full of jocosity!

Jennifer has written a 22-page booklet on “How to Debate” to promote Dewar’s Scotch, she has written a four-page exercise for a logic textbook from the perspective of Mexican wrestlers (luchadores), and she has consulted for educational television on how to make algebra interesting to middle schoolers (just so you know, her go-to suggestion is usually ninjas). She writes a career column for women’s blog TheGloss, and has been known to give inspirational speeches and teach financial literacy to troops of Girl Scouts.

Jennifer wrote three humorous logic exercises for the print edition of this textbook and fourteen more for the interactive online “MyLogicLab.” Go here to read more about her involvement in the project.

	Educational products written by Jen and available on Amazon:

	Jennifer’s jokes appear in The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Jokes (Alpha/Penguin).
	Jennifer is the author of the Dewars Guide to Debating, a 22-page standalone booklet packaged with Vice magazine. Click to download (PDF)
	Jen is quoted as an “expert” in Santa vs. Satan: The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights, by Jacob Kalish.
	Jen contributed a three-page “how-to” about fashion show planning to Wendy Shalit’s Girls Gone Mild.
	Published on McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A MEMO TO MY NEW BOYFRIEND RE: CLARIFICATION OF OFFER SELF-HELP BOOKS FOR HIPSTERS AN OPEN LETTER TO JAMES RANDI REGARDING HIS “ONE MILLION DOLLAR PARANORMAL CHALLENGE”

Quizzes

For City Scoops Magazine:

Blogging

In addition to blogging at JenniferDziura.com since 2004 and maintaining the blog for the Williamsburg Spelling Bee, Jen was one of 16 bloggers in the US and Canada chosen for the Ford Motor Company’s blogger summit, and has had her writing cited on Economist.com.

She has blogged professionally for clients including:

TheGloss (Jennifer’s column runs on Tuesdays)
TheGrindstone (Jennifer’s column runs on Fridays)
Jewcy.com
TruTV’s Dumb as a Blog
Manhattan GRE’s Vocabulary Blog (Jennifer currently writes 3 posts per week)

Print

Jennifer has published over 150 newspaper articles in publications including The Virginian Pilot (as the “teen columnist” in the mid-nineties), Virginia Beach’s This Week at the Beach, and the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. She is the winner of a National Society of Newspaper Columnists award in Humor Writing. Here are some of her clips:

Going the Distance: The first woman captain of the Dartmouth Boxing Club recalls her biggest fight- Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
Let’s get ready for visitors from outer space – The Virginian Pilot
Take a number if you want to keep our area code - The Virginian Pilot
Marco Polo skeptic probably doesn’t even like cookie dough – The Virginian Pilot
Alabama chain gang convicts link work with displeasure – The Virginian Pilot
Bean there, done that – The Virginian Pilot
Multiple births create a multiplicity of issues – The Virginian Pilot
Culture on the move will drive on through – The Virginian Pilot

Business writing

Jennifer has contributed to SAT, ACT, GMAT, and GRE preparation manuals appearing at Barnes & Noble, and regularly reviews manuscripts for Barron’s Educational Series. She is the author (for Manhattan GMAT) of Foundations of GMAT Verbal and (for Manhattan GRE) two sets of flashcards, 500 Essential Words and 500 Advanced Words
Jennifer wrote these downloadable grammar flashcards for Manhattan GMAT
Jennifer wrote two children’s stories for the C. Everett Koop Institute’s educational Hepatitis C website
Internet Marketing Metrics (PDF download) - This white paper has been used in a Course Reader for the BUS 419 class at California Polytechnic University

Film and Television

Jennifer has been filmed for a variety of television projects, including a pilot for the SyFy show Brain Trust, an inspirational clip for the Oprah Winfrey Network, a web commercial for Nine West, and numerous segments featuring the Williamsburg Spelling Bee (see the front page for a few clips). On the writing side of things…

Jen has worked as a consultant for PBS affiliate WNET/Thirteen on “Get the Math,” a television series making algebra fun for middle school students.
Jen sold the film rights to Milk, a whimsical poem, for the production of an animated short.
Public Service Announcement Support an Animal Shelter for What You Can Do
Jen wrote scripts for fifteen humorous educational videos for the MyLogicLab online resources that accompany Pearson’s Introduction to Logic (14th Ed.)

Current Projects

Jen premiered her new one-woman show about punctuation at the Empire State Book Festival in Albany in April, 2010. The show is now available for bookings at colleges, libraries, library conventions, and other places where people who know their semicolon from their colon are to be found.
Jennifer’s one-woman show “What Philosophy Majors Do After College” remains popular and is available for performance at colleges and elsewhere.
Jen is working on a top-secret question writing project for Trivial Pursuit.
Bullish readers can look forward to a 2012 Bullish Conference in New York.

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