The department of Writing & Rhetoric, part of the Harrington School of Communication and Media, is a particularly exciting place to be. The Writing half of our name emphasizes the finer points of process, craft, and delivery, offering multiple opportunities for practice, feedback, and guidance. The Rhetoric half stresses the always situational and often public nature of our work, be it professional, academic, or technical. Together, Writing & Rhetoric is writing that gets things done; it is writing with consequences. In all that we do - our teaching and learning, our research and scholarship, our outreach and service -- we balance these two important elements. Join us. We look forward to working with you.
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The Oliver Watson House Project Contextualizing writing and conveying its real world significance serves as an important goal for the Department of Writing & Rhetoric. Doing so often means moving student writing out of the classroom and increasing its visibility through a public audience. While this can be done by publishing via the web, the Cigar, and other traditional outlets, Professor Heather Johnson focuses on a different kind of publishing: she publishes her students work by projecting it on the side of the Oliver Watson House... Learn More |
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Congrats to Kari Lukovics, winning designer of our new logo!
Please visit our announcements page for more details on the following news:
Undergraduate award winners! Congratulations to Victoria Tousignant, our University Academic Excellence Award winner, and Cristian Izurieta, recipient of the Linda K. Shamoon Scholarship in Public Writing.
Congratulations to Jennifer Lee on winning a Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship!
Libby Miles has been elected for a 3-year term to the Executive Board of the Council of Writing Program Administrators.
Congratulations to senior Writing & Rhetoric major Alyson D'Amato on her graduate school acceptances!
Get to know graduating senior Shauntel Martin.
Get to know Sara Gilman during her junior year.
See more student profiles.
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New publications by Tim Amidon,Jeremiah Dyehouse, Cathyrn Molloy, Kim Hensely Owens, Mike Pennell, and Joannah Portman Daley!
See a full list of recent Publications by our faculty and graduate students.