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Writing and Rhetoric
319 Roosevelt Hall
90 Lower College Road
Kingston, RI 02881
Phone: 401.874.5932
Fax: 401.874.2628
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Student Profile
Meet Caity Cudworth
Providence, Rhode Island
...does yoga and met Michael Cera.
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a week in the life of Caity's senior year at URI
Interests:
Yoga keeps me centered and mellow. I like concerts and shows. Last year I took a road trip to Tennessee to see the Bonnaroo Music Festival.
Why Writing and Rhetoric?
I decided on Writing and Rhetoric because I liked writing all through school. I took 3 years of Latin in high school, so the rhetoric aspect of the major appealed to me. There's a lot of freedom in the major, but you also learn the foundations of how to writing in a variety of genres and formats.
Writing early on:
My parents always encouraged me to write; I naturally gravitated toward it. When I was 7 we had to write and illustrate a book for art class. I wrote mine about a family trip to the Grand Canyon, but even then my writing was really detailed. I left nothing out of the story.
Favorite class:
I love Libby Miles' classes. I took an honors writing class freshman year with her that made me want to be a Writing major. I realized that writing is something you can study. I also liked Libby's class, Composing Processes and Canons of Rhetoric. I learned about process as a writer and how you can come up with different ideas. Another class I loved was screenwriting. It was interesting to look at the process of making movies and it allowed me to writing creatively.
Campus activities:
I've been the Entertainment Editor of The Good 5 Cent Cigar for 3 years. It's been an incredible learning experience. The job is multifaceted—managing staff, interacting with publicists, learning layout, helping other people write articles.
Interviewing the stars:
Two years ago Disney was filming a documentary with the URI Sailing Team called Morning Light. I came in contact with a PR agency that does movie promotions while I was writing an article about it. My name got passed around the agency and I was asked to be a part of a roundtable interview with Sean William Scott in Boston. The more you get involved in, the more connections you make. Some of the other people I've interviewed are:
- Michael Moore
- Drew Barrymore
- Michael Cera
- Bob Sagett
- Will Arnett
- Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry, Crispin Glover (Hot Tub Time Machine)
- Darren Aronofsky (director of Requiem for A Dream, The Wrestler)
- Ed Zwick (director of Traffic, Blood Diamond)
Do you consider yourself a writer?
Yes - I've been studying it for 3 years and I've been at the Cigar for 4 years. If you define yourself by how you spend your time, then yes. I write all day - whether it's an e-mail, an article, a Sakai post, etc. If I'm not a writer, I don't know what I am.
Post-Graduation plans:
I just landed an internship with a PR agency for the summer. It's a difficult time to get into print media, but writing is something I will continue to do. Five, 10, 25 years from now I will still be writing.
Logo Design Contest!
Congrats to Kari Lukovics, winning designer of our new logo!
News
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!
Student Profiles
Get to know graduating senior Shauntel Martin.
Get to know Sara Gilman during her junior year.
See more student profiles.
Upcoming Events
Friday, May 18th
What: ECHP Professional Development Workshop
Where: Galanti Lounge/3rd Floor of the Robert L. Carothers Library
When: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Who: ECHP teaching staff
Check out our Event Calendar to see what's happening
Publications
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.
