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Event Calendar

Below is a listing of our events for the current semester. If you would like to add an event to this listing or report an error, please e-mail Joannah Portman Daley with the detailed information.

Fall 2011

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

All-Department Meeting
Where:Multicultural Center
When: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Who: WRT faculty and staff

Spring 2011

Thursday, May 12th, 2011

Senior Capstone ePortfolio Presentations
Where: Galanti Lounge
When: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Who: Faculty, students, friends, and family

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Brown Bag: Jamie White-Farnham, "Inheriting Housework Genres: The Grocery List and other Rhetorical Tools-in-Use"
Where: Writing Center, 4th floor Roosevelt Hall
When: 1:00pm-2:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff and graduate students

Thursday, January 21, 2011

All Department Meeting
Where: Multicultural Center
When: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff

Fall 2010

Thursday, December 16th, 2010

Senior Capstone ePortfolio Presentations
Where: Galanti Lounge
When: 5:30pm - 7:00pm
Who: Faculty, students, friends, and family

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

Assistant Professor Candidate #1 Visit
Teaching Demonstration
9:45am, Swan 305
Research Presentation
3:30pm, Lippitt 402
Who: Faculty, students, and the greater Rhetoric community

Friday, October 29th, 2010

Brown Bag: Professor Jeremiah Dyehouse, "'The Divergent Elements All Hang Together': John Dewey's Writings on Writing"
Where: 311 Roosevelt Hall
When: 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff and graduate students

Friday, September 24, 2010

Brown Bag:"Peering into Peer Review: A Workshop about Workshops"
Where: Production Lab, 320 Roosevelt
When: 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff and graduate students

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Reception for 2010 Excellence Award Winners
Where: URI Foundation
When: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Who: Faculty, students, and friends

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Writing & Rhetoric Welcome Party
Where: Professor Pennell's home
When: 4pm
Who: WRT faculty and graduate students

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

All Department Meeting
Where: Multicultural Center
When: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Who: WRT teaching staff


Past Events


Senior Capstone ePortfolio Presentations

Retirement Celebration for Professor Linda Shamoon

WRT 647 Research Methods Poster Presentations

CCCC Preview

2009-2010 All Department Meetings

WRT Beautification Project

Brown Bag: "Making Reflection Routine in Portfolio-Based Writing Courses" by Professor Nedra Reynolds

Brown Bag: "The Collision of Science and Rhetoric, and a Lesson on How to Save a Bay" by Matthew Ortoleva

News

Please visit our announcements page for more details on the following news:

Nedra Reynolds, Michael Pennell, Jeremiah Dyehouse, James Daley, and Kim Hensley Owens win Technology Innovation grants supported through the "Innovative Approaches Using Technology to Enhance Student Experience at URI" initiative.

Writing & Rhetoric major Brittany Pailthorpe speaks at Diversity Event!

Congratulations to Associate Professors Libby Miles and Michael Pennell on being awarded grants from the Harrington School of Communication and Media.

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.

Upcoming Events

Saturday, March 31st
What:Graduate Student Conference
Where:TBA
When: TBA
Who: Open to the public

Check out our Event Calendar to see what's happening


spotlight

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 students 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...

Brown Bag Series

See All of our Program Spotlights

special programs

National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric

Early Credit High School Program in Composition