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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Helen O'Grady

Helen O'Grady, PhD

Lecturer

Office: Roosevelt 323
Phone: (401) 874-4046
E-mail: hogrady@mail.uri.edu
Degrees: Fordham University; University of Rhode Island

Teaching Interests:
General Education Writing; Writing in the Disciplines; Business Communications; Technical Writing

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 104, WRT 105, WRT 227

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • "Thinking Vertically" (co-authored with Kim Hensley Owens, Libby Miles, Michael Pennell, Jeremiah Dyehouse, Nedra Reynolds, Robert Schwegler, and Linda Shamoon) College Composition and Communication 59.3 (2008): 503-511.
  • "Trafficking in Freeway Flyers (Re)Viewing Literacy, Working Conditions, and Quality Instruction" in Moving a Mountain: Improving Part-Time Working Conditions (NCTE).
  • "Fragments in Response: An Electronic Discussion of Lester Faigley's Fragments of Rationality." with Nedra Reynolds et al. College Composition and Communication, Vol. 45.
Professional Activities: Business Communications Consultant; presenter, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Wyoming Conference on English, National Adjunct Faculty Guild; member, NCTE; CCCC.

Current Research Interests: Critical Literacy Theories and Pedagogy; Intersections between Rhetorical Theory and Literary Criticism; Writing Instruction and Contingent Labor Issues.

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E-Portfolio Presentations

All seniors in the Writing & Rhetoric major complete an electronic portfolio through our capstone course, WRT 495. The Spring 2009 class, consisting of Sam Fuller, Jessica Notardonato, Samantha Notardonato, Rob Petrin, Tatiana M. Uhoch, and Emily Weintraub, marked the second year for graduating our pioneer Writing & Rhetoric majors.


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Upcoming Events

Friday, November 13th
Brown Bag: "The Collision of Science and Rhetoric, and a Lesson on How to Save a Bay" by Matthew Ortoleva
Where: The Writing Center, 4th Floor Roosevelt Hall
When: 1:00 pm - 2:00pm

This presentation, part of a two-year ethnographic study on how language and rhetorical acts are used to construct ecological relationships to Narragansett Bay, considers how Save The Bay, a professional environmental advocacy organization, enacts science discourses as a central focus of its activism on behalf of the ecological health of the Narragansett Bay watershed.