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Writing & Rhetoric

Faculty in Writing & Rhetoric

Robert Schwegler

Robert A. Schwegler, PhD

Director of Graduate Studies
Professor

Office: Roosevelt 329
Phone: (401) 874-2979
E-mail: rschweg@aol.com
Degrees: Hope College; University of Chicago

Teaching Interests:
Writing about culture, scientific and technical writing, composition theory and pedagogy.

Courses Recently Taught: WRT 105, WRT 106, WRT 201, WRT 302, WRT 333, WRT 512, WRT 645

Recent and/or Forthcoming Publications:
  • Coming of Age: The Advanced Writing Curriculum, co-edited with Linda K. Shamoon, Rebecca Moore Howard and Sandra Jamieson.
  • CrossCurrents Series, Boyton-Cook, forthcoming.
  • "Interpretation and Composition Theory." JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory.
  • The Longman Handbook for Writers and Readers, with Chris Anson, Longman, 1997, 1999.
  • Writing in Depth (with Nancy Newman Schwegler and Robin Schutt), 2003.
  • Patterns of Exposition 18 (2006).
  • Choices: Values, Voices, and Strategies (with Nancy Newman Schwegler), 2006.
Professional Activities: Consultant for Longman Publishers; Executive Board, Rhode Island Consortium on Writing; Advisory committee for the National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric; member, Council of Writing Program Administrators, NCTE, CCCC.

Current Research Interests: Relationships between social theory and composition theory; the social and political dimensions of error; error in written English; economics of disciplinarity; the development of professional writing in the English renaissance.

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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.