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June 8, 2021 depaulwrd

Professor Sarah Brown Wins Excellence in FYW Award

For the 2021 Excellence in FYW Award, Sarah Brown has been recognized for her dedication to her courses and students.

February 24, 2021 depaulwrd

A Chat About Two Writing Centers

Three graduate student got together to talk about their times working in their undergraduate writing centers.

June 9, 2020 depaulwrd

Statement and Action Plan of the WRD Faculty in Support of the Black Lives Matter movement

Statement of the FacultyDepartment of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse In the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse (WRD) at DePaul University, we teach students to write because writing expands their agency, power, and responsibility to act in the world. We teach students to write to help them move through the world with increased confidence so that they can use their writing to confront constraints and to imagine new possibilities. We also understand that writing can perpetuate injustice. Words do harm not only when they are offensive and overtly racist, but also when they are withheld when they are needed to

February 6, 2019 depaulwrd

Dr. Juan C. Guerra visits DePaul February 18

We are excited to announce the Winter Quarter event for our Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders speaker series. We will be welcoming Dr. Juan C. Guerra to our department on Monday, February 18 at 4:30–6:00pm in McGowan South 105.

February 1, 2019 depaulwrd

WRD Student Spotlight: Nicole Mattea

Nicole Mattea is a DePaul junior double-majoring in Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse and Political Science and minoring in Women’s and Gender Studies. In WQ ’19, Nicole is completing WRD 398, Internship, with Professor Vandenberg, interning in the Chicago office of U.S. Senator Richard Durbin.

January 22, 2019 depaulwrd

DePaul WRD partners with College of DuPage for the Curricular Pathway in Writing and Rhetoric

On November 21, 2018, DePaul’s Department of Writing, Rhetoric, & Discourse signed a formal agreement with the College of DuPage (COD) that creates a curriculum pathway relationship between the English department at COD and the Major in WRD.

January 9, 2019 depaulwrd

WRD Alumni Spotlight: Cynthia Medrano

Cynthia Medrano is a 2015 alumnus of the major in Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse. She is currently an Associate Technical Writer at Relativity and will pursue her Master’s in Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana this fall.

June 18, 2018 depaulwrd

WRD Student Spotlight: Nikki Roberts

Nikki Roberts is a DePaul ‘20 Journalism major and Professional Writing minor. She declared her Professional Writing minor in Autumn 2017 to strengthen her writing “outside of journalism/AP style writing.” During Winter Quarter of her sophomore year, Roberts took WRD 263, Reading Between the Grooves: The Rhetorical Power of Popular Music with Professor Jason Schneider. “His class encouraged me to consider a broader range of topics outside of strict music reporting,” Roberts said.

May 31, 2018 depaulwrd

WRD Alumni Spotlight: Alex Gabriel

Alex Gabriel is a 2015 WRD alumnus who went on to pursue a Masters in Public Policy at the University of Maryland and worked at the Do Good Institute and Aspen Institute. He is currently a Research Analyst at American University. His forthcoming article, “Politics of School Choice: a case study of Maryland’s BOOST program,” will be released through the Equity Project in 2018.

April 27, 2018 depaulwrd

Creating Knowledge: The LAS Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

Looking to build upon the previous years of successful student publication, the WRD Committee for CK encourages faculty to identify strong papers and projects for submission. We are seeking submissions from WRD majors and minors in upper-level courses from the current academic year 2017–2018 (scholarship from SQ 2017 is acceptable). All submissions should follow the LAS guidelines (see below) and should be emailed to Jason Kalin (jkalin@depaul.edu) by Friday, June 1, 2018.