For the last four years, WRD Assistant Professor Jason Schneider has been conducting a longitudinal study that follows a cohort of international students through their journeys and academic careers at DePaul University.
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Author: Megan Palmer
Megan Palmer is a second year graduate assistant in the WRD office and is currently in her first year of the program. Megan is originally from Rhode Island, and prior to moving to Chicago, she studied English Language and Literature at Southern New Hampshire University. In her spare time, Megan loves to read and write (naturally) as well as sing with her all women, all ages, all a capella barbershop chorus, The Melodeers.
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.
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Capstone Class Starts Conversations About Chicago
As a part of their final capstone project, the seniors of Jason Kalin’s WRD 390 course (Rhetoric and Public Writing) created their own pop-up museum. This museum featured the work of eight seniors who transformed their public writing research into “multimodal works [that] tell stories about Chicago.”
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Kathy Yancey Recap
Introduction Kathy Blake Yancey joined the WRD Department as a part of its quarterly speaker series, Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders. Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. Her presentation, “Tracing College Writers’ Prior Knowledge: What Is It, and How Can it Help Us Teach Writing Better?” highlighted why and how teachers should draw on students’ various prior knowledges about writing.
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