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October 19, 2023 Grace Von Lehman

Updated Course Spotlight – WRD 531: Digital Storytelling

This upcoming Winter Quarter, Professor Lisa Dush will be teaching another iteration of the popular graduate course WRD 531: Digital Storytelling. In this course, students will analyze current digital storytelling practices, genres, and techniques that organizations use to share information and gain support online; then, students will create their own original digital story collections and projects. This course will engage students in new digital writing processes while applying their rhetorical awareness and creativity. WRD 531 is ideal for students in MAWRD”s Professional and Digital Writing concentration, those pursuing a SWAN certificate, and other graduate students looking to add to their

October 4, 2023 Leo Swearingen

WRD 540 Teaching Writing: Updated Course Spotlight

With class enrollment quickly approaching, hear from Dr. Erin Workman on WRD 540: Teaching Writing, the course that she will be teaching this Winter Quarter 24. Here, Dr. Workman offers her insights into this year’s installment of the class and what students can look forward to. We delve into an in-depth exploration of what this course entails, its recent modifications, and the myriad of opportunities it opens up for its students. Course Overview Join our WRD 540 community to learn more about current approaches to teaching writing that center antiracist and antiableist teaching practices. Through engaging with composition studies research

September 28, 2023 Grace Von Lehman

Introducing MAWRD’s Newest Cohort – Autumn 2023

This quarter, MAWRD welcomes seven new students from diverse academic and professional backgrounds. Take a moment to get to know each student in their own words! Eryk Markiewicz is a first-year student in the MAWRD program. He is currently working at the DePaul Writing Center and also does some work at a bakery near his house. He has lived in Chicago basically his whole life, and he does a lot of writing and music spamming on his Instagram story. Maya Muschitz is a first-year MAWRD student as well as the Communications Writer/Scholarship & Events Administrator for the DePaul College of

March 1, 2023 Grace Von Lehman

Student Perspectives: 2023 CCCC Convention

After several years of online and hybrid conventions, the Conference on College Composition and Communication hosted a primarily in-person convention this year in Chicago. Themed “Doing Hope in Desperate Times,” the 2023 CCCC Convention took place February 15-18. Many WRD students, alumni, and faculty attended, sharing their scholarship in various presentation formats. Here, MAWRD students Nan Denette and Maggie Rothrock offer insights on their convention experiences as first-time attendees and presenters. The Big Picture For both students, their first CCCC Convention yielded exciting ideas and new opportunities. Denette shared, “I was (pleasantly!) surprised how large the conference was, both in

February 22, 2023 Grace Von Lehman

Community Engagement in WRD Courses

One of the WRD Department’s goals for students is to prepare them, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, to excel in the range of contexts in which they will go on to write. Practicing writing in a variety of contexts and genres, for a variety of audiences, is a key part of this preparation that is embedded into many WRD courses. Community-engaged WRD courses offer students the opportunity to deepen their learning by engaging with real-world audiences, learning more about their local communities, and producing meaningful writing with tangible impacts. Read on for perspectives from faculty in various roles

January 31, 2023 Grace Von Lehman

Course Spotlight – WRD 550: Online Instructional Design and Pedagogy

As registration begins for Spring Quarter 2023, the WRD blog is excited to showcase several brand-new course offerings, beginning with Sarah Brown’s graduate course WRD 550: Online Instructional Design and Pedagogy. As an MAWRD alumna, Brown has worked in instructional technology and faculty development at DePaul’s Center for Teaching and Learning for over a decade, and she has taught several courses in the WRD department. In 2021, Brown received the Excellence in First-Year Writing Teaching Award from WRD. Here, she shares more about her plans for the course and what students can look forward to learning. As we get started,

November 16, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

HumanitiesX with Dr. Tim Elliott

DePaul’s HumanitiesX Experiential Humanities Collaborative is an ongoing project that utilizes community engagement and collaboration to help students learn through “interdisciplinary teams that apply humanities methods to real-world projects.” WRD professor Tim Elliott is one of the faculty leading a class in this year’s HumanitiesX 2022-23: The Environment: Crisis and Action. We sat down with Dr. Elliott to learn more about his upcoming HumanitiesX project for Spring Quarter 2023. What will your HumanitiesX class look like, and how did you get involved?? The course titled Writing and Social Engagement: Community Centered Environmental Advocacy will be engaging in a community environmental

November 10, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

Graduating Student Spotlight: Amanda Finn

As the quarter draws to a close, the MAWRD program will graduate four students. Before these students move into new phases of their educational and professional careers, we wanted to hear about some of the meaningful experiences WRD has created for them. So, we caught up with Amanda Finn, one soon-to-be graduate, on her time in the program, her plans after graduation, and her best advice for continuing WRD students. Amanda, you came into MAWRD after writing professionally for several years. Did your time in the program shift any parts of your writing career? For me, being in grad school

November 3, 2022 Amanda Finn

Teaching Apprenticeship Program Q&A with MAWRD Students Steven Reese and Maggie Rothrock

MAWRD students who are interested in pursuing a Ph.D. or teaching career are encouraged to apply for the Teaching Apprenticeship Program (TAP) during their time in graduate school. This program gives grad students the chance to teach WRD 103 – Composition and Rhetoric and gain a full teaching experience for a quarter. They are also paid a stipend for their work. We caught up with the two graduate students (Margaret Rothrock and Steven Reese) participating in TAP this autumn quarter to learn a little more about their experiences in the apprenticeship. What were you expecting from your TAP experience? Maggie:

October 26, 2022 Grace Von Lehman

Course Spotlight – WRD 532: Content Strategy

Registration is now underway for Winter Quarter 2023! As our next installment in the Course Spotlight series, we’re highlighting another graduate class being offered next quarter, WRD 532: Content Strategy. I sat down with instructor Dr. Lisa Dush to learn more about the course and what students can look forward to learning. The Main Idea (and Major Assignments) As Dush wrote in the course description: “In WRD 532, we will explore the practice of content strategy in professional settings. You will learn how to assess existing organizational content, collaboratively develop a content strategy, and create guidelines and governance documents to