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four spotlights, text reads "WRD student work spotlight"

November 25, 2019 Megan Palmer

Student Work Spotlight: Document Design

As the Autumn Quarter ends, students enrolled in WRD 320/WRD 524: Document Design share their final projects.

November 13, 2019 Alex Treat

TAP 2019 Recap: What the Students Think

As the Autumn Quarter comes to an end, so does the Teaching Apprenticeship Program (TAP). We caught up with some of the current TAP students to ask what TAP has meant to them and what they have learned about teaching.

October 31, 2019 Alex Treat

MAWRD Students Spotlight: Brady Gunnink & Caroline Gonzalez

English writing teachers returning to higher education to receive their master’s degree are a common student in MAWRD program, two of which are current students Brady Gunnink and Caroline Gonzalez.

October 30, 2019 Maddy Crozier

Highlights from the IWCA-NCPTW Conference

Sixteen DePaul students, administrators, and staff, including three MA in WRD students, recently took their research to an international stage by presenting at the International Writing Centers Association/National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (IWCA/NCPTW) Joint Conference. Learn more about their presentations here!

October 28, 2019 Alex Treat

Course Spotlight: WRD 540, Teaching Writing

WRD 540 Teaching Writing is a graduate course under the Teaching Writing & Language concentration. Taught by Dr. Erin Workman, this course introduces students to current pedagogy of teaching writing. Students are expected to walk away with both a theoretical and practical understanding, knowing what is involved in managing a writing course underlined by a personal teaching. philosophy.

October 1, 2019 Alex Treat

MAWRD Student Spotlight: Alex Treat

For this Spotlight, we gave some time to Alex Treat, a new graduate assistant for the MAWRD program. He graduated from the University of Arkansas at Monticello with a Communication degree emphasizing professional writing, and now is here to continue his education in writing and rhetoric.

September 30, 2019 Maddy Crozier

MAWRD Student Spotlight: Maddy Crozier

Interested in the combined Bachelor’s + Master’s degree in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse? A second-year MA in WRD student, Maddy Crozier, is sharing her experience as a participant in the combined degree program.

April 1, 2019 Channing Tabb

Course Spotlight: WRD 582, Writing Center Theory & Pedagogy

Writing Center Theory & Pedagogy is an invitation-only course designed to prepare graduate students for their role as Peer Writing Tutors in DePaul’s Writing Center. The course is offered each Autumn quarter.

November 12, 2018 Channing Tabb

WRD Internship Scholarship Winners

DePaul University’s Community and Project-Based Learning (CPBL) Internship Scholarships program offers a wonderful opportunity for WRD undergraduate and graduate students to receive funding for interning with a non-profit or non-governmental organization.

October 31, 2018 Alex Gonzalez

Course Spotlight: WRD 551, Teaching Apprenticeship Practicum

Overview of WRD 551 & TAP WRD 551 functions as the companion course to WRD’s Teaching Apprentice Program (TAP), a program that gives MA in WRD students the unique opportunity to teach a section of WRD 103, one of the two courses in DePaul’s First-Year Writing Program. As they teach, TAP instructors meet weekly in WRD 551: Teaching Apprenticeship Practicum to discuss composition pedagogy and share classroom experiences.