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  • November 9, 2026 Maren Case

    Being a WRD Major: Views from Dara Drury and Barbara Riendeau

    As a new graduate student in the WRD department, the most exciting thing I’ve learned

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  • November 4, 2026 Maren Case

    Course Spotlight – WRD 327/532 Content Strategy

    Are you curious about what collaboration with nonprofits looks like? Or how to generate written

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  • October 26, 2026 Chaia Van Der Aa

    Course Spotlight – WRD 511 Composing Chicago: Rhetorics of Space and Place

    The rhetoric of place allows us to explore how the physical environment itself makes arguments.

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  • June 8, 2026 Chaia Van Der Aa

    Event Recap – 2026 MAWRD Exit Presentations 

    On Thursday, May 28th, five graduating students from the Master’s in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse

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  • June 5, 2026 Callie McNorton

    Spring Speaker Series Recap: Dr. Ana Milena Ribero

    In April, The WRD Department welcomed Dr. Ana Milena Ribero for our Speaker Series: Writing

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  • May 27, 2026 Chaia Van Der Aa

    Reflections on the MA in WRD from Dylan Cabrera, winner of the 2026 Outstanding Graduate Student Award

    Each program in DePaul’s College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences gives an annual Outstanding

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  • May 20, 2026 Callie McNorton

    Course Spotlight – WRD 321: Writing in the Legal Profession

    The genre of legal writing is an intimidating one. You see it in pop culture

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  • May 19, 2026 Chaia Van Der Aa

    Course Spotlight – WRD 360/LSP 275 Rhetoric of the Red Summer: Chicago Race Riot of 1919 

    Chicago is a city with a rich and complicated history, and this history still impacts us today.

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February 19, 2021 Alex Treat

Speaker Series Recap – Dr. Cedric D. Burrows

At last week’s Speaker Series, Dr. Cedric Burrows talked about the concepts of rhetorical crossover, whitesplaining, and afrosplaining.

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February 18, 2021 Kristen Vosberg

What to Know about HumanitiesX

We talked to Lisa Dush about HumanitiesX at DePaul to find out what opportunities and event await students with them.

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February 11, 2021 Kristin Fleming

MAWRD Student Spotlight – Walt Stallings

Learn about student Walt Stalling’s time and challenges as a (virtual) long-term substitute teacher.

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February 9, 2021 Kristin Fleming

What Employers Look for in You

Relating to Technical Writing and Teaching, we talked to employers hiring for these kinds of jobs on what they look for in candidates.

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February 4, 2021 Kristen Vosberg

Winter Speaker Series – Dr. Cedric D. Burrows

For this Winter Quarter’s Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders Speaker Series, Dr. Cedric Burrows has been invited by the WRD department to speak about his book on whitescripting and afrosplaining.

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February 3, 2021 Alex Treat

Event Recap – A Conversation with Agnes Callard

Last Monday, HumanitiesX worked with DePaul’s Department of Philosophy to host their latest Writing in this Moment event, inviting Dr. Agnes Callard from The University of Chicago.

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February 2, 2021 Kristin Fleming

Course Spotlight: WRD 286 Writing with Photographs

Learn about WRD 286 Writing with Photographs, a course being offered in Spring Quarter 2021.

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January 28, 2021 Alex Treat

Course Spotlight – WRD 364 Chicago Women Rhetors

WRD 364 Chicago Woemen Rhetors has returned to give undergraduates the chance of learning about a piece of the Windy City’s rhetorical history

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January 27, 2021 Kristen Vosberg

Course Spotlight on WRD 511 – Rhetorics of Displacement

Rhetorics of Displacement is taught this Spring Quarter 2021 by Dr. Monica Reyes, exploring the subjects of immigrant asylum narratives.

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January 21, 2021 Alex Treat

Student Work Spotlight – Writing Across Media

Back in Autumn, students in WRD 533 Writing Across Media were composing videos, audiobytes, and othe multimedia projects. See what they created!

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