WRD Blog

April 1, 2019 Megan Palmer

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.”

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.

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.

October 19, 2018 Channing Tabb

Faculty Spotlight: Tim Elliott

In autumn quarter 2018, WRD extended a warm welcome to Professor Tim Elliott, the newest tenure-track member of the WRD faculty. He will teach undergraduate and graduate Professional Writing courses at DePaul. This quarter, Professor Elliott is teaching graduate course WRD 523: Editing and undergraduate course WRD 301: Writing in Workplace Contexts.

October 16, 2018 Megan Palmer

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.

October 1, 2018 Channing Tabb

New MA in WRD ePortfolio Requirement

As of the 2018/19 school year, all new students in the WRD MA program will create and submit an eportfolio as part of the degree requirement. This post details the new eportfolio process and offers tips to help students get started. While new MA students are required to submit an eportfolio, current MA students are encouraged to complete the eportfolio also.

Benefits of the WRD Combined Degree Program

Course Recap – WRD 532: Content Strategy

Student Spotlight – Tabitha Jou Yi

Faculty Spotlight — Dr. Michael Gallaway

Event Recap: Branding and Copywriting with Professor Nancy LaFever

Course Spotlight – WRD 288: Rhetoric and Popular Culture

Course Spotlight – WRD 377: Writing and Social Engagement: From Hip Hop To Hashtags

Course Spotlight – WRD 511: Rhetorics of Displacement

Event Recap — Dr. V Jo Hsu’s “The Story Begins with a Sundering”