News from DePaul University's Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse
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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We recently spoke with Eric Iberri, an alum of the MA in WRD program who currently works at Amazon as a Technical Writer. Eric graduated in 2010 with a Concentration in Teaching Language & Writing.
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Whether you’re about to graduate and hit the job market or you want to get some experience in an internship, a well-developed portfolio is a valuable asset to help you stand out from the crowd when applying for jobs.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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