First-Year Writing – Page 2

March 17, 2014 depaulwrd

DePaul Students Published in The New York Times

Three students, enrolled in winter quarter WRD 104 sections taught by WRD instructor Justin Staley, recently had their letters to the editor published in The New York Times. Staley includes writing a letter to the editor as an assignment for his WRD 104 courses. Emily Mosher and Cecilia Metzdorff both responded to Daniel Jones’s article “Romance at Arm’s Length”, which examines the evolution of online relationships. Mosher is a freshman at DePaul majoring in Psychology. Metzdorff is also a freshman majoring in business.

June 21, 2013 depaulwrd

First-Year Writing Students Published in New York Times

It’s not every day a student gets to see their work printed in the New York Times, but Michael Moore’s WRD 104 students are at it again. During spring quarter Emily Daniel and Marisa Coulter both had their responses published in the Letter to the Editor section of the Times. Moore’s 104 students write letters according to the Times guidelines as part of their coursework.

January 29, 2013 depaulwrd

Seifert Inducted into the 25-Year Club

Twenty-five years, or a quarter of a century, that is the amount of time Eileen Seifert, WRD Associate Director of First-Year Writing, has dedicated to DePaul. Seifert and other new members of the 25-Year Club were recently recognized for their service by the Office of Mission and Values. Seifert started at DePaul as a part-time first-year writing teacher in 1985, before she began working full-time as an instructor in 1987.

January 22, 2013 depaulwrd

Moore’s Students Published in New York Times

In the winter and spring quarters of 2012, First-Year Writing students Maddie Jones and David Kummerer published their course assignments in the New York Times. As part of instructor Michael Moore’s WRD 104 class, students must write letters to the editor to learn how to write content for a non-academic audience—an audience Moore says consists of “smart, educated, skeptical, engaged readers.” Moore uses the Times’ own submission rules as the rubric for the assignment. These rules suggest submitters “write quickly, concisely and engagingly” and “respond in a timely way to a contemporary topic.”