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Job Sleuth: Grant & Proposal Writing

When students decide to pursue a career in professional writing, grant writing might not immediately come to mind. However, knowing how to write grants and proposals is an important work skill even if you have no intention of pursuing that industry. That’s why Professor Lisa Dush’s WRD 526 Grant and Proposal Writing class for graduate students is popular year after year. Students from other departments flock to it too–not just the WRD folks.  So we asked Professor Dush to tell us a bit more about her class and how the skills you learn in WRD 526 can help prepare you

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Job Sleuth: Sports Writing

Among the classes in DePaul’s WRD program, there are several you would probably find clones of in other similar programs around the country. But in pursuit of a professional writing career through the program a class like Professor Justin Staley’s WRD 284: Sports Writing in America: Myths, Memories, Heroes and Villains, you’re bound to learn a variety of skills that will help in a variety of writing work capacities. Just because the class is about sports writing doesn’t mean you necessarily have to take that professional route after graduation. It’s also possible you’ll fall in love with the topic and

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