Even if you aren’t sure what “semiotics” is, you encounter it on a daily basis. Put plainly, semiotics is the study of signs or symbols and how we interpret them. Take, for example, how you use emojis in your texts to convey a certain meaning. That is a use of semiotics because you are relying on that emoji to give context to whoever you’re talking to. If studying that sounds interesting to you, you should consider taking Professor Pete Vandenberg’s WRD 513: Semiotics this spring. Not only will you learn about using semiotics in a disciplinary sense, but you’ll also
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Course Spotlight: WRD 550 Critical Writing Pedagogy: Disability, Race, and Institutional Change
Hear from Erin Workman on WRD 550 and see what Critical Writing Pedagogy is all about.
Continue readingCourse Spotlight: WRD 371 Mentoring Youth in Community Writing Groups
Take an early look at WRD 371 to be offered in Spring!
Continue readingEvent Preview: Writing and Rhetoric Across Borders with Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke
This Winter Quarter the Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse department is offering a particularly special guest speaker in our Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders series. Dr. Caroline Gottschalk Druschke is joining us from the University of Wisconsin-Madison to share her work in oral history. Her presentation “Living Well with Floods: Reciprocity, Research, and Refusal in Wisconsin’s Hill Country” gives a glimpse into stories she’s collected around dealing with ever-increasing floods and the mutual aid that takes place after disaster strikes. Dr. Gottschalk Druschke is well-versed in ecological and water-based rhetoric as they have been focuses of hers for years. In fact,
Continue readingMA Course Recap: WRD 505 Contemporary Rhetorics
Read about WRD 505 to see if it interests you for the future!
Continue readingInvestigating the Rhetoric of Crime Reporting
Learn about the profession of Crime Reporting from Amanda’s former colleague, George Hesselberg.
Continue readingEvent Recap: Writing and Rhetoric Across Boarders Speaker Series with Dr. Aja Y. Martinez
Read about the October 2021 Speaker Series event with Dr. Aja Martinez.
Continue readingFaculty Spotlight: Michael Gallaway
For this faculty spotlight, we’ve given time to new instructor Dr. Michael Gallaway, a scholar with interests in medical rhetorics, discursive ecologies and oppression rhetorics.
Continue readingWriting for your Portfolio: Kairos as 9 Points of Articulation
Here are some further reflection tactics to consider for the Final and Mid-program portfolio.
Continue readingStudent Spotlight: Isabel Cueto Publishes in Creating Knowledge
We interviewed Isabel Cueto recently about her publication In DePaul’s undergraduate journal Creating Knowledge.
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