With the Winter Quarter past us, we looked back at the community work done by students in WRD 542 Urban Literacies and shared their experiences.
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Creating a Teaching Portfolio
This week, we will be sharing resources about teaching portfolios, and be sure to check in next week for information about portfolios for professional and digital writing.
Continue readingAllie Gourley & Alex Nunes on Teaching in China
As part of the Teaching in China program, WRD has been sending TESOL graduates to teach classes at Huaqiao University since 2014. Alumni Allie Gourley & Alex Nunes talk about their experience with the opportunity and what it meant to them.
Continue readingSpeaker Series Recap: Kristin Bivens
We got the chance to catch up with Dr. Bivens 1:1 following her workshop and speech to give readers a little more insight into her practices not only as medical rhetorician, but as a researcher, an instructor, and a writer.
Continue readingDr. Kristin Bivens to Visit January 22
For the Winter Quarter’s Writing & Rhetoric Across Borders Speaker Series, the WRD department has invited Dr. Kristen Bivins to speak on Wednesday, January 22.
Continue readingTAP 2019 Recap: What the Students Think
As the Autumn Quarter comes to an end, so does the Teaching Apprenticeship Program (TAP). We caught up with some of the current TAP students to ask what TAP has meant to them and what they have learned about teaching.
Continue readingJob Listings: Teaching Writing
Looking for job opportunities in and around Chicago in teaching writing? Students in the MA in WRD program might be interested in the current, local listings below. For professional writing listings, check out this post!
Continue readingCourse Spotlight: WRD 540, Teaching Writing
WRD 540 Teaching Writing is a graduate course under the Teaching Writing & Language concentration. Taught by Dr. Erin Workman, this course introduces students to current pedagogy of teaching writing. Students are expected to walk away with both a theoretical and practical understanding, knowing what is involved in managing a writing course underlined by a personal teaching. philosophy.
Continue readingCourse 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.
Continue readingTodd Ruecker Recap: Working With Multilingual Writers
Recently the WRD department welcomed speaker Todd Ruecker to discuss his research on working with multilingual writers in the composition classroom. Ruecker is an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at New Mexico University and author of Transiciones: Pathways of Latinas and Latinos Writing in High School and College, an ethnography focusing on the writing practices of several Latino students as they transition from high school to college. Ruecker’s research focuses on the increasing diversity of the writing classroom and the role institutions and instructors play in making classrooms more engaging and successful environments for multilingual writers.
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