The Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition houses an engaged faculty committed to student and lifelong learning. They and their students work toward writing expertise within the Core curriculum as well as the minor and core concentration in Professional and Public Writing.
Areas of Expertise: Rhetorical Theory; Professional Writing; Computers and Writing
Areas of Expertise: First-year composition, Pedagogy, Public Rhetoric, Critical Discourse Analysis, American Literature, Western philosophy
Areas of Expertise: Professional and Technical Writing, Writing in the Disciplines, Writing across the Curriculum, First-Year Writing
Areas of Expertise: writing across difference, writing in STEM, equity-minded teaching and assessment, public rhetoric, and community-based research and writing
Areas of Expertise: Composition Theory; Writing Program Administration; Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Areas of Expertise: Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Multimodal Writing, Feminist Rhetorics
Areas of Expertise: Professional writing, including technical and legal writing; writing and political theory; state constitutional and legal history.
