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  • A picture of the book "Speaking Back: Student Voices from Writing and Tutoring Across Cultures"
    April 6, 2026
    Speaking Back: Student Voices from Writing and Tutoring Across Cultures
  • Cover for Sensory Rhetorics by Steph Ceraso and Jonathan W. Stone
    April 3, 2026
    Steph Ceraso coedited a volume entitled Sensory Rhetorics: Sensation, Persuasion, and the Politics of Feeling (Penn State University Press, 2026)
  • Gosnell Prize Finalists Announced
    February 9, 2025
    Courses offered for Spring 2025
  • Professors Steve Parks and Kevin Smith
    January 30, 2022
    Professors Steve Parks and Kevin Smith honored by CCCC as research collective on “Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy—What We Know, What We Need to Know”
  • Professors Steph Ceraso and Kate Stephenson
    January 17, 2022
    Professors Steph Ceraso (episode 84) and Kate Stephenson (episode 96) interviewed for “Pedagogue” podcast
  • Professor Kevin Smith et al awarded LTI grant
    May 9, 2021
    Professor Kevin Smith et al awarded LTI grant
  • From left, Kirsten Gelsdorf, Victor Luftig, John Holbein, Talitha LeFlouria and Kate Stephenson won this year’s Faculty Public Service Awards.
    May 7, 2021
    Victor Luftig and Kate Stephenson win Public Service awards
  • David Coyoca
    August 1, 2020
    New Writing Faculty Fall 2020
  • Nearly 50 Students Present at Fall Community Writing Symposium
    December 3, 2019
    Nearly 50 Students Present at Fall Community Writing Symposium
  • The Writing & Rhetoric Program welcomes Heidi Nobles and Cheryl Pallan
    September 2, 2019
    New Writing Faculty fall 2019
  • Professor Kevin Smith et al awarded LTI grant
    August 14, 2018
    New Writing Faculty
  • New Advanced Writing Courses for Fall '18
    March 27, 2018
    New Advanced Writing Courses for Fall '18
  • Professor Kevin Smith et al awarded LTI grant
    September 14, 2017
    “Electronic Portfolios in Writing Pedagogy: Process and Product”
  • 2017 Gosnell Prize Announced
    May 1, 2017
    2017 Gosnell Prize Announced
  • Three Ways of Electronic Portfolios
    April 3, 2017
    Three Ways of Electronic Portfolios
  • Please join us Friday, April 21st at 4pm in the Faculty Lounge.  Kate Stephenson, Cory Shaman, and Keith Driver will be talking about the questions, difficulties, and advantages of connecting writing courses to the community outside the classroom.
    April 3, 2017
    Pedagogy Panel: Connecting Writing Courses to the Community Beyond the Classroom
  • Professor Kevin Smith et al awarded LTI grant
    March 1, 2017
    Personal Statement Workshop
  • Gosnell Prize Finalists Announced
    February 15, 2017
    Gosnell Prize Finalists Announced
  • Professor Kevin Smith et al awarded LTI grant
    August 18, 2016
    Welcome New Writing Program Faculty
  • Gosnell Prize Winner Selected
    May 20, 2016
    Gosnell Prize Winner Selected

Writing with Sound Speaker Series

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Community Partnerships

Internship and volunteer opportunities

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Gosnell Prize

The year's best first-year essay

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Community Writing Collaborative

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Student-Produced Digital Projects

(Coming soon)

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Forbes Seminar

Career-based Writing and Rhetoric

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