Rhetoric and Writing Studies
The Rhetoric and Writing Studies program prepares students and teacher-scholars for active, engaged, and socially responsible citizenship in our twenty-first century democracy. We interrogate the means, methods, and practices of textual production in public/private, print/digital, and traditional/multimodal writing spaces. This program is committed to teaching practices which foster approaches to rhetorical citizenship that may guide ethical democratic deliberation and decision-making. Through the courses, training, and professional development our program offers, students and teachers utilize their rhetorical training to:
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Effectively identify, analyze, and discuss the credibility of information in a variety of modes, platforms, and genres.
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Apply their knowledge of writing in a wide variety of settings, including university, workplace, personal, and political.
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Produce writing that is rhetorically sensitive and effective with respect to considerations of audience, purpose, situation, and time.
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Identify, analyze, and evaluate how institutions foster inequity and injustice.
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Promote the values of justice, access and inclusion in keeping with our university’s land-grant mission.
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Faculty
An Cheng, Professor. Dr. Cheng's areas of interest include the genre-based framework for teaching and learning research and professional writing, writing for research and publication purposes, and qualitative research.
Reva Sias, Associate Professor.