The prize honors Professor Emerita Dr. Bernadine P. Carlson, who joined Western Michigan University’s Department of English in 1953. During her thirty-three-year tenure at Western Michigan University, ...

The rhetoric and writing program in the Department of English at Western Michigan University is eager to share news on publications, awards and more. The essay—"License to Joke: Parody and Camp in and ...

The Thompson Writing Program’s writing and rhetoric minor is set to debut in the fall. Approved by the Arts & Sciences Council in February, the new minor “provides in-depth inquiry and practice in the ...

We are living in a contentious time in history. Fundamental disagreements on critical policy, economic, and political issues make it essential to learn how to compose an effectiveargument and to ...

Back in December, President-elect Donald Trump declared he’d achieved “a massive landslide victory.” Fact checkers at The Associated Press, PolitiFact, CNN and others were quick to point out his ...

I love names that begin with the letter Q, and this essay includes two of them: the British man-of-letters Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and the Roman rhetorician (c. 35 – 100 AD) Marcus Fabius ...

Assists in the development of the basics of written expression and reading, including grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, thesis formulation, complexities of expository works. Pass/No Pass only ...

The WPE minor is designed to help students hone the rhetorical arts of persuasive writing and public engagement. Through a variety of courses offered through PWR and English, students will find ...

To donate to the PWR, please make sure to enter or select the "Program for Writing and Rhetoric Fund" on the CU Boulder donation page. This section of WRTG 3040 examines the politics of popular ...

Their most eloquent writing and preaching grew from a practical desire to communicate truth. Conversion is central to the Christian faith. From Jesus’ words to Nicodemus in John 3:3 telling him that ...