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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If politics is your topic of interest, it’s plausible that you have come across two different politicians who have interpreted certain information in completely opposite ways. The same goes for ...

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 ...

Argument writing is challenging for elementary students. Previous experimental research has focused on scaffolding rhetorical goals, leaving content goals relatively unexplored. In a randomized ...

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 ...

The Writing Program at ESF is a space where artistic and humanistic insights can find creative ways to address our ecological crisis. The Environmental Writing minor creates a path to develop the ...