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, ...

Writing as a system of signs : Ways of communicating ideas ; Definition of writing ; Sources of information ; Study of writing -- Forerunners of writing : Primitive drawings ; ...

Much research suggests that more writing is associated with more learning, and that’s given more credence to the Writing Across the Curriculum movement, which promotes the importance of writing ...

As another school year returns, large language models (LLMs) present difficult questions around learning, thinking, plagiarism and authorship for educators. As an assistant professor of English whose ...

You realize that there is a power in writing—We’ll help you harness that power as you prepare for your career. When you study rhetoric and writing, you’ll discover how to effect change, create meaning ...

Rhetoric is a foundation of the humanities focused on understanding the practices of human communication. Rhetoric’s interests span from the earliest acts of speech to emerging modes of digital ...