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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr. Janine Butler earned her B.A. in English with a concentration in Language, Writing, and Rhetoric as well as a minor in Philosophy from the University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her M.A.

“Regeneration is mindfulness of the creativity of which we are a part.” –Vandana Shiva, 2022 Slow Seed Summit [We need] to break our habit of over-simplifying the world. The series of global crises ...

Content below is provided by SLU Academic Catalog. Assists in the development of the basics of written expression and reading, including grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, thesis formulation, ...