Arden Bastia ’20 double majored in English and writing & rhetoric. She now works as a journalist with Beacon Communications and is enrolled in a graduate program at Northeastern University for journalism with a focus in media innovation.
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We are thrilled to welcome our new Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Leah Heilig. Her research interests focus on technical communication, disability studies, and accessibility/accessible design. “I’m interested in how communication design can be used to promote equity and access to a variety of people and technologies,” she says.
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English and Writing & Rhetoric
“I’ve always felt encouraged and supported by the professors and faculty, and have found myself branching out in ways I never would have imagined.”
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French, Political Science, and Writing & Rhetoric
“URI has opened doors to a wealth of exciting learning opportunities, both at home and abroad.”
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The Department of Writing & Rhetoric hosted an inclusion workshop for their faculty and staff. The workshop is designed to assist faculty in creating more inclusive and equitable learning environments.
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Driven by a fine-tuned affinity for the written word, Caelan Ernest fell in love with URI’s Writing and Rhetoric major through the curriculum’s commitment to academic writing.
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“URI is fruitful ground for making something of your own interest,” Nate Vaccaro ’19 says.
Continue reading "“Fruitful Ground”: Nate Vaccaro ’19, on How URI Runs in Their Blood"This year, several Arts and Sciences students won prestigious, competitive national scholarships: the Boren, Truman, and Fulbright. Chase Hall ‘19, double major in Political Science and Chinese and minor in Theatre, was awarded $20,000 through a Boren Scholarship to subsidize the cost of the Chinese Flagship Capstone Year at Nanjing University. One of the most […]
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When Fulbright Scholarship winner Jenna Ziegelmayer ’18 heard Spanish for the first time, it was as if a spell had been cast.
Continue reading "Destination: Spain"Writing & Rhetoric professors at URI are rethinking how they teach some first-year composition classes to give students an opportunity to write in new ways that incorporate technology, personal experience and public awareness. In this semester’s classes, students are offered a variety of projects, including opportunities to join citizen science projects and write about them for the public; to consider their out-of-school writing practices—such as on social media—inside the classroom; to identify fake news, fact-check those items and then write accurate accounts; and to raise awareness and create change on social justice issues they are passionate about.
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