The Department of Writing Studies

13/02/2019

Don Watson, Mark Tredinnick, David Murray, Lucinda Holdforth, and Lucinda, David and Benjamine with Dain Dunston.

13/02/2019

The Department of Writing Studies at the Professional Speechwriters Association's 2019 Asia Pacific Conference, held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney. With Drs Frances Di Lauro, Lucinda Holdforth and Jessica Sun, Thomas Paech, and PSA's David Murray, Benjamine Knight.

13/02/2019

Don Watson and Benedetta Brevini in conversation at the Department of Writing Studies' Sydney Ideas event "Truth, bullsh*t and weasel words: How post-truth politics is wrecking public discourse"

21/12/2018

The Department of Writing Studies congratulates Nikola Markovina whose excellent teaching was rewarded with a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences 2018 Teaching Excellence Award at a ceremony held in MacLaurin Hall. These awards recognise excellence of teaching staff at all career levels. The program promotes reflective teaching practices and supports innovative teaching development.

03/09/2018

11/08/2018

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/03/top-10-writers-tips-on-writing

Made a New Year resolution to start writing that novel? Take some writing tips from Leo Tolstoy, Muriel Spark, John Steinbeck and other famous authors

11/08/2018

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-09/writing-tips-from-john-mcphee-and-four-aussie-authors/9404296

Stop fretting, start writing and keep the bear: New Yorker veteran and writing teacher John McPhee shares his favourite writing tips.

24/05/2018

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Have you ever traveled to England, been offered a fairycake, and not known how to respond? Have you ever had to explain the difference between a sleeping policeman and a speed bump to a visiting Brit? Are you sure you know the difference between a chip and a crisp? (Transatlantic English) is a pract...

24/05/2018

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/what-is-rhetoric-9780199691821?cc=gb&lang=en

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate issues or simply discuss questions. Rhetoric is the way in which we answer questions in an interpersonal context, when we want to have an effect on those with whom we are communicating. T...

23/05/2018

Join us at 3pm in the Rogers Room, John Woolley Building, on 24 May 2018 for a presentation by Dr Bonnie Devet, visiting professor of English at the College of Charleston (South Carolina).

Transfer of Learning for Teachers and Tutors of Academic Writing
Transfer of Learning (usually defined as taking something learned in one context and applying it to another) is vital to discipline-specific writing. This presentation provides insight into how students adapt what they know about writing to new contexts, thus helping teachers and tutors of academic writing enhance students’ acquisition of academic skills.

Dr Bonnie Devet directs the Writing Lab and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in grammar, technical writing, freshman composition, advanced composition, the theory and practice of writing centers, and the teaching of composition. She has delivered numerous conference presentations at CCCC, MLA, IWCA, EATAW (European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing), and EWCA (European Writing Center Association). She has also published widely in CCC, WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, WCJ, Composition Forum, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Journal of Teaching Writing, Journal of Academic Writing (EATAW), and several edited collections. Along with co-writers Margo Blythman, Susan Orr, and Celia Bishop, she received IWCA’s “Outstanding Article of the Year”; she is currently guest-editing (with Dana Driscoll of IUP) a special issue and a monograph for WLN, focusing on transfer.

23/05/2018

23/11/2017

http://sydney.edu.au/arts/writing_studies/about/events.shtml?id=10112

The little Rosalia Lombardo has been sleeping since 6 November 1920. When approaching her little co**se at the Capuchin catacombs, one does so silently, not out of religiosity, but of the maternalism with which one approaches an infant who’s asleep in a cot: looking lovingly at her while taking care...