The University of Rhode Island Department of Writing & Rhetoric

09/23/2013

We are hiring an assistant professor this year! Here's the complete job posting: https://jobs.uri.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=147810

Writing & Rhetoric is part of the Harrington School of Communication and Media. Check it out: http://harrington.uri.edu

05/19/2013

Congratulations to all the W&R students graduating today! We are so proud of you!

05/07/2013

Please join us tomorrow from 5pm - 7pm on the 4th floor of Lippitt Hall for WRT 495 e-portfolio presentations, an awards ceremony, and refreshments.

04/17/2013

Please join us today at 5pm in the Hoffman Room, Swan 154, for PhD Candidate Jen Lee's talk: A Rhetoric of Science among Experientially Self-Trained Hobbyists.

04/16/2013

Attention Writing & Rhetoric majors! Interested in working in the W&R Production Lab? We are now hiring lab monitors for the 2013-14 school year. Contact Joannah Portman-Daley ([email protected]) for details.

04/10/2013

Don't miss the URI Graduate Student Conference this Saturday in Swan Hall!

On Saturday, April 13, 2013, students from the Graduate Program of English and Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Rhode Island will host the seventh annual URI Graduate Conference. This year’s conference title, Talking Beyond Disciplines: Rising Tides and Sea Changes, speaks to a broad range…

03/20/2013

The Technology Symposium is about to start! Stop by the Memorial Union Ballroom anytime between 11 - 2 and check it out. Lots of cool ideas for how you can use technology in teaching, research, and administration...

Drop in any time between 11 and 2, it’s free, to see how URI faculty and staff, are using technology tools in teaching, research and administration. Visit our tables, or listen to a short presentation, at the upcoming URI Technology Symposium in the Memorial Union Ballroom on Wednesday, March 20, 20...

02/18/2013

Interested in how digital media can enhance your learning and/or teaching? Don't miss the Digital Engagement Workshop on Wednesday. Free admission for URI students!

Special program for librarians, K-12 and college educators in New EnglandApril 14, 2013 Join us on February 20 from 3 - 7 p.m. in Providence to learn something new about digital media and learning while "speed dating" and making new

02/10/2013

All classes at all campuses are cancelled on Monday.

The University of Rhode Island

02/08/2013

Classes cancelled for tomorrow. Stay safe and warm this weekend!

02/01/2013

The deadline to submit to the 2013 FemRhet conference is tomorrow!

01/26/2013

Attention, undergraduates!

WRT is offering a new course this semester. It starts on Tuesday. There are still a few spots left, so register now!

WRT 391.02
Project Based Learning: Rhode Island Library Report
Instructor: Frank Romanelli
Meets Tuesdays from 3:30 – 6:15 in White Hall 202

In this course, students will work with Brian Jones, former Providence Journal reporter who is building an online community for RI libraries and the people who use them.

Students will conduct interviews and compose written profiles; redesign the website; gather information and recommend a strategy for developing a news aggregation
service; participate in planning and assist with grant writing; create short video and/or podcast; and construct a social media strategy for promoting the site.