News & Events Archive

This archive contains items from 2011 to the current date. You may also view archived items prior to 2011.

Taking on the NCAA

PWR Student Gerald Higginbotham turns a skeptical eye on the NCAA and publishes his essay challenging the exploitation of student athletes. Read more.

Undergraduate Research

The new issue of the journal Kairos focuses on undergraduate research and includes a short film, "Anatomy of an Article," featuring PWR's own Patti Hanlon-Baker. Read more.

New! Resources for Writers

A new section of the PWR website offers grammar help, information on citation and documentation in academic work, and resources for research in writing and rhetoric.

Digital Media Consulting

The Hume Writing Center now offers support for digital media projects. Make your Prezi or podcast stronger; make your YouTube video stand out. Visit http://hwc.stanford.edu to learn more.

Speaking about Art

In “Speaking About Art: Narrating the Cantor’s Collections,” Mark Feldman's PWR 2 class, students research some aspect of the museum’s permanent collections and create an audio walking tour. The tours are recorded and produced as podcasts and mp3s. Selected student projects are available through the Cantor Center’s website.

PWR Welcomes Andy Fickman

The Program in Writing and Rhetoric, together with Film and Media Studies and the Department of Drama, welcomes the award-winning director, writer, and producer Andy Fickman to the Stanford campus on Tuesday, May 10th at 7 p.m. in Building 200, room 002. Read more.

Virtual Admit Weekend

The Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project, the Department of Admissions, and the PWR Undergraduate Advisory Board team up to help international students "visit" campus via videoconference. Read the full story at the Stanford Daily.

The Composition Blues Band

The Stanford Storytelling Project visits the Composition Blues Band, a rotating cast of musical rhetoricians gathered around Clyde Moneyhun's guitar licks and the vocal stylings of Marvin Diogenes. The CBB nurtured some of the leading figures in our field and has been the centerpiece of CCCC "Humor Night" since the time of Aristotle.

Listen to the story at the Stanford Storytelling Project.

PWR @ CCCC

The annual Conference on College Composition and Communication takes place in Atlanta, April 6-9. A large contingent of PWR instructors are attending.  Read more.

PWR 1 Students Visit Alcatraz

Students in Katherine Baxter's PWR 1 course, "Authentic Experience: The Rhetoric of Tourism," visited one of Northern California's most notorious tourist sites: Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. Read more.

New Spring Course Offering! The Art of the Sports Narrative (PWR 91)

In Spring Quarter 2011, Kelly Myers will teach a new PWR 91 course, "The Art of the Sports Narrative." The course is a collaboration with the Athletic Department's Home of Champions campaign, which seeks to showcase Stanford's student-athlete heritage through storytelling. Open to all students; PWR1 and PWR2 are prerequisites. Read more.

Sustainability Research & PWR

Stanford Undergraduate Sustainability Scholars (SUSS) focuses on exploring effective ways of communicating issues pertaining to sustainability and the Stanford campus. Read more.

How I Write with Nancy Packer

The “How I Write” series will feature accomplished author Nancy Packer in conversation with Hilton Obenzinger, Thursday, February 3rd, at 7:30 pm in 113 Pigott Hall. Read more.

Kevin DiPirro at the PWR Instructor Colloquium Series

The November 2010 edition of the PWR Colloquium Series featured Kevin DiPirro, describing the development process of his forthcoming interactive online article "Revising/Devising Student-Centered Pedagogies/Performances." Read more.

PWR Seeks Lecturers

The Program in Writing & Rhetoric (PWR) seeks a number of highly qualified lecturers to develop and teach intensive first and second-year writing courses. Apply by January 28, 2011. Read more.

Kelly Myers at the PWR Instructor Colloquium Series

The October 2010 edition of the PWR Colloquium Series featured Kelly Myers speaking on "Kairos and Metanoia." Her talk was a version of a paper presented in Minneapolis earlier in the year at the conference of the Rhetoric Society of America. Read more.

PWR Wordle

This Wordle was created using the dozen or so Fall 2010 PWR syllabi posted on CourseWork. It’s a curious map of what we value… or at least of the words we repeat. Read more.