Special Projects
On this page:
- Community Writing Project
- Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project
- How I Write
- Stanford Undergraduate Sustainability Scholars
- Storytelling Project
- Voices of Champions
Community Writing Project
Carolyn Ross, Coordinator
The Community Writing Project is one of the oldest national service-learning programs in writing and rhetoric. CWP students research and produce written, spoken, visual and / or multimedia projects that directly benefit area nonprofit or governmental agencies with which they work. The project gives students opportunities to work outside an academic setting in rhetorical situations of practical consequence. Ultimately their work will reach audiences beyond their teachers and serve tangible purposes for community audiences and for the students themselves.
Read more on the CWP page of Stanford's Undergraduate Academic Life website
Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project
Alyssa O'Brien, Director
Christine Alfano, Technology Specialist
The Cross-Cultural Rhetoric Project connects students in PWR classes to real audiences at partner institutions across the globe. Through real-time video conferencing and blogging, students present their research, receive feedback on their writing and speeches, and learn about others. They learn core writing, communication, and rhetoric skills, such as attention to the rhetorical concepts of audience, context, medium, message, and argument as well as concrete strategies for writing, speaking, active listening, peer review response, and collaboration across a range of cultural and university settings.
Read more on the Cross-Cultural Project's website.
How I Write
Hilton Obenzinger, Director
"How I Write" is a series of conversations with faculty and other advanced writers to explore the nuts and bolts, pleasures and pains, of all types of writing. The conversation focuses on work styles, such as where, when, and how a writer composes, allowing us to examine habits, idiosyncrasies, techniques, trade secrets, hidden anxieties, and delights. Now sponsored by Stanford Continuing Studies.
Read more at http://howiwrite.stanford.edu.
Stanford Undergraduate Sustainability Scholars
Mark Feldman and Kimberly Moekle, Directors
Stanford Undergraduate Sustainability Scholars provides funding for two undergraduates each academic year to carry out ambitious writing projects that explore issues of sustainability and the environment as related to the Stanford campus. The writing project is defined openly; it may be fiction or nonfiction, poetry or prose, journalistic or academic.
Read the SUSS Blog.
Read more on the Stanford Undergraduate Sustainability Scholars website.
Stanford Storytelling Project
Jonah Willinghanz, Director
Lee Konstantinou, Managing Director
The Storytelling Project brings you the most inspiring and mind-expanding stories being told by Stanford faculty, students, fellows, and staff. It also promotes and examines the craft of storytelling, especially oral storytelling, bringing you interviews, columns, and live events devoted to deepening our understanding of what makes great storytelling great.
Read more on the Stanford Storytelling Project's website.
Voices of Champions
Kelly Myers
Scholar-athletes, those rare and exceptional individuals who combine a thirst for knowledge with a passion for sport, offer a unique perspective on these dual worlds. The Voices of Champions project showcases Stanford scholar-athlete writers and artists through first-person written narratives, profile pieces, artistic performances and multi-media productions. These works provide an up-close glimpse at the scholar-athlete experience.
Read more at champions.stanford.edu.
