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[In college] we had a notion that engineers had to know how to use slide rules or calculators or computers but not how to write.  And that is the biggest falsehood you could possibly perpetrate on young people.  I think writing and rhetoric--public speaking--are the two most valuable skills across any discipline in any field.

John Hennessy
How I Write, April 13, 2004

 

 

PWR in the News & in the Community

Events

Happy Valley Elementary School Opens New Writing Center

By Andrea Lunsford, Clyde Moneyhun, & Marvin Diogenes

Just one year ago, in January 2009, we drove to Happy Valley Elementary School, near Santa Cruz, to visit with Principal Chris McGriff and several teachers.   After receiving a generous gift from Stanford alumnus Bill Codiga (whose four grandchildren have attended that elementary school), the Happy Valley group thought long and hard about how best to use it, eventually settling on the idea of a writing center for their 130 K-6 students.  And that’s where we came in:  we shared information about the Hume Writing Center, played our writing center video, and talked about writing centers as the creative hub of any school.  (Continue reading this article)

 

The New Literacy: Stanford study finds richness and complexity in students' writing. Stanford Report, October 12, 2009.  

Today's kids don't just write for grades anymore.  They write to shake the world.  Moreover, they are writing more than any previous generation, ever, in history.  (Continue reading this article)

Spring PWR Courses to be Showcased at February 18 Open House

The next PWR Open House will be held Thursday, February 18th from 7:00pm-8:30pm in Wallenberg Hall.  Students are invited to come and talk one-on-one with PWR instructors about their courses and assignments.  (Continue reading this article)

 

 

 

Gwyneth Lewis to Visit How I Write on March 8th at 7pm

The How I Write interview series will begin 2010 with a session featuring poet and non-fiction author Gwyneth Lewis.  The event will take place on Monday, March 8th, at 7pm in the Stanford Humanities Center. 

Gwyneth Lewis is currently an Arts Practitioner/Writer fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. (Continue reading this article)

 
Projects and Research Spotlight on Teaching

Picture of students video conferencing with other students in AustraliaCross Cultural Rhetoric Project Connections

PWR classes involved with the Cross-Cultural Rhetoric project connect with students across five continents through live video-conferences and blogging activities. (Continue reading this article)

PWR 2 Course Puts Spotlight on Stanford Faculty

A new PWR 2 course focused on the art of dialogue has students researching the work of Stanford professors and then using this research to interview professors about their work. Students' recorded dialogues with professors and the oral presentations they developed out of these interviews will be available on Stanford iTunes in Autumn 2009. (Continue reading this article)

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