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)
Clive Thompson on the New Literacy. Wired Magazine, August 24, 2009.
As the school year begins, be ready to hear pundits fretting once again about how kids today can't write -- and technology is to blame. . . . An age of illiteracy is at hand, right? Andrea Lunsford isn't so sure. (Continue reading this article)
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 Journalist Taubman to Visit How I Write on November 11
Continuing into its seventh year, the How I Write interview series will begin the 2009-2010 school year welcoming veteran journalist Philip Taubman to the Hume Writing Center on November 11 at 7 p.m.
Philip Taubman is the author of Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America's Space Espionage. (Continue reading this article)
PWR Celebrates National Day on Writing
PWR celebrated the National Day on Writing in the Hume Writing Center this past October 20 with food and readings. (Continue reading this article) |
 Cross 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)
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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) |
