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    Center for Writing Studies

    CWS is an interdisciplinary academic unit at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that facilitates research and graduate study in written composition, language, communication, literacy, and rhetoric.

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  • Four white people stand side by side against a cover slide for a dissertation defense; the slide reads "The Divergent Archive and Androcentric Counterpublics: Public Rhetorics, Memory, and Archives." One of the people present is a PhD candidate who just defended his work; the other three are professors (a man with grey hair, a beard, sweater, and glasses; a woman wearing a blouse; and a man wearing a white dress shirt).
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    Our faculty, graduate students, and alumni are nationally renowned leaders in the field of writing studies. 

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  • A triptych of three CWS flyers. The first is for an event titled "The Next 20 Years" and features a hexagonal geometric design against a blue background. The second is for a symposium event called "Race, Translanguaging, and Language Ideologies Across the Lifespan" and appears with an abstract orange / blue paint-style background. The third flyer is for a brownbag titled "Women and Dictionary Making: Gender, Genre, and English Language Lexicography." Features an image of a 19th-century woman / black BG.
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    CWS hosts a wide range of symposia, brownbag events, and graduate student talks.

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  • Virtual Workshop with Dr. Cheryl Geisler on "Coding Language Reliably"
    The Center for Writing Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Cheryl Geisler will be offering a virtual workshop open to graduate students and faculty on “Coding Language Reliably.” This event will take place on ...
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  • Graduate Research Forum: Allison Kranek and Paul Beilstein (3/5)
    CWS grads Allison Kranek and Paul Beilstein will be presenting their Graduate Research Forum (GRF) talks, on Friday, March 5th, at 1:00pm CST. Each presenter will deliver an individual 30-35-minute talk, after which we'll have 20 or so minutes for Q&A. As a reminder, CWS GRF talks are prepared...
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  • CWS Fall 2020: End-of-Semester Recap
    Here's a rundown of what the Center for Writing Studies has been up to this past fall term. Even as CWS made the jump to online events and community-building this semester, we’re very glad to turn the page on what’s been a challenging term—programming-wise and beyond. Here’s a rundown of what we’...
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College of Liberal Arts & Sciences

288 English Building
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL  61801

Phone: 217-333-3251
Fax: 217-333-4321
Comments or questions, please email cws-programs@illinois.edu

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