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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).
  • 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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    Writers Workshop Spotlight Article Published by LAS

    The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has published a spotlight article about the Writers Workshop detailing how the staff and consultants have continued to provide support services through the pandemic. 

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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).
    People

    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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  • CWS Fall 2021 Recap
    CWS Fall 2021 Recap CWS had a busy semester this fall! Here are some updates and announcements about what CWS folks were up to this semester:   Graduate Research Forum Talks: CWS graduate students are required to deliver GRF talks, longer-form talks based upon...
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  • CWS Spring 2021 Semester Wrap-up
    CWS Spring 2021 Recap CWS had another busy virtual semester this spring! Here’s an overview of what all we got up to this past semester.   Graduate Research Forum Talks: CWS graduate students are required to deliver GRF talks, longer-form talks based upon...
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  • Congratulations to CWS Graduate Student Niki Turnipseed!
    The Center for Writing Studies would like to congratulate Niki Turnipseed (English PhD candidate) on the publication of the...
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608 S. Wright St.
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