写作和修辞课程与英语系和语言学系一起提供了一个学习课程，该课程可导致教学写作高级证书。证书课程是纽约州立大学批准的15个单元的研究生课程，旨在补充在修辞和作文，英语，读写能力研究，语言学或文化分析和理论方面的研究生工作。该证书还为那些已经在中学或大学阶段教授写作的人提供了进一步的职业发展和指导。学习有效地教授写作需要研究各个领域。我们的课程借鉴了心理语言学，社会语言学，认知心理学，语言习得研究，体裁理论，修辞理论，媒体研究和语言人类学的理论，研究和实践。
The Program in Writing and Rhetoric, in conjunction with the English Department and the Linguistics Department, offers a course of study that leads to the Advanced Certificate in Teaching Writing. The certificate program, a 15-unit graduate program approved by the State University of New York, is designed to complement graduate work in rhetoric and composition, English, literacy studies, linguistics, or cultural analysis and theory, to name a few examples. The certificate also provides further professional development and mentoring for those already teaching writing at the secondary or college levels. Learning to teach writing effectively requires study of a variety of fields. Our program draws on theories, research and practices from psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, cognitive psychology, language acquisition research, genre theory, rhetorical theory, media studies and linguistic anthropology.