写作，修辞和话语（WRD）计划致力于研究跨时间和文化的文盲活动，并在从个人到专业人士的当代环境中产生有效的写作。由于我们的生活越来越受到在互动空间中结合书写，声音和图像的数字技术的调节，因此，作为WRD主修，您将探索作为数字作家生活和工作的意义。教职员工是修辞学，写作研究，英语作为第二语言（ESL），技术和专业写作以及新媒体研究方面的已发表专家。书面思想的发展和表达是通识教育的基础，也是更广泛的当代民主文化的基础。在政府，教育和各种职业中，我们通过写作来确定我们的价值观，定义适当行为规范并追求目标。我们的
The Writing, Rhetoric and Discourse (WRD) program is dedicated to studying literate activity across time and culture, and producing effective writing in contemporary settings from the personal to the professional. Because our lives are increasingly mediated by digital technologies that combine writing, sound and image in interactive spaces, as a WRD major you will explore what it means to live and work as a digital writer. Faculty members are published specialists in rhetoric, writing studies, English as a second language (ESL), technical and professional writing, and new media studies. The development and expression of ideas in writing is the foundation of a liberal education, and more broadly, contemporary democratic culture. In government, education, and all manner of professions, it is through writing that we determine our values, define norms of appropriate behavior, and pursue our goals. Our lives are increasingly mediated by digital technologies that use writing to organize sound and image in interactive spaces like the World Wide Web, and through text messaging and email, individual identity and interpersonal relationships are progressively bound up with writing.