研究生在写作和修辞方面的专长为学生提供了对文本制作的学术和专业实践的深入研究和经验。专心致志的写作引起了人们对跨相关表示形式的意义实践的研究的关注，包括语言，视觉，听觉，字母数字，空间和多模式系统。专注于修辞学，是在社会背景下以及针对特定受众的文本生产和使用研究。在一起，集中力强调文本生产的研究和实践，这些文本生产是人类行为的组成部分，并位于人类行为的各个领域：社区，工作场所，学校，家庭和文化机构–尤其是我们学生生活和工作的当地环境。
The graduate concentration in Writing and Rhetoric provides students with advanced study of, and experience in, academic and professional practices of textual production. The concentration's focus on writing draws attention to the study of meaning-making practices across relevant forms of representation – including linguistic, visual, aural, alphanumeric, spatial, and multimodal systems. The concentration's focus on rhetoric grounds the study of textual production and use within social contexts and for particular audiences. Together, the concentration emphasizes the study and practice of textual production as constitutive of and situated in various domains of human action: communities, workplaces, schools, homes, and cultural institutions – and especially those local contexts in which our students live and work.