Students with a bachelor's degree in any field are eligible to apply to the MA in WRD program. Applications also require the following materials, submitted through the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences:

A graduate application
Official transcript(s) from all previous schools attended
Statement of Purpose (approximately 500 words): In your Statement of Purpose, specifically discuss the academic and professional experiences that helped shape your decision to pursue graduate work in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse (WRD). Explain your educational and career objectives and how these relate to the MA in WRD program. Please examine our departmental website to familiarize yourself with our curriculum and our faculty's areas of expertise before you submit your application. One of our primary criteria for evaluating applicants is to make sure your interests are a good match with our department's strengths.
Current resume or CV
15 to 20 pages of your own written work. This writing sample may include academic writing or professional writing, one document or several. At the top of each document, provide several sentences that give context-including when the document was written and for what audience(s)-and that explain what the sample demonstrates about your academic or professional writing.
Two letters of recommendation, which speak to your academic and professional abilities.

Students may demonstrate proficiency in one of the following ways:

An official TOEFL score report: the minimum TOEFL requirements are: 96 (Internet version), 243 (computer version), or 590 (paper version)
An official IELTS score report: 7.5 or higher, GPA - 2.5