The Writing and Rhetoric Program teaches students to write effectively in academic, professional and community contexts. In our courses, students learn to read actively and reflectively, to think critically, to compose written texts with attention to specific rhetorical contexts and to understand these processes as interdependent activities.
Students learn to plan, draft, and revise with a specific purpose and audience in mind. Working both collaboratively and individually, students learn to write for both traditional print and digital audiences. In our multicultural context in Miami, our courses encourage students to draw on language diversity in their writing and research, with language and multilingualism often a focus of discussion and of course materials.
The Writing and Rhetoric Program serves over 4,000 students each semester, with courses in face-to-face, fully online and hybrid settings. The program offers:
- A strong writing foundation in first-year writing, including specific support for multilingual student writers
- Upper-division courses, including the Certificate in Professional and Public Writing, providing instruction in academic and professional writing in traditional, digital, and multimedia formats
- Graduate instruction including Grant-Writing, Alternative Rhetorics and Teaching Composition
Program Contacts
Writing Program Director
Faculty
Yasbel Acuna-Borrero
Assistant Teaching ProfessorJacqueline Kemper Amorim
Assistant Teaching ProfessorNicholas Jon Anderson
Assistant Teaching ProfessorKacee L. Belcher
Assistant Teaching ProfessorCynthia C. Chinelly
Teaching ProfessorMichael Creeden
Teaching Professor; Associate Chair, Department of EnglishVernon Guy Dickson
Associate ProfessorJason Lawrence Ehlen
Assistant Teaching ProfessorDarrel Elmore
Senior LecturerMing Fang
Associate Teaching ProfessorPaul Feigenbaum
Associate ProfessorAndrew P. Golden
Associate Teaching ProfessorJustin R. Grant
Assistant Teaching ProfessorChristine Gregory
Associate Teaching Professor; Director of the Digital Writing StudioKimberly L. Harrison
Professor; Director of Composition; Director of the Writing Across [...]Vanessa Kraemer Sohan
Associate Professor; Associate Director of the MA in EnglishWilliam J Lisenbee
Assistant Teaching ProfessorChristine Martorana
Assistant Teaching ProfessorKimberly Ann Miles
Assistant Teaching ProfessorMaheba Aboulhosn Pedroso
Associate Teaching ProfessorWanda Sybil Raiford
Associate Teaching Professor; Director of Liberal StudiesRobert Saba
University Assistant Teaching Professor; Associate Director of the Rhetoric [...]Michael Sohan
Associate Teaching ProfessorLuke Thominet
Assistant ProfessorNicholas H. Vagnoni
Associate Teaching ProfessorCarolina Villalba
Assistant Teaching ProfessorJeffrey R. Wehr
Associate Teaching ProfessorShelley Dianne Wick
Assistant Teaching ProfessorCayce Wicks
Assistant Teaching Professor; Coordinator for Student Success in the [...]