From the Department Chair
The Department of Rhetoric & Writing seeks to graduate students who are prepared to meet the communication tasks required of them in the 21st century. To achieve that goal, our faculty and instructors promote effective writing and critical reading skills among all undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin. We are responsible for the effective teaching of RHE306, the required first-year course in argumentation, and we have designed an array of lower- and upper-division courses to help undergraduates develop literacy in traditional and emerging genres of communication.
What’s more, we offer an undergraduate degree to meet the interests of writers who wish to perform superbly in civic and professional forums; and our graduate program, administered through the Department of English, is one of the highest ranked rhetoric programs in the nation.
To ensure that our teaching draws upon a continually broadening knowledge base and discussion of best practices, we sustain among our distinguished faculty and graduate students cutting-edge research in a variety of fields: rhetoric, writing, and technology.
Linda Ferreira-Buckley
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