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  • Students present their work
  • 2011 “Democracy and Public Argument” keynote speaker Dr. Cornel West
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz speaks during the 2010 Latino Heritage Celebration
  • Grace Musila delivers WID Distinguished Lecture

News

​​Presentation by Phillip Troutman on the Domestic Slave Trade, March 11
Dr. Phillip Troutman
March 08, 2017
Statement from University Writing Program Faculty on current political rhetoric
November 18, 2016
WID Welcomes Grace A. Musila as Distinguished Lecturer
Grace Musila delivers WID Distinguished Lecture
November 17, 2016
New writing award honors life of Marine, D.C. native
October 30, 2016
Professor Zach Hinden Reviews D. Watkins’ The Cook Up for The Atlantic
September 21, 2016
Professor Phyllis Mentzell Ryder Publishes on “Teaching Serendipity”
September 21, 2016

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The University Writing Program (UWP) offers courses to strengthen every GW student's ability to write clearly and effectively at the university and in other arenas, and emphasizes the importance of writing for success in all academic, public, and professional enterprises that require critical thinking and communication.

Please read the Message from University Writing Program Faculty in response to current political rhetoric.

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Program Administrators

Rachel Riedner, Executive Director
Sandie Friedman, Director of First Year Writing
Zachary Wolfe, Deputy Director of First Year Writing
Randi Kristensen, Director of Writing in the Disciplines
Jonathan Dueck, Deputy Director of Writing in the Disciplines
Carol Hayes, Director of the Writing Center
Phyllis Ryder, Deputy Director of the Writing Center

Elisa Valero, Operations Manager
Gil Huerta, Operations Coordinator

 

Writing Program in the News

Book Release: Jonathan Dueck coedits Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities

 

Jonathan Dueck, Deputy Director of Writing in the Disciplines and Assistant Professor of Writing, has coedited the newly released Oxford Handbook of Music and World Christianities with Suzel Ana Reily.

Rachel Riedner receives Fulbright Specialist Grant

Rachel Riedner, interim Executive Director of the University Writing Program, has received a Fulbright Specialist grant for Summer 2016. She will be working at the University of Tromsø – the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in May.

Congratulations to Eckles Prize Winners

Congratulations to the 2016 Winners of the Eckles Prize, awarded to students who produce a research project in their freshman year that demonstrates significant and meaningful use of library services and collections at the George Washington University.

2017 Summer Writing Courses