Rhetoric & Writing @ Michigan State University

We invite students to think innovatively about their education and to take an active role in the design of their graduate education. We encourage students to think dynamically about their career goals — and to educate themselves for the future, not just for today. We invite students to apply who are interested in working in — and contributing to the shape of — a new and developing program.', 'Our aim is to prepare students to be culturally and technologically engaged thinkers, writers, researchers, teachers, and citizens. To meet this goal, we work to provide a humane educational experience informed by rigorous intellectual and ethical practices. Because our program emphasizes rhetoric not only as theoretical engagement but also as productive action, we envision many sites of practice as appropriate for “doing rhetoric”: communities, classrooms, workplaces, cultures, and texts (print, digital, and non-alphabetic). Our sense of professional identity extends to a commitment to service to our department, institutions, professional organizations, and communities. Students in our program are encouraged to envision their work as taking place at the intersections of scholarship, teaching, and service within a range of linguistically and culturally diverse contexts.