Program Overview

Writing, Editing, & Digital Publishing

The Writing, Editing, & Digital Publishing concentration helps students investigate how effective communication today ranges from producing written texts to composing for a range of media and professions. With a WEDP concentration, students will also learn theories of rhetoric, or the art of effective communication, develop awareness of the history of writing practices across time, and hone their writing skills in a variety of genres and subject matter areas. Students choosing this concentration can pursue interests in games studies, digital media, technical communication, and more.

Career Spotlight

Joanna Pearson, a Psychiatrist, Poet, and YA Author, Class 2002, notes that her English classes taught her how to think analytically and articulate her ideas. She also thought a lot about character—what people want, what motivates them, why they do what they do, their backstory—and language as a tool, both of which have turned out to be awfully relevant now to her as a psychiatrist.

Undergraduate Program

• Major Concentrations
• Minors
• Courses
• Writing Program – English 105
• Student Advising
• First-year Seminars
• Research & Grants
• Senior Honors Thesis
• Undergraduate Honors Thesis Spotlight
• Summer School
• Sigma Tau Delta
• SOUL – Student Organization

Department Information

The Department supports the University's core values encouraging diversity and equal educational and employment opportunities throughout the University community.