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On Purpose: Portrait of Writing Studies

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Classroom and Community Collide

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Visualizing Posthuman Conservation in the Age of the Anthropocene

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October 4, 2018 to October 6, 2018

We are co-hosting the 2018 CPTSC national conference

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We are excited to announce that the Department of Writing Studies at University of Minnesota and the English Department at UW-Stout will co-host the 2018 conference of Council for Programs...

October 18, 2018

Annie Rogers: Incandescent Alphabets: Language Transformations and Art in...

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Language changes in psychosis. Words become the floating signifiers of a mad Other who takes up a place in speech. Speech elements connect to nothing, have no meaning whatsoever, and...

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