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After finding out about his brother’s cancer diagnosis, Parker Gangl said understanding technical writing and communications professors helped him continue his education while…

This award honors outstanding students for their invaluable leadership and service to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and the community.

Technical writing is used in many fields, but Makehba Nelson wants to use her skills as a technical writing and communication major to make a change in public health.

The Minnesota Writing Project has been awarded a grant through the National Writing Project’s Building a More Perfect Union program!

Cara plans to forge a career taking complex information and making it easy for users to understand in both English and Mandarin by combining her proficiency in Chinese…

We are grateful for Professor Ross’ many years of outstanding service to the University of Minnesota and to his students, colleagues and friends. 

The First-Year Writing Program in the Department of Writing Studies at the University of Minnesota is expanding and we are currently seeking to hire an Associate Director.

First-Year Writing at the University of Minnesota is expanding and we are currently seeking to hire multiple annually renewable teaching faculty positions for Fall 2022.

We are grateful for Professor Lazaraton’s many years of outstanding service to the university and to her students, colleagues and friends.

Writing studies undergraduate Livie Hanousek found that her interests in communication and medicine were perfectly matched in the technical writing and communications major…

Undergraduate Meghan Schaeffer found the perfect balance between her interests and strengths as a technical writing and communications undergraduate major.

Professor Elizabethada Wright and Alumna Asmita Ghimire have published a pair of essays about teaching English in our increasingly global world.

Stambler analyzes medical recipe writing practices in early modern England to examine how nonprofessionals used tactical technical communication to build ethos and medical…

Professor Emerita, Mary Lay Schuster's new book on homelessness is available now from Rowman & Littlefield.

Writing in the Clouds: Inventing and Composing in Internetworked Writing Spaces is available from Parlor Press.

Through his classes in our MS program, Grant has learned about processes, workflow strategies, and tools used by technical communicators, and also gained a deeper…

The article titled "Industry Insights for Addressing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the TC Classroom" is available in the May/June issue of Intercom.

Social Justice and the Portrayal of Migrants in International Organization for Migration’s World Migration Reports

Eduardo Nevarez has co-authored an article published in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems 2020.