Welcome to the Rhetorical Situation!

Welcome to the newest iteration of The Rhetorical Situation!

The Rhetorical Situation began as a newsletter in winter 2018. The then-newly-formed Pedagogical Development Committee, under the leadership of Denise Silva, envisioned pooling Writing Program faculty’s talents and experiences to create a water cooler space for checking in with each other. This space emerged as The Rhetorical Situation newsletter, which the PDC has continued producing since then. 

This year’s committee has transformed The Rhetorical Situation into a blog. This blog also contains the information from our previous PDC website. This transformation moves things out of our overflowing inboxes and provides a centralized location for diverse resources.

The Rhetorical Situation blog will be a continuation and extension of the tradition and goals of past PDC committees. We envision this blog as a common space to digitally come together and communicate with each other.

We will be updating the blog throughout the academic year and look forward to sharing faculty accomplishments, workshop dates, pedagogical material, and much more. We’re hoping that this blog evolves over time to become a source of community for the program, featuring submissions from any faculty interested in sharing. Please contact us if you would like to contribute at any point. 

We hope you enjoy and find this site helpful. 

Best,

The 2021-2022 PDC Committee

Lisa Schilz (chair), Steve Coulter, Madeline Lane-McKinley, Kate McQueen, and Amy Vidali