Public and Professional Writing Program

Summer 2021 Course Alert! Check out Writing for the Public: The Public Athlete. Engage with public writing about sports, by and about athletes. Read and write in a variety of rhetorical, journalistic, informational, creative, and research-based genres, while thinking about how sports shape racial, gender, and class-based identities. #pittppw

If you enjoyed Composing Digital Media, Integrating Writing and Design, or any digital media project work, check out PPW's Fall 2021 course Projects in Digital Composition. Students in the course will develop original projects focused on particular themes or categories of multimodal composition. Learn more at http://bit.ly/digitalcompprojects or https://bit.ly/ppw-fall2021 #pittppw

Anyone may become disabled at any point in time, and according to the CDC, 61 million Americans identify as disabled. It's safe to say disability impacts every identity. This coming fall, Pitt Composition is offering the new course Seminar in Composition: Disability Studies. Learn more at http://bit.ly/ppw-fall2021 #pittppw

Writing can be an anxiety-provoking process for many people who nevertheless have to write because of academic or professional responsibilities. This Fall 2021 term, PPW is offering the new course Writing and Anxiety, which will explore the writing process and strategies for navigating writing roadblocks as they arise. Learn more at http://bit.ly/ppw-fall2021 #pittppw

PPW is expanding its grant writing course offerings in Fall 2021! Grant Writing for Research will teach students practices related to researching and requesting federal funds for specific projects. Research experience not needed to enroll. Learn more at http://bit.ly/ppw-fall2021 #pittppw

Day 2 of the PPW Informational Sessions is underway! Stop by before 1:30 today to learn about how to approach interviewing questions and/or snack on some ice cream sandwiches...

Want a sneak peek at fall courses? Need help with your resume? Hungry for a snack? Stop by the PPW "Resume Roundup" Info Session tomorrow, Friday, March 22 between 12:00 - 1:30 in the Cathedral Room 512!

ENGCMP 1130 Projects in Digital Composition: Communicating with Data is a fantastic opportunity to build the kind of applied web design, web development, and information visualization skills that employers are looking for. The course will provide ample studio time for students to work on individual and team-based projects of your own design. Examples of the interactives you will learn to build might include but are not limited to: - A visualization of common linguistic patt...erns in every TED talk ever delivered - A cluster diagram of Twitter users grouped by the topics of their most common tweets - A bubble chart comparing the most common words used to describe Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland," Dorothy in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and Wendy in Peter Pan and Wendy." - A humorous artificial intelligence app like Slate’s Adele Dazeem name generator - A searchable map of Pittsburgh property sale prices - A graph that demonstrates the best information available about whether the real Shakespeare was one playwright or several - A searchable map of historical trends in Pittsburgh property sales Making these types of visualizations is fun, rewarding, and easier than you might think. The course's strong humanities focus that will make it accessible to students of all levels of experience with coding and website design.

Want to learn more about successful grant writing? Join us and hear from experienced grant professionals next Monday, Nov. 5, from 4:30 to 5:45 and from 6 to 7:30 in 501 CL.