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Writing at Drexel
At last! Now you can view from a single site all of the writing opportunities Drexel can offer you. We have a rich and varied menu of activities in which you can participate. Navigate our site, link to the resources we offer, and contact us with further questions.
ALA Bulletin (African Literature Association)
The African Literature Association is an independent non-profit professional organization open to scholars, teachers and writers from every country. The ALA BULLETIN (formerly the ALA Newsletter, volumes I-VII, 1974-1) is published quarterly by the ALA for its members. Members receive discounts when purchasing volumes of selected papers from the annual conference which takes place in late March or April. THE EDITORIAL OFFICE for the ALA BULLETIN is c/o Abioseh Michael Porter, Department of English, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Tel. (215) 895 2448. Fax (215) 895-1071. Email: alabulletin@drexel.edu
BMa. The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review
BMa is a non-profit, refereed journal published twice a year. The purpose of this journal is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for critical discussion of Sonia Sanchez and other Black Arts Movement artists. Issues feature poetry, essays, and reviews. To purchase copies or to submit manuscripts, address all communications to: F.E. DeLancey, Founding Editor, Drexel University, Department of English and Philosophy, 5050 MacAlister Hall, 33rd & Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104, Telephone: (215) 895-2433, Fax: (215) 895-1071, E-mail:delancfe@drexel.edu
Communication Program
The Communication program is committed to helping students become broadly educated and professionally competent individuals. Students are exposed to a variety of media and are guided in the development of interpretive and expressive skills in written and oral communication. Communication majors specialize in one of three concentrations. Students in Corporate and Public Relations pursue careers in public relations, corporate training, and corporate communication. Those who choose the Technical and Science Communication concentration go on to work in technical writing, science writing, publishing, and software and hardware documentation. Global Journalism students pursue careers in journalism and news. Many communication graduates also go on to law school, to business school for an MBA, or to graduate school.
Creative Writing Forum
The Forum is an online service intended for middle school and high school students to submit their creative writing for review by Drexel peer tutors (WITS). WITS are trained in online protocol. Creative Writing Forum is an affiliation of Math Forum.
The Smart Set
The Smart Set is a new magazine of culture and ideas launching in August.
Screenwriting and Playwriting Program
Students in the dramatic screenwriting and playwriting program begin the lifelong process of accumulating a writer's capital: the ideas, understandings, facts, and methods of perception, as well as the technical knowledge, needed to write compellingly for the stage or screen. Students learn to create scripts that meet current industry standards for feature film and television production and acquire hands-on experience in the techniques of film and video production. Graduates of this program will be prepared to pursue careers in any of numerous fields that require dramatic writing or to enter one of the highly competitive graduate programs in dramatic writing.
Drexel Writing Center
The Drexel Writing Center is located in MacAlister Hall, room 0032. The Writing Center offers a variety of services for students and faculty members:
- Students are offered help with their course writing assignments through on-site and e-mail tutorials and small group workshops.
- Faculty may meet here with the Director to obtain help in preparing writing intensive courses.
- Creative writers are offered the opportunity to share their work and ideas through public readings of their work.
- Administrators and support personnel are offered help with writing reports, memos, letters, and other forms of written interaction.
Department of English and Philosophy
The English major at Drexel University offers students the opportunity to develop critical reading and writing skills while examining the aesthetic, social, historical, and psychological issues that inform literary works. Making the necessary connections among literary, technological, and writing skills, faculty in the English program prepare students for graduate and professional work in the humanities; law; teaching; professional writing; and various other fields.
The Department of English and Philosophy also offers a program leading to a Certificate in Writing and Publishing (CWP). This Certificate, available to Drexel University undergraduates in all majors, does not only offer the opportunity for both professional and personal development through a combination of courses in professional writing, creative writing and publishing but also will enhance employment opportunities, opening a broad range of professional choices in cooperative employment and in the post-degree job market.
For more detailed information on these and other related topics, please check the department's website: www.drexel.edu/coas/engphil
Maya
Maya, Drexel's undergraduate literary magazine, provides students with opportunities to write for and edit a publication that addresses the Drexel community. Maya includes poems, short stories, essays, and graphics representative of a broad spectrum of student creative work.
Open Mic
Each semester, students in Writing 210 sponsor an open reading in the writing center. Watch the News and Events page for dates and times.
The Triangle
The Triangle is Drexel's student newspaper, published every Friday during the fall, winter, and spring terms and biweekly during the summer term. The Triangle covers news, sports, and entertainment.
University Writing Program
The ability to write well is more than a skill. It is an on-going process of development essential for personal and professional success. This process encourages complex thinking and often represents the best tool for encouraging sophisticated, imaginative thought. Several studies have demonstrated that students enrolled in writing intensive sections of courses emerge with a better grasp of course content than those who do not. A mission of the University Writing Program is to support each department in its efforts to provide appropriate writing instruction.
In order to graduate, all students beginning with the entering class of 2002/01 (fall, 2002) must pass three writing-intensive courses after their freshman year. Two writing-intensive courses must be in a student's major. The third can be in any discipline. Students are advised to take one writing-intensive class each year, beginning with the sophomore year, and to avoid "clustering" these courses near the end of their matriculation. Transfer students need to meet with an academic advisor to review the number of writing-intensive courses required to graduate.
A "WI" next to a course in the course catalog indicates that this course can fulfill a writing-intensive requirement. Departments will designate specific sections of such courses as writing-intensive. Sections of writing-intensive courses are not indicated in this catalog. Students should check the section comments in Banner when registering. Students scheduling their courses in Banner can also conduct a search for courses with the attribute "WI" to bring up a list of all writing-intensive courses available that term.
The larger mission of the Writing Program involves creating a culture of writing at Drexel. Such a culture facilitates the conversation and community which unites writers of all disciplines. The Writing Program sponsors seminars, forums, and author appearances. Each semester, the Writing Program presents a forum on "The Benefits of a Writing Intensive Curriculum" to give faculty participating in the program an opportunity to speak on an interdisciplinary panel and to respond to questions concerning the practice of writing in their classes. On a national level, the Writing Program participates in many conferences on writing, including the CCCC's, WPA, AWPA, and the National Peer Tutoring Conference on Writing in which students present their research. The Writing Program is a member of the Network of National Writing Across the Curriculum Programs.
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