Welcome
Questions/Concerns arising during Web Registration.
If you have a question or concern about registration (Writing course selection, Writing program requirements, and related matters), please read the document "Course Selection Guide". If your questions are not answered by the information in that document, please feel free to contact the Undergraduate Program Director, Mr. Brock Eayrs, directly by email at beayrs@uwo.ca. You will receive a response within 36 hours.
Writing Program Fall/Winter Main Office Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 8:00-4:00 p.m. & Friday - 8:00-3:30 p.m.
Lunch: 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Administrative Duties: 1:00-1:15 p.m.
Mission statement
The Program in Writing, Rhetoric, & Professional Communication aims to provide students with the ability to affect the world, both inside and outside the university, by facilitating their becoming self-directed, creative, and intellectual agents able to engage effectively with and contribute to the resolution of problems through the use of language both written and spoken. Writing studies comprise the core activities of our contemporary social, political, and cultural world, and the study and mastery of the constitutive and social dynamics of writing, rhetorical theory, and texts will provide pragmatic and intellectual tools for our graduates throughout their professional, intellectual, and social lives.
News and Events
The Rusty Toque is an online literary journal published twice yearly showcasing the best creative writing from the students in the Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication at The University of Western Ontario.
Congratulations to Professor Claudia Manley for publishing her short story Consolation. You can find it at http://www.juked.com
special permission procedures for 2011-2012
please refer to FAQ