The Writing and Rhetoric concentration is designed for students who want to write publishable nonfiction books and articles, study writing and technology, or who are interested in professional writing or editing and publishing. Students may choose from several courses that provide instruction and gui...
The MA in English with a concentration in professional and technical writing is oriented to workplace uses of language. In addition to the training in pragmatic skills offered, the concentration is characterized by a self-reflexive attention to workplaces as institutions. Courses on research and theo...
George Mason's doctoral program in Writing and Rhetoric offers a curriculum that emphasizes theoretical, practical, and productive approaches to writing in organizations and in public spaces. Our program is built on the premise that writing and teaching in twenty-first century organizations requires ...
Esther Namubiru is a PhD Candidate in the Writing & Rhetoric program at George Mason University. She is also a Graduate Writing Program Administrator of the Composition Program. Esther has taught graduate and undergraduate academic writing courses. She has also designed teaching materials for fac...
Munira Mutmainna is a Doctoral candidate in Writing and Rhetoric. After getting her Master's in TESOL and Linguistics, she is currently working towards her dissertation on immigrant health rhetoric and communication in the U.S. setting. Her work revolves around multicultural and multilingual technica...
In 2021, two Mason PhD students—Benjamin Hunt in Linguistics and Jonathan M. Marine in Writing & Rhetoric—relaunched the online journal Working Papers in Language and Linguistics, a reworking and broadening of an earlier Mason journal, Working Papers in Linguistics, which began in 1992 and was p...
Course Sequences While there are few requirements regarding the general sequence of your coursework, the department strongly recommends that you take 501 Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric during your first semester, and 502 Research Methods in Rhetoric and Writing during your first y...
