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ASU Writing Programs serves more than 10,000 students annually. Our writing takes place in myriad spaces, including in face-to-face, online, and hybrid courses. Writing Programs’ outcomes focus on student individuation, and writing classes are small, promoting individual feedback and fostering community building. We attempt to utilize students' pre-existing literacies to aid development of their critical reading, thinking, and writing skills. ASU Writing Programs also functions as a site of inquiry and research.

No single disciplinary perspective adequately accounts for the complexities of how people use language, participate in communication and create and understand texts. Our very strength as a department of English thus rests with our aggregate of different disciplines that explore multiple aspects of human communications.

ASU Writing Programs employs over 200 teachers annually. Professors, Lecturers, Instructors, Teaching Assistants, and Faculty Associates share the responsibility of teaching composition and rhetoric courses to more than 10,000 students each academic year. Writing Programs is proud to claim many teachers with more than a decade of continuous service.

The Department of English at ASU houses or provides editorship for several highly regarded academic, professional, and creative publications.

The Department of English regularly hosts or sponsors local, national, and international gatherings of professional and academic societies.

Upcoming

English Events

Past

ASU Composition Conference, ASU Tempe campus, Feb. 15, 2020

Southwest Humanities Symposium, ASU Tempe campus, Feb. 20-22, 2020

26th Annual Graduate Linguistics, Applied Linguistics and TESOL Symposium, ASU Tempe campus, Feb. 22, 2020