Writing

Office: Maryland Hall 043H
Telephone: 410‑617‑2228
Website: www.loyola.edu/academics/writing

Chair: Brian Murray, Professor

Professors: Brian Murray; Peggy O'Neill; Ron Tanner (emeritus); Cindy Moore (emerita); Jane Satterfield
Associate Professors: Martin Camper; Marian G. Crotty; Karen Fish; Ilona McGuiness (emerita); Terre Ryan; Lucas Southworth; Lisa Zimmerelli
Assistant Professors: Margaret Musgrove (emerita)
Teaching Professor: Andrea Leary
Assistant Teaching Professors: Tiffany Curtis; Emily Dillon; Helen Hofling; Julie Lewis; Dominic Micer; Laurence Ross

Students interested in writing can pursue the Major in Writing; the Interdisciplinary Major in Writing, which allows students to divide their time evenly between writing and another discipline; or the Minor in Writing. In short, there is great flexibility in a student's program. Those who choose either major will enter a community in which they develop expertise in a broad array of skills and genres. What is more, the Writing Department affords students many opportunities for internships, cocurricular activities, and pre-professional development. There is no typical destination for the Writing major, as communication skills are necessary in every job and industry. Writing majors might go on to become editors, teachers, lawyers, digital media specialists, communication executives, consultants, and published authors.

Learning Aims

In writing courses, students read widely across genres, cultures, disciplines, and media to:

develop knowledge of the world beyond the self;
develop a language of cultivated response;
discern rhetorical and stylistic strategies that best suit particular arguments, situations, and audiences;
develop an appreciation of language.

In order to produce finished, polished texts that show competence in the standards of English usage and style, students:

write widely across genres and for a variety of purposes, showing an ability to adjust style appropriately to audience and situation;
develop a distinctive voice with original ideas through frequent practice;
situate themselves in a larger intellectual conversation by developing and researching ideas;
write multiple drafts of extended works in order to extend the rhetorical strategies addressed in Effective Writing (WR 100 );
develop an ability to critique other's writing constructively and to use the same to effectively work collaboratively through frequent group exercise (workshops) and conferences;
learn to use technology to the best advantage of their writing through daily exposure, understanding both the various forms of media and their rhetorical effects.

Programs

Major

Writing, BA

Interdisciplinary Options

Interdisciplinary Major in Writing

Minor

Writing Minor

Courses

Writing