USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

Writing Program News

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  Back to the Future

  September 1, 2008

  Faculty from the USC College Writing Program have developed a Web page harnessing new online tools to teach one of the oldest rhetorical techniques. The page contains widgets, or portable Web applications, that teach an… more>

  categories: undergraduate, graduate

  tags: humanities, web site, writing center, writing program

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  USC College’s Shelley Berman Earns Emmy Nod

  September 1, 2008

  The morning the nominations were announced, a Curb Your Enthusiasm co-star called Shelley Berman to congratulate him on his Emmy nod. “What Emmy?” Berman barked into the phone at Jeff Garlin. “What?”… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: curb your enthusiasm, emmy, writing program

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  Journalist Wins Top Prize at Play Festival

  April 1, 2008

  “Juche Rules,” based on journalist Mark Niu’s surreal state-sponsored bus tour of North Korea, was singled out April 9 as the best play among four finalists at the USC College’s Master of Professional… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: master, play festival, writing program

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  The Write Stuff

  January 1, 2008

  She may have grown up in Boring, Ore., but Kathi Inman Berens is anything but. Five years ago, she and Norah Ashe-McNalley, a fellow senior lecturer in the Writing Program at USC College, created AngeLingo, an… more>

  tags: comedy, women, writing program

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  To Tell the Truth

  November 1, 2007

    In the end, if a work of nonfiction is well written and well executed, does it really matter if it is factually true? According to novelist John Rechy, no. After all, the writer — in fact all artists and the… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: master, symposium, writing program

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  Writer-Director-Producer Mel Shavelson Dies at 90

  August 1, 2007

  Melville Shavelson, a Hollywood legend who was a comedy writer, producer, director and two-time Academy Award nominee for original screenplays, has died. He was 90. Shavelson, an instructor at USC College’s Master of… more>

  tags: hollywood, obituary, writing program

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  2007 USC MPW One-Act Play Festival Award is going, going… Gone…

  May 1, 2007

  In the play, “Gone…,” the character Sarah reminds her protesting mother, a recent stroke victim, why she was moved to an assisted-living facility. Ethel: Why! Why can’t I go to the house? I… more>

  categories: graduate

  tags: play, writing program

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  Better Writers (Not Just Better Papers)

  August 1, 2004

  Students embrace college writing program By Katherine Yungmee KimAugust 2004 Norah Ashe-Mc Nalley’s writing students are scientists. Some are premed, some are dental hygienists and others are majoring in such fields… more>

  categories: undergraduate

  tags: workshops, writing program