About Professional Writing

Professional Writing at Purdue University includes undergraduate major areas in Technical Writing and Writing and Publishing, Multimedia Writing (ENGL 419), Business Writing (ENGL 420) and Technical Writing (ENGL 421) courses for students across the University, and PhD Secondary Areas in Technical and Professional Writing and Rhetoric, Technology, and Digital Writing.

Our area, part of the Rhetoric and Composition Program in the Department of English, is noted for cultivating expertise in writing for the digital workplace, for teaching and researching multimedia writing and visual rhetoric, for digital and print publishing, and for emphasizing collaboration and community service. Professional Writing at Purdue is known nationally for its innovative and productive faculty, the doctoral research of its graduate students, and its creative and cutting-edge approach to writing and publishing in the digital age.

Importing Content from a Previous Drupal Site into a New One with BUEditor

The process of grabbing content from an old Drupal site and importing it into a new one involves just a few simple steps. The key is to be sure to copy the source content in HTML format. Once you have that, pasting it into your new Drupal site is a cinch.

Many people have used the Rich Text Editor (called "TinyTinyMCE") in previous Drupal sites. This module posed a number of problems, ranging from installation to improper rendering of code, causing a whole site to "break." Our new Drupal sites now use BUEditor, which is a simple HTML editor that helps people who want to format posts use HTML code easily.

The first step is to make sure that you are copying HTML code from the source. Follow these steps:

Summer 2009 Teaching Requests in PW

Submitted by David Blakesley on Mon, 2009-03-23 10:47

If you are interested in being considered for teaching a section of English 420 or 421 this summer (Maymester or Mod 2-3, onsite or distance ed), please complete the form below no later than Friday, March 27, at 4 p.m. There are a limited number of sections available, but very often we are able to offer one section to people who request them.

Grad class makes complaints easier: Students revamp Human Relations

Submitted by David Blakesley on Wed, 2009-01-14 04:05

How's that for a headline! Poor Kenneth Burke worked a lifetime to explain human relations in A Grammar of Motives, A Rhetoric of Motives, and A Symbolic of Motives and our instructors have already revamped them!

Actually, this headline refers to a story on WLFI about the project completed by our new PW instructors in December. The client was the Tippecanoe County Human Relations Commission, and the project involved studying and reporting on the complaint process. It's nice to see our local news station talking about "writing and research to make a difference" and "white papers," of all things.

Here's where you can read the story at WLFI: Grad class makes complaints easier: Students revamp Human Relations (WLFI News)

Well done, Chalet, Elizabeth, Frank, Rita, Morgan, Karen, Josh, and Tony!

Drupal site requests: Spring 2009 semester

Submitted by jtirrell on Tue, 2008-12-09 12:26

Update: The deadline for Spring 2009 Drupal site requests has passed. Requests are no longer being accepted.

The Purdue PW Drupal team is now accepting Drupal site requests for the Spring 2009 semester. Submit site requests through this form. (you must be logged in to access the form).

Spring 2008 and Summer 2008 Drupal sites will be removed from the server in January

Submitted by jtirrell on Tue, 2008-12-09 12:03

The Spring 2008 and Summer 2008 Drupal sites will be removed from the server in January. (The current Fall 2008 Drupal sites will remain active.) If you wish to create a static archive of your Spring 2008 or Summer 2008 Drupal site, follow these instructions.

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