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The work of the center is focused around three principal areas: the historical, the theoretical, and the empirical study of writing. Specific interests include research in computers and composition studies, methods of rhetorical and functional language analysis, cognitive processes in message production, the development of language and literacy theory and policy, and problems in technical and scientific writing. Graduate training in scholarship and research is accompanied by an equally thorough preparation for teaching. CWS is also home to Computers and Composition , a journal for teachers of writing, and the CCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric.