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Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference 2010. Burlingame, CA: February 6, 2010 to February 6, 2010. http://norcalwca.ning.com/. Contact: Jennifer Wells at jwells@mercyhsb.com.
Description:
Call for Proposals
NCWCA
Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Mercy High School
Burlingame, CA 94010
Co-hosted by Mercy High School and the University of San Francisco
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Ben Rafoth, Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
Author of A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One and co-editor of ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors.
Description:
It seems like you can’t walk five feet in Northern California without hearing or seeing the word “sustainable.”We have been at the epicenter for the “sustainability” movement, sharing our vision for preserving resources we are lucky to have around us for future generations.However, sustainability doesn’t just apply to our natural resources, but our educational ones as well. For many Northern California writing centers, the current economic climate and ongoing education budget cuts, the changing needs of student populations, including those that historically haven’t been well served by writing centers, and the concerns about our environmental impact have brought a new urgency to discussions of sustainability.
We invite you to the Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference in 2010, co-sponsored by Mercy High School Burlingame and the University of San Francisco, in order to share what it means to dream, direct, tutor in, or benefit from centers that will continue to flourish for years to come.We welcome proposals that might address, but certainly are not limited to, the following questions:
How can writing centers continue to thrive and serve their student populations, while making the most of potentially limited resources?
How can centers continue to evolve in order sustain an increasingly diverse array of students, from those whose first (or second, or third) language may not be English, to adult learners coming back to school for the first time in decades, to returning veterans?
How can middle schools and high schools reinvent the college writing center model to work in middle and high school settings?
How can high schools and college writing centers collaborate to sustain student support between high school and college writing?
How can writing centers lead the way in the “green” movement within their educational institutions?
How can we sustain our own professional and personal well being while continuing to serve increasing numbers of students?
Proposal formats include:
Presentations of 20 minutes
Panels of 3 presenters (20 minutes per presenter)
Roundtable or panel discussion sessions of 10 minutes per presenter
Workshops of 60 minutes (with audience participation)
In addition, NCWCA 2010 will feature a “Poster Potluck” during which all presenters are invited to share a poster (with handouts to share) featuring exciting thing(s) going on in their writing center! Presenters will be able to give their presentation as well as participate in the “Poster Potluck.”
Proposal Submission: Please submit a description of your proposed presentation/panel/roundtable/workshop as a MS Word or RTF by December 15 to NCWCA2010@gmail.com. Acceptance notices will be sent by January 1. In your proposal, please include:
Contact presenter information: Please include name, title, institutional affiliation, phone number, and email address. List names/affiliations for all other presenters.
Description of session (proposal): Please include a description of the topic, its importance and anticipated appeal to participants.If you are proposing a panel, roundtable or workshop, please describe each presenter’s anticipated contribution.
Audience Involvement: Please describe how your presentation will engage the audience, i.e. we are not looking for people to merely read a paper but to truly present information in a way that involves the audience to some degree (for example: having the audience list or jot down a few ideas to an opening question).
Poster Potluck: Please indicate whether or not you would be interested in sharing a poster for the “Poster Potluck.”
The 2010 MAWCA conference will be hosted by the University of Delaware Writing Center on April 9th – 10th in scenic and historic Newark, Delaware. Our theme of “Individuals Shaping Writing Centers – Writing Centers Shaping Individuals” is sure to make for a creative and illuminating conference experience. We are honored to announce that Dr. Neal Lerner, the Director of Training in Communication Instruction for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, will be our keynote speaker this year. Further, as a new addition to the conference, we’ll be hosting a pre-conference Professional Development Workshop on April 9th. For further information about the conference and the workshop, please visit http://www.mawcao nline.org/2010/index.html or e-mail us at MAWCAconference2010@english.udel.edu. Proposal submission deadline: January 15th.
(Added by Dan Melzer on October 14, 2009 | Last Updated on October 14, 2009)
2010 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Indiana University, Bloomington: May 20, 2010 to May 22, 2010. http://www.iub.edu/~wac2010.
Description:
Announcing the 2010 Writing Across the Curriculum Conference at Indiana University
The 2010 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference will be hosted by the Campus Writing Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Conference dates are May 20-22, 2010. Deadline for proposal submissions is October 19, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be no later than December 4, 2009. The deadline for conference registration is April 1, 2010 (those registering after this date will be charged a late fee).
This biannual conference, the only U.S. conference dedicated exclusively to writing across the curriculum (WAC) and writing in the disciplines (WID), is typically of interest to people who are concerned with using writing to improve teaching and learning--faculty, administrators, and students from post-secondary institutions, as well as faculty and administrators from secondary schools.
Conference chairs Laura Plummer and Jo Ann Vogt welcome workshops, panels, and individual presentations on topics of true interest and concern; there is no delimiting theme. Potential WAC topics include: administration, assessment, curriculum, economics, faculty development, history of WAC, interdisciplinary collaboration, student learning, politics, research, school/college collaboration, sustainability, teaching, technology, theory, writing, and other forms of communicating across the disciplines.
Bloomington is located about 50 miles south of Indianapolis in the limestone hills of south central Indiana, a region noted for its rustic beauty and artistic traditions. Travel to Bloomington is easy, and lodging in the Indiana University Memorial Union (where the conference is to be held) is affordable and pleasant.
(Added by Dan Melzer on April 21, 2009 | Last Updated on April 21, 2009)
European Writing Centers Association 2010 Conference. American University of Paris: May 24, 2010 to May 28, 2010.
Description:
Crossing national boundaries and linguistic borders:
(Re)Thinking and (Re)Situating the WritingCenter and WAC connection in Europe and Beyond
May 24 – 28, 2010
Keynote speakers:Muriel Harris, Purdue University, US
Chris Anson, North Carolina State University, US
Anne-Marie Picard, the American University of Paris, France
This conference will celebrate the EWCAs 12th birthday and our 7th international gathering of a community of scholars, professors, administrators, students, writing center tutors and
professionals.We sincerely hope our 2010 conference will offer each of you significant opportunities for shared research and common action across social divides, educational disciplines, languages and cultures.Central to our conference theme will be to
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rethink the connection between writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs and Writing Centers and the role they play (individually and collectively) in nurturing and advancing the culture of writing in Europe and beyond; what kinds of programs are succeeding in Europe?What kinds of programs make the most sense for European institutions?Can the American model be exported to Europe?
·examine the pedagogical, institutional, and political implications of formal writing instruction in European colleges and universities.
We hope this conference will be of interest to people who are concerned with using writing to improve teaching and learning—faculty, administrators, and students from post-secondary institutions, as well as faculty and administrators from secondary schools.
The EWCA executive board welcome proposals on topics such as
·establishing, administering and assessing WAC programs;
·theorizing writing instruction in a European context;
·developing writing centers and training tutors for them in widely different institutional settings;
·the mutual challenge of writing research and the teaching of writing:translating research into classroom practice;
·the idea of a EuropeanWritingCenter;
·writing and the new media;
·social, cultural, political, historical influences on writing in Europe;
·faculty development;
·interdisciplinary collaboration and communication;
·problems and prospects of the Bologna Convention;
·creating opportunities for shared research and common action across national, linguistic, and cultural divides;
·The linkbetween thinking and writing on European campuses;
·Theories of academic discourse
We particularly encourage collaborative projects among contributors from varied disciplines, nationalities, university writing programs.
Suggested Formats of Presentations:
- Individual presentations (20 minutes with 10 minutes Q/A):You may wish to present work in progress or results.
- Workshops (60 minutes)
- 60-minute multi-presenter panels
- Poster Presentations and Exhibits: You may provide a visual overview of your work (either research or teaching interventions in progress or results) and stimulate individual conversation.
More information about the conference will be available by the end of October on our conference website.
Deadline for proposal submissions:January 10, 2010
Notification of acceptance:February 20, 2010
Registration fee:150Euros
35 Euros students and WritingCenter tutors
165Euros late fee, after April 1, 2010
70Euros day fee
Deadline for registration:April 1, 2010
Proposed Schedule
Monday, May 24:Pre-conference workshop, late afternoon; off campus in the Marais
Tuesday, May 25:Registration:2:00 – 4:00pm (14h – 16h)
At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, more and more educators have come to realize the importance of academic writing programs both in and beyond academia. The view that those entering higher education are able to cope with their writing tasks without guidance has been widely challenged. The need for quality writing ability after leaving higher education is clear. Beyond the academy, with globalization in today’s worlds of business, research, and culture, writing skills are a necessity for all who wish to advance professionally. Especially in multicultural societies where students come from many different cultural and linguistic traditions and are often expected to write in more than one language, supporting student writers at all levels of study and preparing them for writing after their studies are pedagogical imperatives.
Two years ago, the Israel Forum for Academic Writing held its first meeting at Tel Aviv University. Its purpose was to connect people engaged in the teaching and research of academic writing in Israel. Instructors in academic writing in Hebrew and English from colleges and universities throughout the country attended this meeting. Since then, our organization has grown – we now have over 150 members on our mailing list. Visitors from abroad as well as local members have addressed issues such as responding to and assessing student writing, the use of technology in the teaching of writing, and how to gain administrative support for our programs. We have been fortunate in finding a home and support for our organization through the MOFET Institute.
In keeping with the intercultural and multi-linguistic nature of today’s societies, invited speakers at the first international conference on academic writing in Israel will address current issues in first language, second (third, fourth, etc.) language and foreign language writing. We are also planning to present a panel of writers in English, Hebrew, Arabic, and perhaps other languages on the topic, “Universals and Specifics of Academic Writing across Languages”. Participants will address the question of what it means to write in their various languages. Parallel sessions will include individual presentations, round table discussions, and workshops.
The program is designed to engage all those interested in academic writing programs and the writers they educate. Keynote and plenary sessions will be delivered in English. Papers and small group presentations may be given in Hebrew, English, or Arabic. Research-based contributions, as well as practical approaches to the teaching and learning of academic and professional writing are welcome.
Keynote speakers
Deborah H. Holdstein, PhD
Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Columbia College Chicago
Editor, College Composition and Communication
Dr. Holdstein has published widely in such areas as film, literary studies, and rhetoric and composition; until December, 2009, she continues her term as Editor of the premier journal in rhetoric and composition, College Composition and Communication. As Editor, she is also an Officer of the international organization, the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Before her arrival at Columbia, Holdstein served as a member of the graduate faculty at Northern Illinois University, where she was Chair of the PhD-granting Department of English. For twenty years, Holdstein taught and advised graduate and undergraduate students at Governors State University, where she also led the program in English, chaired the Graduate Council, and served as Faculty Associate for Graduate Studies and Research in the Office of the Provost. From 1997-2000, she also led GSU's university-wide North Central Association re-accreditation effort.
Dr. Holdstein's books include On Composition and Computers; Rhetorical Choices (with Charles Schuster and Keith Gilyard); The Prentice-Hall Anthology of Women Writers; and her most recent volume, Judaic Perspectives in Rhetoric and Composition (edited with Andrea Greenbaum). Deborah Holdstein also serves as a consultant to colleges and universities (and directs the Consultant-Evaluator Program of the Council of Writing Program Administrators), and is a regular speaker at major scholarly conferences.
Christopher M. Anson, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Professor of English; Director, Campus Writing and Speaking Program; North Carolina State University
An avid writer, Chris has published 15 books and over 90 journal articles and book chapters and is on the editorial or reader's boards of ten journals, including CCC, CE, RTE, Across the Disciplines, Written Communication, Assessing Writing, and The Journal of Writing Assessment. He has recently co-authored a new book on digital literacies, Teaching Writing Using Blogs, Wikis, and other Digital Tools (Christopher-Gordon Publishers, 2009).
Chris has given over 425 conference papers, keynote addresses, and invited lectures and faculty workshops across the U.S. and in 21 foreign countries.
Chris served as President of the Council of Writing Program Administrators from 2002-2005 and spent seven additional years on the WPA Executive Board. He has also served on the CCCC Executive Committee (1993-96), the CCCC Outstanding Book Award Committee (2008-9), the CCCC Resolutions Committee (2002 and 2005), the CCC Editor Search Committee (2003-4), the CCCC Committee on Professional Standards (1990-93, co-chair 1993), the CCCC Committee on Issues in the Profession (2004-present), the CCCC Nominating Committee (1988 and again as chair in 1999), the CCCC Exemplar Award Committee (1996), the NCTE/CEE Nominating Committee (1987), the NCTE Committee on Language Across the Curriculum (1988-91), and the NCTE Board of Directors (1985-99). He chaired the NCTE Assembly for Research in 1992-3 and was program co-chair of the NCTE Global Conference on Language and Literacy (2000, Utrecht, Netherlands) and the Sixth Conference of the National Testing Network in Writing (1987). He chaired the WPA Task Force on Plagiarism and the WPA Task Force on Internationalization. He formed and chaired the MMLA's WAC Section (1989-1994).
Otto Kruse, Ph.D. Director of ZHAW Center for Professional Writing at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Linguistics; Board Member of European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing
More detailed information to come.
Important Dates
Deadline for submission of abstracts
January 15, 2010
Notification of accepted abstracts
March 1, 2010
Conference
July 28-29, 2010
(Added by Michael Dickel on October 15, 2009 | Last Updated on October 15, 2009)
Writing Research Across Borders II. George Mason University, Washington, DC: February 17, 2011 to February 20, 2011. Contact: Charles Bazerman or Karen Lunsford at bazerman@education.ucsb.edu;klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu.
Description:
Call for Proposals: Writing Research Across Borders II
George Mason University
February 17-20, 2011
Proposal Deadline May 3, 2010
As societies become more knowledge-intensive and communication technologies draw us more closely together, the importance of writing in economic, scientific, civic, personal, and social development becomes more apparent. Correspondingly, the imperative to conduct research on writing in schools and the workplace, in relationship to learning and development, and in all aspects of our lives has invigorated work among scholars in all regions of the world. The conference Writing Research across Borders II will provide an opportunity for researchers to share their findings and set research agend as for the coming years.
Continuing the success of the three previous international research conferences held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the 2011 Writing Research Across Borders II will be held at George Mason University in the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area. We invite proposals that will continue to deepen the cross-disciplinary, international dialogues across the many different domains of writing research.
As in past years, this conference will focus on writing development across the lifespan, including the impact of new technologies on learning to write, early acquisition of writing, writing across grade levels (K-20), writing in the disciplines and professions, and writing in the workplace or other community and institutional settings. We invite proposals presenting research in these areas. We also invite proposals on any other areas of writing use and practice, such as writing in progressive or large scale educational programs, or proposals that link writing research and policies. We welcome papers raising methodological issues about researching writing. We invite work from any research tradition that is grounded in the tradition’s previous research and pursues the methodical gathering of qualitative or quantitative data appropriate to its claims.
Proposals should identify the format preferred (panels, roundtables, individual presentations, and poster presentations). Individual or poster proposals should be a maximum of 500 words. Proposals with multiple presentations (panel20and roundtable) should contain a short overview statement and then no more than 400 words per speaker. Proposals should specify the relevant research literatures, research questions, methods, data, and findings, as well as the scope and duration of the research projects.
The deadline for proposals is May 3, 2010. Please submit proposals in .doc or .rtf format by email attachment to <writing@education.ucsb.edu>. Also, be sure to include a title for your proposal and each speaker’s individual talk, as well as contact information for each individual presenter.
Ubiquitous and Sustainable Computing
@ School @ Work @ Play
Call for Papers:
Computers and Writing 2009
University of California, Davis
June 18-21, 2009
Computers and Writing 2009 seeks papers that explore the complex social, pedagogical and institutional dynamics around ubiquitous and/or sustainable computing. Because computing technologies continue to extend their reach, we encourage proposals that explain the impact and challenges of ubiquitous and sustainable computing in different contexts: in educational settings, in workplaces, and even into (real or virtual) leisure spaces. We are especially interested in accounts of how teachers and students, workers and writers use computers and other technologies in their lives at school, at work and at play.
When Computers and Writing began, the desktop revolution was just beginning and mainframes were a not-so-distant memory. Since 1983 computers have gotten smaller and faster and more portable, and have therefore become more embedded in our lives. Computing has become ubiquitous. We find computers in more homes, in more workplaces, and in more schools, though the uses and meanings of technology can differ greatly across these contexts. Our interactions with technology have also expanded from the keyboards, mice, and screens of desktop computers to cell phones, microphones for speech to text input, PDAs that recognize handwriting, digital cameras, digital audio recorders, GPS navigators, and other ever-emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs). Today's ubiquitous computing is not quite the utopia imagined by Howard Rheingold or Mark Weiser nor is it the dystopia predicted by Clifford Stoll or Philip K. Dick; it is a rather more interesting, nuanced, and complex world than we’d imagined.
Ubiquitous computing has produced a series of challenges for educational institutions. Sustainable computing means finding ways to meet current technological needs without sacrificing future innovation. As teachers and scholars of writing, how do we avoid the curse of technological obsolescence, even as computing rapidly evolves and expands into new corners of lived experience? How do our uses of technology move beyond short-term interventions, and contribute to sustained and sustainable learning across the life-span of our students? Finally, how do we employ these technologies ethically, given their potential impact on a local and global scale? Ultimately at stake is not just the sustainability of computing, but also how computing can help us lead more sustainable lives.
Submissions Open: Monday, April 28, 2008
Submission Deadline: Friday, September 19, 2008
Submit Proposals (250 words or less) at http://conferences.ucdavis.edu/cw09
(Added by Dan Melzer on March 31, 2008 | Last Updated on March 31, 2008)
NEWCA @ 25:
Revisit, Reflect, Renew
University of Hartford, W. Hartford, CT
Saturday, April 4, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm and Sunday, April 5, 8:30 am to 11:00 am http://www.newca-conference.com/
During this, our silver anniversary, we will explore writing center histories,
present(s), and futures. The twenty-fifth year benchmark provides us with an
opportunity to revisit, reflect, and renew—to consider the dynamic nature of
writing center work as well as the importance of knowing, sharing, and learning
from our histories. We hope that you join us!
Conference Highlights
! Dr. Harvey Kail, University of Maine, Orono, keynote speaker
! NEWCA’s 25th Birthday Celebration, with historical presentation by Dr. Neal
Lerner
! Interactive Panels, Workshops and Roundtables
Three concurrent sessions will be held on Saturday, April 4, presented by
writing center tutors and administrators in the NEWCA region and beyond.
! National Archive for Composition and Rhetoric Exhibit
Be sure to bring documents that illustrate the history or daily work of your
writing center to donate to this collection. Refer to the NEWCA website for more
information.
! NEWCA Book and Media Exhibit, Saturday, April 4, 10:30am-5:30pm
! NEWCA Special Interest Groups, Sunday, April 5, 9:00am-11:00am
! NEWACC Workshop on Writing Across the Curriculum Program Assessment,
Sunday, April 5, 9:00am-11:30am
For more information on NEWACC (the Northeast Writing Across the
Curriculum Consortium), please contact Dr. Michelle Cox, Assistant Professor of
English and WAC Coordinator at Bridgewater State College, at michelle.cox@bridgew.edu or (508) 531-2183.
Conference Registration Information
You may register for the NEWCA 2009 conference online until March 27. Please
refer to the NEWCA website at http://www.newca-conference.com/ for registration
forms, methods of payment and more!
Conference registration rates:
Full-Time Faculty/Professional at $110 (includes meals and NEWCA membership)
Part-Time Faculty/Professional at $75 (includes meals and NEWCA membership)
Student at $40 (includes meals and NEWCA membership)
NEWCA membership at $15 (to maintain membership if not attending the conference)
NOTE: For those registering after the March 27th deadline, lunch is not
guaranteed.
NEWCA 2009 Conference Hotel Information
Book by Tuesday, March 17th to get the special NEWCA rate: $109 at the Crowne
Plaza Hotel, at 50 Morgan Street in Hartford, only 3 miles from campus. Call
866-539-0036 and reference the “NEWCA Conference” or the three-letter code “NTW”
when making reservations..
(Added by Dan Melzer on March 1, 2009 | Last Updated on March 1, 2009)
The term "ecology" has many associations, from nature and the
environment, to more recent applications of information ecology and
media ecology in rhetoric and composition. The metaphor of ecology can
be applied to the relationships among various projects and working
groups within writing centers, and to the relationships among writing
centers, writing programs, English Departments, WAC initiatives,
strategic plans, etc. Tutors, writing center administrators, and others
involved with writing center work are invited to submit proposals
related-but not limited to-the following topics:
* Consider the politics of ecology and the idea of ecologies as
systems. How does your writing center function as an ecological system?
What are the ecologies of your department and your campus?
* How do you ensure the sustainability of your writing center?
How will you address challenges to ensure sustainability?
* What kind of partnerships, relationships and/or infrastructure
have you used to develop and enrich your resources? How can you extend
existing partnerships and cultivate new ones? What does your writing
center bring to these partnerships?
* How do writing center theories sustain both in-house
environments and larger, public spaces? How do writing centers perform
"public scholarship" that sustains us and the community?
* How do you build a self-sustaining ecology in your writing
center through policies, practices, and relationships?
* What are the environmental issues facing your writing center?
How can you develop a "green culture" in your center? What are some
creative solutions you have for making your writing center greener? Why
should writing center tutors and administrators be concerned with
environmental issues?
* How does technology fit into your ecology?
* In what ways can globalization and diversity affect the ecology
of your writing center?
Session Formats
Presentations: Single presentations will be 15-20 minutes in length. If
you submit your proposal alone you will be placed with like
presentations for a session.
Panels: Consist of 3-4 presenters who are coordinating their
presentations around a central theme. Each presentation will be 15-20
minutes in length.
Roundtables: Round tables are talks designed around a specific theme and
are often highly audience interactive. Several speakers will address a
central question from a variety of angles, and then open the question to
the audience and answer audience questions.
Workshops: These sessions are designed to be fully interactive with the
audience and facilitate the audience in gaining material, hands-on
knowledge around the given topic.
Posters: These presentations are designed to be stand alone posters
which are informative and meant to be viewed at anytime during the
conference. There will also be a dedicated time and space for the
authors of the poster to answer questions and interact with conference
goers about their topic.
Submitting Proposals
Proposals should be submitted online using the webform which will be
available at http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ecwca. The online submission
system should be ready shortly, but this gives you a chance to plan your
proposals in advance. The deadline for proposals is Monday, December
15, 2008.
The 2009 MAWCA Conference will be held at York College of Pennsylvania in York, PA, March 27-28, 2009. The theme for the
conference is "`A Firm League of Friendship: Declaring the Interdependence of Writing Programs and Writing Centers." Muriel Harris will be the keynote speaker. Deadline for paper proposals is December 20. To find the call for papers and other information about the conference, please visit the conference website:
Computers and Writing Online 2009 seeks online presentations and discussions that explore the complex social, pedagogical and institutional dynamics around ubiquitous and/or sustainable computing. Because computing technologies continue to extend their reach, we encourage proposals that explain the impact and challenges of ubiquitous and sustainable computing in different contexts: in educational settings, in workplaces, and even into (real or virtual) leisure spaces. Connections between sessions proposed for the f2f version of Computers and Writing at UC Davis in June 2009 are encouraged but not required. Presenters may propose:
* synchronous sessions in Second Life,
* synchronous sessions using Adobe Connect Pro,
* 2-day list-serv discussions,
* week-long forum topics in Sakai,
* week-long wiki building activities in Sakai,
* podcasts played through Sakai, or
* other innovative online formats.
We are especially interested in accounts of how teachers and students, workers and writers use computers and other technologies in their lives at school, at work and at play.
Ubiquitous computing has produced a series of challenges for educational institutions. Sustainable computing means finding ways to meet current technological needs without sacrificing future innovation. As teachers and scholars of writing, how do we avoid the curse of technological obsolescence, even as computing rapidly evolves and expands into new corners of lived experience? How do our uses of technology move beyond short-term interventions, and contribute to sustained and sustainable learning across the life-span of our students? Finally, how do we employ these technologies ethically, given their potential impact on a local and global scale? Ultimately at stake is not just the sustainability of computing, but also how computing can help us lead more sustainable lives.
Not only has computing become ubiquitous, human interactions with technology have expanded from the keyboards, mice, and screens of desktop computers to cell phones, microphones for speech to text input, PDAs that recognize handwriting, digital cameras, digital audio recorders, GPS navigators, and other ever-emerging information and communication technologies (ICTs). Today's computing is not quite the utopia imagined by Howard Rheingold or Mark Weiser, nor is it the dystopia predicted by Clifford Stoll or Philip K. Dick; it is a rather more interesting, nuanced, and complex world than we’d imagined. Proposals that allow us to experience or imagine the emerging forms of ubiquitous and/or sustainable computing and their impacts on our lives at school, at work, and at home are sought.
Biannual Conference on Writing Across a Critical Thinking Continuum
November 21-22, 2008
We are very pleased to invite you to the second bi-annual conference on Writing and Critical Thinking at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. The conference explores the relationship between critical and creative thinking strategies to writing processes across our curricula and disciplinary domains. Our website provides complete details about the registering for the conference. To access our conference page to access the full conference program, travel to Hamden, CT and to register for the conference please click on:https://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1049.xml
The keynote address will be given by Jonathan Monroe of Cornell University, where he is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature, former Director of the John S. Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines and George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric. He is the author A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre (Cornell), and editor and co-author of Local Knowledges, Local Practices: Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell (Pittsburgh) and Writing and Revising the Disciplines (Cornell). Dr. Monroe will speak about the connections between writing and critical thinking in his presentation entitled “Is Critical Thinking a Liberal Art: Contemporary Poetry in (as) Higher Education.” Many other WAC professionals have prepared presentations centered around our three themes of (re)defining the continuum between writing and thinking, (re)possessing the continuum of writing and thinking in the disciplines and (re)addressing the continuum of thinking and writing iterations. All events take place on Quinnipiac University’s Mount Carmel campus.
Denver Grand Hyatt Hotel
Denver, Colorado
July 10-13, 2008
Deadline for proposals: March 15, 2008
The conference will begin Thursday evening, July 10, and continue through Sunday morning, July 13. We invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, workshops, forums roundtables and other sessions addressing the conference theme, "Writing Program Administration and/as Learning."
We also invite attendees to prepare poster presentations or other exhibits of their programs' special initiatives, research projects, or signature areas.
To allow conference attendees to begin planning as soon as possible, review of proposals for individual presentations, concurrent session panels, roundtables, poster sessions, and multimedia presentations will occur on a rolling basis after February 15, with notifications also sent on that basis. Proposals received after March 15 will be considered on a space-available basis only.
Explanation of Conference Theme
Our goal is to examine WPAs as learners - as teachers – and as learned contributors to students’ lives, to knowledge, and to higher education. We will come together in Denver to work toward a better understanding of WPA work as an intellectual and a pedagogical activity with a rich and complicated history. I invite you to think about some of the following topics and questions. --Joe Janangelo, Program Chair
This list is suggestive. You are welcome to propose any ideas not explicitly tied to the conference theme but important to writing program administration. WPA work occurs in multiple and intersecting spheres and arenas. Hence, these questions are meant to be generative, not exhaustive. We welcome your ideas and approaches!
What have been our key or catalytic learning moments as individuals and as a profession?
What have been—and should be—our sources of learning?
How have evolving technologies and new media influenced our learning?
How can we put our learning into practice with students, colleagues, administrators, accrediting agencies, the media, and the public?
How can we best learn from the feedback—both laudatory and critical?
How is student learning marked and (mis)measured?
What have you had to “un-learn” or re-evaluate?
Thinking about readiness, receptivity, and resistance, how does learning relate to timing?
How can WPAs learn from failure and trauma? Thinking about learning as an ongoing and recursive process, how might we chart growth or development when it is attended by difficulty and setbacks? How can tension, censure, or failure contribute to learning?
How can we better document, preserve, protect, and share our learning?
How does WPA scholarship (e.g. conceived contextually as the work we do on campus as well as in grants, multimedia projects, and publications) reflect our learning as an intellectual community? How does it influence, direct, or constrain knowledge making?
What are key differences between personal and programmatic learning? How can we bridge or reconcile them?
Once again, this list is suggestive. You are welcome to propose any ideas not explicitly tied to the conference theme but important to writing program administration.
(Added by Dan Melzer on February 6, 2008 | Last Updated on February 6, 2008)
The Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (CATTW)/L'Association canadienne de professeurs de rédaction technique et scientifique (ACPRTS) is inviting proposals for its interdisciplinary international conference "Writing Beyond Borders—Writing Studies Across Disciplinary and National Borders," to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from June 1-3, 2008 in collaboration with the 2008 Congress of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS).
Rationale for the Conference
In line with the Congress theme of "Thinking Beyond Borders—Global Ideas: Global Values," the conference addresses recent changes in writing as a multifaceted knowledge-making practice across diverse academic, workplace, and national communities —changes that result from the recent shift toward a more digitally-mediated globalized community. Global ideas are very much created and maintained through written arguments, and they are intimately connected with global values—the values and beliefs that form the warrants for arguments about global issues such as sustainability, human rights, international trade, and the environment. Since writing studies is one of the key fundamentally interdisciplinary areas of study, research in writing is crucially important to efforts to understand global discourse.
Our conference theme—"Writing Beyond Borders—Writing Studies Across Disciplinary and National Borders"—points to the ways in which writing is used to mediate and construct discourse about the global ideas and values. It also encourages conference participants to examine the metaphorical borders of research in writing studies: rhetoric, composition, discourse analysis, cognitive psychology, writing across the curriculum and writing in the disciplines, linguistics, and English studies.
Conference Objectives
For this purpose, the conference organizers invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, or workshops that examine how writing practices have changed in varying academic, workplace, and global communities. Proposals are also encouraged to examine the implications of these changes for the study and teaching of academic and professional writing and communication.
We encourage presenters to propose papers that extend beyond those borders to connect ideas from outside the disciplinary (writing studies) and national territories. Suggested themes and questions include, but are not limited to the following:
How do ideas from linguistics, sociology, cultural theory, gender studies and other fields in the humanities and social sciences inform research and knowledge making in technical communication?
How can learning about current research in other countries spark new ideas or perspectives on research currently being done in Canada? Conversely, in what ways can research conducted in Canada contribute to the development of writing studies in the global community?
What is or should be the role of writing studies in the discourse that surrounds sustainability, including environmental issues?
How can the Canadian community of scholars involved in writing studies collaborate with scholars from other nations?
In what ways can research and teaching (using participatory action research and service-learning initiatives and other innovative approaches) help us think beyond the borders of our campuses and extend our work to the communities that fund our work at universities and colleges?
Presentation and Proposal Formats
The conference organizers value diversity in approaches, perspectives and presentation formats, including 15-20 minute individual papers, 90-minute panels of 3 - 5 speakers, roundtables, or 90-minute workshops.
For individual presentations and panels, we are interested in both research reports and state-of-the-art papers that engage the literature and theories to derive new research questions, agendas, and directions. In either case, proposals should include the research question to be addressed, its significance for advancing research in the field, the conceptual framework and methods or approach used to address the question, and key findings or directions as well as their implications for practice, teaching, or future research. Proposals for individual papers should not exceed 150 words (+references). Panel proposals should include a brief (<100 words) description of the panel, its rationale and objectives, as well as brief descriptions of up to 150 words (+ references) of each paper to be presented and discussed on the panel.
Roundtable proposals should raise a provocative, but critical question for the study and teaching of writing, specify the names and contributions of at least 5 individuals who have agreed to participate in the roundtable. Proposals should also outline the rationale for the roundtable, its objectives, and the suggested discussion points. Proposals should not exceed 150 words (+references).
Workshop proposals should provide a 150-word description (+references) of the workshop, its rationale, objectives, research base, facilitators, procedures, and logistical requirements (e.g., computer labs, software, hardware, etc.).
Opportunities for submitting papers to peer-reviewed scholarly publications will be available (more information to follow).
Deadlines
We plan to apply for SSHRC funding for travel grants. If you would like to apply for reimbursement for travel funding, please send your proposal to us by September 20, 2007. If you do not need travel funding, please send your proposal to us by September 30, 2007.
Where to Submit Proposals
Please email proposals with your complete contact information to the program co-chair, Heather Graves, at hgraves@rogers.com.
(Added by Dan Melzer on August 28, 2007 | Last Updated on August 28, 2007)
Ninth Bi-annual 2008 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference
The University of Texas at Austin is proud to host the 2008 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. The event will feature panelists and speakers from around the world (TBA).
This year’s conference will focus on how WAC professionals articulate theories and practices, the benefits of inter-disciplinary work, and the translation of our work for students, academic staff, administration, and those outside the academy. Read the Call for Papers for more details. Proposal deadline is Friday, September 28, 2007.
WAC 2008 will be held in the Radisson Hotel and Suites on the shores of the Colorado River in downtown Austin. History, nature, scholarship, fine arts, warm weather, the world’s largest urban bat colony, and any kind of music you can think of are all within a short walk or bus ride.
Register before March 7, 2008, for lowest rates. Registration opens end of January, 2008.
(Added by Dan Melzer on April 8, 2007 | Last Updated on April 9, 2007)
Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association Fifth Annual Conference. Everett, Washington: April 25, 2008 to April 26, 2008. http://www.pnwca.org/ . Contact: Ann Harrington at aharrington@everettcc.edu .
Description:
Call for Proposals
Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association
Fifth Annual Conference
Everett Community College, Washington
April 25 and 26, 2008
Are We Having Fun Yet? Cultivating Daily Joy in our Writing Centers
Keynote Speaker: Shanti Bruce
Let's gather in Everett to explore ways to make or keep our work fun, for ourselves and the student writers we work with daily. The conference's simple title masks many contradictions and complexities:
"Are" – This verb's sole function here is to help another. Whom are we helping?
Are we learning as we are serving?
What everyday choices are we making?
How are we balancing service and support for others with service and support for ourselves – as peer students trying to get our own work done, as administrators and faculty with competing responsibilities, as writers outside of work also, and as individuals with full personal lives that may or may not intersect with what we are doing in the writing center every day.
"We" – Who are we?
What brings us to the center? What brings students here?
Who are we in terms of ethnicity, age, gender, experience, etc.?
How many diverse voices are truly heard? How do we reach every writer?
Where are we located – in our departments, on our campuses, and in our communities?
What messages do we convey through the names we use for ourselves: tutors/consultants/assistants … administrators/directors/coordinators … students/clients/customers/writers … center/lab/resource/office?
"Having" – This present participle reflects a moment-by-moment reality. How do we support each other?
What do we gain from our daily experiences? What do student writers gain?
How are we empowering ourselves and all student writers to be heroic: to take risks and experience joy?
In what ways are we meeting our own expectations? What resources do we have to accomplish these: time, money, staff, training, professional development, our own wisdom, etc.?
How do we use our resources?
How do online and other technologies truly bring us closer together?
What is our institutional footprint? Which side are we on? Do we have or have not?
"Fun" – This is the bottom line. How do we stay alive?
What is fun about writing? About writing consulting? How do we fall in love, or back in love?
How do we balance fun with expectation, learning to be productive in less enjoyable contexts?
How are we bound or supported by the rules and conventions of our discipline, or our institution?
In what ways do we reject the notion of play?
How do we make conscious choices to enjoy the ride?
"Yet" – Time spans past, present, and future. What got us into this? Why we are still here?
How do we encourage scholarship, as individuals, as a region, and as a discipline?
What will our careers look like one, five, ten years from now?
How are we inspiring both ourselves and the students we tutor to expand the scholarly conversation?
We need to reflect honestly, with perspectives both short and long. How are we negotiating the
present? How will we continue to experience the joy of writing center work?
(Added by Dan Melzer on January 17, 2008 | Last Updated on January 17, 2008)
2008 Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference . Burlington, VT: April 12, 2008 to April 13, 2008. Contact: Pat Morelli at pmorelli@hartford.edu.
Description:
Northeast Writing Centers Association 2008 Call for Proposals
CTRL/ALT/DEL
University of Vermont, Burlington
Saturday, April 12, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm and Sunday, April 13, 8:30 am to 11:00 am
Proposals due by December 31, 2007
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Anne Ellen Geller, Dr. Michele Eodice, Dr. Frankie Condon, Dr. Meg Carroll, and Dr. Elizabeth Boquet, the celebrated authors of The Everyday Writing Center: A Community of Practice, will collaborate to kick start the twenty-fourth meeting of the NEWCA conference. Individually, these scholars, harkening from St. John's University, the University of Oklahoma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Rhode Island College, and Fairfield University, have each displayed ongoing commitment to writing center scholarship and the wider writing center community, as well as ongoing support of NEWCA. Together, they have written a book that pushes us to think more deeply about the unique situation of the writing center, using the metaphor of the trickster to explore the fluidity of writing centers, the compelling contradictions of the spaces writing centers occupy both figuratively and literally, and the opportunities for using the dynamic nature of writing center work to enhance the possibilities of writing centers as multidisciplinary centers for learning and community.
Conference Theme: CTRL/ALT/DEL
Ctrl/Alt/Del is a combination of computer keystrokes used to restart an operating system. As such, the term "Control-Alt-Delete" evokes not only the influence of technology but also themes of regeneration and persistence-recurring themes for writing center administrators, peer tutors, and student writers.
This term speaks to the dynamic nature of writing center work and raises questions about how much the writing center is a controlling force or opens space for alternative discourses, how vulnerable writing centers are to deletion while also flexible enough to accommodate change and the many forms of rebooting/restarting, how technologies inform writing center work with differing amounts of visibility and influence, and how collaborative learning, talking, and writing continue to center and empower writing center work.
NEWCA is using Ctrl/Alt/Del and its distinct components control, alternative, and delete as rhetorical frames for examining writing center research and practices. We invite proposals that investigate questions such as:
(Ctrl) What types of control do writers have over their academic writing?
How do material, technological, or institutional forces control the work of writing centers?
To what extent is the writing center is a controlling force, a force that normalizes student discourse and writing?
(Alt) How are alternative and normalized discourses negotiated through writing tutorials?
What alternative tutor or administrator practices enhance the work of writing centers?
(Del) What must be deleted-put aside-in order to rewrite, revise, re-center?
How vulnerable are writing centers or writing center missions to deletion?
(Ctrl/Alt/Del) How do writing centers restart their missions to foster even more effective collaborations?
This year we would like to continue to reach out to community college and high school writing centers in order to include more voices and perspectives in our ongoing discussion. We also highly encourage tutors and first-time presenters to send in proposals. Your proposed panel, discussion, presentation, or workshop should actively involve the audience. We welcome presentations of original scholarship and research in formats that foster active dialog with conference participants. Historically, successful panels are dynamic exchanges between audience members comprised peer tutors, graduate students and other writing center professionals and faculty.
Proposal Guidelines
Please prepare a 250- to 500-word proposal and a 75-word abstract for either a 20-minute individual presentation or a 75-minute panel/roundtable.
Please include the following information in your proposal:
* Proposer's name, position (i.e. tutor, director, etc), institution, institutional or home address, telephone number, and email address * Presenters' names with title and contact information, as above * Title of presentation, one-page description of presentation, and a 75-word abstract for inclusion in the conference program * Type of session (i.e. panel presentation, roundtable discussion, individual presentation) * Specific audiovisual and technical requests
Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of relevance to the conference theme and its application to a broad audience of writing center tutors and administrators. Submissions will also be reviewed on the basis of originality (novel perspectives, approaches, and methods), interactivity (audience participation vs. oral delivery of an essay), and clarity.
Proposal Submission
Submit your proposal by December 31, 2007, either electronically or by mail.
* Electronic submissions should be sent as an MS Word attachment or included in the body of the email to the chair of the NEWCA Proposal Reading Committee, Pat Morelli, at pmorelli@hartford.edu. * Mailed submissions should be sent to: Pat Morelli, Director, Center for Reading and Writing, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117
If you need more information about submitting proposals, please contact Pat Morelli at pmorelli@hartford.edu or (860) 768-4139.
(Added by Dan Melzer on September 26, 2007 | Last Updated on September 26, 2007)
MAWCA 2008: Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association 19th Annual Conference "Liberty and Literacy" Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
The organizers of the 19th Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association invite proposals that consider writing center work as it relates to liberty and literacy. High school students, graduate and undergraduate college students, writing center professionals, faculty and instructors are encouraged to submit proposals.
The following are some possible topics, but please feel free to expand the list.
Academic freedom and writing center work: how do writing centers promote or constrain academic freedom? Who is "free" to visit the writing center? What role do (or should) writing centers play in determining what students should learn? What is the role of faculty in the writing center?
Freedom of expression and writing center work: How does our work in the writing center contribute to freedom of expression? What responsibilities come with freedom of expression? Are students free to express anything in their papers, or only "appropriate" things?
Democracy and literacy: How does writing center work support democracy? What are the communities and constituencies of the writing center? What rules govern our work?
Liberty and pedagogy: Does writing center pedagogy make writers "free"?
Proposals for individual presentations (15 minutes), panel presentations (45 minutes), roundtable discussions (45 minutes) and poster presentations are welcome. Proposals are due by Friday, January 4th. To submit a proposal, please download a copy of the proposal form at http://faculty.mc3.edu/hhalbert/MAWCA/2008/CFP.html and email the completed proposal to MAWCA2008@temple.edu.
(Added by Dan Melzer on October 24, 2007 | Last Updated on October 24, 2007)
2008 Santa Barbara Conference on Writing Research University of California Santa Barbara February 22-24, 2008
Call for Proposals:
Theme: Writing Research Across Borders Due Date: May 1 Length: under 300 words
The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and the Writing Programs at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of California, Davis invite proposals for their interdisciplinary conference, "Writing Research Across Borders," to be held February 22-24, 2008 in Santa Barbara, California.
This is an exciting time where research on writing is having many births, rebirths, and growing spurts in many nations, with foci on many levels of schooling and development across the lifespan. At the 2008 Santa Barbara Conference on Writing Research we hope to foster dialogues across different writing research traditions, located in varied national, disciplinary, and programmatic venues. We have invited a premier panel of plenary and featured speakers to represent the diversity of writing research in the world and to open the door for further broad participation from researchers of all nations interested in exploring writing across all life stages, institutional settings, and disciplinary approaches.
This conference follows on the successes of the 2002 and 2005 Santa Barbara Conferences on Writing Research, which had the themes of "Writing as A Human Activity" and "Writing Research in the Making." Information about the 2005 conference is available at http://education.ucsb.edu/netshare/wrconf05/. Further information about our upcoming 2008 conference is available at http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/wrconf08/.
We invite proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual presentations that discuss works in progress, completed research, and reflections on how writing research is conceived, proposed, funded, carried out, published, and responded to. Conference proposals should be submitted by May 1, 2007. Proposals should be under 300 words and in English (for a fuller statement on language diversity at our conference, please see http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/wrconf08/language.html ). Please send proposals via email (as a Microsoft Word attachment or in the email body) to writing@education.ucsb.edu or send paper copies to the address below.
TRAVEL ASSISTANCE FELLOWSHIPS:
In addition, through the generosity of the Writing Program of the University of California at Davis and Chris Thaiss, the Clark Kerr Professor of Writing at UC Davis, we are able to offer a small number of fellowships to help support travel expenses for speakers. Fellowships will be awarded based on financial need and proposal quality. If you would like to apply for a fellowship, please submit a separate fellowship application letter explaining your need for funding.
If you have questions about the fellowship application letter or other aspects of the submission process, please feel free to contact Dr. Charles Bazerman or Suzie Null, the Writing Research Across Borders Conference Coordinators. Both can be reached at the address at the bottom of the page.
Thank you for your interest in our conference. If you have any questions please contact us at the above addresses below.
For the Organizing Committee,
Charles Bazerman Sheridan Blau Robert Krut Susan McLeod Suzie Null Paul Rogers Amanda Stansell
Committee Contact Information: writing@education.ucsb.edu. or Writing Research Across Borders Conference Proposal Committee c/o Charles Bazerman Gevirtz Graduate School of Education UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9490
(Added by Dan Melzer on March 7, 2007 | Last Updated on March 7, 2007)
2008 Conference: "Work in Progress, Destination Unknown"
February 7—9, 2008 | Savannah, Georgia | Armstrong Center | hosted by Armstrong Atlantic State University
Call for Papers
SWCA's 2008 conference aims to provide a forum for ideas about new directions in writing center practice.
Writing center theory—combining aspects of administration, communication, hermeneutics, language, pedagogy, psychology, rhetoric, semiotics, etc.—lies at the heart of writing center practice. Theory, we contend, should be thoughtfully deliberated before new practices are broadly advocated.
We are open to conference proposals articulating theories spanning the entire range of practices relevant to writing center operations. We have so many things to think about. For instance, how might we anticipate and counter institutional challenges to what we do? How might we enhance our tutoring by incorporating advanced technology or multimedia applications into our sessions? How might movements within contemporary literature inform the ways in which we tutor? How might we expand our services by launching satellite locations? How might we find and allocate resources to meet our projected needs? How might we promote the establishment of writing centers in non-university settings, such as high schools, police academies, seminaries, business schools, and so on? These questions highlight only a few of the theoretical and practical concerns confronting us.
Proposals will be evaluated on the basis of theoretical importance, originality, clarity, and relevance to a broad audience. Interactive presentations, discussion panels, and poster displays are especially encouraged. Proposals may address tested theories as well as those still being tested, with an emphasis on novel perspectives, approaches, and methods.
Please forward your proposals/abstracts by Friday, October 12, to Dr. Deborah Reese at reesedeb@mail.armstrong.edu. Respondents will be notified of acceptance Monday, October 29—Friday, November 2.
(Added by Dan Melzer on January 7, 2007 | Last Updated on January 7, 2007)
2007 IWCA/SCWCA Conference. Houston, TX: April 12, 2007 to April 14, 2007. Contact: Dagmar Corrigan at corrigand@uhd.edu.
Description: International Writing Centers Association and South Central Writing Centers Association Call for Proposals April 12-14, 2007 The Magnolia Hotel Houston, TX
"A Space for Writing: Writing Centers and Place"
Houston occupies a place in the world's mind as "Space City - a place of infinite possibilities," inextricably linked to NASA, oil, and cancer research. Little-known to those outside of Texas, Houston occupies in its own mind the place known as H-Town, the Bayou City, 713, 281, and 832 (area codes for the surrounding metropolitan area). Each of these defines Houston in different but meaningful ways.
Writing centers are also "places of infinite possibilities," or are they? In thinking about our writing center work, how does the rhetorical notion of space and place define our writing center ethos, the work we do, the people we serve, the theories we create, and the spaces we inhabit? For this conference, the organizers reach out to the community college writing centers and ask how do community colleges define writing center space? How do writing centers define the community colleges' place?
IWCA/SCWCA 2007 invites attendees to explore new frontiers-to boldly go where no writing center conference has gone before. Broad interpretations of the following topics are warmly encouraged. Sample topics include, but are not limited to: * Physical space * Rhetorical space * Mental space * Cultural space * Gendered space * Racial space * Inclusive/exclusive space * Minimal space * Visual space * Historical space * Virtual space * Spacing out
The following strands on timeless Writing Center topics are also welcome: ESL, tutor training, WAC, grammar, administration, assessment, technology, theory, and research.
Prepare a 500 word proposal and a 75 word abstract for poster sessions, 20-minute individual presentations, 90-minute panels/roundtables, 90-minute workshops, ½ day pre-conference workshops, or ½ day post-conference workshops. Proposals may be submitted online to (web address forthcoming) or via surface mail to: Dagmar Corrigan, University of Houston-Downtown, Dept. of English, One Main Street, Houston, TX 77002.
Proposal Deadline: September 15, 2006 Acceptance Notification: December 15, 2006
For questions, please email Dagmar Corrigan at corrigand@uhd.edu
(Added by Dan Melzer on April 16, 2006 | Last Updated on April 16, 2006)
The MAWCA 2007 committee is happy to announce it's registration time!
The Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association will hold its 18th Annual Conference at Eastern University in St. Davids, PA on March 30-31. This year's theme is Growing More Attentive to the Manner of Writing: Looking at the Writing Center through the Spectacles of Franklin.
If we look at our writing centers through the lens of Benjamin Franklin’s career, what will we see? How are we, like Franklin,
Scientists and Inventors
Diplomats and Politicians
Philanthropists
Writers and Publishers
Propagandists and Patriots
Keynote speakers Jon Olson and Corinne Thatcher explore the possibilities of "Benjamin Franklin's Writing Center." Other key events:
Friday: opening reception and registration 5-7 PM.
Saturday: registration and continental breakfast 8-9 AM.
The Northern California Writing Centers Association is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its 2007 annual conference on March 3, 2007,“Creativity and the Writing Center,” to be held at Sacramento State University. We are delighted to present Dr. Sondra Perl, Professor of English, LehmanCollege, CUNY as the keynote speaker.
Creativity may not be the first association that tutors, faculty, students, and administrators make when thinking of writing centers, but creativity is important in every aspect of writing center life, from tutor training to working with writers to running the writing center. We encourage proposals that discuss creative approaches to writing center theory and practice and the role of creativity in the day-to-day life of a writing center.
To submit an individual or panel proposal, send a title and abstract of 150-300 words to Professor Cherryl Smith, conference chair, at writingcenter@csus.edu. Please include presenter(s) name, institutional affiliation, and contact information, including email.
The submission deadline is Dec. 20, 2006. For the program registration form and additional conference information, visit our website at http://www.csus.edu/writingcenter/ncwca.
(Added by Dan Melzer on November 22, 2006 | Last Updated on November 22, 2006)
The CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication is pleased to announce the site of the 2008 annual Computers and Writing Conference, May 21-24 at the University of Georgia in Athens. Congratulations to Christy Desmet, Nelson Hilton, and Ron Balthazor for submitting the winning proposal. For more information, including the proposal, please see:
For more than two decades, the biennial Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition has been an important forum for scholars interested in rhetoric and the teaching of writing. This year the conference is celebrating its twentieth anniversary of providing participants with the opportunity to share ideas with leading scholars and to enjoy the intimate and informal setting of The Nittany Lion Inn on the Penn State University Park campus.
CONFERENCE THEME
Rhetorical activities have always taken place in technological contexts of one sort or another, whether a scriptorium, a traditional classroom, a state-of-the-art cybertorium, or other work space, private as well as public. In this day and age those contexts have become ever more visible because they have multiplied in number and influence, ever more involved because they increasingly encompass literate activity, and ever more contested because they embody values and aspirations. For these reasons (and a few others), technological contexts have moved toward the center of disciplinary conversations and encouraged people to think expansively and sometimes untraditionally about their practices and perspectives. The 20th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition will address this ongoing state of affairs. Its theme will be "Rhetorics and Technologies."
The conference theme operates out of three fundamental assumptions about the nature of technological contexts. First, technological contexts encompass more than just physical devices like computers and books. They also involve systems, techniques, and methods for rationalizing work and society. As Walter Ong taught, language itself is something of a technology. Second, technological contexts are overdetermined: multiple forces and factors—historical, political, cultural, institutional, economic, and so on—shape the directions and priorities of technological projects. In other words, there is no one-to-one correspondence between technology and change, innovation, or social transformation. Third, and perhaps ironically, technological contexts bring to the surface human problems rather than technical problems, problems that inevitably draw in crucial questions of subjectivity, identity, agency, materiality, methodology, pedagogy, representation, and interdisciplinarity. As these assumptions suggest, technological contexts are decidedly rhetorical in character.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The program committee invites proposals for papers focusing on any of the questions listed below and on any subject that provides fresh perspectives on connections between rhetorics and technologies.
Submit abstracts via e-mail attachment to rhetoric2007@outreach.psu.edu Paper submissions (500-word abstracts) will be accepted until February 15, 2007.
Instructions for Paper Submissions
Abstracts should be 500 or fewer words.
Abstracts should focus on one central theme.
Abstracts should contain the following content sections: a. Background or Context b. Central Theme (questions you are trying to address) c. Method of Approach or Inquiry d. Conclusions
Titles should be twenty-five or fewer words.
All contributing authors should be identified.
During March 2007 you will receive notification regarding abstract acceptance. Important note: persons whose abstracts are accepted should register for the conference by June 1 or the abstract acceptance and opportunity to present may be canceled.
Questions regarding proposals should be sent to: Stuart Selber Department of English The Pennsylvania State University E-mail: selber@psu.edu
Questions for Inquiry—Rhetorics and Technologies
The assumptions of the conference theme provide a conceptual backdrop for paper proposals on any number of questions for inquiry. These include, but certainly are not limited to, the following:
* What might history contribute to a rhetorical understanding of technological contexts writ broadly?
* How does rhetoric, as it has been traditionally mapped out, both illuminate and fail to illuminate the design and use of literacy technologies?
* How do issues of technology intersect with issues of identity, subjectivity, and agency? With race, class, gender, and ability? With other contemporary theory issues and categories?
* What do productive technologies look like in terms of their design? What specific contributions can rhetoricians hope to make to technological design practices?
* How are people currently working with technologies of production and reception? What, then, does it now mean to read and write? Teach and learn? Conduct and produce research and scholarship?
* What types of challenges accompany the task of integrating technologies into courses, programs, and institutions? Into spaces that involve nonacademic work?
* What are the ethical, legal, and professional questions raised by technology and its current contexts? How should our discipline think about such matters?
* What might be especially productive methods for studying and evaluating technology in context?
(Added by Dan Melzer on December 8, 2006 | Last Updated on December 8, 2006)
Quinnipiac University's First National Conference on Writing as Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines. Hamden, CT: November 17, 2006 to November 18, 2006. http://www.quinnipiac.edu/wac. Contact: Timothy Dansdill at Timothy.Dansdill@quinnipiac.edu.
Description: Quinnipiac University's First National Conference on Writing as Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines
November 17-18, 2006 The College of Liberal Arts at Quinnipiac University 275 Mount Carmel Ave, Hamden, CT
Proposal Deadline: June 15, 2006
Quinnipiac University's First National Conference on Writing as Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines invites proposals from all disciplines, and especially from inter-curricular and cross-disciplinary teams, which highlight the integration of Critical Thinking Research with the best practices of teaching Writing and Rhetoric Across the Disciplines. Once the exclusive province of Philosophy, over the past two decades Critical Thinking has emerged across the curricula of many disciplines-Health Sciences, Business, Legal Studies-and is taking on the status of a "Movement" that our conference would like presenters and participants to consider in parallel with the 30 year old Writing Across the Curriculum Movement. Another, more useful analogy for imagining the actual integration of these two "critical" movements might be that of a bridge under construction. The analogy of a bridge in this case raises the question that motivates this national conference: What are the challenges in, and new pedagogical possibilities for, joining these two far reaching movements in higher education? How can faculty across the disciplines help one another build new bridges between cross-curricular writing and critical thinking?
Our key note speaker will be John Bean, professor of English at Seattle University, where he holds the title of "Consulting Professor of Writing and Assessment." The author of the widely used Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom, he has been active in the writing-across-the-curriculum movement since its inception in the 1970's. He will present his most recent research assessing the critical thinking skills of graduating seniors, and will draw connections between critical thinking, argumentative writing, and rhetoric across the disciplines.
We welcome individual, panel, and roundtable session proposals that are grounded in the traditional principles and practices from Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines, as well as those that employ more recent evolutions in critical reading and writing using Electronic Communication and Digital Rhetoric. We are particularly interested, however, in presentations that connect findings from the last twenty years of research on Critical Thinking with the goals of general educational reform that are now associated with the WAC movement.
We invite colleagues to consider one of three different themes for defining proposals and organizing presentations.
Theme A--Starting Out: Writing to Learn as Critical Thinking or Vice Versa? Theme B--Getting Across: Assessing Critical Thinking Strategies and Writing to Communicate Disciplinary Knowledge Theme C--Going Beyond: New Directions in Critical Thinking and Writing Across the Disciplines
To ensure broad participation, proposal for individual papers are limited to 20 minutes and may be grouped into panels at the discretion of the conference committee. Panel presentations are limited to 80 minutes, including 20 minutes for discussion.
Proposals will be read and email replies as to acceptance by August 15, 2006.
All proposals should include the following information:
Individual Proposals (300-500 words) should include: Description of the paper topic and appropriate contact information.
Panel Proposals (300-500 words) should include: Description of the panel topic, panel participants, and appropriate contact information.
Send proposals via email attachment to Timothy Dansdill, Assistant Professor of English, Timothy.Dansdill@quinnipiac.edu
Please Type QUWAC Conference Proposal in the Subject Window.
No Proposals will be Considered After June 15. (Added by Dan Melzer on April 19, 2006 | Last Updated on September 24, 2006)
The 11th WDHE Conference: Challenging Institutional Priorities, May11-12, offers a forum for participants to explore the implications of developing approaches to supporting student writing against the backdrop of wider HE and institutional agendas.
Keynote Speakers:
Rob Pope Professor of English Studies, Oxford Brookes University
Roz Ivanic Professor of Linguistics in Education, University of Lancaster
Leverhulme Debate with Sally Mitchell, Thinking & Writing Project, Queen Mary, University of London, and David Russell Professor of Rhetoric & Professional Communication, Iowa State University
Higher education is in a constant state of flux, resulting in changing and increasing demands being made upon universities and their academic and learning support staff. Universities are required to respond to widening participation agendas at the same time as making sure that the curriculum prepares students for the workplace in what is commonly referred to as the ‘knowledge economy’.
At the same time, outcomes and skills based education has taken precedence over other approaches to delivering the curriculum. Funding initiatives around teaching and learning are increasingly linked to these agendas and to the implementation of new technologies.
Although student writing is at the very heart of many of these its significance for learning is often overlooked and sidelined in terms of the mainstream curriculum.
WDHE 2006 will provide participants with the opportunity to explore how they can best support student writing in this present climate; an environment where initiatives around student writing often appear marginalised in the face of other institutional priorities and policies. It will also address the question of how to support students in the light of research in the field which continues to provide evidence for the complex relationship between writing and learning and the construction of disciplines and subjects.
Important dates and deadlines
Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 15, 2005 (see the CALL for Papers page)
Notification of accepted abstracts: End of January 2006
Registration opens November 2005
Deadline for presenters to register: March2006
(Added by Dan Melzer on October 23, 2005 | Last Updated on October 29, 2006)
* Civic Engagement, keynote by Barbara A. Holland * ePortfolios, keynote by Kathleen Blake Yancey * Faculty Development, keynote by Barbara E. Walvoord * First-Year Experiences, keynote by Betsy O. Barefoot * Student Development and Diversity, keynote by George D. Kuh
CONTINUING OUR TRADITIONS - We will present sessions emphasizing:
* Accreditation * Assessment in Major Fields * Assessment in General Education * Community College Assessment
In-depth Learning Opportunities with Scholars/Practitioners for all Faculty and Administrators
Pre-Institute Workshops and Best Practices Fair
Concurrent Workshops with leaders of successful assessment initiatives including:
Or contact: Trudy W. Banta Professor of Higher Education Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Academic Planning and Evaluation Planning and Institutional Improvement Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis 355 N. Lansing Street, AO 140 Indianapolis, IN 46202-2896 Phone: 317.274.4111; Fax: 317.274.4651 Email: tbanta@iupui.edu or
Karen E. Black Director of Program Review Phone: 317.274.4111; Fax: 317.274.4651 kblack@iupui.edu (Added by Dan Melzer on September 6, 2006 | Last Updated on September 6, 2006)
Computers and Writing 2006 invites proposals for its May 25-28 conference. Hosted by TexasTechUniversity, the theme for the program is “Still Making Knowledge on the Frontier(s).” To submit proposals by January 15 for workshops, poster sessions, round table discussions, and individual or panel presentations, please see http://computersandwriting.org/cw2006.
While each year brings new research questions to the field, scholars and instructors still wrestle with many enduring issues. In addition to our quest to understand more about writing, writing instruction, and training new writing instructors, we wish to examine the use of datagogy in our field, the continued search for valid and reliable visual and socially-networked writing environment assessment methodologies, the exploration of communication through wireless and mobile technologies, the developed integration of open-source tools with system-wide electronic performance support system services, and the increased influence of technical communication on composition. We encourage submissions in response to the following:
What have we learned about writing and writing instruction? How are we preparing others to teach in light of what we've learned? How are we disseminating our research results?
How are interface and interaction design important to computers and writing?
Where are wide-scale teaching and assessment tools taking us? Consider ePortfolios, database delivery systems, social network tools, integration with publisher companion Web site resources, online warehouses, and powerful search engines and specialized search routines.
Where and what knowledge is being created, and how is it being recognized? Consider issues such as copyright/copyleft, intellectual property, online education, and promotion and tenure.
How are research techniques to study newly technologized contexts being adapted/created?
How are we resisting/embracing applications/ideologies from other disciplines For instance, how are we operating in the "corporate (or corporatized) university?
How are we making room in our disciplines for new ideas and new voices?
What is (or should be) the relationship between technical communication and composition?
Which technological tools have we adopted out of necessity, and what are our current choices?
How has the use of technology in writing centers contributed to knowledge making in writing instruction? What are some of the new frontiers we're exploring and what are we learning from them?
We look forward to seeing you in Lubbock May 25-28.
- The TTU Technical Communication and Rhetoric Faculty and Graduate Students
(Added by Dan Melzer on November 27, 2005 | Last Updated on November 27, 2005)
Description:Eighth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference May 18-20, 2006 The Conference Center & Inn at Clemson University Clemson, South Carolina Proposal Deadline: September 26, 2005.
We are delighted to announce the Eighth International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. We encourage proposals from all disciplines and from cross-disciplinary teams on a wide range of topics of interest to faculty, graduate students, and administrators at two- and four-year colleges. These topics include:
· WAC: Writing Across the Curriculum · WID: Writing in the Disciplines · CAC: Communication Across the Curriculum, which includes oral, visual, digital, and written communication · ECAC: Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum.
We invite proposals of five session types: individual presentations; full panels; roundtable sessions; poster sessions; and pre-conference workshops. In addition, we invite submission of proposals in the following broad categories:
Theme A: Teaching: Using WAC, WID, CAC, or ECAC in Teaching Disciplinary Courses
Theme B: Research, History, Theory, and Contemporary Practice
Theme C: Program Design, Implementation, Administration, Outreach, and Assessment
Theme D: WAC, CAC, and Technology
Theme E: The Politics of WAC
Theme F: Cross Thematic and Other Related Topics
For program proposal forms and additional conference information, please see our website <www.clemson.edu/pearce/wac2006>. Please also feel free to contact the conference planners at wac2006-L@clemson.edu or fax, 864.656.1846. You may also contact the conference co-directors: Art Young (864.656.3062) or Kathi Yancey (864.656.5394), Department of English, 616 Strode Tower, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0523. (Added by Dan Melzer on April 12, 2005 | Last Updated on April 12, 2005)
Description: The Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association is pleased to announce its 17th annual conference April 8, 2006 at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference."
Robert Frost
Writers journey through words; however, the journey is often not easy, and the path is not always clear. Tutors, then, can be helpful guides, providing assistance as writers work through the writing process. For MAWCA 2006, we invite you to reflect on the multiple paths and diverse directions that writing centers—and writing tutorials—can take. We invite tutors, directors, and students to extend the metaphor of journeying in many different ways:
* What are the well-traveled and less-traveled writing center roads? * What is the role of talk in our work—both f2f and online? How do we talk to clients? How do we talk among ourselves? How doe we talk to those new to or outside our field? * In what ways do our paths intersect to form a community of tutors and/or writers? * How can we effectively guide tutors on this journey of assisting writers? * How do we create and/or share writing center theory and practice? * As our journey becomes increasingly virtual, what changes? What is gained or lost? * What other metaphors can we use to describe and discuss what we do?
We are honored to feature Dr. James Inman as our keynote speaker. James Inman teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in English at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. His writing center publications include the co-edited collection Taking Flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work and the co-edited CD-ROM The OWL Construction and Maintenance Guide, as well as articles and reviews in Writing Center Journal and Writing Lab Newsletter. (Added by Dan Melzer on November 10, 2005 | Last Updated on November 10, 2005)
Making Connections: Conversations Among Communities
Souhegan High School, Amherst, New Hampshire Saturday, April 8, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
The Northeast Writing Center Association (NEWCA) is a regional affiliate of the International Writing Center Association (IWCA). This annual conference is a full-day event providing writing center tutors, staff, faculty, administrators, and scholars with opportunities to interact with colleagues from other writing centers in the Northeast. This conference includes workshops, panel presentations, and presentations on writing center research, plus a luncheon, and a pre-conference open-mic coffeehouse. During the conference, NEWCA members will also vote on issues relevant to the functioning and governance of the association. We look forward to seeing you there.
Conference Theme: "Making Connections: Conversations Among Communities"
Writing centers are proliferating in many different kinds of contexts—universities, two-year colleges, technical colleges and universities, high schools, middle schools, community centers, as well as virtual spaces. The NEWCA 2006 conference, hosted for the first time by a high school, highlights this diversity. This year’s conference will explore the conversations that take place within, through, among and in relation to writing centers. Sessions will explore the many kinds of conversations that are part of writing center work, as well as the many communities that are intertwined with writing centers, within academia and in the community at large.
(Added by Dan Melzer on February 11, 2006 | Last Updated on February 11, 2006)
Conference on Writing, Teaching, and Technology, K-College. University of Massachusetts Amherst; Amherst, MA: April 7, 2006 to April 8, 2006. http://www.umass.edu/english/WTTConf. Contact: Corry Colonna and/or Mary Wilson at wttconf@english.umass.edu.
New technology is providing new venues for writers and for teachers of writing, offering us all exciting possibilities and different perspectives on what writing is, can, or should be.As tech-savvy students post blogs and teachers engage with new software to organize their courses and share student writing, technology challenges our definitions and practices of writing instruction.The Conference on Writing, Teaching, and Technology, K-College, will be an opportunity for teachers from all grade levels to share ideas, methods, and projects on integrating technology effectively into the writing classroom, and to address the question, “How has technology affected writing and the teaching of writing?”
Featured Speakers:
Kathleen Yancey, Professor of English, FloridaStateUniversity
Charles Moran, Professor Emeritus of English, The University of MassachusettsAmherst
About the Conference
The rapid development of computer capabilities is providing new venues for writing, for people of all ages: personal web pages, web diaries, and blogs make it possible for people to write and share their work around the globe.As technology facilitates writing, it also challenges our very notion of writing.Writers can compose not only with words, but also with images and sound.Software programs are moving far beyond spell-checking; some are being marketed claiming to evaluate writing.Finally, technology also provides new opportunities for teaching writing (for example, electronic writing portfolios; software, like WebCT, that organizes courses and facilitates sharing of drafts; distanced education platforms).This conference aims to allow teachers from different backgrounds and with different interests to share methods, ideas, and projects for using technology effectively in the writing classroom.
Questions we hope to consider include: What has technology done to the concept of writing?To what extent does technology privilege print and graphics over oral and aural modes of communication?What am I to teach when I teach “writing”?What are effective ways to incorporate existing and emerging technologies into writing instruction to serve specific teaching ends?How might new technologies assist in assessment?How do I assess software programs?What are the costs of differential access to technology?
Conference Topics Include:
Evolving Practices for Evaluating and Citing Online Source Materials
Technological Tools for Re-Sensing Writing
Assigning and Judging Writing in the Digital Age
Making Connections: Creating a Virtual Writing Community
Teaching Photographic, Audio, and Video Composition: Motivating Theories and Practical Concerns
Teachers as Travel Guides: Surrendering the Role of "Expert" in Computerized Composition Classrooms
Changing Literacies
Using IMovie to Develop Students as Collaborators in Writing Groups
Shaping a Writing Community for Faculty and Students: How a Program Portal and Interactive Class Websites Reflect, Reinforce, and May Alter Our Teaching Practices in Freshman English
If Not Books, Then What: The Future of Publisher-Supplied Pedagogical Tools
K-12 Roundtable Discussion
Digital Storytelling: A Cross-Grade Claymation Adventure
Questions about the conference? See our website for more details (www.umass.edu/english/WTTConf), or email Mary Wilson and Corry Colonna, Conference Co-Coordinators, at wttconf@english.umass.edu.
(Added by Mary Wilson on October 20, 2005 | Last Updated on February 16, 2006)
ECWCA Conference. Alliance, Ohio: March 9, 2006 to March 11, 2006. http://www.ecwca.org .
Description:
The Work at Hand: Investigation, Articulation, and Labor in the Center The 28th Conference of the East Central Writing Centers Association
March 9-11, 2006 Mount Union College Alliance, OH
One of the most persistent problems in writing center work is enabling our institutions and campus communities to understand what we do, why we do it, and how we do it-at least enough to trust the work we are doing. As we struggle for this collective understanding, which can extend to our sense of in/exclusion in/from the academic community and our sense of how our work is valued there, we also fight for autonomy and self-determination that other academic entities seldom enjoy. At times, our field can seem at odds with itself in pursuing these seemingly conflicting goals of inclusion and autonomy, and at a loss for articulating in meaningful ways for others how we know what we do is working. Somehow, we know that our work is very different and needs to be so; others have not always understood that.
We can make this better-our field's emphasis on collaboration is one of its greatest gifts. The question is how. This conference theme takes a stab at that question with two premises that should be familiar to most writing center supporters: we understand better when we communicate what we know & how we know it, and we know more when we work through our ideas with others. When we work toward deeper understanding of our own work, together, we also facilitate greater depth in explaining and exploring what we do with others. This conference is designed to provoke and share that depth of understanding.
Potential conference topics should interest tutors as well as others, and can include but are not limited to:
Assessment Writing center research work Making tutoring work with your course load/major Keeping work as a tutor manageable Working with specific groups Working with challenging peers/colleagues/writers The intra-institutional work of the writing center Integrating the working responsibilities/roles of the Writing Center Director Working out (of) the history of (the) writing center(s) Importing/exporting writing center work Best practices/what works Working with technology The labor and workers in writing centers
Deadlines are as follows:
Proposals: Extended to December 15th, 2005 Early registration ends: February 1st, 2006
Please visit www.ecwca.org for further details.
(Added by Dan Melzer on November 10, 2005 | Last Updated on November 10, 2005)
South Central Writing Centers Association 2006 Annual Conference. Little Rock, Arkansas: February 23, 2006 to February 25, 2006. http://www.scwca.net,. Contact: Allison Denman Holland.
Description:
South Central Writing Centers Associaiton
2006 Call for Proposals
Proposal deadline:November 15
Please join the South Central Writing Centers Association for “Looking Back, Reaching Forward: Writing Centers as the Center of WAC,” the 2006 annual conference hosted by the Universityof Arkansas at Little Rock on February 23-25. Dr. Joan Mullin, director of the WAC initiative for the College of Liberal Artsat University of Texas-Austin, former co-editor of The Writing Center Journal, and past president of IWCA, is the keynote speaker.
The nature of writing center work offers multiple opportunities for WAC initiatives, even in academic environments where WAC programs are not formalized.Historically, writing centers have been challenged to prove their effectiveness in improving writing across the curriculum in formal and informal ways. Our responses have been flexible, innovative, creative and sometimes unique to individual campus circumstances, while retaining unique writing center identities.Over time, writing center leaders have gained wider professional and academic recognition, tutors have experience enhanced training, and writing centers are now recognized as vital elements of campus-wide learning communities.
Share your experiences with and dreams for writing centers and WAC. Please join us for a lively, informative conference about our collective work.Suggestions for proposal topics are located under Call for Papers at www.scwca.net, the SCWCA website, along with Proposal and Registration forms and other conference information. The deadline for proposal submissions is November 15.Acceptance notifications will be sent out by December 30.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to
§unique writing center techniques developed to meet disciplinary needs
§problems faced by writing centers when organized WAC programs do not exist on their campuses
§methods developed to build mini-WAC between writing centers and academic programs
§writing center administrator initiatives to create WAC environments on campuses where WAC is not formalized
§methods of tutor training which enhance working with writers from across the curriculum
§individual writing center histories which explore and demonstrate change and adaptation to meet WAC needs
§creative tutor initiatives which enhance WAC services
§writing center internal and/or external training initiatives used to reach individual faculty across the curriculum
§the effectiveness of writing center theory in improving writing across the disciplines on campus
§success stories of WAC and writing center collaboration
§cautionary tales of misadventures in WAC and the effects on writing center work across the campus
§creative, innovative problem-solving techniques for writing centers not yet involved in WAC initiatives
Questions? Contact: Allison Denman Holland, Conference Chair University Writing Center--SUB 116 University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2801 South University Little Rock, AR 72202 Office: (501) 569-8311 Fax: (501) 569-8279
(Added by Dan Melzer on September 21, 2005 | Last Updated on September 21, 2005)
Southeastern Writing Center Association 2006 Annual Conference. Chapel Hill, NC: February 16, 2006 to February 18, 2006. http://uwp.aas.duke.edu/wstudio/swca/.
Description:
The Southeastern Writing Center Association is pleased to announce an early call for proposals for its 2006 annual conference, February 16-18: “Let’s Research: Gathering Evidence to Support Writing Center Work.” Co-hosted by the University of North Carolina and Duke University, the conference venue is at the historic Carolina Inn in Chapel Hill. Neal Lerner, co-editor of the Writing Center Journal and co-author of The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring, is the keynote speaker.
As writing centers, we are increasingly called upon to demonstrate our effectiveness and catalog our contributions to the communities we serve. While our institutions vary widely, we share a common need to investigate our theory and practice and convey our knowledge in measurable, convincing ways.We invite you to submit a proposal on any aspect of writing center work and to think creatively about what kinds of problems you’d like to solve, knowledge you’d like to gain, theories you’d like to investigate, and practices you’d like to test or measure. The early submission deadline is June 1 (acceptance notification by July 1) and the regular submission deadline is Sept. 15 (acceptance notification by Oct. 15). The conference web site is http://uwp.aas.duke.edu/wstudio/swca/.
(Added by Dan Melzer on April 28, 2005 | Last Updated on April 28, 2005)
23rd National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Sweetland Writing Center, Ann Arbor, MI: February 7, 2006 to February 7, 2006. http://www.lsa.umich.edu/swc/ncptw/.
Description:
The 23rd National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing will convene to address issues of power and authority as they play out in the specialized practice of peer tutoring. Participants will consider a variety of perspectives on how tutors can best balance their roles as authority and facilitator, as well as how, on an institutional level, writing centers negotiate the tension between personal and academic literacy.
Call For Papers:GayleMorrisSweetlandWritingCenter at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, seeks proposals for 75-minute sessions that consider practical, historical and theoretical aspects of the theme of authority in the writing center. We emphasize tutor-led, active presentations providing the opportunity for audience interaction and/or discussion. Applicants should submit a one-page proposal (250 words) and an abstract (50 words) no later than April 10, 2006. Proposals should include the type (workshop, panel, individual) and length of presentation, name, affiliation and email address of presenter(s), and title of the presentation. Send these materials as attachments to NCPTW06@umich.edu.
(Added by Dan Melzer on February 7, 2006 | Last Updated on February 7, 2006)
The conference provides a forum to discuss ways in which communication skills (written, oral, visual, digital and numerical) are used to enhance the learning process in the disciplines. Competence in the various modes of communication empowers students to explore, assess and create knowledge, as well as bear the responsibility for its ethical dissemination. Thus, we hope, through interdisciplinary dialog and sharing of teaching/learning experiences, to foster a learning community where passion for knowledge is inspired, rhetorical skill promoted and civic responsibility instilled. Pedagogical issues that affect engagement, creativity, integrity, and evaluation are also addressed. Learning excellence, in all disciplines, can be cultivated and sustained.
Keynote Speaker: Chris Anson, Director of the Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North CarolinaStateUniversity
(Added by Amani Elshimi on May 2, 2005 | Last Updated on July 7, 2005)
MAWPA/CWA Conference. St. Louis: October 27, 2005 to October 28, 2005. Contact: Donna Strickland at StricklandDG@missouri.edu.
Description: The Mid-America Writing Program Administrators (a regional affiliate of the National Council of Writing Program Administrators) and the Missouri Colloquium on Writing Assessment are pleased to invite proposals for sessions at their second annual joint meeting, to be hosted by St. Louis University and Fontbonne University in St. Louis on October 27-28, 2005.
This is an opportunity for writing instructors, writing program administrators, anyone concerned with writing assessment, and others to meet in a friendly, supportive environment to discuss the issues that affect us as both scholars and administrators. Such issues might include, but are not limited to:
* Assessment * Faculty Development * First-year Writing Programs * WAC/WID Initiatives * Writing and General Education * Basic Writing * Portfolios * Connections with Public Schools * Program Coherence * State-mandated Assessment * Curriculum Reform * Contingent Faculty * Research Methodologies & Opportunities
We especially encourage proposals for interactive workshops. Proposals should be submitted to Donna Strickland (StricklandDG@missouri.edu) no later than August 15, 2005. Please include a description of about 100 words and indicate your desired format (individual speaker, panel, interactive workshop, etc.). Presenters will be notified by September 6.
Information about conference location and housing is forthcoming. In the meantime, questions can be directed to Donna Strickland or Marty Townsend (TownsendM@missouri.edu). (Added by Dan Melzer on August 3, 2005 | Last Updated on August 3, 2005)
2006 NEWCA Conference. Amherst, NH: October 23, 2005 to October 23, 2005. Contact: Leslie Van Wagner at lvanwagner@rivier.edu .
Description:
Call for Proposals
Northeast Writing Centers Association (NEWCA)
2006 Annual Conference
Proposals due by December 20, 2005.
Saturday, April 8, 8:30 am to 5:00 pm at Souhegan High School, in Amherst, New Hampshire
Plus a pre-conference Open-Mic Coffeehouse on Friday, April 7, 6 to 9 pm at the Dion Center Reception Room, Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire
About this Conference:
The Northeast Writing Center Association is a regional affiliate of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA).This annual conference is a full-day event providing writing center tutors, staff, faculty, administrators, and scholars with opportunities to interact with colleagues from other writing centers in the Northeast.This conference includes workshops, panel presentations, and presentations on writing center research, plus a luncheon, and a pre-conference open-mic coffeehouse.During the conference, NEWCA members will also vote on issues relevant to the functioning and governance of the association.We look forward to seeing you there.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Cinthia Gannett
Cinthia Gannett is an Associate Professor of Writing at Loyola College in Maryland where she directs the Writing Across the Curriculum Program and the Loyola Writing Center.Previously, she was the Director of Writing Across the Curriculum and the Connors Writing Center at the University of New Hampshire. Her research interests include bringing translation theory to WAC and writing center work, exploring writing in the disciplines, currently Communication Sciences and Disorders and Zoology, and keeping the histories of writing programs alive, particularly through the creation of local archives.
Theme:“Making Connections: Conversations among Communities”
Writing centers are proliferating in many different kinds of contexts—universities, two-year colleges, technical colleges and universities, high schools, middle schools, community centers, as well as virtual spaces. The NEWCA 2006 conference, hosted for the first time by a high school, highlights this diversity. This year’s conference will explore the conversations that takeplace within, through, among and in relation to writing centers. We invite proposals that explore the many kinds of conversations that are part of writing center work, as well as the many communities that are intertwined with writing centers, within academia and in the community at large.
Proposals for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, individual presentations or interactive workshops are encouraged.Presentations may address topics such as:
The complexities of centers in motion—changes in vision, technology, administration, place, and/or alliances
Facilitating effective dialogues between tutors and writers (and avoiding monologues)
Creating alliances/collaborations between writing centers and other communities, either within the same institution (i.e. a library) or in the community at large (i.e. a literacy program)
Tensions (both productive and impeding) between writing centers and other communities within an institution
Working with writers from various communities, such as culturally and linguistically diverse writers, differently-abled writers, or writers with diverse disciplinary orientations
WAC/WC connections and disconnections
We encourage submissions from professional staff, administrators, and faculty affiliated with writing centers at all educational levels.Moreover, since peer tutors constitute more than half of the participants at the conference, we strongly encourage proposals from peer tutors.
We encourage submissions from professional staff, administrators, and faculty affiliated with writing centers at all educational levels.Moreover, since peer tutors constitute more than half of the participants at the conference, we strongly encourage proposals from peer tutors.
Your proposed panel, discussion, presentation, or workshop should actively involve the audience.In addition to interactive panels, we invite proposals that present original scholarship, such as presentations developed for courses or for future publication.
Proposal Guidelines
In order to allow for broad participation, individual papers will be limited to 15 minutes and panel presentations will be limited to 75 minutes.
Please include the following information in your proposal:
Proposer’s name, position (i.e. tutor, director, etc), institution, institutional or home address, telephone number, and email address
Presenters’ names with title and contact information, as above
Title of presentation, one-page description of presentation, and a 75-word abstract for inclusion in the conference program
Type of session (panel presentation, roundtable discussion, individual presentation, interactive workshop)
Specific audiovisual and technical requests
Proposal Submission
Submit your proposal by December 30, 2005, either electronically or by mail.
Electronic submissions should be sent as an MS Word attachment or included in the body of the email to Leslie Van Wagner at lvanwagner@rivier.edu.
Mailed submissions should be sent to: Leslie Van Wagner, Director, Writing Center, Rivier College, 420 South Main Street, Nashua, NH, 03060
If you need more information about submitting proposals, please contact Leslie Van Wagner at lvanwagner@rivier.edu or(603) 897-8580.
(Added by Dan Melzer on October 23, 2005 | Last Updated on October 23, 2005)
Reel Vision Filmmakers' Conference,October 21-23, 2005, RadissonCityCenterTucson.World class instructors, including Linda Seger, help you realize your vision. Industry professionals, such as Distribution rep Mark Steven Bosko, deliver cutting edge tools to market your film or script. Register by Sept. 21st $85. ($55 for students.) Pre-register after that date: $100. www.reelinspiration.org, reelinspiration@hotmail.com, 520-325-9175.
(Added by Jana Segal on September 6, 2005 | Last Updated on September 6, 2005)
IWCA/NCPTWE 2nd Joint Conference: "Navigating the Boundary Waters: The Politics of Idenity, Location, and Stewardship". Minneapolis, MN: October 19, 2005 to October 23, 2005. http://www.writingcenters.org . Contact: Frankie Condon at fvcondon@stcloudstate.edu.
Description:
TheInternational Writing Centers Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing are pleased to announce their 2nd joint conference. "Navigating the Boundary Waters: The Politics of Identity, Location, and Stewardship" October 19 - 23, 2005. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota and hosted by the Midwest Writing Centers Association.
The Conference Theme
Minnesota's Boundary Waters stretch along the border of the United States and Canada and are one of the few remaining wilderness areas within the continental U.S. Although they are renowned for their primeval and pristine beauty, the history of the Boundary Waters is one of bounty and exploitation, the meeting, clash, and contestation of cultures and nations, the fluidity of borders, and the struggle for adaptation, preservation, and sustainability. This complex history challenges those of us who love the wilderness to examine who we are in relation to the region's natural and human history, what role we and our ancestors have played in that history, and how and to what extent we may better understand and sustain what is and transform what is to be.
Historically positioned in the margins of the Academy, the writing center's experience is also one of both bounty and exploitation. As a discipline, we have noted the heterogeneity of our institutions, organizations, philosophies and practices and, simultaneously, attempted to secure some measure of permanence and universality. We have sought a more stable sense of identity, institutional and disciplinary recognition, and an understanding of the ways in which the illusion of permanence co-opts as well as enables writing center theory and practice.
Like the history of the Boundary Waters, the story of writing centers has not yet been fully told. We have not yet explored the degree to which this fluidity of identities challenges and channels tutors' and directors' relationships with student-writers, with one another, and with the institutions in which we are located. We are only beginning to account for the impact of internationalism and globalization not only on individualized writing instruction, but also on the organizations in and through which we create our teaching, tutoring, directing, writing lives.
Submitting Proposals
Writing Center tutors, directors, and staff are cordially invited to submit proposals that address one of the following questions or prompts. You may also choose to develop and propose your own topic. Proposals should include a fifty-word abstract and a 350-word description. Please consider a variety of formats as you write your proposals including, but not limited to workshops and mini-workshops, facilitated discussions, roundtable discussions, panels, and/or presentation of research at the research fair. Questions about the 2005 IWCA/NCPTW Conference and Call For Papers may be directed to Frankie Condon atfvcondon@stcloudstate.edu. Proposals may be submitted online beginning February 1, 2005. Please go towww.writingcenters.org and click on the 2005 conference link.Deadline for Submissions is March 1, 2005.
Starting Points
What follows are a list of questions or prompts that may be of use as you begin to develop a proposal. This is not intended to be an exhaustive or exclusive list, but to provide you with some potential points of entry into the conference theme.
Please be curious and critical, inventive and intellectual, creative and adventurous!
How or why might writing center directors and tutors engage in anti-racism work in their writing centers, their institutions, and beyond?
In what ways do global Englishes challenge writing center directors and tutors to reconceive writing center theory and transform practice?
How and in what ways do (or don't – and why?) class politics and class struggles inform writing center theory and practice?
How or why do identity politics and/or the politics of location shape writing center scholarship and practice?
How or why does gender shape writing center practice and perceptions of tutors' and directors' identities and why?
How are writing centers working in Tribal Colleges? Or, how are writing center directors and tutors at any institution connecting and working with American Indian students?
How and in what ways are American Indian tutors and directors contributing to and challenging writing center theory and practice?
How, why, or could explorations of queer theory inform writing center theory and practice?
How or why might questions, theories or practices focusing on sustainability intersect with, inform, or argue against writing center theory or practice?
What might we mean by, or how might we talk, write and think about the ecology(ies) of writing centers? What are the connections between histories and ecologies?
What is Stewardship in writing center administration and/or of the discipline of writing center theory and practice, and how might it be practiced? What are excess and / or simplicity in the context of writing center practice and theory, and in what ways might an understanding or exploration of these concepts churn the waters of Writing Center theory and practice?
Fluidity, turbidity, solidity, and damns: How might we most responsively and responsibly consider issues of internationalism, nationalism, insularity, imperialism and the growth and development of the International Writing Centers Association
Navigating histories: who's steering this boat? Why are canoes steered easier from the rear?
Just camping out – just passing through – settlers, explorers, and tourists in Writing Center histories.
How, why and toward what ends might writing center tutors, directors, and staff consider, intervene in, deploy or critique metaphors of space, and the ideologies that inform them?
(Added by Dan Melzer on October 28, 2004 | Last Updated on October 28, 2004)
What is the New Rhetoric?. University of Sydney, Australia: September 2, 2005 to September 4, 2005. Contact: Susan Thomas at susan.thomas@arts.usyd.edu.au .
Description:
Calls for Papers/Panels What is the New Rhetoric? University of Sydney, Australia September 2-4, 2005
The University of Sydney proudly announces its first conference on Rhetoric: What is the New Rhetoric? Featuring keynote speaker Professor Andrea Lunsford of Stanford University, the conference will focus upon new directions in Rhetoric. Since the 1950’s, the definition of the "New Rhetoric" has expanded to encompass a variety of theories and movements, raising the question of how the "New Rhetoric" is defined and understood in the twenty-first century.
Papers and panels are invited on any aspect of the New Rhetoric, including (but not limited to) writing theory and pedagogy; histories and theories of rhetoric; interdisciplinary approaches to rhetoric, communication, and writing; the significance of rhetoric in both educational and professional sectors, and the interrelatedness of rhetoric and other disciplines.
Please send 300-500 word abstracts to Susan Thomas at susan.thomas@arts.usyd.edu.au by 25 February, including your text in the body of the e-mail rather than as an attached document.
Springtime in Sydney is magical, with plenty to see and do, so we encourage you to attend the conference and make a holiday of it.
(Added by Dan Melzer on December 1, 2004 | Last Updated on December 1, 2004)
Twelfth International Literacy Conference on Learning. University of Granada, Spain: July 11, 2005 to July 14, 2005. http://www.LearningConference.com. Contact: Prof. Mary Kalantzis.
Description: TWELFTH INTERNATIONAL LITERACY CONFERENCE ON LEARNING Faculty of Education, University of Granada, Spain, 11-14 July 2005 http://www.LearningConference.com
The conference will address a range of critically important themes relating to education today, including school and higher education. Main speakers will include some of the world's leading thinkers and in the field of education, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations by researchers and practitioners.
Conference papers will be published in print and electronic formats in the peer refereed International Journal of Learning. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The deadline for the first round call for papers is 1 October 2004. Proposals are usually reviewed within four weeks of submission.
Full details of the conference, including an online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website.
(Added by Dan Melzer on September 8, 2004 | Last Updated on September 8, 2004)
Description: WPA 2005: Writing as Writing Program Administrators
Anchorage, Alaska Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Workshop, Institute, and Conference July 3-10
Conference Theme and Program
Several months ago, a fellow WPA remarked that she was looking forward to an upcoming leave from administrative work because she would have "time for writing." Though we understand what she was saying, it's an oddly ironic or paradoxical, if not nonsensical, statement. If a writing program administrator doesn't have time for writing, who does? As writing program administrators, we spend, it may seem, nearly every waking moment at our keyboards or with pen in hand. We can understand what our fellow WPA was saying because we find ourselves in an academic culture that has a sometimes very limited notion of what "counts" as writing. Despite what we know about multiple genres of writing in diverse rhetorical situations, when it comes to our own writing, we may fail to appreciate just how much of it we do, how intellectually demanding it is, or what's at stake in our choices of when, what, and to whom to write as writing program administrators.
At the University of Alaska Anchorage in July 2005, plenary speakers, mini-workshops leaders and participants, and concurrent session speakers will be focusing on developing our understanding of the genres and purposes of writing we do as writing program administrators, addressing topics such as writing with, for, and about the writing programs WPAs lead; writing about the work of writing program administration; writing research and scholarship that is informed by their work as WPAs; writing with and for other WPAs; and other issues of shared interest and concern to WPAs in programs for first-year composition, professional writing, writing centers, and writing across the curriculum.
Special Program Features:
In addition to plenary speakers and concurrent sessions addressing the conference theme, the program will offer two special features. Back by popular demand, small-group breakout discussion sessions will follow plenary talks, giving us a chance to keep the conversation going. New this year, a series of professional development mini-workshops on writing as a writing program administrator will be presented by experienced WPAs. These mini-workshops will offered on Thursday and Friday in the same time slots as concurrent sessions. Planned workshop topics include * Writing effective program documents, memos, and reports; * Developing program-based inquiry into published scholarship; * Developing a writing program website; * Documenting the intellectual work of writing program administration, building a tenure/promotion case; * Making time to write: managing ideas, choosing priorities, sustaining reflection; * and additional workshops in which participants work collectively to draft and develop documents for the Council of Writing Program Administrators (e.g., Standards for TA Training) or work collaboratively to develop inter-institutional/ cross institutional grant proposals. Be sure to point out these professional development opportunities to your department chair or dean when you request funding! Though there will be no additional charge for attending these mini-workshops, participants will be asked to sign-up several months in advance to enable planning for space and materials. Additional details, including names of mini-workshop leaders and outlines of content will be provided when complete information about conference registration is available at http://moose.uaa.alaska.edu/wpa2005/
Call for Proposals
Proposals addressing the conference theme or other issues of interest to WPAs are invited for concurrent sessions, including (1) full panels involving several speakers addressing related topics, (2) individual presentations to be grouped together by the program committee, and (3) roundtables on a single topic. Proposals for multimedia presentations, poster presentations, or other presentation formats are encouraged. Review of proposals will begin October 15, 2004 and will continue until the program is complete. Successful proposals will be acknowledged at the earliest possible date. Proposals may be submitted at http://moose.uaa.alaska.edu/wpa2005/
Planning Information
Conference: Official activities begin Thursday evening, July 7, at 5:30 PM with a welcome reception/orientation and conclude Sunday, July 10, at 10:00 AM after the Town Hall Meeting. Local organizers of the conference, Trish Jenkins and Jeff White (University of Alaska - Anchorage) will coordinate
Workshop: Workshop participants gather Sunday afternoon, July 3, and meet all day every day through Thursday morning, July 7. Workshop leaders Irwin (Bud) Weiser (Purdue University) and Lauren Fitzgerald (Yeshiva University) will also be available for one-to-one consultations in the evenings.
Assessment Institute: The day-long institute will be held on Thursday, July 7, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM. Lunch included.
Costs (for planning purposes only): Housing (confirmed price): $25-35 per person/per night Airfare (estimate): $200-600 roundtrip depending upon origin of flight and date of booking Conference Registration (estimate):$200 (includes 6 meals)-may be lower Workshop Registration (estimate): $700 (includes 10 meals and 4 nights housing) Assessment Institute Registration (estimate): $125 (includes lunch)
For detailed up-to-date information about the conference, visit the conference website at: http://moose.uaa.alaska.edu/wpa2005/ Conference Program Co-Chairs: Chris Anson, CWPA President, and Shirley Rose, Vice-President; Local Chairs: Trish Jenkins and Jeff White
(Added by Dan Melzer on September 29, 2004 | Last Updated on September 29, 2004)
The Second International AUCOXF Conference on Language and Linguistics. The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.: July 3, 2005 to July 3, 2005. http://aucoxf@aucegypt.edu. Contact: Dr. Zeinab Ibrahim at zeinabin@aucegypt.edu.
Description: Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2005.
Requirements:
1. A completed proposal form
2. A 250-word summary for anonymous reviewers (document file)
3. A 50-word abstract for the program book (document file)
4. A 50-word abstract for each presenter (document file) (Added by Mariam Osman on July 3, 2005 | Last Updated on July 3, 2005)
3rd International Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing. Athens, Greece: June 22, 2005 to June 24, 2005. http://eataw2005.hau.gr/. Contact: George Exadaktylos at eataw2005@hau.gr.
Description:
3rd International Conference of the EuropeanAssociationfortheTeachingofAcademicWriting
"Teaching Writing On Line and Face to Face"
Hellenic American Union
The WritingCenter
Athens, 22-24 June 2005
Aftertwosuccessfulconferences (2001: The Netherlands, 2003: Hungary), the Writing Center of the Hellenic American Union (HAU) is organizing a conference with the topic "Teaching Writing On Line and Face to Face" in Athens, 22-24 June 2005.
It is the 3rd Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW), an organization with an international membership of teachers, researchers and students of the subject of teaching of academic writing (http://eataw2005.hau.gr/).
The WritingCenter is a service offered by the Hellenic American Union to its students and the general public. It offers advice and guidance on any writing problem, in English and in Greek (http://www.hau.gr/hau/el/services_writingcenter.html).
Writing program administrators, writing center staff, teachers, researchers and students interested in the teaching of academic writing are invited to attend and submit papers for presentation.
They will have the opportunity to:
listen to distinguished keynote speakers, such as L. Rienecker of the Univ. of Copenhagen, ProfAnnRaimes of the CUNY and Prof. C. Stephanidis of the Univ. of Crete
participate in presentations, workshops, and panel discussions on a variety of themes
Themes:
Technology in teaching and tutoring writing
Viability of Writing Centers: A free service or a free enterprise?
Organisational models for the teaching of academic writing
Cross-national and cross-cultural issues in the teaching of writing
Research & Innovation in the teaching and tutoring of writing
The working language of the Conference will be English.
Formoreinformation and registration,
GeorgeExadaktylos
Hellenic American Union
Tel. + 30 210 36 80 018
?-mail: eataw2005@hau.gr
URL: http://eataw2005.hau.gr/
(Added by George Exadaktylos on September 7, 2004 | Last Updated on September 7, 2004)
Computers and Writing 2005: New Writing and Computer Technologies. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California: June 16, 2005 to June 19, 2005. http://CW2005.stanford.edu.
Description: Computers and Writing 2005, New Writing and Computer Technologies, will be held at Stanford University (Palo Alto, California) June 16 through June 19 of 2005.
The call for Proposals open at 8pm (PST) Tuesday, September 14 2004 until 8pm Thursday, October 28 2004. To submit proposals for workshops, individual or panel presentations, please go to the conference’s main site at http://CW2005.stanford.edu.
When computers first came into the writing classroom, they were used mostly as word processing tools, enhancing the capabilities of typewriters by simplifying editing practices. Today, computers and their associated technologies are tools that strongly influence writing, facilitating substantive changes in writing, and perhaps then leading to new forms of writing. This conference will explore the changes in writing stemming from new technologies.
The conference theme, New Writing and Computer Technologies, asks us to think about changes in writing and argument that are resulting from the use of technology in crafting and delivering our written, oral and visual communication. Presentations might include, but are not limited to, explorations of the following questions:
Have linear forms of argumentation changed as a result of non-linear, hyper textual influences?
Have disenfranchised voices become more prominent, as was predicted with the advent of digital publishing and the promise of internet global spaces?
Are new mediums adapting to traditional forms of writing or vice versa?
Has interface design become a relevant area of study for composition?
Have online discussion tools changed the way we write and communicate?
What aspects of language and writing, if any, have changed as a result of computer mediated texts?
How has style, and delivery been affected by new mediums?
Are computers and software changing the content of our students's work?
How do instructors evaluate the work produced by students in these new mediums?
(Added by Dan Melzer on September 14, 2004 | Last Updated on September 14, 2004)
Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference 2005: "Writing Centers at the Crossroad: Envisioning Our Futures". Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York: April 16, 2005 to April 17, 2005. Contact: Patricia Stephens at patricia.stephens@liu.edu.
Description: NORTHEAST WRITING CENTERS ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE 2005 “Writing Centers at the Crossroads: Envisioning Our Futures”
LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Saturday & Sunday, April 16 & 17
plus a Coffee House/Open Mic Friday, April 15, 6:00-8:00 hosted by Stony Brook Manhattan 401 Park Avenue South (28th St.) 2nd Floor New York, NY 10016
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: MURIEL S. HARRIS Professor Emerita of English and Director of the Writing Lab, Purdue University
Muriel Harris is Professor Emerita of English and Writing Lab Director, at Purdue University. Although retired from Purdue (where she developed the Writing Lab and, later, its OWL), she continues her interest, enthusiasm, and advocacy for the world of writing centers, and she remains the editor of the publication she founded in 1976 (that started as a few poorly copied pages), The Writing Lab Newsletter. Her conference presentations, book chapters, articles, and Teaching One-to-One: The Writing Conference, all focus on the theory, administration, and pedagogy of one-to-one tutoring centers. She has also authored The Prentice Hall Reference Guide to Grammar and Usage (soon to appear in a 6th edition) and The Writer's FAQs.
Proposals due: December 27, 2004
The Northeast Writing Centers Association (NEWCA) invites you to submit proposals on the theme of Writing Centers at the Crossroads: Envisioning Our Futures” for its Annual Conference to be held on April 16 and 17, 2005, at Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York.
We are seeking presentations that explore how writing centers are being shaped and transformed (and perhaps even “re-formed”) for the future. As higher education struggles with financial pressures, writing centers face uncertain funding and institutional support. As the nation’s demographics change, institutions are accepting more students of diverse ages, cultures, and academic preparation that demand increasingly flexible pedagogies and delivery methods. As writing centers continue to multiply and evolve at colleges and universities, more and more secondary schools are creating writing centers to enhance students’ educational experiences. We want to hear how writing centers are meeting these challenges.
Proposals for panel presentations, roundtable discussions, individual presentations or interactive workshops are encouraged. Presentations may address topics such as:
Online writing centers Online courses Changing student demographics: non-traditional students, ESL students, under-prepared students Cross-institutional changes Cross-curricular and writing-intensive courses Tensions (both positive and negative) among writing programs, English departments, and writing centers Conflicting “visions” and “missions”: administrations vs. writing centers Impact of local politics on writing programs and writing centers Renaming / relocating writing centers
We encourage submissions from professional staff, administrators, and faculty affiliated with writing centers at all educational levels. Moreover, since peer tutors constitute more than half of the participants at the conference, we strongly encourage proposals from peer tutors.
Your proposed panel, discussion, presentation, or workshop should actively involve the audience. In addition to interactive panels, we invite proposals that present original scholarship, such as presentations developed for courses or for future publication.
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please note that in order to allow for broad participation, papers will be limited to 20 minutes and panel presentations will be limited to 80 minutes (i.e., up to three 20 minute papers with 20 minutes for discussion). Individual papers which address comparable issues will be grouped as panels by the conference committee.
Please include the following information in your proposal: Proposer’s name, position (tutor, director, etc.), institution, address,telephone number, and email address Presenters’ names with title and contact information, as above Title of presentation, one-page description of presentation, and a 75-word abstract for inclusion in the conference program Type of session (panel presentation, roundtable discussion, individual presentation, interactive workshop) Specific audiovisual and technical requests
To submit your proposal electronically: Send it as an MS Word attachment or include it in the body of the email. Email it to lvanwagner@rivier.edu by December 27, 2004.
To submit your proposal by land mail: Mail it to: Leslie Van Wagner Director, Writing Center Rivier College 420 South Main Street Nashua, NH 03060
If you need more information about submitting your proposal, contact Leslie Van Wagner at (603)897-8580.
Registration:
Registration is limited to 175 participants and must be received by April 8, 2005. The conference will be held regardless of weather conditions and registration is non-refundable. If you cannot attend, please send a colleague in your place. Lunch is guaranteed only for those who have pre-registered. Direct conference questions to Patricia Stephens: (718)488-1096; patricia.stephens@liu.edu. To register for the 2005 conference, complete the registration form below and mail the form and a check* payable to NEWCA to: Patricia Stephens English Department Humanities Building, Fourth Floor Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus One University Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11201
*No cash registrations can be accepted. (Added by Dan Melzer on September 29, 2004 | Last Updated on September 29, 2004)
Description: Seven Hills Writers' Conference http://www.twaonline.org
Thurs. evening. Apr 7, all day Fri 8, and Sat 9, 2005 - Tallahassee, FL. Seminars, panels and Workshops on the craft and business of writing, all genres. Meet with agents and editors from NY and CA. Keynote address by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
e-mails for info: ahholt@ahholt.com --or-- conference@tallahasseewriters.net
(Added by Anne Holt on September 1, 2004 | Last Updated on September 1, 2004)
South Central Writing Centers Association 15th Anniversary Celebration and Conference: Writing Centers and Time. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: March 3, 2005 to March 5, 2005. Contact: J. Caprio at jcaprio@lsu.edu .
Description:
South Central Writing Centers Association 15th Anniversary Celebration and Conference Baton Rouge, Louisiana March 3-5, 2005
WRITING CENTERS AND TIME
“This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what to do with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.” Max Frisch
“Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell.” Franklin P. Jones
"Time is the fire in which we burn." Gene Roddenberry
"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough." George Bernard Shaw
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” Douglas Adams
“In a minute there is time/ For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.” J. Alfred Prufrock
If you believe in the Japanese proverb, “Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods,” then join us for the South Central Writing Center Conference. You’ll enjoy creative energy, laughter and learning with writing center colleagues.
******************************************* Keynote speaker is Dr. Muriel Harris, Professor Emerita of English, Purdue University, founder of the Purdue Writing Lab in 1976, originator and editor of the Writing Lab Newsletter in 1976, founder of the Purdue OWL, and the author of numerous books and articles on writing center work, teaching writing, writing centers and WAC programs.
We encourage all members of your writing center staff, especially undergraduate and graduate students, to attend and present at this conference. Presentations that address one or more of the following questions, as well as those that invite audience participation and discussion, are especially encouraged. We are particularly interested in your interpretations of the theme of time.
How has time dictated changes in your center? How does time influence your decision-making in the center? Can an investment of time compensate for the lack of finances? Whose time and whose finances? How can a center best allocate its resources in terms of time? How has time affected theoretical approaches to writing center work? How can we best use the time we have to prepare our consultants? To work with writers? How can a center keep pace in a time of rapidly changing technology, campus policies, and curricula? And is time really on your side, as the Rolling Stones claimed? Or was Art Buchwald more accurate when he said, “Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got?”
Proposals should include a title, the names and contact information of all presenters and a description of the presentation (250 words for individuals; 500 words for panels, roundtables, and workshops) and a 50-word abstract. All presenters must be conference registrants.
Deadline for Proposals: All proposals must be emailed or postmarked by Dec. 15, 2004.
Electronic submissions should be sent to jcaprio@lsu.edu . If you prefer to send your proposal by surface mail, send two copies to the LSU Writing Center, B-18 Coates Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 ATTN: J. Caprio.
(Added by Dan Melzer on September 14, 2004 | Last Updated on September 14, 2004)
Southeastern Writing Centers Association Conference: "Writing as Learning: Understanding and Promoting Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking in the Writing Center". Charleston, SC: February 10, 2005 to February 12, 2005. http://www.swca.us. Contact: Trixie Smith at tgsmith@mtsu.edu.
Description:
Call for Proposals:
In the 1970s as writing centers were developing across the country, Janet Emig argued that writing is a mode of learning. Since then this idea has been embraced by writing centers as well as WAC and WID programs around the globe. So now we, the Southeastern Writing Center Association, pause to ask how this idea is embraced as pedagogy and explored as ideology, especially within, through, and around the writing center.
We invite faculty, administrators, and students to explore this year’s theme, “Writing as Learning: Understanding and Promoting Intellectual Growth and Critical Thinking in the Writing Center,” and to submit proposals for individual and panel presentations, roundtable discussions, workshops, and poster sessions. Presentations that address one or more of the following questions, as well as those that invite audience participation and discussion, are especially encouraged:
§How do we define critical thinking? How can we use writing as a tool to stimulate intellectual growth and critical thinking? How does the writing center foster such growth? How do we assess such growth?
§How can the writing center impact cognition and behavior through significant learning experiences? How can we connect interactive writing/learning sessions, learning styles and writing conferences? How do we address motivation, organization, and self-directed learning in the writing center?
§What is the role of the writing center and writing instructors in developing intellectual competence with issues of multicultural appreciation, social equity, communication and the complexities of their own lives?
§How can we expand the boundaries and influence of the writing center program? How can we work with WAC/WID programs to implement effectively writing-to-learn techniques throughout the institution?
Proposals should include a title, the names and contact information of all presenters, the presentation format, a description of the presentation (250 words for individuals and posters; 500 words for panels and roundtables) and a 50-word abstract. We encourage you to submit proposals electronically at the SWCA Web site (www.swca.us). If necessary, proposals may be mailed to Trixie Smith, MTSU Department of English, P.O. Box 70, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 (postmarked by Oct 10). Questions should also be addressed to Trixie Smith at tgsmith@mtsu.edu. All presenters must be members of SWCA by the time of the conference.
Electronic proposals are due Oct 15, 2004.
(Added by Dan Melzer on August 6, 2004 | Last Updated on August 6, 2004)
Description:Writing Research in the Making: An Interdisciplinary Conference
February 5th and 6th, 2005
University of California, Santa Barbara
Sponsored by:
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education UCSB Writing Program South Coast Writing Project
Come join the conversation of researchers and researchers in the making from California and across the nation. Together we will explore the critical importance of current research, how it is made, and how it is developing the knowledge we need to advance teaching and practice.
To download the call for proposals and for more information please visit the conference website:
http://www.education.ucsb.edu/netshare/wrconf05
or Email: writing@education.ucsb.edu
Plenary Speakers
Charles Bazerman
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education University of California, Santa Barbara
Deborah Brandt Department of English University of Wisconsin- Madison
Tom Fox Department of English Chico State University
Caroline Haythornthwaite Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
George Hillocks Department of English University of Chicago
Susan Jarratt Department of English and Comparative Literature University of California, Irvine
Paul LeMahieu Director of Research National Writing Project
Andrea Lunsford Rhetoric and Writing Program Stanford University
Karen J. Lunsford Writing Program University of California, Santa Barbara
Susan McLeod Writing Program University of California, Santa Barbara
Cezar Ornatowski Department of Rhetoric and Writing Studies San Diego State University
Paul Prior Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Richard Sterling Executive Director National Writing Project (Added by Dan Melzer on May 8, 2004 | Last Updated on May 8, 2004)
The 10th annual Writers Conference at Penn kicks off Saturday, November 13th at 9am with keynote speaker and award-winning author Paul Hendrickson.
The program, held at the University of Pennsylvania, offers two days of a la carte workshops and master classes that can be selected individually. There is a one time registration fee of $25.
Saturday includes 54 workshops on fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting, freelancing, marketing, and business writing. You may select up to three of these 2 hour workshops which are priced at $65 each. Sign up for one, two or three based on your needs. At the end of the day, there will be a book signing and reception at The Penn Bookstore from 6pm to 7:30pm.
This year the conference is expanding to include 20 full-day Master Classes on Sunday, November 14 priced at $195. These intensive 4 hour courses involve advance submission of your work and are limited to 8-10 students.
On Sunday X-Libris will be offering a self publishing seminar for $250 that includes the publishing of your book (this is a 50% underwriting off their standard self publishing package).
For a full listing of courses, please visit www.pennwritersconference.org where you can either enroll online or download a PDF with the 75 workshops and master classes. If you need to enroll over the phone or are unable to download the course listing, please call 215.898.6493 and we'll be happy to help you.
(Added by Nadia Daniel on October 26, 2004 | Last Updated on October 26, 2004)
Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference . St. Cloud, Minnesota: November 4, 2004 to November 6, 2004. http://www.ku.edu/~mwca.
Description:
Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference
November 4 - 6, 2004 in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
The conference theme is "Talk Like a River: Discourses, Faith, Ethos, and Writing Centers." The keynote speaker, Min-Zhan Lu, will discuss ideas from her current essay, "An Essay on the Work of Composition: Composing English against the Order of Fast Capitalism." (Forthcoming in College Composition and Communication, September 2004). Sessions include such topics as "Contemplating Areas of Uncertainty in Writing Center Practice," "Interrogations of Local History and Institutional Context in a Writing Center's Practice," "Connecting Service Learning and Writing Center Work," "Diversity Issues and Advocacy," "Encounters with World Englishes," and "Responding to the New London Group Call for Multiliteracies Pedagogy." Please join us for this exciting conference!
Conference and travel information and the Conference Registration Page can be found at www.ku.edu/~mwca.
(Added by Dan Melzer on August 1, 2004 | Last Updated on August 1, 2004)
The National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing promotes the teaching of writing through collaborative learning. Peer tutors and NCPTW professionals help students to become self-sufficient writers. NCPTW professionals are leaders in collaborative approaches, respond to the challenges of creating and operating writing centers, develop innovative peer tutoring programs and promote the work of their peer tutors. The conference is being held from October 29 through October 31, 2004.
Conference Theme
“Writing and Beyond” means to break out of the restrictions of common tutoring practices, settings, and pedagogies. Besides writing, some tutors may have specialties that include English as a Second Language, Learning Disabilities, literacy, numeracy, and technology, among others. What specialties should writing tutors become familiar with and what successes have tutors found when they expanded their training?
“Writing and Beyond” also refers to the location where tutors work. At colleges and universities, tutors may be placed outside the traditional center and tutor online, in classrooms, and at satellite locations. Writing Centers are also expanding into high schools, middle schools, and the surrounding communities. What locations and responsibilities should writing centers take on? Is it practical and advantageous to move out of the classical tutoring setting?
Finally, “Writing and Beyond” considers the pedagogy Writing Center Directors use to prepare tutors. Traditionally, Centers have used methods such as the inverted pyramid to lend structure to a session. Is this the best and only way to approach a session? What traditional training practices work best and what innovative practices should be adopted to meet the needs of our students?
Call for Proposals
This conference provides an opportunity for tutors and directors to discuss what they are doing as traditional writing tutors and what new ventures their center is attempting. Tutors and directors are encouraged to do a traditional conference paper or an imaginative presentation about what they see as the future of the Writing Center. These presentations could include debates, dramas, re-enactments, video presentations, discussions, digital stories, and other forms of expression.
Anyone wishing to present at the 2004 Conference must submit a proposal to be reviewed. Proposals may be in reflection of our conference theme, Writing and Beyond, or on other pertinent topics. It should consist of a 50 word abstract and a 200 word proposal. For more information, please see our online or hard-copy forms. The extended deadline for proposal applications is May 14, 2004. We hope to hear from you!
Registration
To attend the NCPTW Conference of 2004, please pre-register by September 13, 2004. After that date, there will be a late fee of $30. Refunds will be given until October 1, 2004, after which, refund requests will not be processed. Your pre-registration may be sent to us by mail or fax. On-site registration may be available but is not guaranteed.
Event Highlights
Eight Concurrent Sessions Keynote and Endnote address Reception Luncheons Awards Presentation Dinner and a Play Trip to New York City
(Added by Kristel Picinic on March 4, 2004 | Last Updated on April 16, 2004)
Writing and Beyond: The 21st Annual National Conference on Peer Tutoring and Writing. Hackettstown, New Jersey: October 29, 2004 to October 31, 2004. http://faculty.centenarycollege.edu/writing/index.html. Contact: see website.
Description:
T
he National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing promotes the teaching of writing through collaborative learning. Peer tutors and NCPTW professionals help students to become self-sufficient writers. NCPTW professionals are leaders in collaborative approaches, respond to the challenges of creating and operating writing centers, develop innovative peer tutoring programs and promote the work of their peer tutors.
Conference Theme
“Writing and Beyond”
“Writing and Beyond” means to break out of the restrictions of common tutoring practices, settings, and pedagogies. Besides writing, some tutors may have specialties that include English as a Second Language, Learning Disabilities, literacy, numeracy, and technology, among others. What specialties should writing tutors become familiar with and what successes have tutors found when they expanded their training?
“Writing and Beyond” also refers to the location where tutors work. At colleges and universities, tutors may be placed outside the traditional center and tutor online, in classrooms, and at satellite locations. Writing Centers are also expanding into high schools, middle schools, and the surrounding communities. What locations and responsibilities should writing centers take on? Is it practical and advantageous to move out of the classical tutoring setting?
Finally, “Writing and Beyond” considers the pedagogy Writing Center Directors use to prepare tutors. Traditionally, Centers have used methods such as the inverted pyramid to lend structure to a session. Is this the best and only way to approach a session? What traditional training practices work best and what innovative practices should be adopted to meet the needs of our students?
This conference provides an opportunity for tutors and directors to discuss what they are doing as traditional writing tutors and what new ventures their center is attempting. Tutors and directors are encouraged to do a traditional conference paper or an imaginative presentation about what they see as the future of the Writing Center. These presentations could include debates, dramas, re-enactments, video presentations, discussions, digital stories, and other forms of expression.
“Writing and Beyond” asks us to contemplate the present state of the Writing Center and also for us to consider where we are going and what the students we serve need most.
Proposals
Anyone wishing to present at the 2004 Conference must submit a proposal to be reviewed. Proposals may be in reflection of our conference theme, Writing and Beyond, or on other pertinent topics. It should consist of a 50 word abstract and a 200 word proposal. For more information, please see our online or hard-copy forms. The online form can be accessed at http://faculty.centenarycollege.edu/writing/proposalform.html. The deadline for proposal applications is April 26, 2004. We hope to hear from you! (Added by Dan Melzer on March 11, 2004 | Last Updated on March 12, 2004)
New Days, New Ways: What's Ahead for Writing Programs and Writing Assessment?. University of Missouri-Columbia: October 21, 2004 to October 22, 2004. Contact: Connie Bowman at BowmanCJ@missouri.edu.
Description:
Colloquium on Writing AssessmentMid-America Writing
A Missouri InitiativeProgram Administrators
18th annual meeting1st annual meeting
Joint Conference
New Days, New Ways: What's Ahead
for Writing Programs & Writing Assessment?
Thursday & Friday
October 21 & 22, 2004
University of Missouri-Columbia
Hosted by MU's Campus Writing Program
an across-the-curriculum teaching, learning, and writing initiative
celebrating its 20th anniversary
Registration
The registration fee of $90 includes parking, Thursday night dinner, Thursday and Friday break refreshments, conference materials, and speakers' honoraria. When we receive your registration, we will mail your parking permit to you. Be sure to tell us if you want parking for one day or both. Deadline for registration is Friday, October 15. A limited number of on-site registrations will be accepted. Send your check and this form to:
Ms. Connie Bowman, Administrative Assistant
Campus Writing Program, 325 GCB
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
Name____________________________________________________________________ Home address______________________________________________________________ Phone____________________________________________________________________ Email_____________________________________________________________________ Institution_________________________________________________________________ Title (or) Position__________________________________________________________________ Parking for1 Thursday only1 Friday only 1 Both days Campus tour (2 hrs)1 yes1 no
Lodging A block of rooms is reserved for Wednesday and Thursday nights at Stoney Creek Inn, one mile south of campus at 2601 S. Providence Road, Columbia, MO, 65203. Phone: 573-442-6400 (or) 800-659-2220; Fax: 573-442-6414; www.stoneycreekinn.com
The University of Missouri rate is $67.00 for up to 4 persons per room. Continental breakfast is included. Ask for the UMC Writing Conference rate when calling to make your reservation. You must reserve your room by Friday, October 15, to be assured of the MU $67.00 rate.
Directions
To get to the hotel from I-70: … Exit I-70 at Providence Road, going south … Keep going south, beyond campus, beyond the football stadium … Go west (right) at the Green Meadows stoplight and make an immediate right on the Providence Road outer road … Take the outer road back north to Stoney Creek
To get to the hotel from Hwy. 63: … Whether coming from north or south, take the Stadium Blvd. exit … Go west on Stadium Blvd … Go south (left) at Providence Road … Go west (right) at the Green Meadows stoplight and make an immediate right on the Providence Road outer road … Take the outer road back north to Stoney Creek
To get to MU from I-70 or Hwy 63 and for parking information: … Please go to http://visitus.missouri.edu/parking.htm
For More Information Contact: MU's Campus Writing Program at 573-882-4881 or BowmanCJ@missouri.edu
(Added by Dan Melzer on October 5, 2004 | Last Updated on October 7, 2006)
Fifth Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentuky: October 7, 2004 to October 9, 2004. http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/watson . Contact: Beth Powell.
Description: The University of Louisville announces the fifth biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition. "Writing at the Center" will be held October 7-9, 2004 at the University of Louisville. Featured speakers will include Susan McLeod, Howard Tinberg, Bob Schwegler, David Russell, Art Young, Joan Mullin, Paula Gillespie, Doug Hesse, Kitty Locker, John Trimbur, and many other scholars and administrators who work in and influence writing programs. Other special features of the conference include scholarship awards and student guest speakers.
We encourage composition scholars to consider the relationships among writing programs across all education levels, as well as how literacy sponsors, students, teachers, tutors, and administrators view writing programs. We invite proposals for individual presentations or panels that consider some aspect of the conference theme. Participants might explore any number of avenues, including but not limited to:
Writing Programs
* How might we envision more cooperative relationships among writing programs? * In what ways are literacy sponsors involved with writing programs? What are their priorities for writing programs?
Students
* How can we best promote student agency? * How do peer tutors/students view our programs? History * Why have we become concerned with preserving our histories? * How do we see our history at this moment?
Send proposals to Carol Mattingly, Director, Thomas R. Watson Conference, Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 40292. Proposals should be postmarked by February 15, 2004.
Please visit the conference website at http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/watson or call 502.852.1252 for additional information.
(Added by Dan Melzer on January 14, 2004 | Last Updated on January 14, 2004)
The Legal Writing Institute will hold its 2004 Conference from Wednesday, July 21 through Saturday, July 24, 2004 at Seattle University in Seattle, Washington. The theme of this eleventh biennial conference is Horizons.
During this Conference, we will reflect on the challenges the legal writing community has met and embrace the challenges that lie ahead. The conference program will allow us to mentor new teachers, share ideas, examine our scholarship, and envision ways to expand our horizons to blaze new trails.
(Added by Mimi Samuel on January 29, 2004 | Last Updated on January 29, 2004)
Description: WPA 2004 takes us to Newark, Delaware, home of the University of Delaware, the state’s flagship institution. Your hosts are UD’s Writing Center, Writing Program, English Department, and College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the member schools of WPA ‘s largest local affiliate, Philadelphia Writing Program Administrators. The main conference and assessment institute will be held at Clayton Hall, a recently renovated state-of-the-art facility on the main UD campus in Newark, and the summer workshop will be held at the Virden Center on UD’s marine studies campus in Lewes, one of Delaware’s scenic beach towns. Conference organizers are holding costs down by providing nearly all meals, including breakfasts and lunches, in the conference fee, and by making housing available in apartment-style residence halls for about $25 a night (though some may opt for the new on-campus Marriott Hotel or one of several other local hotels). Newark is easily accessible by car (Interstate 95), train (Amtrak), or airplane (Philadelphia International, 45 minutes away, or Baltimore/Washington International, 75 minutes away), which can make travel economical.
Newark is a charming college town with a lively main street offering coffee shops and pubs, burger and pizza restaurants, natural food and fine dining, and even an award-winning microbrewery. For attendees who want to combine the conference with an east coast vacation, Newark is in "the corridor" between Washington and New York, close to big city attractions, the historic sights of the Brandywine Valley, the natural beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, or fun in the sun on miles of pristine state park beaches. The conference itself will offer its own fun as well, with jazz at the Thursday evening reception by one of our own adjunct instructors (you’ll want her CD!), Friday cocktails with the Composition Blues Band before a night on the town, and dancing after the Saturday night banquet to the oldies band the Juveniles. In addition to the usual conference theme (see below), the local hosts are planning a kind of "site theme" centered on the idea of a "healthy conference." They've chosen menus that are a bit lighter in fat and calories than the food we usually eat at conferences, and they are making arrangements for use of a small on-campus gym and for optional jogs, bike rides, yoga, and pilates.
As always, the conference will bring together leaders of writing programs, WAC and WID programs, and writing centers; composition teachers; students of composition; publishers; and others from many institutions for the purpose of scholarly and social exchange. Two full days of concurrent sessions, roundtables, SIGS, and 2 1/2-hour workshops will complement plenary sessions and keynote addresses by leading members of the field. The week-long summer workshop, which will take place from July 11-15, will be led by Kathleen Blake Yancey and Bud Weiser. Susanamarie Harrington, Marlene Minor, and Dan Royer will lead the third WPA Assessment Institute on July 15, to be followed that evening by the opening session of the conference and keynote address.
This year’s theme is about change. Institutions of higher education have been characterized as slow to change, holding fast to tradition and passing down firmly held values and well established methods of governance. For those who joined faculties ten, twenty, or thirty years ago, the more things changed on our campuses, the more they seemed to stay the same. As new ideas have come and gone, the systemic core of our institutions, like an old boiler that generates the heat of our enterprise, has silently done its work, rarely entering the daily thoughts of those it serves.
But changes are taking place now on so many fronts, and so rapidly, that few people involved in higher education can go about their business and not be directly affected by the consequences of these changes. Consider a few:
Major policy shifts on a national level are changing the nature of the educational experience for students who will soon enter college.
For many campuses, budget reductions--a consequence of economic recession and the reallocation of federal and state funding--have been felt even at the core of basic education, disrupting and fracturing the delivery of instruction and services. With predictions that these cuts are only symptomatic of broader changes in the funding of higher education, many institutions are rethinking–some quite proactively–the economic systems in which they operate.
In this context, alternative delivery systems afforded by new technologies are changing the nature of teaching and learning through distance education options, computerized classrooms, and telecommuting. Simultaneously, concerns about the depersonalizing of the learning experience have led to new experiments that link small learning communities to mass education, delivered in online presentations.
Efforts to curb the exploitation of part-time and non-tenure-track faculty have been mixed, especially in a climate of economic uncertainty; but this tension has pushed some institutions toward alternative models, such as the redistribution of basic instruction in areas like composition to faculty in various disciplines.
The mobility of writing programs continues–with new independence for some, and new mergings or alliances for others. Oral communication and visual and technological literacies are increasingly considered for integration into existing composition curricula.
Given the pace and nature of these changes and potential changes, it is essential for those of us who teach in or help administer writing programs to think proactively and creatively, imagining new possibilities that solve some of the problems now confronting us, and advocating our ideas in ways that lead change rather than reacting to (or against) it.
Precipitated by a number of recent national and campus-specific events relating to these changes, this year’s conference theme focuses on the possibilities of re-envisioning the administration of writing programs at all types of institutions: large research universities both public and private, small liberal arts colleges, two-year and community colleges, and others. Papers, panels, roundtables, posters, and workshops are especially encouraged that take up questions about the role of those working in writing programs or coordinating writing curricula and ancillary programs, the knowledge they need (or don’t need) to do so effectively, and the nature of their authority as leaders in contexts defined by multiple forms of leadership and multiple leaders.
Who should direct or coordinate writing programs? What should be their status in the institution? What roles should they play in the institution and in the program? Who should teach composition, and what should be the role of the WPA in overseeing or organizing them, preparing them, or working with them on curriculum and instruction?
What knowledge should WPAs have in order to administer successful programs? Should WPAs be experts in composition studies, with documented credentials in the field? As programs are shifted from their traditional location in English departments, should faculty and administrators in other fields be enlisted to help in the coordination of such programs? Within programs, what knowledge or expertise should teachers have in order to teach writing? As institutions decentralize composition, creating campus-wide writing programs that place the responsibility for advanced literacy on the shoulders of teachers in a wide variety of fields, what is lost or gained as a result of moving writing instruction out of its disciplinary base?
Recent events have shown that higher administrators do not always look upon WPAs as a source of counsel as they make major administrative decisions about the location, nature, and goals of a writing curriculum. What degree of authority should WPAs have in running their programs? Are WPAs managers? coordinators? trainers? visionaries? How can WPAs work productively to assert disciplinary and administrative authority, or develop relationships that safeguard against the denial of their expertise and the silencing of their voices?
As always, these questions–and the overarching theme that generated them–are merely suggestions for providing a sense of cohesion in the program. Proposals on many other topics-- research studies, curricular innovations, and other issues of concern or interest to WPAs (including those who work in WAC and WID programs, writing centers, technical or professional writing programs, and graduate programs)–are encouraged. The usual WPA emphasis on interactive, participant-centered sessions, with opportunities for hands-on work and discussion, will apply. We invite proposals in a range of formats, including standard papers, entire panels, double-session workshops, and roundtables. This year, we are also introducing a poster session. Considered in all respects the equivalent of a panel presentation (and described as such), poster sessions are especially well suited to descriptions of programs, courses, projects, and innovations. Further details about the nature of the poster session is available at the proposal link below.
The conference will open Thursday, July 15, in the late afternoon with a plenary address and a reception, and will close Sunday morning. Registration costs, in the range of $190, will include breakfasts, receptions, breaks, and a banquet.
Submission Information
To propose a paper, panel, roundtable, poster session, or workshop, please visit the following Web site and submit your proposal electronically: http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/cwsp/mainprop.html. All proposals received by March 15, 2004, will receive highest priority, and invitations based on those proposals will be issued by the end of March or early April. You will receive an automated email response indicating that your proposal has been successfully transmitted.
For inquiries and questions, please contact Chris M. Anson, President and 2004 WPA Program Chair at::
chris_anson@ncsu.edu
919-513-4080
919-515-6071 (fax)
(Added by Dan Melzer on February 5, 2004 | Last Updated on February 5, 2004)
Description: The annual conference, held in mid-summer and hosted in rotation by the home institutions of members, is actually three separate activities:
a small, intensive, four-day workshop (attendance about 25) for newer WPAs
a one-day institute (attendance about 25) on assessment of writing and writing programs
a three-day conference (attendance about 200) with concurrent sessions, plenary speakers, and time to network on issues of writing program administration
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 18, 2003 | Last Updated on September 18, 2003)
The Twentieth Computers and Writing Conference: Writing in Globalization: Currents, Waves, Tides. Honolulu, Hawai'i: June 10, 2004 to June 13, 2004. http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004/. Contact: Judi Kirkpatrick at cw2004@hawaii.edu.
Description:
The Twentieth Computers and Writing Conference will meet in Honolulu, Hawai'i from Thursday, June 10 to Sunday, June 13, 2004, hosted by the Department of Language Arts at University of Hawai'i Kapi'olani Community College and the Department of English at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
The conference theme, Writing in Globalization: Currents, Waves, Tides, points to the immense but sometimes unrecognized impact of globalization on the cultural, social, linguistic, and institutional contexts in which we work. Many people in the computers and writing community are incorporating perspectives on globalization into our research and teaching, trying to understand how global systems intersect with our local engagements with information technology, writing instruction, rhetoric, literary studies, distance learning initiatives, and our personal writing practices.
Call for Proposals
Submission deadline: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 via the electronic submission form on the conference web site <http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004/
>. Email address: cw2004@hawaii.edu
We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, workshops, and poster presentations. See the conference web site for details on formats. Presentation topics might include, but are not limited to:
Local Knowledges, Global Systems
Distance Learning in the Global Marketplace
Computers, Writing, and the Future of Work
Languages, Technologies, and Bodies
Teaching Writing and Literature in Postcolonial/Neocolonial/Imperial Contexts
English and Other Languages
Alternative Rhetorics in Emerging Networks
Diversifying Hypertext/Multimedia Theory and Practice
Writing and Visual/Spatial Design
Activist Writing in the Classroom and the World
Computers and Writing Across Disciplines
Computers and Writing Across Levels of Education
Assessment in Computers and Writing
Community Action and Community Computing
Professional Issues in Computers and Writing
All proposals must be received by Wednesday, October 15, 2003. Submissions will be accepted beginning September 8, 2003, and must be sent through the conference web site at <http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004>. Program participants will be selected through an anonymous peer review process.
Discussion List
The local organizers will host a discussion list to keep prospective attendees up to date on conference developments. Go to <http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004/discussion.html> for details on how to subscribe.
Conference Program
The conference will include panels, poster sessions, roundtable discussions, and town hall meetings. As in the past, the conference will partner with the Graduate Research Network, the mentoring program, and the Computers and Writing 2004 Online Conference. Attendees will also have the opportunity to visit Hawai'i-based projects and schools that are integrating writing, computing, and community service in innovative ways.
Keynote Speakers
Nancy Kaplan, Director of the School of Information Arts and Technologies and Professor in the School of Communications Design, University of Baltimore
Douglas Kellner, George F. Kneller Philosophy of Education Chair, Social Sciences and Comparative Education, UCLA
Stuart Moulthrop, Professor in the School of Information Arts and Technologies and the School of Communications Design, University of Baltimore
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 18, 2003 | Last Updated on September 18, 2003)
Description: This biennial event is the largest U.S. conference dedicated to writing across the curriculum (WAC) and writing in the disciplines (WID). It is typically of interest to people using writing to improve teaching and learning—faculty, administrators, and students from post-secondary institutions, as well as faculty and administrators from secondary schools.
This year's theme, "WAC From an International Perspective," is intended to draw attention to the myriad ways that WAC and WID are conceptualized, understood, and used both within and beyond the U.S. Over the last thirty years in the U.S., the WAC educational movement has grown steadily, primarily in higher education and, to a lesser extent, at the secondary level. Over the same period, the LAC (language across the curriculum) movement in the U.K. has also grown, primarily at the secondary level; more recently, LAC has begun to appear at the post-secondary level. More notable, though, is an increased interest in diverse countries around the globe in higher education's use of writing as a tool for teaching and learning.
Electronic proposals are due Friday, October 31, 2003, via the conference website. Propose an individual presentation, a panel, or a pre-conference workshop. And join us on Friday night, May 21, 2004 for a "Celebration of WAC" at the famous Gateway Arch, reserved that evening exclusively for WAC conference participants. (Added by Stephen Bernhardt on October 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 25, 2003)
Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States 18th Annual Conference. Transfronterismo: Crossing Ethnic Borders in U.S. Literatures. San Antonio, Texas: March 10, 2004 to March 14, 2004. http://wac.colostate.edu/conferences/melus/. Contact: Bill Mullen at bmullen@utsa.edu.
Description: We invite paper abstracts and complete panel, workshop, and roundtable proposals on all aspects of multiethnic literatures of the United States. We especially encourage those that engage in the conference theme. Transfronterismo highlights the theoretical, ideological, pragmatic practices and possibilities of hybridity, mestizaje, and diaspora in the formation of subjectivities, geopolitical coalitions, and literary cartographies.
Transfronterismo serves as an alternative space that gives birth to distinct imaginaries, one with alternative mappings for the local, the global, and their shared/overlapping boundaries. What is it that we do when we affirm, deny, or transgress the border? We offer the following list as suggestions:
internal diasporas and subject positions
transnational and comparative approaches
borders of genre and frontiers of lived experience
reverse migration and cross cultural transnationalism
class boundaries and capitalist borders
patriotism and post-nationalist politics
interstices and aporias of ethnic identity
inter-racial and inter-ethnic encounters
hegemonic and geopolitics negotiations
gender and sexual crossings
literacy education and pedagogy
All proposal abstracts (250 words maximum) should be submitted in triplicate. We strongly encourage proposals of complete panels, roundtables, and workshops that should include a brief description and abstracts for individual speakers. Abstracts should be postmarked 1 December 2003, addressed to Professor Bill Mullen, Department of English, Classics, and Philosophy, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 6900 North Loop 1604 West, San Antonio, TX 78249-0643. Email inquiries Bill Mullen, bmullen@utsa.edu. [Fax and email for international submissions only: (210) 458 5366]
All presenters must be members of MELUS. For information about membership and renewal visit the MELUS website at http://www.marshall.edu/melus/.
Radisson Hotel, 502 W Durango Blvd, San Antonio, TX (phone 210-224-7155) Rooms: $95 + 16.75% tax, up to 4 persons per room. Suites: $150 to $200 + 16.75% tax (please inquire with the hotel). [Note: You must mention the MELUS conference when making reservations.] (Added by Mike Palmquist on April 28, 2003 | Last Updated on October 31, 2003)
"Acts of Writing: Performance in the Writing Center." 2004 Northern California Writing Association Conference. Stanford University: March 6, 2004 to March 6, 2004. http://ncwca.stanford.edu. Contact: John Tinker at jtinker@stanford.edu.
Description: In a remarkably short period of time, little more than a decade, electronic communication has changed our understanding of writing. Instant messaging has generated diction, grammar, and a visual language unto itself. The most basic word-processing programs include tools for combining visual texts with verbal information. PowerPoint has brought images into oral presentations. And hyperlinks on the internet have changed our ideas about organization and about the relationship between writer and reader. Writing in this digital culture requires verbal facility, but it requires facility with oral and visual representations as well. This growing respect for multiple literacies has encouraged us to think about the expanding context in which writing takes place, about orality, and about writing as public performance. What opportunities and challenges do multimedia literacy and the conceptualization of writing as multimedia performance present to writing centers? How has computer-mediated writing changed the relationship between the writing center and other academic programs? How has it changed the act of writing?
We invite all members of your writing center staff--including students--to propose a presentation for the Northern California Writing Center Association's 12th annual meeting, March 6, 2004, at Stanford University. The conference theme is "Acts of Writing," and we encourage you to interpret this theme in whatever way speaks most meaningfully to your thoughts and experiences regarding your writing center or writing centers in general. The following topics and questions suggest how we are thinking about the conference theme, but these are only suggestions. We hope you will present at the conference whatever is most important and interesting to you and your writing center.
Deadline for Proposals: Please complete the NCWCA on-line form for conference proposals and send a description of your presentation (150-word maximum for individual presentations; 250-word maximum for panels, roundtables, and other group proposals) by December 15, 2003. If you prefer to send your proposal by surface mail, please print out the proposal form or request a form by mail, and send two copies of the proposal form and 8 copies of your proposal to Stanford Writing Center, Margaret Jacks Hall, 450 Serra Mall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. (Added by Dan Melzer on September 21, 2003 | Last Updated on September 21, 2003)
2004 Southeastern Writing Centers Association Conference: "Getting Back to Writing.". Atlanta, Georgia: February 19, 2004 to February 21, 2004. http://www.kennesaw.edu/english/swca/. Contact: Marcy Trianosky, Proposal Committee Chair at mtrianosky@hollins.edu. .
Description:
The Southeastern Writing Center Association will hold its annual conference February 19-21, 2004. The conference will be sponsored by The Writing Center at Kennesaw State University, located in the northern suburbs of Atlanta. Peter Elbow, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, will be the keynote speaker.
This year’s conference theme, “Getting Back to Writing,” puts the emphasis on the writing that our students bring to the tutorial and the interaction between the tutor and tutee as they respond to that writing. These activities are at the heart of the work we do in our writing centers. The year 2004 marks the 20th anniversary of Stephen North’s article, “The Idea of a Writing Center,” whose challenging ideas about the writing center tutorial were further complicated by North 10 years later in his article, “Revisiting ‘The Idea of a Writing Center.’” The conference theme and North’s thought-provoking reflections challenge us to look closely at the complex collaborative activity of the tutorial and its implications for our writing centers. Proposals are invited that examine the intersection of the tutorial with tutor training, writing center administration, faculty expectations, institutional missions, and administrative pressures. Some questions to consider are:
How do we assess the activity of the tutorial effectively? How do we know when our writing centers are really working?
How do the relationships between tutors, writers, directors, faculty and institutions affect the tutorial interaction?
How can tutor training address the multiple roles that tutors play in the highly contextualized environment of an institution’s writing center?
How do writing centers respond to administrative and institutional pressures while maintaining an emphasis on writing improvement through tutoring?
We welcome proposals that address these and related themes. We encourage submissions from staff, administrators, and faculty affiliated with writing centers at all education levels. We particularly want to encourage proposals from peer tutors, since their work is crucial to the success of many writing centers. We encourage you to consider ways in which your proposal will actively engage your audience.
Proposals are invited for poster sessions, 20-minute individual presentations, 3-5 person panels, and 90-minute workshops on topics related to the conference theme. A new award will be presented this year for the best poster session. Posters will be evaluated on the originality, content, and presentation. All posters accepted for the conference will be automatically entered into the competition. A subcommittee of the SWCA Awards Committee will review all submissions and select the recipient(s).
(Added by Dan Melzer on September 22, 2003 | Last Updated on September 22, 2003)
South Central Writing Centers 2004 Conference: "Putting Research at the Center". Stillwater, Oklahoma: February 19, 2004 to February 21, 2004. Contact: Melissa Ianetta at ianetta@okstate.edu .
Description: In a very real sense, a writing center is the result of someone's research – it is the publication of the writing center director who sets it in motion, and it is revised or updated regularly by that person and by every new director who takes it over later. Muriel Harris, "Presenting Writing Center Scholarship: Issues for Faculty and Personnel Committees" (1997)
As Harris describes, in many ways a writing center is research incarnate; it embodies the director's research into the best practices of the writing center as well as representing tutors' theories of effective one-to-one writing instruction. This year's conference focuses on the reciprocal relationship of writing centers and research. How does the writing center itself challenge our definitions of research? How does research influence the ways in which we conduct tutorials or administer the writing center? We invite sessions on any topics relevant to writing center studies, but are particularly interested in sessions that engage this issue. Possible topics include:
· Theorizing the writing center · Writing centers and undergraduate research programs · Uses of qualitative and quantitative research · Definitions of "research" and the writing center · Writing centers as a site of interdisciplinary research · Historical research: the relationship of the center's past to its present
Keynote speaker will be Dr. Carol Mattingly, Director of the Writing Centers Research Project. Dr. Mattingly is Professor of English and Director of the University Writing Center at the University of Louisville. She also serves as the Director of the Writing Center Research Project.
Please submit one-page proposals for twenty minute papers or for ninety-minute panel presentations, roundtable discussions or workshops with your name, address, affiliation and email address. In your proposal, please indicate the format of your presentation (individual paper, panel, roundtable discussion, workshop). Send to:
Melissa Ianetta / Kala Blankenship, SCWCA Conference Co-Chairs English Department 205 Morrill Hall Oklahoma State University Stillwater OK, 74078 405-744-9365 email: ianetta@okstate.edu
Proposals must be emailed or postmarked by November 1, 2003. (Added by Dan Melzer on September 24, 2003 | Last Updated on September 24, 2003)
45th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention: "The University". Hilton Chicago, Chicago, Illinois: November 7, 2003 to November 9, 2003. http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 18, 2003 | Last Updated on September 18, 2003)
The Spilman Symposium on Issues in Teaching Writing Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary: Re-Defining English 101: Ten Years Later. Virginia Military Institute: October 25, 2003 to October 25, 2003. Contact: Christina R. McDonald at mcdonaldcr@vmi.edu.
Description:
The Spilman Symposium on Issues in Teaching Writing is a one-day, annual event created to bring teachers of writing together for conversations with some of the major scholars in rhetoric and composition studies.Providing a forum for active engagement of timely issues, the symposium is designed as a think-tank for all faculty who are interested in the teaching of writing, including those involved with writing across the curriculum.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the symposium, speakers and participants will revisit the topic with which the Spilman began ten years ago:Defining English 101: The Goals of Freshman Composition.This year participants will explore the trends-the questions, challenges, or debates-that have characterized the discipline's view of first-year composition during the last decade, paying special attention to the influence this evolution has had on the day-to-day work of teachers of writing.
Two of the featured speakers from the inaugural program, Erika Lindemann (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Gary Tate (TCU), will return to VMI to participate in the day's events.Anne Ruggles Gere (U of Michigan-Ann Arbor) will deliver the keynote address.
In the spirit of continuing the symposium's commitment to involvement, for the first time this year the program will include a panel of presentations selected from submissions by symposium participants.
Registration:Early registration is strongly encouraged.Participation in limited to the first 80 paid registrants. The conference registration is $40.00 and includes lunch, morning and afternoon refreshments, as well as conference materials.Registration must be postmarked by October 16, 2003 and cannot be accepted by phone, e-mail, or fax.A printable registration form is available electronically at: http://www.vmi.edu/show.asp?durki=1947.
For additional information, please contact:Christina R. McDonald, Institute Director of Writing, Department of English and Fine Arts, Virginia Military Institute (540-464-7240) or mcdonaldcr@vmi.edu
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 17, 2003 | Last Updated on September 17, 2003)
Writing tutors (undergrad, grad, and secondary school)
Writing teachers
Writing center directors
What events will take place at the conference?
Many presentations and interactive sessions
Keynote address
Endnote featured presentation
Evening reception, luncheon, 2 breakfasts
Tour of Chocolate World
Trip to Hershey Theme Park
Book and vendor displays
Trail walk or hike
What is the IWCA-NCPTW?
The International Writing Centers Association, an NCTE Assembly, was founded in 1983 to foster communication among writing centers and to provide a forum for concerns. Comprising directors and staffs of writing centers at universities, two-year colleges, and public schools, the IWCA is governed by an Executive Board that includes representatives from the regional writing center organizations.
The National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing promotes the teaching of writing through collaborative learning. Peer tutors and NCPTW professionals help students to become self-sufficient writers. Since the first annual conference at Brown University in 1984, NCPTW professionals have been leaders in collaborative approaches, responding to the challenges of creating and operating writing centers, developing innovative peer tutoring programs, and promoting the work of peer tutors.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 18, 2003 | Last Updated on September 18, 2003)
Description: The Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference was initiated to allow scholars in the Western region to come together and exchange current research in rhetoric and literacy studies. In keeping with the spirit of a small gathering, the conference will be held in a professional but relaxed atmosphere.
Its goal is to address theoretical and pedagogical issues through a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Each year, the conference will focus on a particular theme. While we especially welcome proposals that address the theme for each particular year, we may also consider proposals that deal with other relevant topics and issues for our field. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 22, 2003 | Last Updated on January 22, 2003)
The Fourth Biennial Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference: Intersections: Critical Locations of Feminist Rhetorical Practice. Columbus campus of The Ohio State University: October 23, 2003 to October 25, 2003. http://english.ohio-state.edu/femrhet. Contact: Nan Johnson at johnson.112@osu.edu.
Description: Recognizing the cross-disciplinarity and multivocality of feminisms and rhetorics, this conference invites the participation of scholars, activists, and artists in feminist theory, literacy theory, rhetorical theory, speech communication, art and art theory, creative writing, literary theory, women's studies, education, comparative studies, composition, linguistics, history, postcolonial theory, and other fields. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 18, 2003 | Last Updated on January 18, 2003)
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication 2003 "Reaching Out: Incorporating the Borders that Inscribe Us". Potsdam, NY: October 2, 2003 to October 4, 2003. http://www.cptsc.org/conferences.html. Contact: Jim Dubinsky and Karla Kitalong at kitalong@mail.ucf.edu.
Description: The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) announces its 30th annual meeting October 2-4, 2003, in Potsdam, NY, which will be hosted by the Department of Technical Communications at Clarkson University. We invite you to submit position papers on the conference theme: "Reaching Out: Incorporating the Borders that Inscribe Us." In addition, for the first time, this year's conference will include poster presentations, which we'll display in a prominent venue to encourage discussion and feedback.
The CPTSC conference emphasizes discussion rather than presentation. Participants present five-minute papers in order to generate discussion. The audience includes people from new, as well as established, programs and anyone with programmatic interests in technical and scientific communication. We welcome participants from secondary, community college, or university levels, as well as representatives of industry.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 17, 2003 | Last Updated on September 17, 2003)
Multiliteracies: The Contact Zone: 2003 International AILA Conference on Literacy. Ghent, Belgium: September 22, 2003 to September 27, 2003. http://memling.rug.ac.be/aila. Contact: Ronald Soetaert and Bart Bonamie at literacy@memling.rug.ac.be.
Description: This conference is organized under the umbrella of the AILA Scientific Commission on Literacy. The conference will aim to
bring together a group of established and emerging scholars from around the world,
focus on the changing literacy practices of contemporary times,
have an interdisciplinary focus, and
focus on cutting-edge work in the distinct and emerging fields of language and literacy research that make up literacy studies, as well as numeracy studies.
Themes on this conference will include, but not be limited to: Literacies and Development (Globalisation, social development, third world development etc);
Literacies and Languages (Reading, Writing, Minority Languages, etc);
Literacies and Identity;
Literacies and Education (Special needs, …);
Specific Literacies (Digital, Media, Environmental, Youth, Family, Gender, Scientific, Numeracy, Emergent, etc);
Institutional Literacies (Academia, Schools, Museum...);
Cultural Literacies (Literacies & Cultural Studies);
Literacies & Research Issues; and
Literacies and Education (Academic, Special needs, etc). (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 27, 2003 | Last Updated on January 27, 2003)
The Alliance of Rhetoric Societies (ARS) Conference on the Status and Future of Rhetorical Studies. Northwestern University: September 11, 2003 to September 14, 2003.
Description: ARS will be publicly launched next September at a conference that highlights four major issues: (1) How ought we to understand the concept of rhetorical agency? (2) Do we have a “rhetorical tradition”? Are we better advised to think of traditions rather than a single tradition? If we do recognize a tradition or several traditions, how do we identify and characterize it (or them)? (3) What should be the institutional and social goals for academic rhetoric in the twenty-first century? How can rhetoric best contribute to the social, political, and cultural environment that extends beyond the University? (4) What does it mean to teach rhetoric? What does it mean to teach composition and performance seriously? What is the relationship between rhetoric and composition? Should they be distinguished?
A plenary speaker will address each of these issues, and another speaker will offer a formal response. The plenary speakers are: Karlyn Campbell, University of Minnesota; Jerzy Axer, University of Warsaw; Steve Mailloux, University of California-Irvine, and Jacqueline Jones Royster, Ohio State University. The respondents are: Sharon Crowley, Arizona State University, Jeffrey Walker, Emory University, James Aune, Texas A&M University, and Wayne Booth, University of Chicago.
Much of the conference will be devoted to sessions involving small working groups. Each group will focus on one of the four issues and will consider substantive ideas, common agendas for scholarship, and plans for future action. Consistent with the objectives of the association, the conference is designed to promote conversation across disciplinary lines and to encourage coordinate effort in rhetorical scholarship.
Participation in the conference is open to all interested parties and requires only submission of a brief position statement (no more than two pages) concerning one of the four issues. Copies of the statement must be sent to both of the conference co-directors:
Andrea Lunsford
Department of English
450 Serra Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 93405-2087
lunsford@stanford.edu
Michael Leff
Department of Communication Studies
1815 Chicago Ave.
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL 60208-1340
m-leff@northwestern.edu
These statements must be received no later than May 1. E-mail submissions are welcome. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 14, 2003 | Last Updated on January 14, 2003)
2003 Council of Writing Program Administrators Summer Conference: Better by Design: Building Programs, Strengthening Bridges. Grand Rapids, Michigan: July 10, 2003 to July 13, 2003. http://www.gvsu.edu/writing/wpa/. Contact: Chris Anson at chris_anson@NCSU.EDU.
Description: Echoing Grand Rapids’ city motto, "Better by Design," WPA 2003 will focus on what builds, sustains, and expands successful writing programs. Unlike many academic departments, which can often function as independent units, writing programs are structurally interconnected to all parts of an institution, providing foundational support for their work. Strong writing programs create strong learners, thinkers, and ommunicators,
and allow other departments and programs to build on these characteristics. But for writing programs to create this foundational support, they need to be well maintained, entrepreneurial, and energetic. WPAs well know the
challenges to such principles—challenges of funding and financial support, challenges of personnel, challenges
of too much work with too little help. WPA 2003 will
concentrate on principles of work and design, of reaching
maximum potential with available materials, strengthening
what we do to serve the needs of our communities while
maintaining the integrity of our professional standards,
pedagogical knowledge, and principles of equity. To honor
Grand Rapids’ dedication to its own improvement and
support of its citizens, we borrow from its history and its
mission in framing questions that papers and panels might
address. We invite you to propose responses to these or
any other issues important to the building (or rebuilding),
maintenance, and future design of writing programs in all
their forms and manifestations. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 18, 2003 | Last Updated on January 18, 2003)
Description: WPA invites up to thirty new and prospective writing program administrators of all kinds—as well as those in need of renewal—to take part in an intensive workshop in writing program administration. Held on the beautiful campus of Calvin College on the southeast side of Grand Rapids, MI, the workshop will provide information, strategies, advice, encouragement, and a rich professional network. Last year’s participants represented regional and national liberal arts colleges, two-year colleges, regional and flagship state universities, and major research institutions. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 18, 2003 | Last Updated on January 18, 2003)
Rhetoric's Road Trips: Histories and Horizons: The 18th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition. Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA: July 6, 2003 to July 8, 2003. http://app.outreach.psu.edu/Rhetoric/. Contact: Rosa A. Eberly at rhosa@psu.edu.
Description: The proposal deadline is now March 1, 2003. It has been extended because of brochure printing and mailing woes. (Added by Mike Palmquist on February 21, 2003 | Last Updated on February 21, 2003)
The Eight Conference of the International Federation for the Teaching of English. Melbourne, Australia: July 5, 2003 to July 8, 2003. http://www.ifte.net/2003/index.htm.
Description: The theme for this year's conference is "Transforming Literacies / Changing English / Elsewheres of Potential." Details about the conference are available on the Web. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 14, 2003 | Last Updated on January 14, 2003)
Humanities Conference: International Conference on New Directions in The Humanities: The Next World Order. University of the Aegean, Island of Rhodes, Greece,: July 2, 2003 to July 5, 2003. http://www.HumanitiesConference.com. Contact: Tom Nairn at tom.nairn@humanitiesconference.com.
Description: This is a conference for any person with an interest in, and concern for, the humanities. The conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that make up the humanities today. Main speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers and in the humanities, as well as numerous paper and workshop presentations by teachers and researchers. (Added by Mike Palmquist on December 9, 2002 | Last Updated on December 9, 2002)
Second Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing: Tutoring and Teaching Academic Writing . Budapest, Hungary: June 23, 2003 to June 25, 2003. http://www.ceu.hu/eataw/.
Description: Writing program administrators, writing centre staff, teachers, researchers and students interested in the teaching of academic writing are invited to participate in the second joint conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing and the European Writing Centers Association in Budapest, June 2003.
The aims of both organizations and of the conference is to create a forum for the discussion of teaching and research on academic writing across languages, to support the development of the teaching of academic writing in Europe, and to develop a supporting network of writing centers and writing programme administrators operating within a European context. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on February 12, 2003)
Developing Language and Communication in Higher Education: Trends in Teaching and Research. Chalmers Lindholmen University College Department of Language and Communication Goteborg, Sweden: June 17, 2003 to June 18, 2003. http://www.chl.chalmers.se/main/inst_fack/dlc/ . Contact: Magnus Gustafsson at magusta@chl.chalmers.se.
Description: Welcome to Goteborg for an opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences related to language and communication in higher education. We invite teachers, scholars, programme administrators, graduate students, and staff from learning centers to join us in a conversation emphasising the role of written and oral communication in the academy and the workplace. Your work may be in language, communication, linguistics, language for special purposes, second language acquisition, pedagogics, technology, or in related fields.
As educators, we face new challenges preparing students for an increasingly communication-rich, multicultural, and global society. How do we design courses, programmes, and support centres to prepare students for success in the academy and workplace? How do we take advantage of multiple literacies, new technologies, learning strategies, and emerging platforms to generate and implement new models for teaching and research?
Call for Abstracts (deadline February 28, 2003)
We invite individuals and teams to propose workshops, roundtables, and posters on any topic related to the four conference themes. Abstracts for 5-to-10-minute presentations should be designed to stimulate discussion among participants. Each one-page abstract should provide the name, institution, postal address, and e-mail of each presenter and for teams, identify one contact person. Describe the presentation, including such information as the
following:
- name of the presentation
- aim and purpose of the presentation
- overview of context, including programmes and levels involved
- description of pedagogical issues, research results, or theoretical discussions
Conference themes
Theme A: Literacy in the academy û industry û workplace
- Technical and professional communication, language for special purposes
- Transference of skills within the academy and between the academy and workplace
- Programme design, development, and implementation
- Collaboration with industry
Theme B: Learning and language across the curriculum
- Writing to learn
- Writing / communication-intensive courses
- Platforms and learning strategies
- Teaching and learning with technology
Theme C: Cross-disciplinary connections
- General education core units, electives, integrated courses, linked courses
- Team teaching
- Interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary teaching strategies and curricular activities
Theme D: Research and practice
- Classroom based
- Theoretical, historical, empirical
- Assessment
- Teacher development
Materials and course development
- Conference fee: SEK 1600 ($160 / Ç160) including two lunches, refreshments, poster reception, and the conference dinner
- Pre-conference workshop: SEK 400 ($40 / Ç40) including workshop refreshments
- 50% discount for graduate students
(Added by Stephen Bernhardt on December 13, 2002 | Last Updated on December 13, 2002)
Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan: June 16, 2003 to June 16, 2003. http://www.hu.mtu.edu/ciwic. Contact: Cheryl E. Ball at ceball@mtu.edu.
Description: Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms (CIWIC) offers three institutes for 2003: Approaches to Integrating Computers, Integrating New Media, and Independent Projects. See the Web site for more information.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on January 11, 2003 | Last Updated on January 11, 2003)
Discovering Digital Dimensions: Computers and Writing 2003 (3-D at Purdue in 2003). Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana: May 22, 2003 to May 25, 2003. http://www.cw2003.org/. Contact: David Blakesley at blakesle@purdue.edu.
Description: As in years past, the conference will provide diverse opportunities for engagement on issues of central concern to teachers, scholars, and writers in the emergent culture of the digital age. The theme—3-D at Purdue in 2003—stresses the importance of discovery in the many dimensions of learning, teaching, and writing as digital networks proliferate and make possible new forms of expression, suggest alternative rhetorics, and invite (re)presentation of our disciplinary histories. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 29, 2002 | Last Updated on September 29, 2002)
Description: This year, the keynote will be given by Chris Thaiss (George Mason University) and our workshop leaders will be Rebecca Burnett (Iowa State) and Chris Anson (NC State). The atmosphere is very informal and we usually have around 75-80 people from all over the country. This year's focus will be on Writing in the Disciplines. In addition to the workshops, we'll have faculty from across our university lead a panel discussion on writing strategies and assignments thatwork. (Added by Stephen Bernhardt on November 14, 2002 | Last Updated on November 14, 2002)
Southern Oregon University 13th Annual Conference on Composition and Rhetoric: Reflecting on Change: Language and Literacy in the 21st Century. Ashland, OR: April 26, 2003 to April 26, 2003. http://www.sou.edu/orcompconf/. Contact: Mada Morgan at morganm@sou.edu.
Description: The conference will bring together educators from high schools, community colleges, and four-year public and private colleges and universities to consider a range of practical and theoretical issues related to rhetoric and composition, language and literacy. We hope to offer a conference filled with conversations between teachers of all levels. Papers, panel proposals, and roundtable proposals are invited (deadline for proposals: February 14, 2003) which address issues in the changing fields of language, literacy, composition, and rhetoric.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on February 1, 2003 | Last Updated on February 1, 2003)
Description: The Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing (GPACW) provides a forum for educators to exchange ideas on the theory and practice of electronic literacies. For further information on the GPACW, visit the webpage at http://www.departments.dsu.edu/gpacw. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 27, 2003 | Last Updated on January 27, 2003)
2004 NEWCA Conference: "Facing the Center: Centering, De-Centering, and Changing the Face of the Writing Center." . Merrimack College, North Andover, Massachusetts : April 17, 2003 to April 17, 2003. Contact: JP Nadeau at jnadeau@bryant.edu.
Description:The Steering Committee of the Northeast Writing Centers Association (NEWCA) invites you to submit proposals for "Facing the Center: Centering, De-Centering, and Changing the Face of the Writing Center," the 2004 NEWCA conference to be held at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts on April 17, 2004. Paul Kei Matsuda, Associate Director of Composition at UNH and co-editor of On Second Language Writing and Landmark Essays on ESL Writing, will be the keynote speaker.
We are interested in the ways that the various faces of writing centers have changed, are changing, and will change.
Since this year's theme focuses on face, we are especially interested in panels that include tutors, tutees/clients/students who use our spaces, and historically under-represented "faces" of people of color, non-native English speakers, and other individuals often marginalized in writing centers and writing center scholarship.
Here are some questions to consider as you reflect on the rich possibilities of “face” and its relationship to writing center practice.
·Who are the faces of your writing center? How have they changed, and how are they changing? Do we wish to change them, and if so, how?Are there “traditional” writing center faces and, if so, are they the same faces of “traditional” students?
·How is the “face” of the writing center changing? What physical changes have occurred? Where is it located, geographically, politically, pedagogically within your institution and/or elsewhere?What are the possibilities for writing center collaborations (facing one another)?How do writing centers reach faces from departments across the curriculum?
·How do you face your own work? How do you do a better job of tutoring and/or help others to do a better job?
·What strategies do you use to manage face-time (publicity)? How do you construct and circulate your writing center image(s) to their fullest advantage?Within your center, how do you manage face-time?Consider tutors and tutees, directors and tutors, writing center staff and non-writing center administration.)
·What face-offs (conflicts) do you encounter and how do you manage them? How do you train tutors to negotiate face-offs?
NEWCA welcomes proposals for presentations, workshops, and panels that explore how our histories have informed our theories and practices in regard to clientele and staff, tutoring strategies, program assessment, research, technology, and design and location.
We encourage submissions from professional staff, administrators, and faculty affiliated with writing centers at all educational levels. Moreover, since peer tutors constitute more than half of those who attend our conference, we encourage proposals for presentations by peer tutors.
Your proposed presentation, workshop, or panel should actively involve the audience.In addition to interactive panels, we invite proposals that will present original scholarship (developed for courses or for future publication) in a way that benefits authors and engages audiences.
Proposal Submission Guidelines
Include the following information in your proposal:
·Proposer’s name, position (tutor, director, etc.), institution, address, telephone number, and e-mail address
·Presenters’ names plus all of the above
·Title of presentation, one-page description of presentation, and a 75-word abstract for inclusion in the conference program
·Type of session: 1) workshop – interactive session; OR 2) panel discussion – two or more presenters giving positions on a topic and then engaging the audience in discussion
·Specific audiovisual and technical requests.
To submit your proposal electronically:
·Send it as an MS Word attachment (no other formats acceptable, sorry) or include it in the body of the email;
·Send one complete copy to and another complete copy to mcarroll3@cox.net by December 27, 2003.
To submit your proposal by land mail:
·Send it to Meg Carroll, Writing Center, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI02908. The proposal must arrive no later than December 27, 2003.
If you need more information about submitting your proposal, contact Meg Carroll at (401) 456-8141 or (h) (401)884-5881.
(Added by Dan Melzer on October 28, 2003 | Last Updated on October 28, 2003)
The Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association 15th Annual Conference . McDaniel College, Westminster, MD: April 5, 2003 to April 5, 2003. http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/mawca/.
Description: Tutors, teachers, and researchers are invited to submit proposals on any subject including: (1) the relationship of the tutor and the teacher (2) tutor training (with syllabi) (3) faculty/writing center relationships: How to handle various faculty expectations (4) balancing teaching and Writing Center work-rules, conflicts, benefits, drawbacks.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on December 5, 2002 | Last Updated on December 5, 2002)
National Conference on Student Writing and Critical Thinking in Agriculture. Jackson Hole, WY: April 4, 2003 to April 5, 2003. http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/AgWrite/index.htm. Contact: Julianne Couch, Conference Coordinator at jcouch@uwyo.edu .
Description: This conference is designed to be of interest to professionals in all disciplines involved in issues of student writing and critical thinking. A one-day pre-conference series of workshops focusing on various kinds of writing is also planned for April 3. The conference will be designed to provide useful teaching techniques for developing and improving student writing and critical thinking skills, assist in the development of personalized action plans for improving courses and curricula, and stimulate dialogue about teaching and learning within and across disciplines
The conference is intended to be highly interactive and will be structured to promote meaningful engagement among all participants. (Added by Stephen Bernhardt on November 14, 2002 | Last Updated on January 11, 2003)
Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference: Constructing Knowledge Across the Humanities. University of Utah, Salt Lake City: April 4, 2003 to April 5, 2003. http://www.hum.utah.edu/hgc/. Contact: Paul Ketzle at pketzle@yahoo.com.
Description: The University of Utah Humanities Graduate Conference is a graduate student conference developed by graduate students for graduate students. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 14, 2003 | Last Updated on January 14, 2003)
Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference 2003: Moving Forward and Looking Back: Writing Center Histories, Herstories, and Heresies. Rivier College, Nashua, New Hampshire: April 4, 2003 to April 5, 2003. http://web.bryant.edu/~ace/wrtctr/NEWCA.htm. Contact: Al DeCiccio at adeciccio@rivier.edu.
Description: This conference focuses on the way that histories - personal, public, and political - describe the work of WC's and tutors and considers how those histories may influence our current philosophies and practices. The keynote speaker is Neal Lerner. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 27, 2003 | Last Updated on January 27, 2003)
Description: On March 27th, 28th, and 29th of 2003, the East Central Writing Centers Association will be holding its 25th annual conference at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. In recognition of its 25th anniversary, we invite the writing center community to compose presentations, panels, and workshop proposals that explore the history of their own writing centers, and reflect on how that history has been shaped by work in related areas such as literacy education, the social sciences, and work in composition and rhetoric. Keynote Speakers include Muriel Harris (Purdue University) and Neal Lerner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 23, 2003 | Last Updated on January 23, 2003)
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. NYC Hilton, in conjunction with CCCC: March 19, 2003 to March 19, 2003. http://www.attw.org/default.asp. Contact: Stephen A. Bernhardt at sab@udel.edu.
Description: ATTW will meet for its 6th annual conference on Wednesday, March 19, 2003 at the New York Hilton in New York City. Please see the schedule and abstracts (available on the conference Web site at http://www.attw.org/default.asp) for details on sessions, speakers, and times.
Registration is available only at the Web site, and the deadline for registration is March 1. Registration for the conference requires ATTW membership for 2003.
(Added by Stephen Bernhardt on October 26, 2002 | Last Updated on February 12, 2003)
Re-writing Theme for English B: Transforming Possibilities. 54th Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York City: March 19, 2003 to March 22, 2003. http://www.ncte.org/convention/cccc2003/.
Description: The national meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, an NCTE organization, will be held in New York this spring. Visit the conference Web site for information about registration, accommodations, and events. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on February 12, 2003)
13th Annual Teaching Academic Survival Skills Conference. Palm Beach Atlantic College, West Palm Beach, Florida: March 9, 2003 to March 11, 2003. http://cit.necc.mass.edu/tass/. Contact: Harry Prats at Harry.Prats@UC.edu .
Description: The 14th annual Teaching Academic Survival Skills (TASS) Conference is sponsored by the University College, University of Cincinnati (UC) and Northern Essex Community College (NECC). All Conference events will be held at Palm Beach Atlantic University (PBAU). Transportation will be provided from the conference hotel to PBAU.
Over the years, the TASS conference has grown and flourished. Generally, there are 30 to 50 sessions, where presenters using a workshop approach describe methods they have used to help students succeed in reading, writing, math, English as a Second Language, computer classes, and student services. Evaluations from participants have indicated that the hands-on approach used by presenters gave them a wealth of ideas, strategies, and materials to take back to their respective institutions. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on February 12, 2003)
Northern California Writing Centers Association 11th Annual Conference: Cultivating the Center: Connecting Diverse Writing Communities. California State University, Monterey Bay Seaside, Monterey, California: March 8, 2003 to March 8, 2003. http://www.asap.csumb.edu/ncwca. Contact: Natasha Oehlman at natasha_oehlman@csumb.edu.
Description: As we connect our own writing center communities for this conference, we would like to acknowledge the multiple communities we work with and how best to foster diversity in the center. We look forward to exploring some of these questions:
How do writing tutors connect with communities that are very different than their own? How is a writing center community developed? How is literacy acknowledged and fostered in the center? How is writing across the curriculum supported in the center? What types of writing strategies are used in sessions to support various needs? What techniques are used to support writers with disabilities? How is the distance learner supported in the writing center? What approaches are used to connect and collaborate with faculty? Proposals on aspects of Writing Center practice and/or theory are also encouraged.
We invite writing tutors and consultants, center directors and coordinators, and faculty to work together to cultivate the various communities that make up the center. (Added by Mike Palmquist on February 1, 2003 | Last Updated on February 1, 2003)
Description: On March 27th, 28th, and 29th of 2003, the East Central Writing Centers Association will be holding its 25th annual conference at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. In recognition of its 25th anniversary, we invite the writing center community to compose presentations, panels, and workshop proposals that explore the history of their own writing centers, and reflect on how that history has been shaped by work in related areas such as literacy education, the social sciences, and work in composition and rhetoric. (Added by Mike Palmquist on December 5, 2002 | Last Updated on December 5, 2002)
Description: The 8th Annual Graduate English Society Conference
will be held February 21-22, 2003 at Texas Tech
University in Lubbock, Texas. The theme of this year's
conference, Border Crossings: Interplay Within
English Studies, reminds us that our many fields of
interest within English studies provide numerous
opportunities for exploration through interplay and
interactions.
The conference keynote speech will be delivered in the
evening of Friday, February 21, 2003, by Dr. N.
Katherine Hayles of UCLA, author of _Chaos Bound:
Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and
Science_ and _How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies
in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics_, as well
as many articles and essays on modern literary theory
and the forthcoming book _Writing Machines_. Dr.
Hayles will be available to meet with students
throughout the day on Saturday, February 22, 2003. See
http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/hayles/ for more
information about Dr. Hayles. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 14, 2003 | Last Updated on January 14, 2003)
Getting Back to Writing: Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference. Atlanta, Georgia: February 19, 2003 to February 21, 2003. http://www.kennesaw.edu/english/swca/.
Description:
The conference theme “Getting Back to Writing” concerns what writing centers focus on, how we communicate our role to others, and our purposes for existing. In discussing “getting back to writing,” we question whether our theories should be based on commonalities or differences.
Since 2004 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Stephen North’s article on the idea of a writing center, proposals might play upon the themes of collaboration and intervention implied in his essays and the various reactions over the years.
Sessions might also explore to what extent our online emphasis fits our “true” purpose; our tutoring of ESL students; structure in the disciplines; teacher-tutor concerns; and administrative issues, such as numbers vs. improvement in writing.
(Added by Dan Melzer on September 21, 2003 | Last Updated on September 21, 2003)
Introduction to Problem-Based Learning and Problem Writing. Institute for Transforming Undergraduate Education, University of Delaware: January 13, 2003 to January 14, 2003. http://www.udel.edu/inst/. Contact: George Watson at ud-itue@udel.edu.
Description: This two-day workshop will demonstrate problem-based learning (PBL) and model ways that PBL can be used effectively in all disciplines, in upper and lower division courses, and in all size classes. This session will incorporate many elements of the Introductory Track at PBL2002. An emphasis of this program will be writing effective problem-based maternials; participants will leave the session with new or revised problems for use in their couses. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 11, 2003 | Last Updated on January 11, 2003)
International Conference on Computers in Education. Auckland, New Zealand: December 3, 2002 to December 6, 2002. http://icce2002.massey.ac.nz.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
The 19th Annual National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW) in collaboration with the 21st Annual Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference (MWCA). The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas : October 25, 2002 to October 27, 2002. http://www.ceu.hu/eataw/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
6th Annual Western States Composition Conference: Writing and Disciplinarity: Rhetorics, Discourses, and Literacies. University of Washington, Seattle, Washington: October 24, 2002 to October 26, 2002. http://web.bryant.edu/~ace/WrtCtr/NEWCA.htm. Contact: Peter N. Goggin at petergo@asu.edu.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
International Writing Centers Association-National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing 2003 Joint Conference. Hershey, Pennsylvania: October 23, 2002 to October 25, 2002. http://www.wc.iup.edu/2003conference.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 29, 2002)
Writing Programs Administrators Summer Workshop. Park City, Utah: July 11, 2002 to July 14, 2002. Contact: Kathleen Yancey at Kyancey@clemson.edu.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
8th International Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. Writing Special Interest Group. Staffordshire University, Stafford, UK: July 10, 2002 to July 13, 2002. http://www.staffs.ac.uk/writing02%20.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
International Society for the Study of Argumentation, 5th International Conference on Argumentation. University of Amsterdam: June 25, 2002 to June 28, 2002. http://www.hum.uva.nl/issa/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
PBL2002: A Pathway to Better Learning: An International Conference on Problem-Based Learning. Baltimore, Maryland: June 16, 2002 to June 20, 2002. http://www.udel.edu/ce/pbl2002/.
Description: An increasing number of academic institutions throughout the world have recognized that Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional method that challenges students to develop the ability to think critically, analyze problems, find and use appropriate learning resources. This conference will provide an opportunity for PBL practitioners to communicate with one another and share their ideas for organizing and managing undergraduate problem-based courses, assessing student learning, writing problems, conducting classroom research, integrating PBL with Internet resources, and a variety of related topics. At the same time, faculty who are new to PBL or who are interested in learning about problem-based instruction will have the option to participate in a series of workshops that will help prepare them to use PBL in their own courses. (Added by Mike Palmquist on January 11, 2003 | Last Updated on January 11, 2003)
Rhetoric Society of America 10th Biennial Conference: "Rhetorical Democracy: Discursive Practices of Civic Engagement". Las Vegas, Nevada: May 23, 2002 to May 27, 2002. http://rhetoricsociety.org/.
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Teaching and Learning in Virtual Spaces: Computers and Writing 2002. Illinois State University, Normal, IL: May 16, 2002 to May 19, 2002. http://lilt.ilstu.edu/english/cw2002/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Fourteenth Annual Conference: Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association. Chesapeake College, Wye Mills, MD: April 27, 2002 to January 1, 1900.
Description: For information, contact Cathy Sewell, Conference Chair, at csewell@Chesapeake.edu or 410-822-5400, x 1-368 (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Southern California WPA and Writing Centers Association Spring Conference: The Contexts of Composition: Considering Issues, Defining Goals. California State University, Northridge: April 27, 2002 to January 1, 1900. http://www.southwestern.edu/~scwca/. Contact: Irene L. Clark at irene.clark@csun.edu.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Futures of World Literatures and Literacies: The Fifth Annual International Red River Conference on World Literature and the Fifth Annual Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing join conference. North Dakota State University, Fargo ND: April 25, 2002 to April 28, 2002. http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/RRCWL/cfp02.html.
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Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference. Bryant College, Smithfield, Rhode Island : April 20, 2002 to January 1, 1900. http://www.slcc.edu/wc/rmptc9/. Contact: JP Nadeau at jnadeau@bryant.edu.
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International Writing Centers Association Conference: The Art of Writing Centers. Savannah, Georgia: April 11, 2002 to April 13, 2002. http://iwca.syr.edu/conference.
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Technology in the College English Classroom: Literature, Culture, Pedagogy. University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina: April 5, 2002 to April 7, 2002.
Description: For information, contact Christian Moraru, Conference Director, at c_moraru@uncg.edu or (336) 334-3564 (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
24th Annual East Central Writing Centers Association Conference: The Expanding Center: Big (and Little) Bangs in Writing Center Theory and Practice. Kent State University-Stark Campus, Canton, Ohio: April 4, 2002 to April 6, 2002.
Description: For information, contact Jay Sloan at jsloan@stark.kent.edu or (330) 244-3458 (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Promise or Peril? Reflecting on Computer Technology: Educational, Psychological, and Ethical Implications. Mount Mary College, Milwaukee: March 21, 2002 to March 22, 2002. http://www.mtmary.edu/symposium.htm.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Connecting the Text and the Street. Conference on College Composition and Communication 53rd Annual Convention. Chicago, Illinois: March 20, 2002 to March 23, 2002. http://www.ncte.org/convention/cccc2002/.
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Writing the Future: Leadership, Policies, and Classroom Practices. WAC 2002: The Sixth National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. Rice University, Houston: March 7, 2002 to March 9, 2002. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~wac2002/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
South Central Writing Centers Association Conference: Explorations in Alter Space: Balancing the Traditional with the Transformational. Houston: February 22, 2002 to February 23, 2002. http://www.public.asu.edu/~petergo/wscc/wscc.html . Contact: Chloe Diepenbrock at diepenbrock@cl.uh.edu.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Writing from the Center: The 18th Annual National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing. Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA: November 2, 2001 to November 4, 2001. http://www.chss.iup.edu/wc/NCPTW/muhlenb.html.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Composition and Rhetoric: Uses of Technology in the Composition Classroom. 11th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. Cortland College of the State University of New York: October 28, 2001 to October 30, 2001.
Description: For information, contact Mary E. Fakler at faklerm@newpaltz.edu. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Fifth Annual Western States Composition Conference: Writing: What is it? Why Study it? Why Teach it?. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona: October 25, 2001 to October 27, 2001. http://www.public.asu.edu/~petergo/wscc/wscc01.html.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Conversations about Composition: An Annual Conference on the Teaching of Writing in Connecticut. New Haven, Connecticut: October 20, 2001 to January 1, 1900. http://www.southernct.edu/~henderso/conference.htm.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Feminist Literacies: Resisting Disciplines Third Biennial International Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference. Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois: October 18, 2001 to October 20, 2001. http://academic.mu.edu/cwshrc/conferences.htm.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
2001 Meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication: "Managing Change and Growth in Technical and Scientific Communication.". Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: October 11, 2001 to October 13, 2001. http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcpt/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Writing as a Human Activity: An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara. October 5, 2001 to October 6, 2001.
Description: View the Call for Proposals. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Composition Studies in the 21st Century. Rereading the Past--Rewriting the Future. Council of Writing Program Administrators. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio: October 5, 2001 to October 7, 2001. http://www.cas.ilstu.edu/English/Hesse/wpamiami2001.htm ....
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Looking Back, Leaping Forward: Writing Centers in the 21st Century. Midwest Writing Centers Association 2001 Conference. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa: September 14, 2001 to September 15, 2001. http://www.ku.edu/~mwca/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Writing Programs Administrators Summer Workshop. Arizona State University East, Tempe, Arizona: July 8, 2001 to July 12, 2001.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition: American Ethnic Rhetorics. State College, Pennsylvania: July 8, 2001 to July 10, 2001. http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/Rhet&Comp/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
What Do the Best Professors Do? Sixth Annual International Institute. Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, and Larisa Marshall Consortium for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. Evanston, Illinois: June 27, 2001 to July 29, 2001. http://president.scfte.nwu.edu/Bestteachers2001.html.
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Summer Institutes on Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms. Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan: June 18, 2001 to June 29, 2001.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Teaching Academic Writing across Europe. First Conference of EATAW: The European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing. Groningen, the Netherlands: June 17, 2001 to June 20, 2001. http://www.hum.ku.dk/formidling/eataw/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
The Fifth National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference: Writing, Teaching, and Learning in New Contexts. Bloomington, Indiana: May 31, 2001 to June 2, 2001. http://www.indiana.edu/~wac2001/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
2001: A Cyber Odyssey. The 17th Computers and Writing Conference. Ball State University, Muncie, IN: May 17, 2001 to May 20, 2001. http://www.bsu.edu/xtranet/cw2001/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Electronic Communities: Experimenting, Writing and Designing. Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing, 4th Annual Conference. Dakota State University, Madison, SD: April 19, 2001 to April 22, 2001. http://www.departments.dsu.edu/gpacw/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Conspiring Together: Promoting Peer Collaboration and Connection. Northwest Regional Writing Centers Conference. Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA: April 7, 2001 to January 1, 1900. http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~writepro/Conference.htm.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Literacies, Identities, and Power. Annual Northeast Regional Writing Centers Association Conference. Clark University, Worcester, MA: March 31, 2001 to January 1, 1900. http://www2.clarku.edu/resources/writingcenter/NEWCA/.
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Northeast Modern Language Association. Hartford, Connecticut: March 30, 2001 to March 31, 2001. http://www.anna-maria.edu/nemla/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Writing Center Gumbo: The Mix of Student, Tutor, and Director Roles and Identities. South Central Writing Association 2001 Conference. University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana: March 29, 2001 to March 31, 2001.
Description: For questions, contact James McDonald at jcm5337@louisiana.edu or (337) 482-6907. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Inquiry and Innovation: Images of Writing Centers. 23rd Annual East Central Writing Centers Association Conference. Denison University, Granville, OH: March 23, 2001 to March 24, 2001. http://www.denison.edu/ecwca2001.
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Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Convention. Adam's Mark Hotel, Denver, Colorado: March 14, 2001 to March 17, 2001. http://www.ncte.org/convention/cccc2001/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Stepping Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on, Revisions of, and Premonitions about English Studies in the 21st Century. Sponsored by the Graduate English Society, Texas Tech University. Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas: February 23, 2001 to February 24, 2001. http://english.ttu.edu/ges/conference/conf2001.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Southeastern Writing Center Association: "Collaboration at the Center". Auburn, Alabama: February 16, 2001 to February 18, 2001.
Description: For information, contact Isabelle Thompson at thompis@groupwise1.duc.auburn.edu or Glenda Conway at conwayg@montevallo.edu. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Collaboration at the Center: Southeastern Writing Center Association 2001 Conference. Auburn, Alabama: February 15, 2001 to February 17, 2001.
Description: View the Call for Proposals. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Making Connections IX: Writing Across the Disciplines Conference: Creating a Community of Educators, #2. Florida International University, Miami, Florida: February 14, 2001 to February 17, 2001. http://www.fiu.edu/~wad/.
Description: Click on "WAD 2001" on the menu. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
ACM 2000 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Philadelphia: December 2, 2000 to December 6, 2000. http://www.acm.org/sigchi/cscw2000/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Teaching Matters. 90th Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English. Milwaukee, WI: November 16, 2000 to November 19, 2000. http://www.ncte.org/convention/2000/index.shtml.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Community College Humanities Association 2000 Annual Meeting, Eastern Division: Mr. Chips in Cyber College: Humanities, Technology and Education. Montgomery College, Doubletree Hotel, Rockville, Maryland: November 9, 2000 to November 11, 2000. http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Orgs/humanities/ccha/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
The 6th International Conference on Asynchronous Learning Networks: Building Sustainable Online Learning Environments. University of Maryland University College in Adelphi, MD: November 3, 2000 to January 1, 1900. http://www.aln.org/alnconf2000/cfp.html.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
The 42nd Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association: Crossroads 2000: Reading, Pedagogy, Academic Labor. Kansas City, Missouri: November 2, 2000 to November 4, 2000. http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla/.
Description: View the Call for Proposals. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
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10th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature. Cortland College of the State University of New York: October 29, 2000 to October 31, 2000. http://english.cortland.edu/departme.htm.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Michigan College English Conference: Literature and Literacies: Teaching English in the 21st Century. Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Arcadia Commons Campus, Kalamazoo, Michigan: October 20, 2000 to October 21, 2000. http://puma.kvcc.edu/mcea/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Western States Composition Conference: Writing and Diversity: Literacy, Community, and Social Connections. University of Utah, Salt Lake City: October 12, 2000 to October 14, 2000. http://www.public.asu.edu/~petergo/wscc/wscc00.html.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Visions II: Transformations. A Regional Conference for Writing Instructors and Program Administrators. Allerton Conference Center, Monticello, IL: October 8, 2000 to October 9, 2000.
Description: View the Call for Proposals. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Looking Ahead, Looking Back. National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing: Peer Tutoring 2000. North Andover, MA: October 6, 2000 to October 8, 2000.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition: Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy. University of Louisville: October 5, 2000 to October 7, 2000. http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/watson.html.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
Institute for Scientific and Technical Communicators Conference 2000: Communicating by design. Professional Development for Information Designers. UMIST Manchester: September 29, 2000 to October 1, 2000. http://www.istc.org.uk/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
The Third Biennial Communication Skills in University Education (CSUE) Conference. Fremantle, Perth, Western Australia: September 28, 2000 to September 29, 2000. http://www.bs.ac.cowan.edu.au/csue2000/.
(Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
2000 Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference: Opening Centers to Diversity. Minneapolis: September 28, 2000 to September 30, 2000.
Description: View the Call for Proposals. (Added by Mike Palmquist on September 26, 2002 | Last Updated on September 26, 2002)
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At the end of the first decade of the 21st century, more and more educators have come to realize the importance of academic writing programs both in and beyond academia. The view that those entering higher education are able to cope with their writing tasks without guidance has been widely challenged. The need for quality writing ability after leaving higher education is clear. Beyond the academy, with globalization in today’s worlds of business, research, and culture, writing skills are a necessity for all who wish to advance professionally. Especially in multicultural societies where students come from many different cultural and linguistic traditions and are often expected to write in more than one language, supporting student writers at all levels of study and preparing them for writing after their studies are pedagogical imperatives.
Deborah H. Holdstein, PhD
Christopher M. Anson, Ph.D.
Otto Kruse, Ph.D.
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