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Writing Matters |
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An exploration of the diverse nature of the composition classroom |
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2008 Program (see the 2007 program here) |
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Thursday, April 24
6-6:30 p.m. registration, Magnolia Conference Room, first floor
6:30-8:30 meal/mingling and readings/performance, Magnolia Conference Room
Friday, April 25 8-9 a.m. registration and breakfast, Magnolia Conference Room
9-9:45 a.m. welcome, Dr. John Tigue, Dean of Liberal Arts, Baton Rouge Community College, and morning speaker, David Madden, Professor of English, Louisiana State University, Magnolia Conference Room
10-11:30 a.m. Sessions 1A and 1B
Session 1A, Magnolia 300 (third-floor conference room) Moderator: Freda Lawrence Panel: “The Digital Revolution Meets First-Year Writing Courses” Patrice A. Williams, Okaloosa-Walton College/Florida State University, “Requests for WebQuests: If We Build Them, They Will Come” Deidre Dowling Price, Okaloosa-Walton College/Florida State University, “‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’: A Defense of YouTube in the Composition Classroom” James Suderman, Okaloosa-Walton College, “Hooked on Technology—or Not” Session 1B, Magnolia Special Collections Reading Room (second floor) Moderator: Jeff Weaver Deborah Coxwell-Teague, Florida State University, “The Changing Role of Writing in the Composition Classroom” Renee Major, Louisiana State University, “Keeping the Class Notebook: Strategies for Integrated Learning in the Composition Classroom” Bernadette Gambino, University of North Florida, “Establishing an Environment Conducive to Civil Discourse in the Freshman Writing Classroom”
11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. lunch, keynote address, Dr. Kristal Brent Zook, Hofstra University, Magnolia Conference Room
1:15-2:45 p.m. Sessions 2A and 2B
Session 2A, Magnolia 300 (third-floor conference room) Moderator: Mary McKeough Sumita Roy, Southern University, “Incorporating Table Topics in Composition Classes” Ron Lunsford, UNC Charlotte, “Rhetorical Lessons from the Presidential Debates of 2008” Mary Maupin, Missouri State University, “You’re” Twizzlers “Our” “Hear”: Teaching Basic Writing Through First Language Acquisition Techniques Chris Pope, Baton Rouge Community College, “The Use of Grammatical Rules in Composition and Grading” Session 2B, Magnolia Special Collections Reading Room (second floor) Moderator: Rosemary Mack J. Rocky Colavito, Northwestern State University, “Food For Thought, or Everything I Know About Interdisciplinarity I Learned From Alton Brown” Sydney LaShea Varnado, Baton Rouge Community College, “English for Big Kids: Using Fairy Tales as Simple Subjects for Writing” Ed Tyler, Baton Rouge Community College, “Oral Tradition and Croatian Women’s Folktales in the Composition Classroom”
3-4:30 p.m. Session 3A and 3B
Session 3A, Magnolia 300 (third floor conference room) Moderator: Emmett Wilder Christy Foreman, “A Place for Negotiated Meaning: How First Year Composition Students Construct and Reconstruct Knowledge Through Classroom Discourse” Elaine Deering, Lynn University, “Multi-Sensory Approach to Teaching Writing to Learning Disabled Students and Others” James Silver, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, “Using Game Theory as a Tool for Teaching Composition” Holly Larson, Lake-Sumter (Fla.) Community College, “Moving Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay Formula” Session 3B, Magnolia Special Collections Reading Room (second floor) Moderator: Christen Cummins Lee Ann Price “Counting Brush Strokes: The Use of Stranger Than Fiction in the Composition Classroom” Richard Carpenter, Valdosta State University, “Digital Self-Presentation Project: Expanding Students’ Notions of Narrative, Self, and Text” Thomas Reynolds, Northwestern State University, “A (Re)New(ed) Vision of Delivery for the Composition Classroom” Steven S. Kapica, Davidson County Community College, Lexington, NC, “idk Y? I fAled: ryTN 4 colleG n work” (I Don’t Know Why I Failed: Writing for College and Work”
Friday evening
6:30 p.m. dinner as a group, pay for your own meal. Meet in the lobby of the Sheraton at 6:30 p.m.; dinner at Capital City Grill.
Saturday, April 26
8:00-9:00 a.m. breakfast at your leisure, Magnolia Conference Room *Please note: The Louisiana State Articulation Committee will meet informally during this time, also in the Magnolia conference room. All Louisiana faculty are welcome as are interested parties from other states.
9:15-11 a.m., Sessions 4A and 4B
Session 4A, Magnolia 300 (third-floor conference room) Moderator: Rosemary Mack Irvin Peckham, Louisiana State University, “Critical Pedagogy Without a Position” Stephanie Shultz, Northwestern State University, “Using Debate to Make Rhetoric Real for First-Year Writers” Steve Knapp, Arkansas State University at Beebe, “Literature, Critical Thinking, and the Freshman Composition Classroom” Session 4B, Magnolia Special Collections Reading Room (second floor) Moderator: Dynechia Jones M. Dillahunt, Vance Granville Community College, “Back to the Basics: The Practicality of Writing Instruction” Huey Daigle, “Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Battling in Favor of Writing Across the Curriculum” Mark Smith, Valdosta State University, “A First-Year Writing Program: Resistance, Change, and Compromise”
11 a.m. A modern Lysistrata: performance by BRCC theatre students, Black Box theatre
12-1 p.m. lunch, Magnolia Conference Room
1-2:30 p.m. Session 5A
Session 5A, Magnolia Special Collections Reading Room (second floor) Moderator: Thomas Reynolds Panel: “What’s the Matter? On Selecting Writing Topics for College Composition” Myron Tuman, Nicholls State University R. Allen Alexander, Nicholls State University Jeremy Tuman, University of New Orleans
*Special note: Food and drinks are not allowed in the Magnolia Library; however, you are welcome to have a beverage while you are speaking. The Magnolia Conference Room on the first floor will remain open throughout the day for you to enjoy refreshments or take a break. |
