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Carolinas WPA 2017 Wildacres Retreat Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals

14th Annual Fall Carolinas Writing Program Administrators Conference

Communities and Contact Zones: Doing Justice

September 18-20, 2017 | Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions) | $200 (includes 2 nights lodging and 5 meals)

  • Proposal deadline: Friday, August 25, 2017
  • Registration deadline: Monday, September 11, 2017

Carolinas Writing Program Administrators is accepting proposals on the theme of “Communities and Contact Zones: Doing Justice” for its Fourteenth Annual Fall Conference.

Twenty-six years after Mary Louise Pratt published “The Arts of the Contact Zone,” our profession continues to grapple with ways to call out colonialism in our classrooms and universities.  We seek ways to invite heterogeneity of expression and perspectives, and we strive to work with conflict and discomfort in ever-contested learning spaces. Our conference site itself is a contact zone in which the white supremacist history of the property contrasts with its present mission to serve as an inclusive, anti-discriminatory site for dialog across differences. The dialectic between community and difference that Pratt calls attention to comes into play in nearly every aspect of our work in the Carolinas as we attempt to do justice to our best ideas, do justice with our students and colleagues, and do justice in often conflicted institutional contexts.

What are you working on in your classrooms, your programs, or your research?  What challenges are you experiencing in your communities, in your justice work?  What successes have you had in working with or across differences? How do we do justice to the ideas, like Pratt’s, that invigorate our work?  As teachers, as program leaders, as community members, as researchers, how do we do justice with each other? How might the community of Carolinas WPA further your work toward those ends?

 

Keynote and Workshops: “Contemplating Race: Mindfulness as Antiracist Pedagogy.” Emma Howes and Christian Smith from Coastal Carolina University will facilitate workshops on using contemplative practices in the classroom to enact antiracist pedagogy. They will discuss some of the theoretical background for this work, providing exercises that cultivate mindfulness to build critical literacy skills in spaces where differing discourses meet. They will also address the ways we, as instructors and administrators, may benefit from our own development of contemplative work. In this way, participants will be asked to consider the value in creating slow reading and writing practices to facilitate agents to more carefully consider their initial encounters with text. This encourages deep engagement with literacy practices for navigating multiple, often clashing, discourses, and helps build empathy through the work of deep, rhetorical listening. Contemplative practices may thus allow students of writing to move from affectively-driven reactions to reflective responses.

 

Conference Schedule and Format. The conference begins at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 18, and concludes at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 20. A keynote talk on Monday evening will be followed by a full day Tuesday of workshops, small breakout interest groups, and activities on the beautiful mountaintop of Wildacres Retreat, with a closing session Wednesday morning. All meals are provided.

The conference format encourages engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs.

Those presenting should prepare for 15-20 minutes to discuss their work and seek feedback from those with shared interests. Those leading retreat activities or mini-workshops should prepare for 45-60 minutes focused on lively participant involvement.

Wildacres Retreat is a low-tech setting conducive to relaxing, collaborating, and learning with friends and colleagues across the Carolinas.

 

Proposals. You are entirely welcome to attend this conference without presenting, but those whose proposals are accepted will be listed on the formal agenda, which may help with obtaining travel funding. Proposals also help us plan appropriate interest groups and design activities around members’ goals.

We welcome creative interpretation of the theme. This forum is especially appropriate for work that would benefit from feedback and focused workshop time. Carolinas WPA welcomes individual and team presentations at any stage of development and from people working in any teaching or administrative positions related to writing in the Carolinas.

You may submit a proposal for one of two types of activity:

  • Individual or team presentation to be placed into 1-hr discussion groups with other presenters. Plan for approximately 20 minutes per person including discussion time.
  • Retreat activity: Solo or co-lead anything from yoga or an Appalachian plant identification walk to a mini-workshop related to the conference theme. Plan to have 45- to 60-minutes. We welcome creative use of Wildacres’ indoor and outdoor common spaces.

Be prepared to work without AV equipment. (Internet is very limited and we may not have access to projectors.) Each proposal should be 250 – 500 words including:

  • Names and contact information (email, phone, home institution) for each person associated with your proposal
  • Type of activity (individual or team presentation 15-20 minutes per person; retreat activity or mini-workshop of 45-60 minutes)
  • A title and brief description of what you will share
  • Your specific goals for presenting
  • Questions for attendees that will help you elicit feedback relevant to your goals.

Submit your proposal via email to Collie Fulford (collie.fulford@gmail.com) and Paula Patch (ppatch@elon.edu) by 11:59PM Monday August 25, 2017, using the subject line “CarWPA Proposal yourlastname.”

 

Registration and Cost. The registration fee of $200 includes 2 nights’ lodging and 5 meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials. Conferencegoers must register by Monday, September 11, 2017. No refunds after Friday, September 8. The registration link will be opening soon on our conference page.

Questions or Comments? – Contact Collie Fulford at collie.fulford@gmail.com.

Meeting in the Middle 2017 Registration is Open

Theme: Advocacy in Classrooms, Programs, Research, and Beyond

Friday, February 17, 2017

10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

UNC Charlotte Center City Building
320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

The registration price of $40.00 includes lunch and the opportunity to bring a guest for free. The registration deadline is Friday, February 10, 2017.

 

We encourage you to “Bring a Friend for Free,” but you must register your friend when you register yourself.

 

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CarolinasWPA Meeting in the Middle CFP

Friday, February 17, 2017

10:00 AM – 4:30 PM

UNC Charlotte Center City Building
320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte, NC 28202

Theme: Advocacy in Classrooms, Programs, Research, and Beyond

*Proposal deadline: Friday, February 3, 2017

 

Carolinas Writing Program Administrators is accepting proposals for its Eleventh Annual Spring Conference, Meeting in the Middle.

 

Teaching and program administration is always work in progress. We constantly alter our own classroom practices, reshape our programs, and revise our research. In so doing, we must advocate for ourselves and for others, and our social justice mission is rarely far from our minds. Much of the advocacy we do stays within our institutional contexts such as when we try different teaching approaches, or argue for program resources or equitable labor practices. Past Carolinas WPA speakers John Warner (Wildacres 2015) and Doug Hesse (Wildacres 2013) encourage us also to go public in our advocacy efforts. Our national body, the Council of Writing Program Administrators, urges us to see advocacy as particularly necessary to focus on right now, as evident in their recent call for conference proposals on the theme of agency and advocacy in an age of austerity. This dovetails well with the focus Michelle LaFrance brought to us at Wildacres 2016.

 

At this year’s Meeting in the Middle, we check in with each other on those efforts. We lift up the work each of us is doing that explores classrooms and writing programs as sites of advocacy. And we offer concrete activities to move that work forward.

 

So what are you working on now? And how can MinM help you meet your goals for advancing your own advocacy-centered projects?

 

Please respond with a brief Work-in-Progress Presentation (WiPP) proposal. You are entirely welcome to attend MinM without presenting, but those who declare what they are working on in advance will be listed on the formal agenda, which may help with self-advocating for travel funding.

 

Your proposals also help us plan appropriate interest groups and design workshop activities around your goals.

 

Possible topic starters:

  • Self-advocacy: What acts of self-determination are you taking in your professional life?
  • Advocacy in teaching: What teaching practices are you developing as acts of advocacy?  Or how are you positioning students to become advocates?
  • Program advocacy: What and how are you advocating for your program(s)? For faculty in your programs?  For students in your programs?
  • Advocacy in research:  How is your research an advocacy practice? For what, for whom?
  • Advocating in the public sphere: What are you writing for audiences beyond our disciplinary colleagues? What are you advocating?
  • Needed advocacy: What do you wish your department or CarWPA or our national organizations would do differently – or more emphatically –  to act as advocates for _____? If you were writing a call to action on this issue, what would it include?

 

Possible goals for work-in-progress presenters:

  • Seek and share self-advocacy methods
  • Refine a teaching project
  • Strengthen a plan for program advocacy
  • Improve an IRB proposal
  • Get feedback on an article draft – whether for a scholarly or public audience
  • Rehearse for 4Cs
  • Develop a CWPA proposal. (Maybe even find other panelists.) The proposal deadline is March 1.

 

We welcome creative interpretation of the advocacy theme and goals. This forum is appropriate for work that would benefit from feedback and focused workshop time. CarolinasWPA welcomes individual and team WiPPs at any stage of development and from people working in any teaching or administrative positions related to writing in the Carolinas.

Conference Format

A featured panel on advocacy led by members of CarolinasWPA will be followed by small breakout interest groups and writing activities. Those presenting should prepare for 15-20 minutes to discuss their work-in-progress and seek feedback from those with shared interests.

Proposals

Each proposal should be 250 – 500 words including the following:

  • Names and contact information (email, phone, home institution) for each person associated with your proposal
  • A presentation title
  • A description of the pertinent topic
  • Your specific goals for presenting work-in-progress at MinM
  • Questions for interest group attendees that will help you elicit feedback relevant to your goals.

Submit it via email to Collie Fulford (cfulfor1@nccu.edu) and Tracy Ann Morse (morset@ecu.edu) by noon Friday, February 3, 2017, using the subject line “MinM Proposal yourlastname.”

 

Questions or Comments? – Contact Collie Fulford at cfulfor1@nccu.edu.

Fall Conference CFP and Registration

13th Annual Fall Conference 

Registration is Open!

September 12 – 14, 2016 | Wildacres Retreat Center, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions)

Call for Proposals – “Taking Action in the Carolinas”

*Proposal deadline: Wednesday, August 31, 2016

 

Carolinas Writing Program of Administrators is accepting proposals for its Thirteenth Annual Fall Conference at Wildacres.

 

Conference Theme and Design. This year we focus on ways we can take action—as instructors, WPAs, advocates for students, etc. We encourage proposals that once again focus on ways we are responding to working conditions at a state, regional, or local level; however, we are especially interested in proposals that share ways change is happening within these contexts. Projects in different stages—from manuscript-ready to collected raw data to seeds of ideas—are welcome. We ask that you identify how you will engage your Wildacres audience in helping you advance this project. Be prepared to discuss your work without AV equipment (Internet is very limited and we may not have access to projectors).

 

We will organize small breakout groups based on proposals so those presenting can work through their questions with attendees. Michelle LaFrance from George Mason University will provide a brief keynote address and facilitate a writing workshop that helps us to further consider ways we can take action.

 

Conference Schedule and Format. The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations/conversations about the work we do and the conditions of that work. Proposals will be accepted pending space.

 

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator – Michelle LaFrance, George Mason University

Michelle LaFrance (Ph.D., University of Washington, 2009) directs the Writing Across the Curriculum program and teaches courses on writing, composition pedagogy, Writing Studies and research methodologies. Michelle has published on institutional ethnography, e-portfolios, e-research, and writing center pedagogy. Her latest publications explore the relationships between institutional discourse and the material conditions of teaching, especially how the work/teaching practices of staff and faculty in writing programs take shape.

 

The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 12, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 14.

 

Proposals. We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 700 words and should contain the following:

  • One paragraph that describes a project you are currently working on or one you envision
  • One paragraph about your intended audience
  • A sentence or two about how the writing workshop might advance your project.

 

Provide the names and contact information (email, phone, professional affiliation) for each person associated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Tracy Ann Morse (morset@ecu.edu) and Collie Fulford (cfulfor1@nccu.edu) by Wednesday, August 31, 2016.

 

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding from the institutions for all presenters. NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with colleagues from your institution or other institutions.

 

Registration and Cost. The registration price of $185.00 includes lodging and five meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials. Registration is open. The registration deadline is September 5 with no refunds after September 2. Prior to September 2, you may cancel and receive a full refund.

 

Questions or Comments? Contact Tracy Ann Morse at morset@ecu.edu.

Wildacres 2016 – September 12-14

As you are planning and scheduling your Fall calendars, please mark September 12-14 for our 13th annual Fall Conference/Retreat.

 

We will once again be congregating at Wildacres starting with check-in from 4-5:30pm on Monday, September 12 and ending around 10am on Wednesday September 14.

 

More details will be forthcoming including a call for round table topics. Our theme will be “Taking Action in the Carolinas” and I hope to have some time set aside for reports from schools/programs/individuals regarding current relevant situations in our states.

 

Stay tuned,

Tracy Ann Morse

President, Carolinas WPA

Carolinas WPA Highlighted on Inside Higher Ed

by Jordan Stanley

Last month, the Carolinas WPA conference was featured in an article written by Jon Warner for Inside Higher Ed. Not only is the feature on the website a testament to Carolinas WPA’s growing impact on higher education discussions, but Warner’s commentary on his own keynote address also speaks to the meaningful value of the conference.

Warner’s address was entitled “Who Are We? What Do We Do? How Do We Do It?: The Laborers and Labor of the Composition Classroom.” This includes the three themes he uses to encapsulate his experience at the conference. Beyond his academic takeaways, Warner’s deepest impression was that of professional uplift, provided to him through relating to the 35 other writing administrators on matters of “overworked and underpaid” contingency.

In his article, Warner describes the bounty of lessons that he drew from his peers. Warner writes that the first institutionalized problem is who writing program administrators are. As represented at the conference, many – if not a majority of – first-year writing faculty are women, and because of this, those courses are under sourced and consigned as what Warner calls “women’s work.”

These courses are further devalued, then, because what writing program administrators teach is unknown to colleagues outside of the discipline. Warner writes that although communication skills are claimed to be valued, institutions can view composition classes as a “logistical” precursor rather than an academic building block. This relegated importance consequently determines how writing program administrators work: overcompensating and self-sacrificing, despite lacking resources, to best serve their students.

Warner’s full article “Overworked and Underpaid: The Labor and Laborers of the Writing Classroom” may be read here, on the Inside Higher Ed website.

 

Jordan Stanley is a junior at Elon University with majors in Professional Writing and Rhetoric and Creative Writing, as well as a minor in Communications. She also works for the Elon Writing Center and as a Writing Fellow.

Call for Proposals – Labor of Learning: WPA Concerns for Working Conditions

September 14 – 16, 2015 | Wildacres Retreat Center, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions)

*Proposal deadline: Monday, August 31, 2015

Carolinas Writing Program of Administrators is accepting proposals for its Twelfth Annual Fall Conference at Wildacres.

Conference Theme and Design

This year we focus on labor and working conditions that impact WPAs and Writing Programs. We encourage proposals that focus on ways we are responding to working conditions at a state, regional, or local level. Projects in different stages—from manuscript-ready to collected raw data to seeds of ideas—are welcome. We ask that you identify how you will engage your Wildacres audience in helping you advance this project. Be prepared to discuss your work without AV equipment (Internet is very limited and we may not have access to projectors).

We will organize small breakout groups based on proposals so those presenting can work through their questions with attendees. John Warner from College of Charleston will provide a brief keynote address and facilitate a writing workshop that helps us to further consider the labor of writing program administration.

Conference Schedule and Format

The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations/conversations about the work we do and the conditions of that work. Proposals will be accepted pending space.

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator

John Warner, College of Charleston

John Warner has worked as contingent faculty for fifteen years, teaching writing and literature at the University of Illinois, Virginia Tech, Clemson, and now, the College of Charleston. Since 2012 he has written the Just Visiting blog at Inside Higher Ed, frequently covering issues of labor and pedagogy inside the writing classroom, and advocating for improved equity for non-tenure-track faculty. He is the author of two works of fiction, the short story collection, Tough Day for the Army, and a novel, The Funny Man, as well as three other books, including the bestselling political satire, My First Presidentiary: A Scrapbook of George W. Bush. Since 2003 he has served in an editorial capacity with McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, first as editor in chief and now, editor at large. John also writes a weekly column forPrinters Row, the book supplement for the Chicago Tribune, and is an occasional contributor to Salon, Slate, and The Daily Beast, among other online outlets. A Chicago-area native, he lives in Mt. Pleasant, SC with his wife Kathy and their dogs, Oscar and Truman.

The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 14, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 16.

Proposals

We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 700 words and should contain the following:

  • One paragraph that describes a project you are currently working on or one you envision
  • One paragraph about your intended audience
  • A sentence or two about how the writing workshop might advance your project.

Provide the names and contact information (email, phone, professional affiliation) for each person associated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Tracy Ann Morse (morset@ecu.edu) and Collie Fulford (cfulfor1@nccu.edu) by Monday, August 31, 2015.

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding from the institutions for all presenters.

NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with colleagues from your institution.

Registration and Cost

The registration price of $185.00 includes lodging and five meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials. Registration is open. The registration deadline is September 11 with no refunds after September 7. Prior to September 7, you may cancel and receive a full refund.

Questions or Comments? Contact Tracy Ann Morse at morset@ecu.edu.

Publishing What We Do: The WPA as Researcher – Fall Conference Agenda

Carolinas Writing Program Administrators 11th Annual Fall Conference

Publishing What We Do: The WPA as Researcher

September 15-17, 2014

Wildacres Retreat Center

 Little Switzerland, NC

CarolinasWPAFallRetreat2014 (PDF Version of Agenda)

 

Monday, September 15

4:00-5:30pm:    Check-In | North Lodge Lobby |Light snacks will be available in the Canteen

6:30:                         Dinner | Cafeteria

7:45:                         Auditorium

Tony Atkins | Welcome & Opening Session

Mike House |“Need-to-know stuff” & the fascinating history behind The Wildacres Retreat Center

Featured Speaker: David Blakesley | “Researching and Publishing in the University”

As if the WPA’s job weren’t challenging enough! We also have the responsibility to ensure that our decisions are based on solid research from both internal and external sources, that our successes are public, and that we foster change with our results, both locally and in the WPA community at-large. How do we do it? I’ll tell the story of one dramatic institutional change in a time of crisis, how we approached the various problems faced by the writing program, and the university, and how we also pre-planned for publication of our story and the research that supported it. Jumping ahead, the presentation will then focus on the state of publishing in our field, how WPAs can find their niche, and what we need to do to ensure a bright future for research in the field.

Tony Atkins | Carolinas WPA President’s Report

9:00:                         Social/Networking | Canteen (South Lodge)

 

Tuesday, September 16

8:00am            Breakfast |Cafeteria

9:00:               Tony Atkins |Announcements & Agenda |North Lodge Meeting Room

 

Workshop Facilitator: David Blakesley: “Making Your Work as a WPA Public: A Workshop for the Carolinas WPA” (writing “charge” for the day)

The word publishing means “to make public.” For the long-term health of a writing program, there may be nothing more important than publishing your work as a WPA, as well as making the excellent teaching and writing of your instructors and students as public as they can be.

 

In this workshop, we’ll discuss the challenges of performing the public work of the WPA, opportunities and exigencies for publishing our own research and the writing of students and writing program faculty, the importance of managing our professional and programmatic identities, and of, in short and as Austin Kleon puts it, “showing your work.” Although it appears at first to be a daunting task, it needn’t be, and you’ll learn some secrets for building the profile of your programs, deepening the networks of collaboration in your university, and, in the end, making your job as a WPA easier and more rewarding.

 

10:00:             Round-Table Discussions | Concurrent Session I (A&B)

 

Session A

  • Patrick Bahls | UNC Asheville| “WAC/WID on the move: Charting the Changeover from one General Education Writing Requirement to Another”
  • Gwendolynne Reid and Bridget Kozlow | NCSU | “Modularizing the Writing Program: Researching the Implications of the One-Credit WID Course”

 

Session B

  • Megan Hall | NCSU | Activist Mentoring and Collaborative Teaching: Reinventing a GTA Program across Tenure Lines
  • Jan Rieman | UNC Charlotte | “Assessment, Professional Development, and the Question of Expertise”

 

11:00:             BREAK

 

11:15:             Round-Table Discussions | Concurrent Session II (A&B)

 

Session A

  • Susan Miller-Cochran | NCSU | “Examining Multilingual Writers’ Perceptions of an Ideal Classroom Space”
  • Jessica Pisano | UNC Asheville | “Enhancing Connections: Two Service-Learning Based Approaches to Freshman Composition”

 

Session B

  • Aaron Weekes | UNC Wilmington (UG Researcher) | “Truth is Dead: A Comparison of Gorgias and Nietzsche on Language and Truth”
  • Collie Fulford | NCCU | “A Way Out of No Way: Program Development in Hard Times”

 

12:30pm:         Lunch | Cafeteria

1:45:               Workshop Facilitator: David Blakesley (Reading discussion) | North Lodge Meeting Room

2:30:              Write/Hike/Retreat/Socialize |Carolinas WPA Board Meeting

6:00:              Dinner |Cafeteria

7:15                Workshop Facilitator: David Blakesley: (Discussion of writing for the day) | North Lodge Meeting Room

9:00:              Bonfire/Retreat/Networking/Music |Bonfire Pit: Below South Lodge

 

Wednesday, September 17

8:00am            Breakfast |Cafeteria

9:00:               Workshop Facilitator: David Blakesley |Final thoughts and discussion | North Lodge Meeting Room

 

Tony Atkins | Plans for SAMLA (2014/2015), MIM, Assessment Survey (2015)

10:00:             Departures

11th Annual Fall Conference – Publishing What We Do: The WPA as Researcher

Mark your calendars!

September 15-17, 2014 | Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC (Directions) | $185 (includes 2 nights lodging and 5 meals)

 

*Proposal deadline: Monday, August 25, 2014

 

CarolinasWPA at Wildacres
Photo by Kerri Bright Flinchbaugh

Conference Theme and Design
Carolinas Writing Program of Administrators is accepting proposals for its Eleventh Annual Fall Conference at Wildacres. This year, we want to celebrate the research we do as WPA’s. We encourage proposals that allow participants to present their research in different stages—from manuscript-ready to collected raw data to seeds of ideas—and that will lead to discussion about future directions that work might take. We also encourage proposals that focus on balancing a research agenda with the demands of being a WPA. As part of the conference, David Blakesley from Clemson University will provide a brief keynote and facilitate a workshop to help us consider the work we do as research by illustrating the various avenues, methods, and methodologies of publishing. In addition, time will be allotted for small group discussion so those presenting can work through their questions with attendees.

 

Conference Schedule and Format
The conference will begin at 5:00 pm on Monday, September 15, and will conclude at 10:00 am on Wednesday, September 17.

 

The format of the conference will encourage full engagement of participants from a broad variety of institutions and programs. We will mix small, working group discussions with larger presentations/conversations about who we are as writers, researchers, and WPA’s. Proposals will be accepted pending space.

 

Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator

David Blakesley, Clemson University

David Blakesley is the Robert S. Campbell Chair in Technical Communication and Professor of English at Clemson University, where he also serves as the Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees. He is the publisher and founder of Parlor Press (http://www.parlorpress.com), now in its twelfth year. Two Parlor Press books have won the Best Book Award from the Council of Writing Program Administrators, including the award this year for GenAdmin: Theorizing WPA Identities in the Twenty-First Century by Colin Charlton, Jonikka Charlton, Tarez Samra Graban, Kathleen J. Ryan, and Amy Ferdinandt Stolley. In 2014, he became an Adobe Education Leader. Prior to joining Clemson, he served as the WPA for Purdue University’s Professional Writing Program for ten years, and, prior to Purdue, as Director of Writing Studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

 

He has authored, co-authored or edited six books, including The Elements of Dramatism (Longman), The Terministic Screen: Rhetorical Perspectives on Film (SIUP), and Writing: A Manual for the Digital Age (Cengage). His articles have appeared in WPA: Writing Program Administration, JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Composition Studies, The Writing Instructor, First Monday, Kairos, and numerous other journals and anthologies. He is also a recipient of the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field from Computers and Composition and the Distinguished Service Award from the Kenneth Burke Society.

 

Proposals
We invite proposals from individuals or groups from schools across the Carolinas. Each proposal should be no more than 700 words and should contain the following:

* One paragraph that describes a research project you are currently working on or one you envision

* One paragraph about your intended audience

* A sentence or two about how the research writing workshop might advance your project to submission

 

Provide the names and contact information (email, phone, professional affiliation) for each person associated with your proposal. Be sure to title your proposal and submit it via email to Anthony T. Atkins (atkinsa@uncw.edu) and Tracy A. Morse (morset@ecu.edu) by Monday, August 25, 2014.

Titles and authors of accepted proposals will be included on the conference schedule as formal presentations or contributions. We hope this will open up travel funding for all participants. NOTE: You do not need to present to attend the conference, but if presenting will help you secure funding, we hope you will consider submitting a proposal either individually or with colleagues from your institution.

 

Registration and Cost
Registration Fee: the fee of $185 includes 2 nights’ lodging and 5 meals at Wildacres, as well as all conference materials.

The registration deadline is Friday, September 5, 2015 with no refunds after Monday, September 8.

 

 

Questions or Comments? – Contact Anthony T. Atkins at atkinsa@uncw.edu and Tracy A. Morse at morset@ecu.edu