MIDWEST REGION PROPOSAL CALL

[Writing Center <writingc@falcon.cc.ukans.edu>]

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1997 Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference Call for Proposals

Proposal Deadline:  May 1, 1997
Theme:  Haunted by Our Choices:  Ethics in the Writing Center 
Dates of Conference:  November 7-8, 1997 
Place:  Kansas City, Missouri 
Co-hosts:  University of Missouri-Kansas City and University of Kansas 
Keynote Speaker:  Michael Pemberton 
Suggested Topics (proposals on any topic welcome):
  
The Writing Center: 
--viewing it as a site of political resistance or accommodation 
--functioning as a physical/virtual or independent/institutional entity
--working within secondary education

Writing Center Conferences:
--tutoring clients with disabilities
--working with faculty
--working with Writing Fellows
--negotiating Ebonics, ESL, and second-dialect issues

The Writing Center Profession:
--exploring our working conditions
--considering it a stepping stone, a life-long career, or resting place
--assessing our drive toward professionalization

Writing Center Administration:
--training tutors
--assessing sessions
--choosing budget priorities
--working with/against local priorities
--affecting local assessment practices

Writing Center Research:
--reviewing recent scholarly trends
--choosing assessment/ethnography as research strategies
--negotiating the ethical challenges of center-based research

Writing Center Affiliations:
--participating in the National Writing Project
--belonging to local, regional, or national organizations
--working within Rhetoric and Composition

We solicit proposals that encourage effective individual or group
presentation of ongoing research projects, experiences both unique to your
writing center and important to all centers, and a wide range of
theoretical perspectives.  We also solicit proposals for workshops in
which participants explore problematic issues collaboratively.

For more information or proposal form, please contact:
Shireen Carroll, Department of English
Davidson College
PO Box 1719
Davidson, NC 28036
phone:  704-892-2012
fax:  704-892-2005
shcarroll@davidson.edu