Re: MIDWEST REGION PROPOSAL CALL

["Dr. Patricia N. McLaughlin" <3yunsan@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>]

Lori--

I'm sure that you saw this announcement.  Our research in the writing center
would make a suitable conference paper topic.  What do you think?

Pat

At 12:13 PM 2/21/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>1997 Midwest Writing Centers Association Conference Call for Proposals
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>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):
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>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
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>Writing Center Conferences:
>--tutoring clients with disabilities
>--working with faculty
>--working with Writing Fellows
>--negotiating Ebonics, ESL, and second-dialect issues
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>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
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>Writing Center Administration:
>--training tutors
>--assessing sessions
>--choosing budget priorities
>--working with/against local priorities
>--affecting local assessment practices
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>Writing Center Research:
>--reviewing recent scholarly trends
>--choosing assessment/ethnography as research strategies
>--negotiating the ethical challenges of center-based research
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>Writing Center Affiliations:
>--participating in the National Writing Project
>--belonging to local, regional, or national organizations
>--working within Rhetoric and Composition
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>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.
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>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
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