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ECWCA registration
The Nineteenth Annual
EAST CENTRAL WRITING CENTERS ASSOCIATION
Conference
Front and Center: Re-imagining Our Work
April 18 and 19, 1997
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The 1997 conference of the East Central Writing Centers Association will be
held on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland.
Writing center administrators and staff, university or high school
administrators, graduate and undergraduate writing consultants and tutors,
and teachers of writing in composition programs and across the disciplines
will meet to discuss the multiple ways that writing centers work to enhance
the culture of writing instruction in their own institutions; to share
insights, strategies, and practices; to celebrate the work we do in writing
centers and challenge us to imagine what else we might be doing; to foster
communication across disciplines, between institutions, and among
ourselves. Local writing teachers will be featured: Mary Broglie, Bethel
Park High School; Lea Marsiello, Director of Liberal Studies English,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania; and Gary Stoehr and Maria Piantanita,
School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh. The speaker at dinner on
Friday will be Patricia Stock, Associate Executive Director of the National
Council of Teachers of English and Professor of English at Michigan State
University. The speaker at lunch on Saturday will be John Trimbur,
Professor of English and Director of the Technical, Scientific and
Professional Communication program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Conference Registration
Conference registration, which includes dinner on Friday and lunch on
Saturday, is $60 for faculty and full-time staff and $30 for students and
part-time staff. (After March 31, registration is $75 for faculty and
full-time staff and $40 for others, and meals may not be included.)
Registration will be accepted by mail (see the form below), by fax
(412-624-6639), or by e-mail (marshall+@pitt.edu). Registration fees may
be paid by check (make checks payable to the University of Pittsburgh) or
cash. We cannot accept payment by credit card. All participants are
encouraged to register in advance of the conference.
On-Site Visits
A number of innovative writing centers exist in the area high schools,
middle schools, and colleges. Visits to these will be available on Friday
morning, and we will leave from the University of Pittsburgh at 10.
Accommodations
Some hotel rooms are available at the Hampton Inn in Oakland at a special
conference rate of $72/night. This includes breakfast, free parking, free
shuttle service to the University and free transportation from the airport.
If you wish to reserve a hotel room, call 1-800-426-7866. Other
accommodations are available including a Howard Johnson and Holiday Inn in
Oakland. Delays in remodeling the youth hostel make that facility
unavailable.
Travel
Pittsburgh International Airport is about 30 minutes from Oakland and is
served by many of the major airlines. The cost of a taxi ride is $25. The
Airport Limousine, a shuttle service between the airport and Oakland or
downtown, costs approximately $21 round trip and departs from various
locations in Oakland, including the Hampton Inn, the Holiday Inn, Webster
Hall, and Howard Johnson. For reservations and schedules, call
412-471-8900 or 412-471-2250. The train station is located downtown. For
information about train service to Pittsburgh, contact Amtrak or your
travel agent.
Food
Conference participants are invited to attend the dinner on Friday, April
18, and lunch on Saturday, April 19. The cost of the meals is included in
the registration fee, but if you plan to attend either event, full
registration payment must be received by Monday, March 31, and you must
indicate that you plan to attend in the Food Information section of the
Registration Form. (After March 31, registrations will still be accepted,
but the meals may not be included).
Refund Policy
Participants wishing to cancel should do so by notifying us by April 8.
Tentative Conference Agenda
Friday, April 18
9:30 - 2:00 p.m. Registration
10:00 - 12:00 p.m. Optional site visits
2:00 - 6:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
7:00 - 10:00 p.m. Dinner and Featured Speaker
Saturday, April 19
9:00 - 12:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Further Information
Further information about the conference is available on the World Wide Web at
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/ecwca/
Questions about the program should be addressed to Margaret Marshall
(address below), by phone at 412-624-4285, or by e-mail to
marshall+@pitt.edu.
The University of Pittsburgh is committed to providing programs, services
and activities that are accessible to all individuals who wish to
participate. If you have a disability and need special accommodations,
please contact Margaret Marshall at (412) 624-4285 as early as possible but
no later than March 18 so that timely accommodations can be made.
***** REGISTRATION FORM *****
Please provide all information requested. For additional registrants,
duplicate this form as necessary. Only one person will be registered per
form.
NAME:
INSTITUTION:
MAILING ADDRESS:
CITY:
STATE:
ZIP:
PHONE:
E-MAIL:
REGISTRATION FEES
By March 31 After March 31 Amount
Faculty/Full-time Staff ___ $60.00 ___ $75.00 $________
Student/Part-time Staff ___ $30.00 ___ $40.00 $________
On-site Visit ___ middle school ___ $ 5.00 $________
___ high school
___ college Total $________
Please make payment in U.S. dollars payable to the University of Pittsburgh.
FOOD INFORMATION
To attend dinner and lunch, full registration payment must be received by
the University of Pittsburgh Writing Center by March 31.
I plan to attend the April 18 dinner (no additional charge):
____ Yes ____ No
For the entree, I choose:
____ Chicken ____ Beef ____ Vegetarian
I plan to attend the April 19 lunch (no additional charge):
____ Yes ____ No
Lunch will be vegetarian.
To register by
* e-mail: marshall+@pitt.edu
* fax: complete this form and fax to (412)624-6639
* mail: complete this form and sent to
Margaret Marshall
Writing Center
University of Pittsburgh
501 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
If this is confirmation and/or payment for a registration made by fax or
e-mail, please check here _____.