Re: CCCC Sessions--reply

[cleveren@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Carrie Leverenz)]

I'm sympathetic with both positions.  As a listener, nothing makes me more
nervous than a presenter without a text.  But I try to follow Andrea
Lunsford's advice to me and her other graduate students: always write a talk
(not a paper) and then know it well enough that you can divert from it--but
plan your ad libs.

>Beth talks about the need for "oral" presentations in a conference, and Idont'
>want to say too much about this since it was this issue which pretty much
>drove me off this group for a long time.  But I will point out that some
>people--let me admit that I am one--enjoy presentations which would be
>appropriate for a journal article.
>
>Ed Lotto
>
>
Carrie Shively Leverenz
Director, Reading/Writing Center
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1036
(904)644-5157
cleveren@garnet.acns.fsu.edu