Re: Gender and Power Issues in Conferences

[Rebecca Jackson <rebjacks@NMSU.Edu>]

Hi all,

I'll second Eric's recommendation of Laurel Black's Between Talk and
Teaching.  I picked up the book at 4C's in Chicago.  After reading it, I
immediately put it on the required reading list for the graduate level
writing center theory course (Writing Centers: Theory, Practice,
Administration) I'm teaching this semester.  We haven't gotten to the book
yet, but my sense is that students will appreciate the distinctions Black
makes between conference and conversation, her discussions of gender and
cross-cultural interaction, and her sociolinguistic approach.  If people
are interested, I'd be happy to relate how the students respond to the
book, especially in relation to the other texts we've read.  











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Rebecca Jackson
Assistant Professor and Director of the Writing Center
Department of English
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM  88003