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8:30 / 9:45: Composition Studies: Where Is the Discipline? Where Is It Going?

 

Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Writing. Presiding: Dale Larson, Grays Harbor College.

1. "The Forms of Writing: English and Writing Studies." Dara Rossman Regaignon, Pomona College.
2. "Going Nowhere?" Matthew Heard, University of North Texas.
3. "The Affective Turn in Composition Studies." Douglas Robinson, University of Mississippi.

For copies of abstracts, visit dlarso@gmail.com after 10 Dec.

10:15–11:30 a.m., Yosemite A, Hilton: 761. Reintegrating Civic Literacy and Political Rhetoric in the Humanities Curriculum

 

Program arranged by the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition
Presiding: Charles Muscatine, Univ. of California, Berkeley
1. “A Core Curriculum in Civic Literacy and Political Rhetoric?” Donald P. Lazere, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
2. “Preparing Undergraduates for Responsible Political Engagement,” Anne Colby, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
3. “Literature in Education for Civic Leadership,” Ajuan Mance, Mills Coll.
4. “Public Scholarship in—and beyond—the Humanities Curriculum,” Rosa A. Eberly, Penn State Univ., University Park