The 3rd Annual

Writing and Politics: Histories, Evolutions, and Revolutions

October 21-23 1999 at Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona

Preliminary schedule of presentations

Thursday, October 21 - ASU Memorial Union

4:00pm-6:00pm PFF (Preparing Future Faculty) Special Event - MU 202 Alumni Lounge
Hosted by PFF representatives, Susan Miller Heck and Judith-Mara Lanzendorfer
Debate/discussion on the first-year writing requirement
Sharon Crowley and John Ramage, Arizona State University
Moderator: Mark Lussier, Arizona State University

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Friday, October 22 - ASU Memorial Union

8:00am-9:00am Registration and Coffee - MU 202 Alumni Lounge

9:00am-10:15am Keynote address
Politics and Pedagogy
Linda Brodkey, University of California-San Diego

Session 1: 10:30-noon

1A. Case studies in pedagogy - MU 213 Santa Cruz
Chair: Susan Miller, University of Utah
*A historical perspective on the electronic classroom program at Arizona State University
--Candace Collins and Patricia Murphy, Arizona State University
*Using "survivance" and writing programs to bridge campus and community
--William DeGenaro, University of Arizona
*The function and field of rhetoric in composition, or can we bring the "rhet" back to comp/rhet?
--Jeffrey Klausman, Whatcom College

1B. A new politics for a new history - MU 202 Alumni
Chair: Peter N. Goggin, Arizona State University
*Reconfiguring interdisciplinary relationships through politicization of space and place
--Maureen A. Mathison, University of Utah
*Traveling and teaching the capital city in rhetoric
--John M. Ackerman, Northern Arizona University
*The ecological imperative in the writing classroom
--Scott Denton, University of Arizona

1C. Politics, power, and ethos - MU 219 Navajo
Chair: Duane Roen, Arizona State University
*Who is that marked woman?: The effects of gender on publication and knowledge construction
--Jane E. Hindman, San Diego State University
*A bibliographic essay of contemporary ethos
--Matt Schnakenberg, Washington State University
*the politics of alt.writing: subverting the politics/aesthetics binary
--Michael Spooner, Utah State University, Kathleen Yancey - Clemson University

1D. The politics of narrative - MU 221 Apache
Chair: Kristine Daines, Arizona State University
*To my students: Why write the personal essay?
--Carla Anderson, Southwest Missouri State University
*An argument for including narrative voices in argumentative academic writing
--Leigh Jones, Washington State University
*Re-thinking expressionist rhetorics: The role(s) of autobiography in first-year composition
--Bonnie L. Kyburz, Utah Valley State College

1E. Special interest discussion: Service learning Expanding the borders of the composition classroom - MU 209 Yavapai
Patti Hanlon, Heidi Estrem, Carli Cutchin and Melanie Olofson, University of Nevada Reno

Noon - 1:30pm Lunch Break

Session 2: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

2A. Enter at your own risk - MU 202 Alumni
Chair: Raul Sanchez, University of Utah - MU
*Colonize other planets? Sure. Create new life forms? No problem. Change first-year composition? Are you nuts?: Sources of resistance to systemic evolution and revolution in first-year composition
--Steve Beatty and Maureen Daly Goggin, Arizona State University
*Argument, composition, and literature: Seeking an intellectual center for English studies
--Richard Gebhardt, Bowling Green State University
*Eunuchs in the Harem
--Joseph Petraglia, TCU

2B. The politics of (in)difference - MU 213 Santa Cruz
Chair: Dierdre Pettipiece, Arizona State University
*Instruction and difference: Adjusting classroom pedagogy to meet muticultural needs
--Chitra Duttagupta, Arizona State University
*Writing scars: Understanding the politics of native learners in the composition classroom
--DeAnna M. Rivera, Housatonic Community Technical College
*African American rhetoric and the college composition classroom
--Elizabeth Vander Lei, Calvin College

2C. Rhetorical traditions in perspective - MU 219 Navajo
Chair: Maureen A. Mathison, University of Utah
*Mary Yost and argument from the perspective of sociology
--Suzanne Bordelon, University of Alaska Fairbanks
*Toward a theory of exposure: Critical auto/ethnography as a form of expository writing
--Byron Hawk, University of Texas Arlington
*Arguing about values: Rhetorical tradition and the "culture war"
--Fredel M. Wiant, University of Utah

2D. Reconceptualizations of rhetoric and disciplinarity - MU 221 Apache
Chair: Judith Van, Arizona State University
Kerrie R. H. Farkas, Scott Koloms, Michelle Vallet and Hunter Stephenson, Kent State University

2E. Workshop: The speakeasy studio & cafe--an interactive writing environment - MU 209 Yavapai
Barbara Sitko, Washington State University; Eric Miraglia, Information Management Group, Inc.

Session 3: 3:15 pm - 4:45 pm

3A. The politics of inquiry - MU 213 Santa Cruz
Chair: Laura Nutten, Arizona State university
*Literacy finally defined - or - the rhetoric of listing
--Kirk Branch, University of Kansas
*Where do empirical research and writing connect?
--Gladys Vega Scott, Arizona State University
*Creating instructions that actually instruct: User-centered methods for testing document effectiveness
--Patricia G. Wojahn, New Mexico State University

3B. Evolution, revolution, and borders - MU 202 Alumni
Chair: Patricia Webb, Arizona State University
*Border theory and the professionalization of writing centers
--Connie Herndon and James C. McDonald, University of Southwestern Louisiana
*Witness this: "Your excellency, I am writing to you to express my concern for the welfare of..."
--Karen R. Dwyer, Arizona State University
*The case of "Nate": A study in epistemological whiteness
--Catherine Prendergast, University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign

3C. Writing, representation, resistance - MU 221 Apache
Chair: Camille Newton, Arizona State University
Holly Baumgartner, Mercy College; Doreen Piano and Brent Royster, Bowling Green State University

3D. Literacies at large: Practices of real world writing and service learning - MU 219 Navajo
Chair: Dona Avery, Arizona State University
Michael Stancliff, Arizona State University; Sharon Kirsch, State University of New York Buffalo; Alisa Messer, Cabrillo College

3E. Workshop: Literacy autobiographies: Understanding our individual histories - MU 209 Yavapai
Jamey Nye and Tara Nye, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

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Saturday, October 23 - ASU Memorial Union

8:00am-9:00am Registration and Coffee - MU 202 Alumni Lounge

Session 4: 9:00 am - 10:30 am

4A. Literacies of public space - MU 213 Santa Cruz
Chair: Walter H. Keithley
*The student as juror: An alternative approach to the teaching of public writing
--David Fleming, University of Wisconsin Madison
*Postcards from the edge: Constructing coherence and framing fragments within an identity-building literacy project called STRUGGLE
--Elenore Long, Bay Path College
*Interactive multimedia as a catalyst for writing and health literacy
--Amanda Young, Carnegie Mellon University

4B. Whose stories are we telling? - MU 209 Yavapai
Chair: Greg Glau, Arizona State University
*Writing and the politics of identity: The case of the assignment prompt
--Anis Bawarshi, University of Washington
*Autographography: Private and public histories of writing in advanced composition
--Rose M. Johnson and DeeAnn Duke Ward, Texas Wesleyan University

4C. Roundtable: What makes writing good? Current perspectives - MU 202 Alumni
Chair: Edward M. White, University of Arizona
Panel: Shawn Hellman, Susan M. Smith, Amy Dayton, Kimber Fendley, Adrian Wurr, Gloria Macmillan, Bill DeGenaro, and Rich Hansberger, University of Arizona

4D. Roundtable: The role of writing assessment in higher education in the 21st century: Bridging practical applications with contemporary theories - MU 219 Navajo
Diane Kelley-Riley and William Condon, Washington State University

4E. Workshop: Assessment politics: Is there an alternative? Developing a student-based goals/objectives/performance matrix - MU 221 Apache
Sarah Duerden, Christine Helfers, Jeanne Garland, and Steve Farmer, Arizona State University

Session 5: 10:45 am - 12: 15 pm

5A. The electronic revolution - MU 202 Alumni
Chair: Rebecca Lucy Busker, Arizona State University
*Computer-mediated collaborative dialogue in an ESL writing classroom
--Julia Gousseva, University of Arizona
*The network as audience: Public spaces and political discourse in the 21st century
--Charles A. Hill, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
*Electronic revolution or same old persona in a new media?: Teacher commenting practices in online text and voice modalities
--Loel Kim, University of Memphis

5B. Pedagogy and praxis - MU 221 Apache
Chair: Vicky Campo, Arizona State University
*The writing in the major tutor: Perspectives, practices, and pedagogical significance
--Matt McLain, Washington State University
*Writing with students: A world of endless possibilities
--Joseph S. Ng, Metropolitan State College Denver
*An assessment rubric for the writing portfolio
--Susan M. Webber, Washington State University

5C. Forging new histories: Literacy and the emerging multicultural imperative - MU 213 Santa Cruz
Chair: Janet Peterson Gerstner
Matt Jackson, Brigham Young University; Daniela Liese and Octavio Pimental, University of Utah

5D. Roundtable: Challenging the myths of WAC and WID: From the high school to the university - MU 219 Navajo
Chair: Laura Gray-Rosendale, Northern Arizona University
Panel: Jean Boreen, Randi Reppen, Sibylle Gruber, and Steven Rosendale, Northern Arizona University; Lisa Cahill, Arizona State University

5E. Roundtable: Writing and politics: Creating a technical writing core, questions and issues - MU 209 Yavapai
Allene Cooper, Sarah Duerden, Jeanne Garland, Katherine Heenan, and Timothy Ray, Arizona State University

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