Writing and Diversity:
Literacy, Community, and Social Connections
October 12-14, 2000
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
Keynote Speaker: Victor Villanueva,
Jr., Washington State University
We need never deny the presence
of strife, enmity, faction as a characteristic motive rhetorical expression.
We need not close our eyes to their almost tyrannous ubiquity in human
relations; we can be on the alert always to see how such temptations to
strife are implicit in the institutions that condition human relationships;
yet we can at the same time always look beyond this order, to the principle
of identification in general, a terministic choice justified by the fact
that the identifications in the order of love are also characteristic of
rhetorical expression. --Kenneth Burke (A Rhetoric of Motives, 20)
This year the WSCC theme will address
social, organizational, and cultural theories and perspectives on the study
and teaching
of written communication. The conference
relies upon presentations that encourage audience participation and discussion,
and
contribute to the theory, research
or pedagogy of rhetoric and writing in the following areas:
multi/cross cultural rhetorics |
politics of diversity and writing |
electronic literacies |
literacy/community centers |
margin/center locations |
rhetorics of race, gender, class |
non-traditional students |
ESL classroom/student diversity |
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