October 25-27, 2001
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
Keynote Speaker: John Trimbur - Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The institution
of college writing instruction has routinely hierarchized
the student population according to whatever conception
of textual literacy is dominant; however, the evolving
definition of literacy is always accompanied
by a deep-seated belief in its ameliorative guarantee.
We tend to see a less benevolent disciplinary face only
in the rearview mirror.
--Peter Vandenberg
This year the WSCC
will address some of the broad disciplinary questions
that inform our histories, theories, and practices in
our pedagogies and research in written communication.
The conference encourages audience participation and
discussion concerning the theory, research or pedagogy
of rhetoric and writing in the following areas:
