CCCC 2013 Guide for Writing Center-Related Sessions

CCCC 2013 Guide for Writing Center-related Sessions

Compiled by Christopher Ervin for the IWCA Website

A Sessions (Thursday, 10:30 am)

A.17 There’s Nothing Basic about Basic Writing

Royale Pavilion 6, First Floor

Ilene Rubenstein, College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA, “Academic
Skills/Writing Centers”

A.19 Re-Centering Composition: New Perspectives onLiteracy Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Publics

Capri 103, First Floor

Brian Hendrickson, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, “A PublicAffair: The Intermediate Expository Writing Course as CommunityWriting Center Practicum”

A.23 Operation Preparation: Where Revolutionary Theoriesand Institutional Practices Collide

Capri 114, First Floor

Frankie Condon, University of Nebraska, Lincoln “The Public Work of Writing Centers in the New Economy”

A.27 Commenting, Conferencing, and Collaboration:Interrogating Online Writing Pedagogy

Skybox 206, Second Floor

Rebecca Hallman, University of Houston, TX, “Teaching Through (In-)Text: Investigating Commenting Formats and Content in First-Year Composition and the Virtual Writing Center”

B Sessions (Thursday, 12:15)

B.03 Information and Its Consequences for Work: Theorizing a Writing Program Informatics

Capri 103, First Floor

Nicole Munday, Salisbury University, MD, “A Framework for Writing Center Information Systems: Cultivating a Proactive Data Management Strategy”

B.07 Look Out Any Window: The Basic Writing Center

Grand Ballroom G, First Floor

Chair: William J. Macauley, Jr., University of Nevada, Reno

Michael Pemberton, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro,“Turning Our Backs on the Center: Are We Looking Ahead or Just Wandering Aimlessly?”
Ellen Schendel, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, “Going Rogue: What We Can Learn from Nontraditional Writing Centers”
William J. Macauley, Jr., University of Nevada, Reno, “Turning toward Our Future: A Case for Rethinking Writing Centers Assessment and Research”
Respondent: Joan Mullin, Illinois State University, Bloomington

B.22 Accessing Literacy, Literacies as Access: Reimagining Public Narratives of Disability

Capri 114, First Floor

Patricia Dunn, State University of New York, Stony Brook, “Who Gets Accommodated? Writing Center as Retrofit to the Composition Classroom”

E Sessions (Thursday, 4:45 pm)

E.04 Public Works: How Writing Centers Build and SustainSupportive Communities for Dissertators

Capri 106, First Floor

Chair: Katie Levin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Moira Ozias, University of Oklahoma, Norman
Katie Levin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Nancy Karls, University of Wisconsin-Madison

E.27 Perceptual Presence: Creating Exceptional Teaching and Tutoring in an Online Modality

Skybox 208, Second Floor

Melody Pickle, Kaplan University, Davenport, IA, “Developing Social Presence in the Writing Center”

Open Working Meeting of the International Writing Centers Association

Room 203, Second Floor

This group will discuss its work, introduce initiatives, and solicit feedback and suggestions. This session is an opportunity to learn about and participate in the work of the CCCC. All are invited.

Co-Chairs: Kevin Dvorak, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Nathalie Singh-Corcoran, West Virginia University, Morgantown

F Sessions (Friday, 8:00 am)

F.15 Becoming “The Writing Person”: Negotiating Public Identity and Programmatic Perils in Writing Program Administration

Andrea Deacon, University of Wisconsin-Stout, “Problem or Opportunity?: Negotiating a Writing Center Administrator’s WAC(ky) Public Identity”

F.16 Developing Methods for Self-Sponsored WritingCenter Assessment

Capri 113, First Floor

Chair: Harry Denny, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

Lori Salem, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, “Protect the Environment: Using Segmentation Analysis to Investigate Students’Choice to Use or Not Use the Writing Center”
Harry Denny, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, “If You Quantify It, They Will Reward It: Using Quantitative Analysis to Investigate the Influenceof the Writing Center Use on Student Success”
Linda Bergmann, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, “Where Have We Been and Where Should We Go?”

F.30 Going Public: Making Integrated Writing Instruction Visible Across Disciplines, Across the Institution

Skybox 210, Second Floor

W. Brock MacDonald, Woodsworth College, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, “The Writing Center as Change Agent in a Time of Austerity”

G Sessions (Friday, 9:30 am)

G.04 Writing Center Training, Performative Silence, and Informational Visualization

Grande Ballroom C, First Floor

Chair: Steven Alvarez, University of Kentucky, Lexington

Kendra Mitchell, Florida State University, Tallahassee, “Writing Centers, Ethnicity, and Performative Silences: An Ethnography of Selective Aphasia”
Daniel Lawson, Central College, Pella, IA, “Tutors, Ideology, and Error”
Deborah Bertsch, Columbus State Community College, OH, “Preparing Student Writers for a Discourse of Construction: Expanding the Scope of Writing Center Training”

G.13 Rhetorics of Religion, Rhetorics of Identity: Enacting Belief in the Writing Center

Capri 110, First Floor

Chair: Mitch Nakaue, The University of Iowa, Ames

Mitch Nakaue, The University of Iowa, Ames, “Written on the Face of Things: Radical Alterity and the Theological Imperative to Love”
Lisa Zimmerelli, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, “Service-Learning in a Jesuit Writing Center: Enacting a Logic of Compassion and Identity”
Andrea RossoEfthymiou, Yeshiva University, New York, NY, “Women, Religion, and Literacy: An Ethnographic Study of Peer-Tutors in an All-Women’s Jewish Writing Center”
Respondent: John Duffy, Granger, IN

H Sessions (Friday, 11:00 am)

H.25 Teaching Research as Metadisciplinary Awareness Capri 115, First Floor

Keith Shaw, Princeton University, NJ, “Process as Disciplinary Catalyst in Writing Centers”

H.28 The Public Role of Writing and Technology for Multilingual Learners and Writing Teacher Candidates

Skybox 206, Second Floor

Christine Rosalia, Hunter College, CUNY, NY, “Teacher Preparation in a Hybrid Writing Center”

I Sessions (Friday, 12:30 pm)

I.05 A Writing Center Targets Writing in the STEM Disciplines

Capri 107, First Floor

Chair: Enrico Sassi, North Dakota State University, Fargo

Enrico Sassi, North Dakota State University, Fargo, “Establishing a Graduate Disciplinary Writing Consultant (DWC) in the Sciences”
Mary Laughlin, North Dakota State University, Fargo, “Researching Disciplinary Writing and Developing Resources for Writing Center Consultants”
Matt Warner, North Dakota State University, Fargo, “Deploying Writing Consultants as Writing Fellows in Undergraduate ‘Writing in the Sciences’ Classes”

K Sessions (Friday, 3:30 pm)

K.32 The Writing Center as Public Space: Developing Writing Identities Across Disciplines

Royale Pavilion 8, First Floor

Chair: Justin Bain, Colorado University, Denver

Caitrin Blake, Colorado University, Denver, “Drafting in Public: Audience Awareness for WAC Students”
Justin Bain, Colorado University, Denver, “Stranged Discourses: Writing Centers as Public Sites for WAC/WID”
Jonathan Clark, Colorado University, Denver, “Writing Center as Interdisciplinary Space: Developing Writing Identities”
Selena Dickey, Colorado University, Denver, “Reflexive Thinking and Public Discourse”

Friday SIG (6:30 pm)

FSIG.10 International Writing Centers Association: The Public Work of Writing Centers

Capri 113, First Floor

Chair: Kevin Dvorak, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

L Sessions (Saturday, 9:30 am)

L.03 The Public (Face) Work of Administration: A Case Study of Six New Writing Center Directors

Skybox 204, Second Floor

Chair: Rebecca Jackson, Texas State University, San Marcos

Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, “Constructing a Public Face in Writing Center Administration”
Nicole Caswell, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, “Sketching the Implications of New Writing Center Directors’ Public and Private Work”
Rebecca Jackson, Texas State University, San Marcos, “Uncovering the Hidden Work of Writing Center Administration”

L.13 Face, Place, Space, Publics: Multiplicity and Writing Centers

Royale Pavilion 7, First Floor

Chair: Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Ezekiel Choffel, Michigan State University, East Lansing, “From Citation Consumer to Citation Producer: Working with Students on Source Citation in Multiple Genres in the Writing Center”
Gina DeNardi, Kent State University, OH, “Consulting with Document Design”
Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Metropolitan State University of Denver, CO, “The Public Work of Writing Centers: Writing Centers as Literacy Sponsors”
Danielle Nicole DeVoss, Michigan State University, East Lansing, “Arguing for Document Design Considerations in Writing Center Consulting”

M Sessions (Saturday, 11:00 am)

M.04 Building Textual Bridges: An Analysis of Artifacts Connecting the Writing Center to the University Public

Capri 106, First Floor

Chair: Alyssa-Rae Hug, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

Sandra Nelson, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, “Casual Chat and Academic Dialogue: The Effects of Social Media on the Rhetoric of Online Sessions”
Cassandra Richardson-Coughlin, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, “Bridging the Gap Between Client Intent and Actuality in the Writing Center Session”
Alyssa-Rae Hug, St. John’s University, Queens, NY, “Building Narrative Bridges: Writing Center Logs as Sites of Communication and Reflection”
Laurel Cunningham, University of Oklahoma, Norman, “Talk and Power in Writing Center Consultations”
Respondent: Neal Lerner, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

N Sessions (Saturday, 12:30 pm)

N.24 Graduate Writing and Graduate Writing Pedagogy: The Writer Teaching Writing

Capri 115, First Floor

Deirdre McMahon, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, “Graduate Mentoring and Faculty Development via the Writing Center”

N.28 The International Work of Composition: The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center atHome and Abroad

Skybox 208, Second Floor

Chair: Lucile Duperron, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

Lisa wolff, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, “Keeping the Cultural Universe: Training and Learning from Overseas Assistants”
Noreen Lape, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, “Going International: The Development of a Multilingual Writing Center”
Lucile Duperron, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, “French and American Relations: Mediating Academic Writing During Study Abroad”