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October 31, 2008: How do College Students Develop and Transfer Writing Abilities? A Campus-Wide Symposium. Friday, 10:00-3:00. Driscoll Center Ballroom. Detailed PDF Brochure

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How do knowledge and skills learned in one setting transfer to others—or might they not?  A lunch-time keynote address by Kathleen Blake Yancey will highlight a day of panel-led discussions among faculty and students from across the DU campus and neighboring institutions.  We’ll serve lunch, sponsor breaks and make the day intellectually stimulating, highly participatory, provocative, and free.

Consider:

• What writing knowledge and skills do students transfer—or not—among first year writing, general education, and majors courses?
  
• What connects—or disconnects—writing in high school and writing in college?
• What abilities and practices transfer—or don’t—from academic to professional situations, from academic to civic?
• What are relationships between traditional writing and new media?

Schedule

9:30     ~    Coffee and Refreshments
10:00   ~    Welcome and Context -- Provost Gregg Kvistad and Doug Hesse
10:15   ~    Concurrent Session 1

• Understanding First Year Writing: Course Aims, Student Accomplishments
  Kamila Kinyon, Facilitator. Panelists: TBA
• Undergraduate’s Reflections on their Writing Experiences at DU
  Kelli Custer, Facilitator. Panelists: TBA
• Writing in Majors at DU: Research Findings and Implications
  Jennifer Novak, Facilitator. Panelists: TBA

11:10   ~   Break
11:20   ~   Concurrent Session 2

• Teaching in Writing-Intensive Core Courses
  Alba Newmann, Facilitator. Panelists: TBA
• How Writing Center Consultants View Writing at DU
  Eliana Schonberg and Geoffrey Bateman, Facilitators.
• Students and Qualitative Writing Projects
  Carol Samson and Linda Tate, Facilitators. Panelists: TBA

12:15  ~   Lunch (free to registrants)
1:00    ~   Kathleen Blake Yancey, Keynote
2:00    ~   Concurrent Session 3

• The Longitudinal Study of Writing at DU: What We’re Learning, What it Means
  Jennifer Campbell, Facilitator. Panelists: TBA
• Writing and New Media, the Academy and Popular Discourse
  Doug Hesse, Facilitator. Panelists: TBA
• Working with Writers in Community-Based Organizations
  John Tiedemann, Geoffrey Bateman, and Eliana Schonberg, Facilitators. Panelists: TBA

3:00    ~   Reception

Please RSVP to secure your space (and your free lunch)

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Past Writing Program Events

May 14, 2008: Researchers as Writers | Writers as Researchers lecture series. 6:30-8:00 p.m., Boettcher Auditorium. More information...

May 12, 2008: Open Mic Night at the Botanic Gardens! Theme: "Urban Nature" The top three entries to the Urban Nature contest will read their winning entries, as well as other readers who want to share their work with the greater Denver community in addition to the DU community. Location: Botanic Gardens. Admission free to DU students with ID. Prizes are given to the first 10 students who sign up to read. Contact Karen Bensen for more information. More information on the Urban Nature Poetry/Prose contest...

May 5, 2008: Philip Pardi, Bard College, Poetry Reading from his Brittingham Prize-winning collection, Meditations on Rising and Falling from University of Wisconsin Press. 6:00-6:30 p.m., Monday, May 2, 2008, Chan Family Classroom, Penrose Library. More information...

May 5, 2008: Researchers as Writers | Writers as Researchers lecture series. 6:30-8:00 p.m., Boettcher Auditorium. More information...

May 1, 2008: Researchers as Writers | Writers as Researchers lecture series. 6:30-8:00 p.m., Boettcher Auditorium. More information...

April 29, 2008: Researchers as Writers | Writers as Researchers lecture series. 6:30-8:00 p.m., Boettcher Auditorium. More information...

April 24, 2008: Rosa Eberly, Penn State University, "Quantum Parliaments: Rhetoric, Disciplinarity, and Sustainable Publics" 4:00 pm., Thursday, April 24, 2008, Renaissance Room North, Mary Reed Building. Lecture hosted by AGORA- The Rhetorical Studies Colloquium. More information...

April 16, 2008: Researchers as Writers | Writers as Researchers lecture series. 6:30-8:00 p.m., Boettcher Auditorium. More information...

April 8, 2008: Researchers as Writers | Writers as Researchers lecture series. 6:30-8:00 p.m., Boettcher Auditorium. More information...

January 24, 2008: Michael Palmquist, Colorado State University, "reload | reset | reboot: Rethinking the Role of Computers in Writing Instruction" Renaissance Room South, Marty Reed Building, 4-5pm. More...

October 18, 2007: Paul Kei Matsuda, Arizona State University, "Multilingual Writers in the University: Some Strategies for Teachers" Room 1880, Driscoll Center, 4-5pm. More...

September 27, 2007: Cheryl Glenn, Penn State University, "Feminist Engagements with Rhetoric: The Possibilities" Renaissance Room South, Mary Reed Building, 4-5pm. More...

September 20, 2007: Open Mic Night. Share your poetry and prose! contact:Karen Bensen

May 10-11, 2007: Anne Wysocki and Dennis Lynch, Michigan Tech, "The Dismissed: On the pasts and potential futures of emotion and the visual in writing studies" More...

April 12, 2007: Victor Villanueva, Washington State, "Rhetorics of the New Racism" More...

March 2, 2007: Michael Bérubé, Penn State, "Writing as a Public Intellectual" More...

November 2-3, 2006: Neal Lerner, MIT, "Science Labs, Writing Labs: Provocative Parallels" and the WRC Grand Opening More...