English Writing Program

 

Oregon's 15th Annual Conference on Rhetoric and Composition
&
The First Annual Conference on Multiwriting, Alternative Composition/Rhetoric, and Community Service Learning
Friday and Saturday, October 5-6, 2007
Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR

SCHEDULE

Friday, October 5

Registration Desk open 8 AM – 5:30 PM in Hoke Main Lounge on the second floor of the Hoke Union Building

Oregon Writing and English Advisory Committee meeting 8:30 AM – 3 PM in the Alumni Room on the second floor of Ackerman Hall

9 AM Ladd Marsh visit: Meet at the Registration Desk to drive to the marsh overlook for an hour of walking, viewing, writing, and/or drawing.

11 AM – 1 PM Oregon Writing Project Writing Marathon in Downtown La Grande: Meet at the Registration Desk to walk, write, and eat!

1-2 PM Writing Marathon Read-Around (Hoke Main Lounge)

1-1:50 PM Writing class with Paul Merchant (Hoke 309)

2-2:50 PM Jill Gibian and Neva Sanders, EOU multiwriting presentation (Hoke Multicultural Lounge)

3-4:15 PM "Teaching Teachers to Teach Writing through the Rhetoric of Wine Tasting: Trading Rubrics and Assessment Criteria for Aroma Wheels and Other Fun Frameworks for Noticing" Lisa Johnson and Nick Pitsilionis from Washington State University (first 30 registered maximum; must be over 21) (Hoke 309)

4:15-5:30 PM Opening Reception, Loso Foyer

5-7 PM Conference Banquet, Foley Station, La Grande’s destination restaurant for Northwest cuisine with interesting international influences

6-8 PM EOU Professor Emeritus Tom Dimond Retrospective Exhibit Reception, Nightingale Gallery, Loso Hall

7:30-8:30 PM Poetry Reading: Paul Merchant, author of Some Business of Affinity and Director of the William Stafford Archives at Lewis & Clark College (Groth Recital Hall in Loso Hall)

8:45-? Conference party at Mark Shadle's 408 N Ave.

Saturday, October 6

Registration Desk open 7:30 AM – 5:30 PM in Hoke Main Lounge on the second floor of the Hoke Union Building

8 AM Continental Breakfast, Hoke Main Lounge

8:30-9:45 AM Keynote Address: Kristie S. Fleckenstein, author of Embodied Literacies: Imageword and a Poetics of Teaching, co-editor of JAEPL: Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, and Associate Professor of English at Florida State University (Hoke 309)

10-11:15 AM Concurrent Sessions I

A. Pat Johnson, Washington State University, "Promoting Student Engagement through Humor and Game Playing in the Writing Classroom and Writing Center" (Ackerman 103)

B. Steven Alvarez, City University of New York, "Restraining Orders: Compositional Agency via Free-Write Restrictions" and Hanzhou Pang, Washington State University, "The Rhetorical Process of Situated Personality" (Ackerman 104)

C. Derek Owens, MaryLinda DeWitt, and Chris Leary, St. John’s University, "Writing with Scissors (and Glue, Hyperlinks and Tape, Needle and Thread, Anything Sticky…" (Ackerman 210)

D. Milissa Riggs, University of Texas at Arlington, "A Trinity of Quality, Mind, and Matter: The Work of Service Learning," William E. Smith, Western Washington University, "Shaming Discourse and 'Handicapped' Parking," and Stephanie Wade, State University of New York at Stony Brook, "The Return of the Pamphleteer: Public Writing in College Composition" (Ackerman 105)

E. Nathaniel Teich, University of Oregon, "Merging the Modes for Ethical Dialogue and Argumentation" Workshop (Hoke 309)

11:30 AM–12:45 PM Concurrent Sessions II

A. John Remington, Pendleton High School, "Using Film to Enhance Literature Comprehension" Workshop (Ackerman 103)

B. Vicki Tolar Burton, Oregon State University, Writing across Borders film and discussion regarding international students and writing (Ackerman 104)

C. "Authoring the Personal for the Public to Read" Panel, Washington State University: Dorothy Worden "Blurring the Public and Personal in Academic Discourse," Donna Evans "Have Cane, Will Travel," and Jerry Petersen "Deaf Culture and Shared Histories: Academic Musings and Personal Graffiti" (Ackerman 105)

12:45-1:45 PM Luncheon (Hoke 309)

1:45-3:00 PM Concurrent Sessions III

A. Daneen Bergland, Clackamas Community College and Portland State University, and Jill Stukenberg, Clackamas Community College and Clark College, "Poetic License: Creative Writing Carjacks the Composition Classroom" and John J. McDonald, University of Portland, "Advanced Writing: Creative is Critical" (Ackerman 103)

B. Amy McDougall "Fear Factor: Using Drawing to Alleviate Writing Anxiety," Katherine Ericsson "Using Comic Life in the Writing Classroom," and Anne Ritter "Building Bridges through Group Tutorials," Washington State University (Ackerman 104)

C. Janet Scoubes, Elgin High School, "Tales from the Far Side" Multigenre Workshop (Ackerman 105)

D. "Digital Synergies" Panel, Washington State University: Christopher Ritter "What Does It Mean to Write, 'I be a Troll, Mon'?: Towards a Method for Reading Player Discourse in Online Games," Rachael Shapiro "MySpace: Socializing the Academic Site," and Patricia Freitag Ericsson "A Techno-Velcro Cyber-Mosaic: Tales of Time, Space, Technology, and Family" (Ackerman 210)

3:15 PM-4:30 PM Concurrent Sessions IV

A. Polly  Buckingham, Eastern Washington University, "Open Composition: Building Community among Instructors" and Kristine Kellejian, Washington State University, "Digital/DVD Commentaries and Reflection in English Composition: Rethinking the Genre" (Ackerman 103)

B. Jon McClintock, Christie Toth, and Elizabeth Harazim, Portland State University, "Quantifying Qualitative Experience: Dispatches from an Institutional Writing Survey" (Ackerman 104)

C. Rebecca McCarthy, Florida Atlantic University, "Improvisational Dramatism" Workshop (Ackerman 210)

7 PM bluesmaster Jimmy Lloyd Rea Birthday Bash Concert and Dance to benefit Shelter from the Storm, Eagles Lodge, corner of Jefferson & Elm, $5 each, $10 for family. Pizza, chips, and non-alcoholic beverages available. Free birthday cake and ice cream.