Schedule of Activities

Friday, October 16th

5:00-5:30 - Tompkins Hall (First Floor), Check-in/Reception

5:30-6:45 - Tompkins 123, Panel Discussion

• Rethinking Voice: Concerns of ESL Student Writers
  Ron Lunsford, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Meg Morgan, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Nancy Pfingstag, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Saturday, October 17th

8:00-9:00 - Tompkins Hall (First Floor), Check-in & Breakfast

8:30-9:00 - Introductory Remarks & Welcome

9:00-10:15 - Concurrent Sessions

A. Tompkins 112, Session A

• When We Ask Them: Students' Perspectives about Technology and Writing
  Karla Lyles, North Carolina State University

• Teaching the (Treacherous) Information Landscape: Using Kinesthetic Navigation to Visualize Database Research
  Kati Fargo, North Carolina State University

• The New Materiality: Acquiring and Applying the Changing Resources of Twenty-first Century University Libraries
  Greg Hlavaty, Elon University
  Murphy Townsend, Elon University

B. Tompkins 125, Panel Discussion

• Across the Divide, or, Genre and the "Moves" of Academic Writing in Secondary and Post-Secondary Writing Classrooms
  Eric Broer, Leesville Road High School, Raleigh, NC
  Scott R. Rogers, Louisville University
  John D. Miles, Wofford College

10:30-11:45 - Concurrent Sessions

A. Tompkins 112, Session B

• Preparing High School Students for College Writing: Challenging Definitions of Preparedness through Quantitative Research
  Meredith Love, Francis Marion University
  Matthew Nelson, Francis Marion University

• Pathways from AP to FYWP: Detours, Roadblocks, and Wipeouts
  Judith Darling, North Carolina State University

• The Great Divide: An Examination of North Carolina's Secondary Writing Preparation and its Effect on Undergraduate Writing Performance
  Dy'Sheam Y. West, University of Phoenix

B. Tompkins 125, Session C

• Do They Really Read Our Comments?: A Study of Student Reactions to Electronic Essay Grading and Commenting
  Wanda Lloyd, North Carolina State University
  Meagan Kittle, North Carolina State University

• Assessing Visuals in the Writing Classroom
  Susan Katz, North Carolina State University

C. Tompkins 123, Panel Discussion

• Keeping the "and" in the Literature and Composition Course
  Nancy Alexander, Methodist University
  Emily Leverett, Methodist University
  Kelly Walter Carney, Methodist University

11:45-1:30 - Lunch and Book Fair

• During lunch, several publishers will be available in Tompkins 126, 128, and 129 to discuss resources available for instructors of writing.

  Attending: Bedford St. Martin's, Cengage Learning, Pearson, W.W. Norton & Company, Soomo Publishing, more TBA

1:30-2:45 - Tompkins 123, Keynote Address - High School, College, and the Space Between: Cultures of Writing and Ways They Connect

• Kathleen Blake Yancey, Florida State University

3:00-4:15 - Concurrent Sessions

A. Tompkins 112, Session D

• Behavioral Change in the Writing Classroom
  Paul Corrigan, Southeastern University

• Burkean Dramatism: Teaching Writing in Post-Secondary Composition Classes
  Phillip Brown, East Carolina University
  Whitney Larrimore, East Carolina University

• Stressing Invention: Cultivating Investment in Writing after Years of Testing
  Megan Lynn Isaac, Elon University
  Michelle D. Trim, Elon University

B. Tompkins 125, Panel Discussion

• Writing across Curricular and Extracurricular Activities: Promoting Literate Development in the Twenty-first Century
  Kevin Roozen, Auburn University
  Caroline Wilkinson, University of Louisville
  Rachel Reed, Auburn University

4:30-5:45 - Concurrent Sessions

A. Tompkins 112, Session E

• High School Masquerading as College
  Chris Anson, North Carolina State University

• Keeping One Eye on Difficulty: Student and Teacher Journaling as Self-Reflective Practice
  Ryan D. Smith, University of Pittsburgh

• Composing Across Contexts: Understanding the Transfer of Writing Strategies from First-Year Composition to Other First-Year Courses
  Paula Nelson Patch, Elon University

B. Tompkins 125, Panel Discussion

• Reformulating Success: Transitioning Duke's First-Year Students from the Five-Paragraph Theme
  Denise Comer, Duke University
  Kristen Neuschel, Duke University
  Marcia Rego, Duke University
  Vicki Russell, Duke University

For more information, please contact Kevin Brock (kevin_brock@ncsu.edu).