Call for Papers: Trends in Teaching College Composition

Collin College

Collin Higher Education Center

McKinney, Texas

Friday, March 31, 2017

Collin College, a two-year institution serving Collin County, is hosting its fourth annual conference on trends in the teaching of college composition. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Bruce Ballenger, Professor of English at Boise State University.

This one-day conference will take place at the Collin Higher Education Center in McKinney, Texas, just north of Dallas, on Friday, March 31, 2017. Conference organizers would like to invite scholars to take part in this conference and submit proposals for individual papers, full sessions, or workshops. Graduate students, in particular, are encouraged to submit their work.

Potential topics might include:

• Best practices
• Critical thinking in the composition class
• Use of technology and multimedia
• Teaching argument
• Revision strategies
• Visual rhetoric
• Teaching research and/or documentation strategies
• Collaborative and team-building pedagogies
• Civic engagement
• Strategies for dealing with plagiarism

Those interested should submit an abstract of no more than 150 words to Dr. Lisa A. Kirby, Professor of English, at LKirby@collin.edu, by Friday, January 20, 2017. Please write “Composition Conference Proposal” in the subject line. Abstracts should also include name, e-mail address, phone number, a brief biography, and requests for technology. Presentations will be 15-20 minutes long, depending on number of submissions accepted. For more information, please contact Dr. Kirby.