CFP: Composition: Theorizing Correspondences (3/1/06; SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)
Composition: Theorizing Correspondences
The teaching of college writing traditionally has stressed the=20
importance of critical reading skills. Yet what is the precise=20
connection between critical writing and critical reading? This panel=20
welcomes papers that shed light on the many ways that reading enriches,=20=
complicates, or transforms one=92s development as a writer. How does=20
intensive reading help young writers find and articulate their own=20
voices? How does the disciplinary, cultural, or linguistic knowledge=20
acquired through reading deepen the analytic sophistication of student=20=
writers? Do the decline of conventional reading and the prominence of=20=
new media technologies undermine the progress of student writers or=20
otherwise create new challenges for them? Does the reading of=20
imaginative works=97including fiction, poetry, and creative=20
nonfiction=97promote the development of more sophisticated interpretive=20=
skills? How does reading promote greater facility with rhetoric and=20
discourse? Is a greater awareness of the possibilities of language=20
internalized in some unconscious way through reading or does such=20
awareness take place only through the complement of composition=20
pedagogy? What practical strategies may writing teachers use in the=20
classroom to mutually encourage strong reading and writing skills?
Please send abstracts of fewer than 500 words for 20-minute papers to
Thomas Lilly
School of Literature, Communication, and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0165
Fax: (404) 894-1287
Electronic submissions are encouraged. Please send to:
thomas.lilly_at_lcc.gatech.edu
Abstracts must be received by 1 March 2006.
In order for the proposal to be considered, include the following=20
information:
1. Panelist Name and Institution as this information should appear in=20
the convention program
2. Panelist Address: street, city, state, zip
3. Panelist Phone Number: area code - number
4. Panelist Email address
5. AV Equipment Request: Due to the high cost of AV equipment, all AV=20
requests must be made in writing by the panelist and included with each=20=
panelist proposal to the session chair. If a panelist does not wish to=20=
have any AV equipment, this information must also be included
6. Panelist proposal, Session Title, Name of Session Chair and=20
including a title as it should appear in the convention program
Presenters must be current members of SAMLA by 1 May 2006. The SAMLA=20
meeting will be Nov. 10-12, 2006, in Charlotte, North Carolina. For=20
more details, please visit http://www.samla.org/convention.shtml.
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