Small Group Collaborative Learning & Writing: A Practical Sourcebook will be an edited collection of essays demonstrating the “how tos” of small group collaborative work in writing classes published by McFarland Press in 2012. Although essays must be based on scholarly theories and research, the primary focus of the essays should be on the pragmatic and pedagogical applications of the theories to the writing class, including some discussion of the results of your work.

Friday, April 16th, 2010 English Graduate Organization Department of English and Comparative Literature University of Cincinnati

Many of us have experienced the sense of being put together by the process of putting together. We have composed, and in a sense we are composed. –Robert Heilman

Call for Papers

The Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing

Guest editor: Tracy Whalen, University of Winnipeg

The English Graduate Association at the University of Cincinnati is hosting a conference entitled "Composing Ourselves: A Graduate Conference in Literature, Composition, and Rhetoric" on April 16, 2010. A "teaser" video about the conference is available here: http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/5714663/. Full cfp and more info to follow.

Graduate Symposium on Communication

James Madison University

Harrisonburg, VA

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for submissions for the edited collection Better Late than Never: Training “Late Adopter” Educators to Use Multimodal Composition in the Writing Classroom.

New media technologies have created a participatory popular culture in which audience members can do much more than interpret the movies, television programs, video games, and music produced by large corporations. Online technologies allow individuals to sample and remix popular culture content, write back to popular culture producers, and connect with fellow fans from around the corner and around the world.

What can composition historians learn from early twentieth century high school composition programs? What might the methods, classroom projects, and approaches to student texts suggest about how students were prepared to write in high school? Might our innovative practices in college composition have *trickled up* from high schools during the first few decades of the last century?

Call for Proposals: WPA Sessions at MLA December, 2009 Philadelphia, PA.

The WPA Executive Board and the committee on WPA at MLA (Joe Janangelo (Chair), Jeff Andelora, Duane Roen, and Susan Thomas) invite 150-word proposals for individual presentations contributing to two panels to be held at the December 27-30, 2009 convention of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia, PA.