"How, Then, Shall We Teach? The Future of Composition Instruction
in Louisiana"
Thursday, February 24th through Saturday, February 26th, 2005
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA 70504
Keynote speakers for 2005 include Dr. E. Joseph Savoie, Commissioner of
Higher Education for Louisiana and
Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey, Immediate Past Chair, Conference of College
Composition and Communication (CCCC)
The chair of the 2005 LACC conference, "How, Then, Shall We Teach? The
Future of Composition Instruction in Louisiana," invites proposals for
20 minute
individual presentations and 3 or 4 member panels in the following
areas:
· The present and future state of composition
instruction in Louisiana
· Training and mentoring our present and
future colleagues
· Composition research and/or pedagogy
· Writing program administration
· Computer-assisted writing
· Technical writing
· Elementary, middle, and secondary education
writing pedagogy
· Creative writing, especially creative
non-fiction and the essay
· Other issues that encourage excellence in
the teaching of writing
We are especially interested in proposals that reflect on the changing
shape of composition in Louisiana as we react to the changes in our
society.
Submit one-page proposals by December 10, 2004 to:
Dr. Keith Dorwick
Chair, LACC 2005
Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Computer Communication
Department of English
P.O. Box 44691
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA 70504-4691
You may also submit proposals as text, rtf or Word docs via e-mail
attachments to: lacc2005@louisiana.edu
Louisiana
Association for College Composition (LACC) 2005