Louisiana
Association for College Composition
L A C
C 2 0 0 7
re•NEW•al
hosted by
Xavier University of
Louisiana
November 15-17, 2007
All sessions and
meetings except for the LACC Board Meeting will take place in the
Garden District Hotel.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Registration 6:00 – 7:30
p.m.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Registration 8:30 – 11:30
a.m.
SESSION I
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Classroom Experiences and
Experiments
Loyola Room 1st floor
“The ACT Essay and LSU’s Online Challenge”
Irvin Peckham, Louisiana State University
“Do our students live in a “post-feminist” or “post-gender” world?
How
do changes in culture since the 1960s influence the composition
classroom? How do college composition instructors respond to these
changes?”
Garnet Branch, University of Louisiana –
Lafayette
“English 101: The World’s Most Dangerous Class”
R. Allen Alexander, Nicholls State
University (Chair)
Communication
Evolution: Renewing and Revising WAC for Better Serving our Students
Board Room 9th floor
Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Louisiana State University (Chair)
“Packing Smart: How to Ensure That Writing Skills Make the
Trip across the Curriculum”
Lee Bauknight, Louisiana State
University
“The ‘Science’ of Communication: Breaking into the Basic
Sciences Curriculum”
Colleen Fava, Louisiana State University
“Connecting the Dots: Promoting University-Wide
Collaborations for New Compositions”
Karen Powell, Louisiana State University
SESSION II
10:30-11:45 a.m.
Literature and Writing
Loyola Room 1st floor
“Teaching Slave Narratives in the Former Yugoslavia”
Ginger Jones, Louisiana State University
– Alexandria
“A Local Solution: Teaching Research and Composition through Regional
Literature”
Elizabeth M. Beard, Louisiana State
University – Alexandria
Composition Theory
Board Room 9th floor
“The Insights and Blindnesses of Social-Epistemic Rhetoric”
Sandra F. Vandercook, Leavell
College, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
“Classifying Composition Theories with Burke’s Pentad”
James McDonald, University of
Louisiana – Lafayette
12:00
LUNCHEON
Tulane Room 1st floor
Plenary Speaker Jacqueline Jones Royster
Executive Dean of Colleges of the Arts and Sciences and Professor of
English, The Ohio State University
Introduction:
Thomas Bonner, Jr, Chair, Department of English and Kellog Professor of
English, Xavier University of Louisiana
SESSION III
2:00-3:15 p.m.
Ecocomposition
Loyola Room 1st floor
“As the Looking Glass: Re-identifying the Writer in Ecocomposition
Classrooms”
Roxie J. James, Northwestern State
University
“Providing Context: Service Learning in a Community College Composition
Class”
Wendy Rihner, Delgado Community College
Student Needs and Profiles
Board Room 9th floor
“Anything Goes: The Evening Division Composition Classroom”
Mercedes Munster & Barbara
Molner, Delgado Community College
“The Art of Argumentation in WAC: Genre Immersion through Research and
Composition in the Advanced Writing Class”
Alice Abby Jones, University of
Louisiana – Lafayette
“Student Scholars in the Real (Academic) World”
Richard Collins, Louisiana
State University – Alexandria (Chair)
SESSION IV
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Classroom Pedagogy
Loyola Room 1st floor
“How Do I Begin?” A Method for Helping Writers Invent Arguments”
Wade Skinner, Louisiana State University
“What Are Your Students Doing? Engagement and Retention”
Becky Jones LeBlanc, Nicholls State
University (Chair)
“How Teaching Online Made Me a Better Classroom Teacher”
Kristie Weeks, Louisiana State
University – Shreveport
Creative Writing
Board Room 9th floor
“Haiku Wars”
David Lanoue, Xavier University of
Louisiana
“What You Do Next”
Nancy Richard, Delgado Community College
Wine and Cheese Reception
5:00 – 6:30
p.m.
Tulane Room 1st floor
Saturday November 17
SESSION V
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.
Civic Rhetoric
Loyola Room 1st floor
“Online Renewal: Citizen Rhetors Inspiring Post-Katrina Recovery in
Blogs and Wikis”
Daisy Pignetti, University of South
Florida (Chair)
“Findability and Composition: Strategies for Searchable Writing”
Lei Lani Michel, Louisiana State
University
“Opportunities and Ideas for Teaching Civic Literacy in Louisiana”
Clancy Ratliff, University of Louisiana
– Lafayette
Articulating Realities:
Writing Programs and Institutional
Differences
Board Room 9th floor
Renee Major, Louisiana State University (Chair)
Laci Talley, Baton Rouge Community College
Keri Turner, Nicholls State University
SESSION VI
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.
Images and Media in the
Writing Classroom
Loyola Room 1st floor
“Reading the New Yorker: an Alternate Approach for the Writing
Classroom”
Joseph J. Letter, Tulane University
“Using the New Yorker: Non-verbal Texts as Paradigms for Logical
Discourse”
Diane Langlois, Louisiana State
University – Eunice
“Images, Images, Images Everywhere Telling Us What to Be, Think, and
Write”
Donna A. Rhorer, University of
Louisiana – Monroe (Chair)
Articulation Meeting
Board Room 9th floor
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
LACC Open Board Meeting
(Restaurant TBA)
Conference Staff
Conference Chair: Nicole Pepinster Greene
Treasurer: Sr. Donna Gould, SBS
Exhibition Coordinator: Bonnie Noonan
Audio-Visual Coordinator: Jay Todd
Program: Katheryn Krotzer Laborde
Administrative Assistant: Allison Pitcher
Sponsors
Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Xavier University of Louisiana
Department of English,
Xavier University of Louisiana
Bedford/St. Martin’s
Houghton/Mifflin
Longman/Prentice Hall
McGraw Hill
Norton
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