Conference: Writing Research in the Making
University of California, Santa Barbara
February 5-6, 2005
What can educators do to assure the success of student
writers? How will the new SAT essay exam, 4th- and 7th-grade
Writing Assessments, and No Child Left Behind shape
future writing instruction? How are technologies such
as the Internet changing what it means for reporters,
government officials, employees, community members,
family members, business leaders and academics to read
and write?
These are some of the questions that have inspired the
national conference, Writing Research in the Making
(University of California, Santa Barbara, February 5-6,
2005). The conference will bring together writing educators
at all levels, kindergarten through university, from
across the nation and from other nations. Its purpose
is to provide opportunities for writing specialists
to exchange ideas about how best to learn more about
and address the issues that face today's writers. By
bringing together researchers from different disciplines,
the conference will encourage the development of new
perspectives and new research methods.
Writing Research in the Making will offer over 100 panel
presentations and workshops, book exhibits by leading
publishers of composition textbooks and writing research,
and an opening night reception. Fourteen featured speakers
will anchor the conference with presentations on their
latest work. They include Charles Bazerman (UCSB) on
the current status of Writing Studies; Richard Sterling
and Paul LeMahieu (Executive Director, and Director
of Research for the National Writing Project) on the
National Writing Project's partnerships, programs, and
results; Andrea Lunsford (Stanford University), Deborah
Brandt (University of Wisconsin-Madison), and Lee Ann
Carroll (Pepperdine University) on long-term studies
of how writers develop; George Hillocks (professor emeritus,
University of Chicago) with a report on research on
writing classrooms; Tom Fox (California State University-Chico)
on the role that school literacy plays in the lives
of children in rural and poor areas; Cezar Ornatowski
(San Diego State University) on rhetoric and nation;
Paul Prior (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
on revising the five rhetorical canons; Caroline Haythornthwaite
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Karen
J. Lunsford (UCSB) on the challenges of doing collaborative
research; and Susan Jarratt (UCI) and Susan McLeod (UCSB)
on a cross-institutional study of University of California
student writers. Over 250 participants are expected
to attend the 2-day event which will also include caucus
meetings on a national research initiative, and energizing
research partnerships in California education. The full
conference program is available at http://www.education.ucsb.edu/netshare/wrconf05/conferenceprogram.htm
The conference is sponsored by the Gevirtz Graduate
School of Education and the Writing Program at the University
of California at Santa Barbara, the South Coast Writing
Project, the UCSB Graduate Division, and UCSB's Interdisciplinary
Humanities Center. The meeting is being held in coordination
with the National Writing Project and California Writing
Project Director's meetings. Most conference sessions
will be held on the UCSB campus in Phelps Hall; the
featured speakers will present in Buchanan Hall 1910.
Registration for the conference is still open. To receive
a discount on the registration fees, please send in
your registration form by no later than January 24,
2005. On-site registration during the conference weekend
is also possible. For more information, the full conference
program, and the registration form, please visit the
Writing Research in the Making website at http://www.education.ucsb.edu/netshare/wrconf05/
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