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Dear John,<br><br>
I am dismayed to have missed George. I was out of the country until
last night, the 9th, and came home to emails and phone calls that made me
wish I could be in more than one place at one time! I trust George
was terrific for you guys. I'm in the process of editing an essay
that he wrote for RTE, which we'll run in either the November or February
issue -- in which he discusses the tenacity of instruction in mechanics
over more over-reaching concepts in English and language arts classes,
and the connection between such teaching and the foci of large-scale
testing. A really nice piece. Have a great summer and summer
writing project.<br><br>
Best,<br>
Melanie<br><br>
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At 03:35 PM 7/8/2005, John Briggs wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Colleagues:<br><br>
The summer institute of the Inland Area Writing
Project is hosting a presenting by George Hillocks of the University of
Chicago this Tuesday, July 12, at 9:30 am in Watkins 2240. Visitors
are welcome. Professor Hillocks will be discussing his decades of
research on the effectiveness of various composition pedagogies.
His books include <i>Ways of Thinking</i>, <i>Teaching Writing as
Reflective Practice</i>, <i>The Testing Trap</i>, and the seminal
<i>Research on Written Composition</i>.<br><br>
The presentation will run from 9:30-12:30.
Visitors are welcome for all or part of the session. I hope that
some of you will have the opportunity to attend. You will be able
to meet one of the most widely respected scholars in the field of
rhetoric and composition. <br><br>
John Briggs<br>
Director, Inland Area Writing Project </blockquote></body>
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