[Englecturers] FW: Composition: Theorizing Correspondences (3/1/06; SAMLA, 11/10/06-11/12/06)

[Steven Axelrod]

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Composition: Theorizing Correspondences

The teaching of college writing traditionally has stressed the=20 importance
of critical reading skills.  Yet what is the precise=20 connection between
critical writing and critical reading?  This panel=20 welcomes papers that
shed light on the many ways that reading enriches,=20=

complicates, or transforms one=92s development as a writer.  How does=20
intensive reading help young writers find and articulate their own=20
voices?  How does the disciplinary, cultural, or linguistic knowledge=20
acquired through reading deepen the analytic sophistication of student=20=

writers?  Do the decline of conventional reading and the prominence of=20=

new media technologies undermine the progress of student writers or=20
otherwise create new challenges for them?  Does the reading of=20
imaginative works=97including fiction, poetry, and creative=20
nonfiction=97promote the development of more sophisticated interpretive=20=

skills?  How does reading promote greater facility with rhetoric and=20
discourse?  Is a greater awareness of the possibilities of language=20
internalized in some unconscious way through reading or does such=20
awareness take place only through the complement of composition=20 pedagogy?
What practical strategies may writing teachers use in the=20 classroom to
mutually encourage strong reading and writing skills?

Please send abstracts of fewer than 500 words for 20-minute papers to Thomas
Lilly School of Literature, Communication, and Culture Georgia Institute of
Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0165
Fax: (404) 894-1287

Electronic submissions are encouraged. Please send to:
thomas.lilly at lcc.gatech.edu

Abstracts must be received by 1 March 2006.

In order for the proposal to be considered, include the following=20
information:

1. Panelist Name and Institution as this information should appear in=20 the
convention program 2. Panelist Address: street, city, state, zip 3. Panelist
Phone Number: area code - number 4. Panelist Email address 5. AV Equipment
Request: Due to the high cost of AV equipment, all AV=20 requests must be
made in writing by the panelist and included with each=20=

panelist proposal to the session chair. If a panelist does not wish to=20=

have any AV equipment, this information must also be included 6. Panelist
proposal, Session Title, Name of Session Chair and=20 including a title as
it should appear in the convention program

Presenters must be current members of SAMLA by 1 May 2006. The SAMLA=20
meeting will be Nov. 10-12, 2006, in Charlotte, North Carolina. For=20 more
details, please visit http://www.samla.org/convention.shtml.

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