Spring 2012

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Institute for Writing Studies
St. Augustine Hall (Library) room 150

Schedule of Sessions

10:00 a.m.
Conference Room  

“Writing and Social Justice”
Moderated by Sean Murray

Students will read from a variety of genres (manifestos, movie reviews, research papers, letters to political representatives) on an array of pressing social issues that touch their lives.

10:00 a.m.
Back Lounge

“Educational Justice”
Moderated by Sophie Bell, Octavia Davis, and Amanda Moulder

How well do educational systems serve our academic development?  Come join a conversation about what does and doesn't work in schools here in New York and around the country

11:00 a.m.
Conference Room

“Telling the Stories That Had To Be Told”
Moderated by Roseanne Gatto

Students from three sections of English 1000C will reflect on their experiences crafting sustained bodies of work throughout the course of the semester.

12:00 p.m.
Conference Room

“Writing into Digication: First Year Writing Students Experiment with ePortfolios”
Moderated by Bill Torgerson

Come to this panel if you're interested in what might be done with a Digication ePortfolio. Students have uploaded texts and embedded images, sound, and video. One of the primary projects in this class was to craft a hybrid research paper called the Scholarly Personal Narrative in which students tell a personal story and weave in research from scholarly journals. Students also created short documentary films. 

1:00 p.m.
Conference Room

"Being Critical; Being Creative: Crafting Innovative Work in Multiple Genres"
Moderated by Tara Roeder

Our panel seeks to challenge the antiquated divide between the "academic" and the "creative", exploring complex work that transcends this limited binary.