Below is the Call for Paper Proposals for our regional College English Association--Middle Atlantic Group. Those of you who would like another visit to the DC area in March should consider joining us on March 3 at the Inn in College Park! (Deadline for proposals extended to Jan. 2)
Hope to see you there!
Linda Di Desidero
PS Email me if you'd like a clearer attachment of the CFP.
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College English Association - Middle Atlantic Group ANNUAL SPRING CONFERENCE 2012 Call for Papers “Boundaries”
3 March 2012
Keynote Speaker: David J. Smith, Senior Manager for Educational Outreach at the United States Institute of Peace
Location: University of Maryland University College, College Park, Maryland
Binding together this year’s conference presentations will be the theme of “Boundaries.” We invite papers or panels on literature, language, cultural studies, composition, and pedagogy that contemplate this theme both within the discipline of English and in other areas of the humanities. We encourage interdisciplinary papers and panels. Proposals may broadly interpret the conference theme along (but not confined to) the following lines:
v Zones: Canonical lines, interdisciplinary boundaries, paradigm shifts
v Frontiers of educational reform, curricular design, etc.
v Cutting edges: Technology and tradition
v Wrong side of the tracks? Class and educational opportunities
v Glass ceilings and razed walls: Exclusion and inclusion
v Liminal and subliminal (text)messaging
v Portals, portages, and passports to achievement
v “Exeunt omnes”: Literary entrances and exits
v Limiting and delimiting the achievement gap
v Faults and defaults: Politics, economics, and education
v Media horizons: Hardbound and cyberspace
v Pushing the envelope: Composition pedagogies for success
v Crossing the line: Organizing, collective bargaining, and academic freedom
v Transcending boundaries: Teachers without borders
Please email your paper abstracts (of 500 words or less) or panel proposals by January 2 to David Kaloustian, Program Committee Chair, at [log in to unmask], (301) 860-3685. Acceptance letters will be sent out in mid-January. A conference registration/CEA-MAG membership fee of $40 ($30 for adjunct instructors and $20 for graduate students) will be required when you mail in your registration for the conference in the spring of 2012. Other questions about the conference may be directed to Linda Di Desidero, CEA-MAG President, at [log in to unmask], (240) 684- 2928.
Abstracts and panel proposals should include the following information: Name; institutional affiliation (if applicable; graduate students should identify themselves to be eligible to compete for the prize for best grad student paper); mailing address (including zip code); phone number and email address; title for the proposed presentation; abstract of no more than 500 words (papers at the conference should be limited to 15 minutes); A-V needs, if any; special needs, if any.
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Linda Di Desidero, Ph.D.
Director, Communication Studies & Professional Writing University of Maryland University College School of Undergraduate Studies
3501 University Boulevard East
Adelphi, MD 20783-8083
College English Association-Middle Atlantic Group http://cea.stevensonuniversity.org/
Maryland Communication Association
http://www.marylandcomm.org/
(240) 684-2830 (Department)
(240) 684-2928 (Office)
(240) 684-2995 (Fax)
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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Larry Beason
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:20 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: "textspeak" and grammar rules
Dear Colleagues:
My co-author and I were asked to develop a 2nd edition of our usage book aimed at a general audience (McGraw-Hill Guide to Grammar & Usage). I'd like to pick your brains about the content of a particular section.
One brief chapter we'll add is tentatively titled "textspeak," and our goal is to offer guidance regarding grammar and usage regarding e-communication in diverse contexts (email, text messages, social networking, etc.). This includes what should be common sense (e.g., avoid textspeak when writing formal hardcopy or formal e-texts.
For the most part, there are few 'rules' that apply all these diverse situations, so our guidance will be broad and flexible for the most part.
However, are there specific grammar or usage issues that you think are worth discussing with a broad range of readers in terms of e-texts? Are there common errors, for instance, that you see that involve 'textspeak' or e-communication? It's hard to develop rules or conventions in such a quickly-changing mode of communication, but do you see particular grammar, punctuation, or perhaps even stylistic problems that commonly occur in e-texts (or because of e-texts)?
For instance, even in informal e-communication, I often see certain distracting or confusing language or punctuation choices--such as using acronyms that aren't commonly known (I responded to my wife's text the other day by answering "y" to a question. She saw this as challenging her question, while I thought it was clear I meant "yes". She won.) Another problematic choice even in informal e-texts is, I think, not using sentence-ending punctuation in any sentence except the last in a text message.
If anyone has time for discussing 'particularly annoying or confusing' usage choices involving e-communication, I would appreciate your thoughts.
Larry Beason
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Larry Beason, Associate Professor
Director of Composition
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL 36688-0002
Office: 251-460-7861
FAX: 251-461-1517
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