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>From: Chuck Fisher <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar              
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>Subject: Colorado Community College Conference on Composition - 5Cs
>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:43:23 -0600
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>Call For Papers and Presentations
>Colorado Community College Conference on Composition: 2006
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>Dear Colleague:
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>Aims Community College in Greeley will be hosting the Colorado Community 
>College Conference on Composition (5C’s) on Friday, April 14, 2006.  
>Participants in the 5C’s over the years have enthusiastically endorsed the 
>event as Colorado’s top conference for writing teachers, and we hope to 
>continue that tradition this year.
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>We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be John 
>Calderazzo from Colorado State University.  Calderazzo is a former 
>freelance magazine writer who's been teaching nonfiction courses at 
>Colorado State University since 1968.  He's written an over-the-shoulder 
>writing guide, Writing from Scratch: Freelancing; a children's science 
>text, 101 Questions about Volcanoes; and a new book about ways that 
>volcanoes around the world have affected human culture, Rising Fire: 
>Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives. His essays, short stories, and articles have 
>appeared in Audubon, Coastal Living, Georgia Review, Miami Herald, Writer's 
>Digest, and dozens of other publications.  He's won many writing honors but 
>is most proud of his 1998 award as a Best CSU Teacher.
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>We are focusing the 2006 conference on the following theme:
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>Real-World Writing: Ennobling Composition
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>The Issue
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>             How can we encourage students to see that writing well is more 
>than a college graduation requirement, more than a marketplace skill, more 
>even than a tool to help them engage in participatory citizenship?  How can 
>we inspire them to see writing as a gift to themselves, to others—as a 
>product of the human spirit?  How can writing be ultimately a satisfying 
>experience?  Is there any nobility to learning to write well, and if so, 
>how can we ennoble composition for our students?
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>             Writing teachers often find themselves imparting basic writing 
>and thinking skills in a time-constricted, increasingly consumeristic, 
>accountability-centered milieu.  James Berlin has said, "Many [writing] 
>teachers . . . look upon their vocation as the imparting of a largely 
>mechanical skill, important only because it serves students in getting them 
>through school and in advancing them in their professions.  [But] writing 
>teachers are . . . given a responsibility that far exceeds this merely 
>instrumental task."  Our syllabi are filled with state-mandated and state- 
>or institution-driven goals and competencies, so we often find ourselves 
>subordinating ideas for creatively engaging students to the needs of 
>accountability patrols.  Inevitably, we fall back on what Daniel Fogerty in 
>Roots for a New Rhetoric (1959) called "current-traditional" approaches to 
>teaching writing, which focus on essay patterns, drills, and rubrics.  Such 
>an approach conveniently—but not always accurately—distills the writing 
>process into measurable bits.  But how can we push beyond those approaches 
>for our basic composition students?
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>A Call for Proposals
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>             We invite proposals for presentations that address the 
>following question: How can we—without sentimentality—expose the wonder and 
>nobility of writing while at the same time foster the skills necessary to 
>communicate to strangers meaningfully and in a common grammar?   Consider 
>the following questions as "starter" ideas:
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>Is all writing "creative" writing?   If so, in what ways? Should we impart 
>this notion to students, and if so, how?
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>What do we tell students good writing is?
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>What models of writing do we present to students?
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>In what ways can we build bridges between "creative writing," "real-world" 
>writing, and "classroom" writing?
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>What are the advantages and disadvantages of "patterns" or "models" of 
>writing?
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>How can we make teaching writing more satisfying in the face of of 
>conformist pressures?
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>Is "creativity" an appropriate, measurable criterion for evaluating 
>students' work?
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>The deadline for submitting proposals is January 31, 2006.  Please observe 
>the following guidelines:
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>·         Submit by snail-mail or email to the address below.
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>·         Include a title as you want it to appear in the program
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>·         Include an abstract (50-100 words) as you want it to appear in 
>the program
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>·         Include a brief autobiography as you want it to appear in the 
>program
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>·         Include the length of presentation (single presenter): 45-50 
>minutes
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>·         Include the length of presentation (panel or workshop): 45-90 
>minutes
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>·         Include a statement of technology needs (Note: presenters must 
>provide their own laptop computers)
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>As always, part-time faculty and full-time faculty from two- or four-year 
>institutions, graduate students, teaching assistants, and writing center 
>support staff and tutors are encouraged to submit proposals.  Please share 
>this information with your entire writing faculty and staff.
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>ALSO,
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>Please nominate an instructor for the 5C’s Award for Teaching Excellence, 
>by returning the Nomination Form on the next page (even if you do not wish 
>to present at the conference).  The award winner must be able to attend the 
>conference.
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>Please submit proposals via email to [log in to unmask] or mail to :
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>             Chuck Fisher
>
>             Aims Community College
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>             5401 W. 20th Street
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>             Greeley, CO  80634
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>Chuck Fisher
>Professor, English
>Aims Community College
>5401 West 20th St.
>Greeley, CO  80634
>970-339-6520
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