MAWCA 2008 Schedule:

Friday April 11:

6:00pm – 9:00pm:Reception at the Philadelphia Art Museum

Saturday April 12:

8:00am – 9:00am: Onsite check-in and registration, Breakfast Buffet

9:00am-11:55 am:Sessions One, Two and Three

12:00pm – 1:25pm:Lunch and Open Mic Event

1:30pm – 4:30pm:Sessions Four, Five and Six

4:45pm – 6:00pm:MAWCA Board Meeting (Open to All)

6:30 - “Nightseeing” in Center City

Conference Program

Session ONE: 9:00 -9:55

  1. Liberating Peer Tutors through Observation

Speakers:

  • John Nordlof, Matthew Hohn, Tara Quinn, and Rebekah Shaw, all from Eastern University
  1. Liberal Education, Literacy, and the Writing Center

Speakers:

  • Patricia Dyer, Janine Utell, and Annalisa Castaldo, all from Widener University
  1. (In)dependence: The Writing Center as Constituent

Speakers:

  • Jon Olson/Penn State University: “A Writing Center’s Role in a Deliberative, Participatory Democracy”
  • Ryan Witt/Temple University: “Qualitative Research in the Writing Classroom, Implications in the Writing Center”
  1. DeCentering the Writing Center: Extending Literacy Beyond the Collegiate Classroom
  • Speakers: Mary Beth Simmons, Sally Groomes, Steven Schultz and Rebecca Buckham, all from Villanova University
  1. A Student Services Democracy: Finding Ways to Specify Writing Tutoring for Student Athletes
  • Speakers: Maureen Whitsett, Allison Delso, Eileen Owens and Lindsey Waters, all from Temple University
  1. Voices and Voicelessness: Expression, Exchange and Ideas in the Writing Center

Speakers:

  • Corrine Hinton/Saint Louis University: “Rooms in the Same House: Building Discourse Equality in the University Writing Center”
  • Jennifer Holt/Vanderbilt University: “Sustaining Tension in the Center: Negotiating the Relationship between Free Expression and Critical Thought”
  • Kurt Schick/James Madison University: “Liberating Choices”

SESSION TWO: 10:00 – 10:55

  1. Liberating ELL Students: Cultural Perspectives on Plagiarism

Speakers:

  • Mary Jo Keiter, Cynthia Crimmins and Sam Waddell all from York College of PA
  1. Strategies for Tutoring Students with Learning Disabilities

Speakers:

  • Brittany Talarico, Sarah Cornwell and Chris Vella, all from University of Delaware
  1. Pieces of the Whole: “Third-Factors” and Myers-Briggs in the Writing Center

Speakers:

  • Eric Sentell/Missouri State University: “Making Independent Thinkers for Democracy, Thanks to Nancy Welch”
  • Erec Smith/Drew University: “Typing Type: Identifying the Implied Subject in Academic Discourse”
  1. Working with Fellows: A Look at Two Programs

Speakers:

  • Rachel Scupp and Harriet Hustis/The College of New Jersey: “An Emersonian Approach to the College Thesis: A Writing Fellow’s Work Bridging the Gap between High School and College Writing”
  • Sarah Hughes and Melissa Kapadia/Temple University: “The Fellows Program: Examining Problems and Creating Solutions”
  1. Developing Literate Citizens: Learning Center Collaboration in Summary Writing Assessment

Speakers:

  • Jacqueline Simon, Christine Cassel, Judy Oster, Katharine Hoff and Shirley Mersky, all from Rider University
  1. Sound, Screen and the Dead: Thinking Outside the Text

Speakers:

  • Sarah Goldberg/University of Maryland, College Park: “Planning for Multimodalities in the Writing Center”
  • Karen Lentz Madison/Loyola College and Robert Madison/US Naval Academy: “Rhetoric of a Whaling Journal: When your Writing-Center Client is Dead”
  • Tom Orange/Vanderbilt University: “’Come to Free the Words’: Caroline Bergvall’s Text-Sound Poetry and the Critique of Voice”

Session THREE: 11:00 – 11:55

  1. Crossing Lines, Taking Liberties: Changing Roles and Breaking Rules

Speakers:

  • Brian O’Sullivan, Conni Bowen, Michele Hoffman, Sarah Magruder Robinson and Meghan Sullivan, all of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, and Brad Dittrich/Salisbury University
  1. Writing Center Freedoms: Efficacy, Expression, Evaluation

Speakers:

  • Anita Gill, Arielle Bernstein, and Janet Auten, all from American University
  1. Atmospheric Conditions: The Ethics of the Writing Center Experience

Speakers:

  • Lynnette M. Deem/Temple University: “Going Beyond: Creating a Positive Writing Center Experience”
  • Dierdre Monique Powell/Morgan State University: “The Morality of Academic Freedom: How the Writing Center and Faculty Can Work Cooperatively to Promote Common Sense”
  1. Co-constructing Eloquentia Perfecta: The Writing Center, the Writing Across the Curriculum Program, and A Writer’s Reference

Speakers:

  • Jennifer Follett, Jennifer Vill, Amanda Schultheis, Ross Losapio, Brigitt Hauck and Bethany Germack, all from Loyola College in Maryland
  1. Whose Paper Is It?: Ownership, the Writing Process, and the Writing Center

Speakers:

  • Kayla Hockenbrock/Kutztown University: “A Tutor’s Advantage: Experiencing Students’ Ideas Before the Final Draft”
  • Rachel Rogers/York College of PA: “Conformed Liberties: Ethical Effects of Discourse and Professor Appropriated Tutoring”
  1. The Difficult Tutoring Session

Speakers:

  • William Archibald, Amanda Bell, Stephanie Craven, Robert McLaughlin and Gary Campbell, all from Millersville University

**LUNCH 12:00-1:30**

SESSION FOUR: 1:30 – 2:25

  1. Yours, Mines, Hours – WC-ESL Socio-linguistic Exchanges

Speakers:

  • Joe Turner and Christiana Dobrzynski/University of Delaware: “Audience and ESL Classes”
  • Petra Palmer and Halina Adams/University of Delaware: “Linguistic Citizenship/Idiom Game”
  • Elizabeth Keenan and Sophia Harrison/University of Delaware: “Assessing ESL Needs: Going Beyond the Session”
  1. When Students Become Colleagues: Peer Tutoring as a Site of Social Construction and Democratic Dialogue

Speakers:

  • Cynthia Crimmins and Dominique Dellicarpini/ York College of PA
  1. Widening the Literacy Circle: Student Writers Grow by Helping Others Grow

Speakers:

  • Ellen D. Kolba, Gemma Sullivan, Sarah Peterson, and two student coaches, all from the Montclair Public Schools
  1. The Writing Center at the Intersection of Disciplines and Technologies

Speakers:

  • Gayla Mills and Ashley Hampton/Randolph-Macon College: “Empowering Peer Tutors with WAC”
  • Stephanie Wade/Stony Brook Southhampton: “The Open MIC: Creating a Multimedia, Interdisciplinary, Collaboration Center”
  1. The Unfreedom of the Required Appointment

Speakers:

  • Brian H. Ogle and Carl Glover/Mount Saint Mary’s University
  1. Private Conversation in a Public Space: Academic Speech, Free Speech, Social Speech, and Civil Speech in the Writing Center

Speakers:

  • Mary Ann Janda, Randi Butler, Angela Hulbert and Chris Nelson, all from Utica College

SESSION FIVE: 2:30 – 3:25

  1. A Writing Center Belles Lettres? Asynchronous Online Tutoring as a New Model of Writing Center Dialogue

Speakers:

Lisa Zimmerelli, John Whitcraft, and graduate student advisors, all from University of Maryland University College

  1. Getting Graduate Students Committed to Using the Writing Center

Speakers:

  • Denise Bike and Elizabeth Leik/Loyola College, Baltimore
  1. Developing Independence and Freedom in Revision through Tutor-led In-class Peer Responding Groups

Speakers:

  • Diane Gruenberg, Trista Altstadt, Alison King, and tutors, all from The College of New Jersey
  1. Recombination and Repetition: Reflections on Tutoring

Speakers:

  • Karen McDonnell/James Madison University: “The DNA of Writing: Embracing the HOC/LOC Contrary”
  • Eleni Solomos: Temple University: “I Feel Like I Keep Saying the Same Thing Over and Over Again: A Tutor’s Observations on Repetition, Apprehension, Self-Direction and Reflection in Individual Tutoring Practices”
  1. Writing Tutor as Journalist: Controversial Subjects, Biased Language and the Need for Objectivity in the Writing Center

Speakers:

  • Daniel Gobble and Mary Bogart/York College of PA
  1. The Keys to Freedom: Collaboration, Communication, and Compromise in the Writing Center

Speakers:

  • Sandra Eckard and Writing Studio Tutors, all from East Stroudsburg University of PA

SESSION SIX: 3:30 – 4:25

  1. Re-thinking the Contact Zone: Diversity in the Writing Center of the 21st Century

Speakers:

  • Colleen Ann Lutz Clemens and Kimberly Racon/Lehigh University, and Brian Zaleski/Raritan Valley Community College
  1. Liberating the Center: (Re) Considering the Tutorial to Support Multiple Literacies

Speakers:

  • Lynn Shelly, Leah Chambers and Brian Cope, all from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney
  1. Special Issues in Tutoring: Dealing with Writing Anxiety, Procrastination, and Gender Difference in the Writing Conference

Speakers:

  • Lindsey Spina, Natalie Rose and Jackie Criscuolo, all from the University of Delaware
  1. Equality, Inequality and Tutoring

Speakers:

  • Christina Agosto/Centenary College: “The Misconception of Almighty Tutor”
  • Andrew Renaldo/Centenary College: “Effective ESL Tutoring”
  • Julie A. Story/Lock Haven University: “Truth and Individual Rights in Writing Centers”
  1. On Getting Tutored: Writing Tutors Reflect on Liberty and Learning through Being Tutored

Speakers:

  • Meaghan Brewer, Abigail Mallin, Brian Mays and Kelli Sparrow, all from Temple University
  1. Changing Practice to Meet Demands: Conducting Workshops as Synchronous Online Chats

Speakers:

  • Leigh Ryan, Heather Blain and Tyler Mills, all from the University of Maryland