CCT Community Open House Event

How College Students Find Their Voices as Writers: Exploring What it Means to Teach and Learn Writing

with special guest Peter Elbow via conference phone

Monday, March 23, 6:30-9pm, Wheatley 04-148 (at very end of corridor)

This panel consist of CCT alums and instructors who have been engaged in the teaching of writing to college-level students.

• Kit Irwin
• Crystal King
• Barbara Wickwire
• Peter Taylor
• and
• Peter Elbow (via conference phone)

By exploring what it means to teach and learn writing we hope to add new insights and tools to the efforts of CCT instructors to guide students in the use of writing convey their ideas and to meet academic goals through writing.

Presentations can be listened to live, starting around 6.45pm (following instructions) or later at http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/16894.

• AGENDA:

• A. General welcome and introduction by Peter Taylor, program director of CCT

• B. panelist initial introductions:
  • 1. one or two sentences to introduce yourself, briefly stating how your work involves teaching with writing, particularly with respect to working with college-level students, if applicable.
  • 2. one brief success story
  • 3. one key ongoing challenge

• C. Peter Elbow intro with ideas/responses from his own expertise and experience

• D. panelist responses to Peter Elbow's commentary

• E. discussion opened to panelists to discuss your responses to more general questions below (or explore other areas as desired by the panelists or as brought up by audience questions)

The evening should be a wonderful experience in its own right, but we also see it as part of the CCT Network's effort to acquaint alums who have overlapping interests with each other and thereby provide a model for current students of a wider and more sustained network of support for their endeavors during and after their studies. After all, the CCT faculty can remember students from various years, but these graduates may never have met --and they form a network of contacts, inspiration, and expertise far more extensive than the faculty can provide.

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Followup

Peter Elbow: contact, selected essays: http://works.bepress.com/peter_elbow

Panel listening intently to PE on speakerphone