Meeting in the Middle
Sixth Annual Meeting in the Middle
Friday, February 24, 2012
UNC Charlotte Center City Building, 320 E. 9th Street, Charlotte 28202
Rooms 506 & 806
10:00 -11:30 Teaching Writing: Professional Development in First-Year Writing Instruction – Roundtable Discussion
11:30 – 1:00 Lunch: Executive Board meeting and Logo Contest (Vote for submitted logo designs for Carolinas WPA!)
1:00 – 2:00 What Are We Reading? Shared Discussions*
2:00 – 3:00 Collaborative Grant** & Proposal Writing:
* If you have a favorite article on rubric design, forward the information to Lynne Rhodes at lynner@usca.edu so that she can make copies available to the group ahead of discussions.
** Bring ideas and / or drafts of proposals for CCC, SAMLA, WPA, etc.
** If you come with a team from your institution, time can also be spent on writing with your team for internal or competitive grant to follow up on Wildacres 2012.
Online Registration is open! Click here to register. Register for $25 and bring a colleague for free.
In February of 2007, CWPA hosted its first “Meeting in Between,” a meeting/workshop scheduled in the middle of the academic calendar to complement the annual fall conference.
The Second Annual CWPA “Meeting In Between” — “The New Processes of Composing: Technology, Multimodality, and Social Networking” — was held Friday, February 22 from 9:30-4:30 at the UNC-Charlotte Up Town Center, 220 North Tryon Street, in downtown Charlotte.
The Third Annual CWPA “Meeting in the Middle” was held Friday, February 13, 2009, at the UNC-Charlotte Up Town Center, in Charlotte, NC. The meeting focused on “Writing Courses Online: Dare we go there?” Our morning session featured a panel, comprised of colleagues who have varying degrees of experience teaching and researching online writing courses, who led us in a discussion of the complexities of online writing instruction, while our afternoon session featured several hands-on demonstrations of activities and assignments that can be used in online writing environments.
The Fourth Annual CWPA “Meeting in the Middle” was held Friday, February 19, 2010, at the UNC-Charlotte Up Town Center, in Charlotte, NC. The meeting focused on “Supporting ES Writers and Showcasing our Programs.” The 2010 morning session featured local scholars who have had active leadership roles in the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing and the TESOL Second Language Writing Interest Section; these local experts shared strategies for supporting ESL students in a range of writing programs. The afternoon featured a poster session highlighting what our writing programs are doing well.
The Fifth Annual “Meeting in the Middle” was held February 18, 2011, at the UNC-Charlotte Cone Center. The gathering focused on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and featured guest speakers Peter Felten (Elon University) and Laura Cruz (Western Carolina University). A poster session features SoTL projects conducted at member institutions.