From randall.mcclure@mnsu.edu Thu May 3 17:58:15 2007 From: randall.mcclure@mnsu.edu (McClure, Randall W) Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 11:58:15 -0500 Subject: [Teaching_Basic_Writing] CFP: Web 2.0 and Writing In-Reply-To: <200704301701.l3UH13ri011661@grue.eppg.com> References: <200704301701.l3UH13ri011661@grue.eppg.com> Message-ID: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C78DA4.3DF19959 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Colleagues- =20 Some of you might be interested in the CFPs for two special issues on Web 2.0 and college composition. See the links below for more information and feel free to email the guest editors with questions. =20 Sincerely, =20 Randall McClure =20 1) Calls for Positions, Papers, and Webtexts Composition in the Freeware Age: Using Web 2.0 Applications in the Teaching of Writing, Computers and Composition Online=20 Guest-edited by Randall McClure, Michael Day and Mike Palmquist=20 For more information, visit http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/papcall.htm.=20 =20 2) Call for Proposals Composition in the Freeware Age: Assessing the Impact and Value of the Web 2.0 Movement for the Teaching of Writing, Computers and Composition Guest-edited by Randall McClure, Michael Day and Mike Palmquist For more information, visit http://computersandcomposition.osu.edu/cfps.html#Web20.=20 ------_=_NextPart_001_01C78DA4.3DF19959 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Colleagues—

 

Some of you might be interested in the CFPs for two special = issues on Web 2.0 and college composition. See the links below for more = information and feel free to email the guest editors with = questions.

 

Sincerely,

 

Randall McClure

 

1) Calls for Positions, Papers, and = Webtexts

Composition in the Freeware Age: Using Web 2.0 Applications in = the Teaching of Writing, Computers and Composition Online =

Guest-edited by Randall McClure, Michael Day and Mike Palmquist =

For more information, visit http://www.bgsu.edu/cco= nline/papcall.htm.

 

2) Call for Proposals

Composition in the Freeware Age:

Assessing the Impact and Value of the Web 2.0 Movement for the = Teaching of Writing, Computers and Composition

Guest-edited by Randall McClure, Michael Day and Mike = Palmquist

For more information, visit http://co= mputersandcomposition.osu.edu/cfps.html#Web20.

------_=_NextPart_001_01C78DA4.3DF19959-- From gglau@asu.edu Thu May 17 21:42:03 2007 From: gglau@asu.edu (Gregory Glau) Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:42:03 -0700 Subject: [Teaching_Basic_Writing] WPA summer workshop In-Reply-To: <000a01c5bee4$339c9d50$0200a8c0@TOSHIBALAPTOP> References: <000a01c5bee4$339c9d50$0200a8c0@TOSHIBALAPTOP> Message-ID: <1A4207F8295607498283FE9E93B775B402EC74C7@EX02.asurite.ad.asu.edu> All, please circulate: There are still openings for the WPA summer workshop (July 8-11; for more information see http://www.wpacouncil.org/2007workshop), and if you're thinking about attending, maybe this will tempt you: workshop leaders Susan Miller-Cochran and Greg Glau will be asking all workshop participants to provide information about challenges they face in their work (anonymously, of course) . . . so if you'd like potential solutions from 25+ WPAs from around the country on something you are dealing with, please consider attending! For details see http://www.wpacouncil.org/2007workshop. Thanks, Greg & Susan --------------------------------------------------- Greg Glau Director of Writing Programs Department of English - 0302 e-mail: gglau@asu.edu Arizona State University Office: 480.965.3898 Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 FAX: 480.965.2553 Co-Author, with Linda Adler-Kassner, ofThe Bedford Bibliography for Teachers of Basic Writing http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/basicbib/ From janetwbone@yahoo.com Wed May 30 15:47:33 2007 From: janetwbone@yahoo.com (Jan Bone) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 07:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Teaching_Basic_Writing] Fwd: Re: BW placement by SAT-W?/knowledge available to adjuncts teaching BW...jan Message-ID: <652104.92722.qm@web31412.mail.mud.yahoo.com> --0-1329303666-1180536453=:92722 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Id: Content-Disposition: inline Note: forwarded message attached. --0-1329303666-1180536453=:92722 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received: from [24.15.215.173] by web31407.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 30 May 2007 06:40:24 PDT Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 06:40:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Bone Subject: Re: BW placement by SAT-W?/knowledge available to adjuncts teaching BW...jan To: kimme.nuckles@baker.edu In-Reply-To: <20070530084956.AFC04570@mserve2.baker.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 883 Interesting to read this thread, because although I've taught BW for 7 or 8 times (including the university and community college), no one at either school has talked to me--or presumably other adjuncts--about the placement test(s) the school uses, or the implications of those results for teaching in the classroom. On the other hand, except for ONE occurrence in fall 2006, in 15 years of teaching at the university and nearly 4 at the community college, no administrator, department chair, or other faculty has ever come into my classroom to watch me teach or make suggestions. Or asked to. Any ratings I get, except for that one observation, are always based on student Kirkpatrick levels 1 and 2 evaluations. (I liked, I learned...) Yes, I suppose I can go prowling... For those of you who acquire BW students through placement and later teach them in the classroom, do you know--and use--any information from that placement process, or do you just accept the "Here's our class!" status and go on from there? jan janetwbone@yahoo.com --- Kimme Nuckles wrote: > Rich: > Do you remember where you read that empirical data > on the SAT scores and their value in placement? We > use the COMPASS here, which is all multiple choice. > > Kimme Nuckles, PhD > Dean of General Education > English/Communications Dept. Chair > Writing Center Director > Baker College > 1500 University Dr. > Auburn Hills, MI 48326 > Office: 248-276-8241 > Fax: 248-276-8273 > --0-1329303666-1180536453=:92722-- From emwhite@email.arizona.edu Wed May 30 18:29:41 2007 From: emwhite@email.arizona.edu (emwhite@email.arizona.edu) Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:29:41 -0700 Subject: [Teaching_Basic_Writing] Re: Placement Question In-Reply-To: <200705301701.l4UH11bc029765@grue.eppg.com> References: <200705301701.l4UH11bc029765@grue.eppg.com> Message-ID: <20070530102941.6rg0sk444o0kw44o@www.email.arizona.edu> We should be very clear about the role of multiple-choice testing as a means of placing students in BW. Such tests in general and the SAT in particular (remember, the new SAT "writing" test is still mostly multiple-choice) correlate most highly with parent income. Rich Haswell's summaries of the research, among many others, show a very low correlation of those tests to anything writing teachers call "writing ability." The tests are nonetheless very convenient for admissions offices, which, reasonably enough from their perspective, don't much like writing teachers complicating their lives by pointing out this problem. It is, however, simply unethical to use such tests for placement. If any of you can get to the WPA conference in Tempe this July, I'll be giving the banquet talk on this and related matters. --Ed White, visiting professor, University of Arizona I've > taught BW for 7 or 8 times (including the university > and community college), no one at either school has > talked to me--or presumably other adjuncts--about the > placement test(s) the school uses, or the implications > of those results for teaching in the classroom. > > On the other hand, except for ONE occurrence in fall > 2006, in 15 years of teaching at the university and > nearly 4 at the community college, no administrator, > department chair, or other faculty has ever come into > my classroom to watch me teach or make suggestions. Or > asked to. Any ratings I get, except for that one > observation, are always based on student Kirkpatrick > levels 1 and 2 evaluations. (I liked, I learned...) > > Yes, I suppose I can go prowling... > > For those of you who acquire BW students through > placement and later teach them in the classroom, do > you know--and use--any information from that placement > process, or do you just accept the "Here's our class!" > status and go on from there? > jan > janetwbone@yahoo.com > > --- Kimme Nuckles wrote: > >> Rich: >> Do you remember where you read that empirical data >> on the SAT scores and their value in placement? We >> use the COMPASS here, which is all multiple choice. >> >> Kimme Nuckles, PhD >> Dean of General Education >> English/Communications Dept. Chair >> Writing Center Director >> Baker College >> 1500 University Dr. >> Auburn Hills, MI 48326 >> Office: 248-276-8241 >> Fax: 248-276-8273 >> >