UC Writing Conference 2016 Program Schedule
7:45 - 8:45am: Breakfast
Location: Outside Corwin Pavillion
8:45 - 9:15am: Welcome
Location: Corwin Pavillion
John Majewski, Dean, UCSB Humanities & Fine Arts, College of Letters and Science
Madeleine Sorapure, Director, UCSB Writing Program
9:30 - 10:45am: Panel Session 1
1A Ignite Talk Sessions // Location: State Street Room
Joseph Horton (UCD) // Writ in Water: Student Collaborations with the Navajo Nation
James Donelan (UCSB) // The Return of the Speaker: Teaching Rhetoric with Ignite Talks
Christie Sosa & Robin Scarcella (UCI) // Finding Your Voice: Spoken-Word Poetry & International Students
1B Political Dimensions of Student Writing Experiences across UCI // Location: Goleta Valley Room
Maureen Fitzsimmons, Jasmine Lee, Allison Dziuba, Jens Lloyd (UCI)
1C Writing UC: Uniting Faculty Across Best Practices // Location: Chumash Room
Roxi Power (UCSC) with collaborators from across the UC
1D Writing and Teaching in Digital Environments: Challenges and Opportunities // Location: Lobero Room
Larisa Castillo (UCI) // Writing and Teaching in Digital Environments
Amy Propen (UCSB) // Engendering a Sense of Place in the First-Year Writing Classroom: Or, You Can't Do This with MOOCs
Matthew Zajic (UCD) // Exploring Writing Instructor Attitudes and Actions Towards Disability and Accessibility: Opening the Discussion Across the UC Writing Programs
1E Paradigms for Composition Pedagogies: Social Justice, Reason, and Emotion // Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room
Lance Langdon (UCI) // Emotion in Composition (Forum): An Editor’s Perspective
Matthew Oliver (UCD) // Toulmin and The Logic of Scientific Discovery: Helping developing science writers to enter scientific conversation, find a research agenda and embrace uncertainty.
Teri Crisp (UCB) & Michelle Baptiste (UCB) // Investigating Community Action for Equity and Justice
11:00 - 12:15pm: Panel Session 2
2A Get the Writing Right Before Speaking Well: Insights from Teaching Oral Presentations Across Campus & Beyond // Location: State Street Room
Craig Cotich, Gina Genova, Jeffrey Hanson (UCSB)
2B Cultivating Reflection In and Beyond the Classroom // Location: Goleta Valley Room
Caren Converse, Auli Ek, Peter Huk, Ljiljana Coklin (UCSB)
2C The Composition of Social Media: Perspectives on Students’ Informal Digital Writing // Location: Chumash Room
Aaron Lanser, DJ Quinn, David Coad (UCD)
2D Teaching Multilingual Writers: Habits of Mind and Histories // Location: Lobero Room
Sei Lee (UCI) // Are International Students Failing or Are We Failing International Students
Randall Rightmire & John Robertson (UCSB) // Different Histories, Different Assumptions: International/Multilingual Writers, Their Challenges & Their Potential
2E Defining Academic Writing Through Every-Day, Online & Multidisciplinary Contexts // Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room
Amy Fenstermaker, Anne Zanzucchi, and Heather Devrick (UCM)
12:15 - 1:45pm: Lunch & Activities
Location: Lagoon Plaza
Walk around lagoon.
Walk through ADA Museum.
1:45 - 2:45pm: Workshops
3A Teaching Professional Genres in the Writing in Elementary and Secondary Education Courses // Location: State Street Room
Katie Arosteguy, Alison Bright, Brenda Rinard (UCD)
3B Teaching with Standardized Tests // Location: Goleta Valley Room
Jonathan Lang (UCB)
3C The Effects of Traditional Word Count and Grading Requirements on the Implementation and Evaluation of New Writing Pedagogies // Location: Chumash Room
Sarah Faye, Sylvia Morales, Mandy Proctor (UCD)
3D Addressing Writing Program Misperceptions // Location: Lobero Room
Percival Guevarra (UCI)
3E We Say, They Say: What Makes a Writing Conference Successful? // Location: Santa Barbara Harbor Room
Ingrid Bowman and Briana Westmacott (UCSB)
6 Growing Pains: An Interactive Workshop on Finding Creative Solutions to Common Problems in Teaching Writing to International Students // Location: Corwin Pavillion
Tina Matuchniak, Christie Sosa, Rica Kaufel, Karen Lenz, Victorya Nam and Robin Scarcella (UCI)
3:00 - 4:15PM: Panel Session 3
4A Reliance on and Resistance to Crisis-Based Rhetoric in the New UC San Diego Basic Writing Program // Location: State Street Room
Holly Bauer, Karen Gocsik, Madeleine Picciotto, Carrie Wastal (UCSD)
4B Putting the ‘O’ Back in Orientation: Reorienting Professional Development for UC Lecturers // Location: Goleta Valley Room
Lash Keith Vance; Wallace Cleaves (UCR)
4C Multiple Angles on Legitimating Multimodal Texts in Reading,Composition, & Research Courses // Location: Chumash Room
Michelle Baptiste, Kim Freeman, Ryan Sloan (UCB), Amy Lombardi (UCD)
4D Transitioning from High School to College Writing // Location: Lobero Room
Vanessa Osborne (USC), Tom Hitchner (UCLA), Adam Kaiserman (Collg. of Canyons)
4E Cultivating Capacities for Civic Engagement through Professional Writing // Location: Santa Barbara Harbor
Ljiljana Coklin (UCSB // Building Capacity to Enact Change: From Public Presence to Public Action
Tyler Branson (UCSB) // Rhetorical Capacities of Relationship Building
Patrick McHugh (UCSB) // Cultivating Market Savvy for Civic Purposes
4:30 - 6pm: Town Hall & Closing Reception
Location: Corwin Pavillion