You Talkin’ To Me?:
Writing Crossing
Boundaries

Fourth Composition Conference for First-Year Student Writers

April 10, 2008, McFarland Student Union

View 2008 Conference Program here!!

The Kutztown University English department invites submissions to the fourth Composition Conference for First-Year Student Writers. The conference will be held on April 10, 2008 in the McFarland Student Union. All students who enrolled in a first year composition course (ENG 022, ENG 023, or ENG 025) during the 2007-2008 academic year are eligible for consideration.

This year’s theme, “You Talkin’ To Me?: Writing Crossing Boundaries,” asks participants to enter into a conversation about the relationships among writers, between writers and audiences, and the sometimes sticky issues with which writers grapple. That is, this year’s conference seeks not only to provide a venue for “good writing,” but also for writing that seeks to challenge, probe, upset, critique, disturb, and rework boundaries of all sorts. Submission might consider, but are not limited to, the following:

• Boundaries of Identities/Writing Identities/Identity Crossing
• My World, Your World/Writing the World, Writing Others, Writing Ourselves
• Power of the Written Word/When Writing Fails/Boundaries of Writing
• Writing Communities/Writing Across Difference
• Cultural Literacies/Crossing Cultural Boundaries
• Local/Global

Keynote Speaker:

The Composition Conference for First-Year Student Writers and the 2008 Foust Lecture for the Humanities Present:

Dr. Keith Gilyard

Distinguished Professor of English, Penn State University

“Tragicomic Hope, African American Music, and Rhetorical Education”

• Thursday, April 9, 2008
• Boehm Auditorium
• Time: 7:00 pm

Reception and book signing following the talk.

Submission Guidelines:

Each session is one hour and fifteen minutes long. For panels of three students, each student will have approximately 20 minutes to present a paper. The remaining time will be reserved for questions from the audience. A panel may be larger than three students, but the total length of time of each panel should remain at one hour with 15 minutes for questions.

For Individual Students:

Fill out the submission form and include a brief, 250 word abstract describing your paper [see link to submission form below].

For Faculty:

We encourage faculty teaching first-year composition courses to help students organize themed panels.
Call for Papers 2008 Comp Conference

Submission Form 2008 Comp Conference

Photos from the conference

2008 CCFYSW Pics

To can see the slide show with captions HERE.