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The English department held its fifth annual Kutztown University Composition Conference on April 3 2009. Our conference theme, “Writers @ Work,” represented our effort to showcase the myriad means we use to compose, as well as the genuine toil required to create. Over 300 students attended the conference.
This year, the KUCC was open to student writers from across all levels of composition courses. More than fifty students enrolled in first year composition, Advanced Composition and Teaching Writing during the 2008-2009 academic year presented original academic works at the conference.
Also new at the 2009 KUCC was our “technology room,” allowing students to present multimodal compositions. Presentations here included a short film; PowerPoint displays; the projection of compositions via document cameras (in order to display their visual elements); and a paper on protest songs culminating in the performance of an original piece of music.
Students in Dr. Chernekoff’s Teaching Writing Course created an impressive poster session, adding a new visual dimension to the day. We also sold copies of the cookbook, A Semester of Seasonings. This text was composed by members of Dr. Chernekoff’s Advanced Composition Course and reimagined by Dr. O’Brien’s Desktop Publishing class. Sales of the text benfit the foodbank of Friend, Inc in Kutztown.
The Keynote Speaker, Prof. Stephen Parks of Syracuse University, spoke to a large and enthusiastic crowd in Alumni Auditorium. His talk, “Once I Was A Washing Machine: Worker / Writer Alliances at the Edge of the Economic Abyss” explored many of the obstacles inherent in pursuing a higher education while working. His account of worker-writer alliances made among his working class Syracuse students was both moving and inspiring.
We should be very proud of our students and campus community! Read more about the event at the Composition Program’s blog: http://kucomprhet.wordpress.com/blog/
Pictures from the conference can be found at: <http://kucomprhet.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/photos-from-kucc-2009/>
My thanks to the English Department Faculty, department secretary Annette Christman, Department Chair Dr. Janice Chernekoff, and the KUCC Committee for making the day a success for our student-writers!
Best,
Amy Lynch-Biniek, KUCC Chair
In addition to all the vlogging we did and photos we took, we did our first experiment in podcasting for the KU Composition Conference. Three students from my Advanced Composition class–Tim Crane, Katrina Albert, and Renee Franklin–agreed to having their panel recorded for a podcast. A huge thanks goes out to them for their willingness to try this out.
I just finished loading up the audio (with very minimal editing) and it sounds good! If you’d like to check it out, click on the radio icon above. A QuickTime (or other audio program) should start up and play the file. If you want a little context for the panel, check out the paper assignment that provided the prompt for Tim, Katrina, and Renee’s paper. Or, check out the Ramage-tagged posts on our class blog.
Come on out and support some great student writers and indulge in all things comp/rhet to start your weekend out right.
Hey all…I’m back from San Francisco and getting ready for next week’s Composition Conference for Student Writers. And now…the latest vlog:
After spending some time reading through all of the sessions running tomorrow, I think I have my schedule for tomorrow:
- 10:30: “From Textile Mills to the Entrepreneurial University: Confronting the Political Economics of Writing”
- 12:15: “We Have Been Here Forever: Towards a History of Composition(ist)s of Color Rewriting Rhetoric within and beyond NCTE/CCCC”
- 1:45: “‘Driving into the Wreck’: A Feminist Inquiry of the Dissertation in Composition”
- 3:00: (no choice on this one, this is my panel) “Labor Rhetorics and Academic Organizing: Possibilities and Predicaments”
- 5:00: CCCC Labor Caucus Interest Group
The conference committee met on Tuesday, 9/16, and together we made out first big decision: the conference theme. This year, we will write, discuss, and dance around the phrase: Writers at Work. (Can’t you just hear a variation on a Men @ Work song as a confernece theme?)
More to come. Stay tuned!
ALB
Hey everyone…Dan Featherston posted additional photos from this year’s Composition Conference for First-Year Student writers on his blog. Check them out here.
Thanks once again to all who made this year’s Composition Conference for First-Year Student Writers such a success. We hope you enjoy the pictures and look forward to seeing everyone back next year!
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