UPDATE: Final Presentations by Participants
Second Annual Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research
July 29 - August 10, 2012
Hanover, NH
The Summer Seminar for Composition Research is an annual seminar hosted by Dartmouth College's Institute for Writing and Rhetoric, in collaboration with the Council of Writing Program Administrators. The two-week program is designed to help researchers in the field of Composition develop expertise in a variety of research methods and to begin preparing the results of their research for publication. This year's program has focused primarily on data-driven research: process, methods, and results.
The participants—faculty members, writing program administrators, and PhD candidates in a range of public and private, smaller and larger institutions from as close by as Northeastern University and as far as the University of Singapore—have worked intensely for the past two weeks here in Dartmouth's resource-rich setting. They have been refining research questions, extending their knowledge of literature reviews, developing coding schemes for their verbal data, and analyzing preliminary results in order to advance methodologies and shape next phases of the research. They will head back to their home campuses with a research plan for the coming year, a new network of colleagues, and some memorable Dartmouth experiences.
The seminar will culminate in a series of short presentations by participants describing the progress on their individual research projects. These will be held August 9th and 10th in Kemeny Hall, Room 008, at Dartmouth College. All presentations will be open to the public.
To download this schedule of the presentations, click here (PDF) (MsWord)
9:00 – Amy Zenger: Exploring Writers' Perceptions and Practices at the American University of Beirut: Composing a Research Agenda
9:30 – Mark Brantner: What can Literacy Narratives Teach us about Translingual Writing?
10:00 – Kim Freeman: Playing Doctor: Students' Perceptions of Scenario Assignments
10:30 – Break
10:45 – Dianna Shank: 'I am Color Blind': Using Race as a Theme in FYC
11:15 – Kerri Morris: Starting At the End: Working Out What Faculty Across Disciplines Mean When They Say that Students Can't Write
11:45 – Joe Paszek: Exposure, Instruction, and Practice: Exploring Connections between Disciplinary Enculturation and the Intermediate Writing Classroom
12:15 – Lunch break
1:15 – Cecile Badenhorst: 'Voice' and Blogs in University Classrooms
1:45 – Bill Macauley: Agency and College-Level Student Writers
2:15 – Liberty Kohn: Students' Differing Use of Humans and Concepts in Constructing Research and Editorial Genres
2:45 – Break
3:00 – Kelly Kinney: Success Narratives, Standpoint Theory, and Writing Program Labor Reform: Toward a Methodology of the Middle Range
3:30 – Sarah Spring: Exploring Student Perceptions of Teacher Contact within Hybrid Courses
4:00 – Angie Carter and Christopher Lee: Examining the Teacher-Student Writing Conference: An Intertextual Analysis
9:00 – Melanie Stevenson: Does peer feedback on writing do what we hope it does? Student perceptions and uptake of peer feedback in 21st-century teaching contexts
9:30 – Ann McNair: More Is More: Creating Multi-Layered Peer Review Experiences in a Basic Writing Course
10:00 – Amy Lynch-Biniek: Toward a Qualitative Study of Contingency and Teaching Practices
10:30 – Break
10:45 – Liz Vogel: Still the Other F Word: Graduate Students Responses to Discussing Feminism and Composition
11:15 – Patricia Lynne: When Faculty Read Placement Essays: Reading Comprehension and Grammar as Markers for Course Placement in an Expert Reader Model
11:45 – Hyoejin Yoon: Definitions of Success in the Profession at a Regional Comprehensive Four-Year Public University
12:15 – Lunch break
1:15 – Lindsay Illich: Beyond the Chicken and the Nightingale: Challenging the Passive Acquisition Model for Developing Style
1:45 – Suzanne Blum-Malley: Making Big Room for Small Talk: Tracing Successful Student Interaction in a Globally-networked Online Learning Environment
2:15 – Alanna Frost: Negotiating the Institution from a Multilingual Language Learner Perspective
Program leaders for this year include the best in the field: Chuck Bazerman (University of California Santa Barbara), Cheryl Geisler (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver), Chris Anson (North Carolina State University), Neal Lerner (Northeastern University), Les Perelman (MIT), Mya Poe (Penn State), John Brereton (University of Massachusetts Boston emeritus), Cinthia Gannett (Fairfield University), and Christiane Donahue (Dartmouth).----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Registration Announcement
Second Annual Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research
July 29 - August 10, 2012
Hanover, NH
The 2012 Dartmouth Summer Seminar for Composition Research is designed for writing program administrators and writing faculty from all types of higher education venues engaged in research about composition, and looking for an intensive, high-powered two weeks to work on that research and to learn the best approaches and methods from national experts. Guided interaction about participants' projects is offered in the months leading up to the Seminar. The Seminar itself offers coursework, small-group discussion and exchange, individual consultation with Seminar leaders, time to work alone or in groups on research projects, and a concluding presentation to the group with feedback from team leaders.
If you've been asking yourself questions like the following, this is the seminar for you:
We will cover a range of topics related to all stages of the research process, and we will tailor our detailed schedule of topics to fit the needs of our selected participants. The 2011 Seminar, for example, covered effective literature reviews, data segmenting and coding, statistics, statistical software, writing for publication, IRB processes, and working with Institutional Research offices.
To download the 2012 full announcement and description, click here (PDF) (MSWord).
To download the 2012 application, click here (PDF) (MSWord).
The application deadline is December 15th, 2011.
Contact Christiane Donahue <christiane.donahue@dartmouth.edu> with any questions.
Organized in collaboration with the Council of Writing Program Administrators, with support from Bedford / St. Martin's Publishers.
