Conferences

The Writing Center staff has become fairly well-known for its regional and national presentations. In addition to the director’s service on the Steering Committee of the Northeast Writing Centers Association and the Board of the International Writing Centers Association, the tutors and/or Meg Carroll have presented at the following conferences :

April 12, 2007	Workshop entitled, “Theory and the Everyday,” presented at the International Writing Centers Association in Houston. (Director and two tutors).
March, 2007	Panel entitled, “Dear Co-Authors: Epistolary Revelations of Five Writing Center Directors” presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City (Director; Elizabeth Boquet, Fairfield University; Anne Geller, Clark University; Michele Eodice, Oklahoma University; Frankie Condon, St. Cloud University)
April 17, 2004	"Putting a Voice to the Face," A panel discussion about connections among tutors' writing, theory, and practice.
October 24, 2003	"If the Writing Center's So Safe, How Come I'm Bleeding?" a panel discussion about writing through conflict and coming to theory, International Writing Cenetrs Association, Hershey, PA.
April 5, 2003	"If the Writing Center's So Safe, How Come I'm Bleeding?", Northeast Writing Centers Conference, Nashua, New Hampshire (Tutors and Director)
January 15, 2003	"'Jaded' Professor Seeks Well-Written, Engaging Research Papers," Faculty Development Workshop, Rhode Island College
April 2002	"Of Memes and Themes: Challenging 'Standard' Practice," International Writing Centers Association, Savannah. (Director)
	"Whose Game Is It Anyway?", Bryant College. (Tutors and Director)
March 2002	"Please Pass the Beast: Engaging Tutors' (and Students') Multiple Literacies," Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago. (Tutor and Director)
January 2002	"Responding to Student Writing," Rhode Island College Faculty Development Workshop. (Director)
March 2001	“Please Pass the Beast: Building a Writing Center Community” Northeast Writing Centers Association, Clark University. (Tutors and Director)
April 2000	“Conflict in the Writing Center,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis. (Tutors and Director)
	“Students Write Themselves as Theorists and Re-Imagine Theory,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Minneapolis, (Tutors and Director)
March 2000	“Assessing Property Values: Staking Out Our Theoretical Territory,” Northeast Writing Centers Association, Keene, NH. (Tutors and Director)
March 1999	“Tutor Training: A Collaborative Model,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago. (Director)
March 1998	“What Happens When Half the Partnership Is Reading from a Different Map? Rethinking the Pedagogy/Theory of Having Tutors in the Classroom,” Northeast Writing Centers Association, Connecticut College. (Tutors and Director)
March 1997	“Identities in Dialogue: Writing Across Cultures,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Arizona. (Director)
September 1997	“Tutor Journals: Where Praxis Questions Theory,” National Writing Centers Association Conference, Park City. (Director)
March 1996	“Where Curriculum meets the Extracurriculum: Service Learning,” New England Writing Centers Association, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Director, Marjorie Roemer, Director of the Writing Program)
March 1996	“The Extracurriculum on Campus: New Moves for Writing Centers, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Milwaukee. (Director)
October 1996	“Writing Down/Writing Up/Writing Across: Experiments in Service Learning Community Literacy,” University of New Hampshire. (Director and Marjorie Romer, Director of the Writing Program)
March 1995	“Having a Voice is What . . . ? A Study of a Women’s Writing Group,” New England Writing Centers Association, Rivier College. (Tutors, Director, Marjorie ROmer, Director of the Writing Program)
March 1995	“Setting a Place at the Table: The Study of a Writers’Group, Conference on College Composition and Communication,Washington, DC. (Tutors, Director, and Marjorie Roemer, Director of the Writing Program)
November 1995	Presented at the Research Strand of the National Council of Teachers of English, San Diego. (Director and Marjorie Roemer, Director of the Writing Program)
March 1994	“Write Turn at Lunsford: Negotiating Issues of Control and Authority in College Discourse(s), New England Writing Centers Association, Merrimack College (Tutors and Director)
	“The Social Work Connection,” Merrimack College. (Tutors, Director of the Writing Program, and Director)
March 1994	“Negotiating Issues of Control and Authority,” Peer Tutor Forum, Bristol Community College. (Tutors and Director)
October 1992	“Now That We Have Your Attention: Stimulating Interest in the Writing Center,” National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. (Tutors and Director)
April 1991	“Tutoring the ESL Student,” New England Writing Centers Association, Keene, NH. (Tutors and Director)

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