Bridging Inquiries: Research, Process, and Literacy from High School to Higher Ed

The Inaugural UNC-Charlotte First-Year Writing Program’s Charlotte-Area Conference

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s First-Year Writing program would like to invite you to our inaugural Charlotte-area conference, “Bridging Inquiries: Research, Process, and Literacy from High School to Higher Ed.” We invite all Charlotte-area scholars and educators to explore how inquiry drives our research and our teaching, with the ultimate goal in mind of inquiring into ways we might “build bridges” between our institutions: bridges that will forge lasting connections, that will enrich our scholarship and our teaching, and will thus enliven our students’ experiences in our classrooms. We invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, workshops and roundtable discussions that address issues such as

• • • commonalities in our curriculum
    • partnerships: between teachers, between departments, between institutions, between communities
    • inquiry-guided learning
    • inquiry-guided teaching
    • bridges between academic writing and other areas of students’ lives
    • academic transferability
    • assessment practices
    • responding to student writing
    • best practices in teaching writing
    • literacies: community, digital, social, academic, personal, oral, cultural, professional

    Individual proposals, maximum 300 words
    Group proposals, maximum 1000 words
    Deadline: Friday April 11, 2014