{"id":164,"date":"2019-03-05T18:08:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/writingconference\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2019-08-07T18:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T18:55:20","slug":"2019-conference-risks-and-rewards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/writingconference\/2019-conference-risks-and-rewards\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Conference: Risks and Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blackboard<\/a>Risks and Rewards in Writing Studies Classrooms<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

UNC Charlotte 6th Annual Conference on Writing Studies<\/b><\/h2>\n

Center City Campus<\/b><\/h2>\n

October 25, 2019<\/b><\/h2>\n

Call for Proposals<\/span><\/h3>\n

*Extended Deadline* Proposals will be accepted until<\/p>\n

August 16, 2019<\/p>\n

We need to \u201cto pull back the veneer and take a close look at all the risks we take, identify the rewards we have realized (and hope to realize), and discuss how we balance the risks with the rewards of such action. . . . What are the risks of playing it safe\u2014in our syllabi, with our home institutions \u2026?\u201d <\/span>Joyce Locke Carter, CCCC 2016 Keynote address<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

It has been three years since Joyce Locke Carter called on compositionists to consider the risks and rewards of our everyday practices in our classrooms, our research, our programs, and departments. In the time since, many have taken up the charge to take risks in their teaching and research and push the discipline out of its comfort zone by engaging in conversations on language, diversity, and technology use in the teaching of writing, first-year composition, rhetoric and composition, and technical communication classes. <\/span>This wave of risk-taking recently created in Asao B. Inoue’s <\/span>keynote address at the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication.<\/span><\/a> Inoue provocatively called on the field <\/span>of writing studies and instruction to seriously consider the risks associated with not challenging assumptions of dominant language practice as the foundation of our discipline. Many asked themselves \u201cBut how? And with what consequences?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Laura Gonzales<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, our keynote speaker, takes the risk of addressing these assumptions. Arguing that instructors of writing should value language diversity in writing and digital spaces, Gonzales sees us all engaged in acts of translation. \u00a0Students are\u201d translating across named languages, within the same language, and\/or across various digital tools and platform.\u201d As instructors of writing, taking the risk of recognizing and valuing this work of translation allows us the reward of seeing \u201chow, when, and why translators use different rhetorical strategies to make information accessible for specific audiences at specific moments in time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

It is clear at this moment the field is contending with how much risk we are willing to take in our classrooms\/profession. Such calls to change methods and worldviews inherently involve risk. This conference celebrates that risk: We call on participants to consider what risks they have taken and what rewards they have seen across a variety of spaces in the teaching of writing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The University Writing Program <\/span>invites proposals for the UNC Charlotte 6th Annual Conference on Writing Studies (formerly, the UWP Conference at UNCC) that <\/span>address these related issues:<\/span><\/p>\n