The Day's Agenda

8:30 – 9:15 Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:15-9:30 Introduction and Welcome
Kate Geraghty, Bedford/St. Martin’s Publishers
Nicholas J. Coles, University of Pittsburgh Composition Director

9:30-10:30 Keynote: Writing in the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Report on a Two Year Study at the University of Pittsburgh
David Bartholomae, University of Pittsburgh

10:30 – 10:45 Break

10:45-12:30
Keynote: Across the Drafts: Responding to Student Writing
Nancy Sommers, Harvard University

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch, Provost's Suite 2501

Afternoon Revolving Workshops

1:45 – 2:45

Workshop A: Multimodality in Composition
Scott Lloyd DeWitt, The Ohio State University

Workshop B: Teaching Composition from a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
Steve Bernhardt, University of Delaware

Workshop C: Advocacy in Troubling Times: Framing the Work of First-Year Writing
Linda Adler-Kassner, Eastern Michigan University

Workshop D: Beyond the Dutiful Essay: Literary Ambition in the First Year Course
Jennifer Lee and Brenda Whitney, University of Pittsburgh

2:45 – 3:00 BREAK

3:00 – 4:00

Workshop E: Multimodality in Composition
Scott Lloyd DeWitt, The Ohio State University

Workshop F: Teaching Composition from a Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
Steve Bernhardt, University of Delaware

Workshop G: Advocacy in Troubling Times: Framing the
Work of First-Year Writing
Linda Adler-Kassner, Eastern Michigan University

Workshop H: Learning from History’s Pedagogy
Jean Ferguson Carr, University of Pittsburgh

4:00 – 4:45 What We Have Learned – A Closing Thoughts Discussion
Kate Geraghty and Nick Carbone, Bedford/St. Martin’s Publishers

4:45 – 6:00 Cocktail Reception – The Cloister’s, Frick Fine Arts Building