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2018
Friday, April 6th
7:00 AM

SSWC Conference Program 2018

Student Success in Writing Conference

Department of Writing and Linguistics, Georgia Southern University

Savannah International Trade & Convention Center

7:00 AM

Presentation Materials Available

9:00 AM

How to Build an Assessment-Driven Writing Center on a Limited Budget without Losing Your Marbles: A Workshop

Ashley Y. Oliphant Dr., Pfeiffer University
Marissa Schwalm, Pfeiffer University
Ashley Schoppe, Pfeiffer University
Meagan Keaton, Pfeiffer University

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Not Your Story to Tell: Helping Students Question Their Own Credibility in a Post-Truth Society

Amanda J. Hedrick, Georgia Southern University

Room 204

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Teaching Composition in a Visual World

Jennifer Parrott, Clayton State University
Robert Pfeiffer, Clayton State University

Room 202

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Teaching How to Find Facts in a Post-Truth World

Holly Middleton, High Point University

Room 204

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Presentation Materials Available

Textual Ownership as an Entrepreneurial Act

Mark Smith, Valdosta State University

Room 203

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

The Transition to College Writing

Lynne A. Rhodes, USC Aiken

Room 201

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Where Do I Start? Introducing College-Level Writing to Non-Traditional Students in a Summer Bridge Program

Michelle Albert, University of Colorado, Boulder

Room 201

9:00 AM - 9:50 AM

Presentation Materials Available

10:05 AM

Beyond Grading “Participation”: An Assignment to Promote Engagement and Metacognition in First-Year Writing Classes

Sean Barnette, Lander University

Room 200

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

Presentation Materials Available

From the Stadium to the Boardroom: Training Student-Athletes to Write Professional Emails

John D. Harding, Saint Leo University
Darla Asher, Saint Leo University

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

Presentation Materials Available

From Writing Tweets to Writing Theses: Using a Social Media Theme in the Composition Classroom

Session 2.2

Nicole Rivas, Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus

201

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

High Flyers and Smooth Runways: Safely Landing High School Honors Students in Advanced First-Year College Writing Curriculums

Rich Miller, Suffolk University

Room 203

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

Information Literacy in the Writing Classroom: A Collaborative Approach

Ken Liss, Boston University
Sarah Madsen Hardy, Boston University

Room 205

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

Presentation Materials Available

Re-thinking the Consequences of Literacy

Session 2.2

Clay Walker, Wayne State University

Room 201

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

Relevance and Revelations: The Cross-Disciplinary Language of Literature Research in First-Year Composition

Session 2.3

Stephanie B. Conner, College of Coastal Georgia

Room 202

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

Taking Writing Beyond the Classroom Walls: Retrieving and Re-Building for Writing Success

Chitralekha Duttagupta, Utah Valley University

Room 200

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

The Digital Literacy Museum Project

Dayna V. Goldstein, Texas A&M University Texarkana

204

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

This American Assignment: Podcasting in the Composition Classroom

Andy Berger, Georgia Southern University

Room 204

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

Writing about Literature through Interdisciplinary Approaches: Journalism, Advertising, and Undergraduate Research

Louise Kane, College of Coastal Georgia

Room 202

10:05 AM - 10:55 AM

10:55 AM

Designing Semester-Long and Theme-Based Writing Assignments in First-Year Writing

Kristene K. McClure, Georgia Gwinnett College
Ebony Gibson, Georgia Gwinnett College
Jessica Schreyer, University of Dubuque

Room 202

10:55 AM - 11:10 AM

11:10 AM

Culturally Responsive Feedback

Stephen Gladson, Montgomery College

Room 203

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentation Materials Available

Grading Less and Teaching More: Thriving (not just surviving) the Writing-Intensive Course

Deborah L. Brown, Southern Oregon University

Room 203

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

InfoLit Competencies for College Honors Students

David Beach, Radford University
Nancy G. Taylor Ms., Radford University
Jennifer Resor-Whicker, Radford University

Room 204

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

Slow Writing: Encouraging Creative and Original Thinking in the First-Year Writing Course

Jennifer P. Gray, College of Coastal Georgia

Room 200

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

Teaching College Writing in High School: Dual Enrollment or Duel Enrollment?

Patricia Hager, University of Southern Maine
David Patterson, Gorham High School

Room 201

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

The Art of Teaching Multi-Modal Design

Chloe Diepenbrock, University of Houston, Clear Lake

Room 200

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

1:00 PM

Helping Students Express Stance: What Research Reveals about Stance Qualities in Success Student Writing in the Disciplines

Keynote Address

Zak Lancaster, Wake Forest University

1:00 PM - 1:50 PM

Presentation Materials Available

2:03 PM

Creating Children's Books in College Composition: An Exercise in Research, Audience, and Genre Analysis

Alexa Doran, Florida State University

Room 203

2:03 PM - 2:55 PM

2:05 PM

A Truly Authentic Audience: Editing and Writing on Wikipedia

Eric Grunwald, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Room 204

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

Presentation Materials Available

Active Learning Instructional Strategies in Professional Communication Lindsay McManus

Barbara L. Bolt, University of South Carolina - Columbia
Julia McKinney, University of South Carolina

Room 200

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

Big Read, Small Groups: Theme-Based Composition and Learning Communities in the Online Classroom

Jessica Newberry Palumbo, East Georgia State College

Room 205

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

Collaborating for Student Success: Writing Support for Health Science Majors

Sharon Cavusgil, Georgia State University
Kim Ramsey-White, Georgia State University

Room 202

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

Improving Professional Writing Skill through Mastery, Choice, and Revision

Meg Van Baalen-Wood, University of Wyoming

Room 202

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

One-on-One ‘Intensive’ Instruction in First-Year Writing: Partnering for Student Success

Jonathan Bush, Western Michigan University
Adrienne Redding, Western Michigan University

Room 201

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

Presentation Materials Available

Persona Poems: The Advantages of Stepping Into a Whole New “I”

Sheila Nielsen, Georgia Southern University
LeighAnn Williams, Georgia Southern University

Room 203

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

Slow Reading: A Practical Solution for Reading and Writing

Matthew L. Miller, University of South Carolina - Aiken

Room 205

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

Presentation Materials Available

Zines and Multimodal Composition

Christopher Smith, Georgia Southern University

Room 204

2:05 PM - 2:55 PM

3:10 PM

Applying PhotoVoice Concepts to Composition in a College Bridge Program

Monique Bos, mbos@georgiasouthern.edu

Room 202

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

“Drawing Out the Soul”: Lifelong Learning through Success Journals

Jonathan Warnock, Tri-County Technical College

Room 202

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

Educator Collaboration and Its Impact on Student Writing

LeighAnn Williams, Georgia Southern University
Drew Keane, Georgia Southern University
Sheila R. Nielsen, Georgia Southern University

Room 204

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

“Is there any point at which you ain’t understand what it is I’m sayin’?”: Fostering Appreciation for American Dialectal Difference in the Writing Classroom

Lisa Suter, Metropolitan State University of Denver

Room 201

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

Planning for Effective Peer Review

Krista Petrosino, Georgia Southern University

Room 205

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

The Article of the Week as the Foundation for Secondary Writing Improvement

Shawn Towner, Arizona State University

Room 203

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

The Other Side of the Prompt: Using TILT to Decipher Tough Assignments

Jim Shimkus, University of North Georgia
Michelle M. Gilstrap, University Of South Carolina

Room 200

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

The Rhetorical Use of Non-Standard Dialect in the First-Year Composition Classroom

Megan Busch, University of South Carolina

Room 201

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

Presentation Materials Available

"Through the Eyes of Others": Practical Approach to Peer Review for First-Year Writers

Jessica Spearman, Georgia Southern University

Room 205

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM