blog posts

• Second Language Writing: An Overview of the Development of the Discipline

  Apr 4, 2013 2:45 pm116 views

  Tony Silva, Purdue University: "Second Language Writing: An Overview of the Development of the Discipline"
  Date: Thursday, April 11
  Time: 4-5 pm
  Place: Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building

  Abstract: In describing the development of second language writing (L2W) studies, I will (1) stipulate a definition of L2W; (2) examine trends in the development of L2W decade by decade from 1950 to the present—by looking at the numbers and areas of focus of the relevant publicly available documents, by mentioning important contributors to the field, and by examining such issues as theory, inquiry paradigms, types of inquiry (empirical and hermeneutic), instructional practices, and the creation of infrastructure; (3) assess the current status of L2W studies around the globe; (4) provide a description of the current status of L2W as an incipient discipline; (5) speculate on the future of L2W studies; and (6) provide a list of resources for further inquiry.

• 8th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch and CWS Graduate Student Symposium Program

  Apr 10, 2017 8:45 am117 views

  The Graduate Symposium Planning Committee is excited to share the program for this year's Gesa E. Kirsch Symposium. Gesa E. Kirsch will be joining us again this year and Mary. P. Sheridan is our alumni keynote speaker.

• CWS@4C16

  Feb 27, 2016 3:15 am118 views

  The 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication is fast approaching, and we are so proud of the many scholars affiliated with the Center for Writing Studies who will be participating in workshops, roundtables, panels, and poster sessions. This year, the number of CWS faculty, graduate students, and alumni who will be presenting papers at 4Cs is so large that we cannot fit all of them in one blog post. Below is a list of those who will be presenting on Thursday, April 7. For a list of presentations on Friday and Saturday, please see the blog post above. See you in Houston!

   

   

• Rhetorical Agency in Action: Notes on a Data Session

  Nov 17, 2016 10:00 am119 views

  Katherine Flowers shares her notes and thoughts on one of the data sessions that took place during the CWS Inaugural Symposium.

• CWS@4C16

  Feb 27, 2016 3:30 am123 views

  The 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication is fast approaching, and we are so proud of the many scholars affiliated with the Center for Writing Studies who will be participating in workshops, roundtables, panels, and poster sessions. This year, the number of CWS faculty, graduate students, and alumni who will be presenting papers at 4Cs is so large that we cannot fit all of them in one blog post. Below is a list of those who will be presenting on Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9. For a list of presentations on Thursday, please see the blog post below. See you in Houston!

   

   

• CWS Reading/Working Groups

  May 19, 2017 4:45 pm153 views

  Join one of these great groups, or let us help you start a new one!

• Reflections: 7th Annual Gesa E. Kirsch and Center for Writing Studies Graduate Student Symposium

  May 4, 2016 9:45 am177 views

  This blog post was written by CWS Student Katherine Flowers.

  It was my pleasure to attend the 7th annual Gesa Kirsch Graduate Symposium on April 21, 2016. This year’s symposium continued many of the traditions started in previous iterations, including graduate student panels, faculty panel chairs, an alumni keynote speaker, and a post-symposium happy hour. At the same time, everyone brought their unique perspectives, methods, data, and arguments to their presentations. In this recap blog post, I try to do their work justice.

• Watson Conference 18 CWS Student, Faculty, and Alumni Panels

  Oct 24, 2018 10:00 am183 views

  CWS is delighted to announce the list of presenters at this iteration of the Watson Conference. Current CWS-affiliated faculty and students are noted in bold, alumni are italicized.

• Spring 2018 reflection

  May 17, 2018 9:30 am188 views

  The CWS staff looks back at the spring 2018 semester and forward to upcoming/ongoing projects.

• Spring 2020 End-of-Semester Wrap-Up

  May 18, 2020 9:45 am192 views

  End-of-semester and year information about what CWS has been up to.

• Good News from CWS

  Aug 21, 2013 9:08 am215 views

  It is not always easy to find good news in any medium, but we have a lot to share as the new semester starts. This fall, CWS is looking forward to visits by Mary Juzwik, who will present at the Colloquium on October 24 and the University of Illinois Writing Project Fall Conference on October 26, and Maisha (Fisher) Winn, who will present at the colloquium on December 5. CWS is also co-sponsoring a visit by James Gee, who will talk on new literacies and video games, at the Symposium on Activity-Based Approaches to Communication, October 5. Kaitlin Marks-Dubbs and Ligia Mihut will present their dissertation work at a Graduate Research Forum on October 17. We are looking forward to colloquia by Jordynn Jack and Brian Street in the spring.  

  I am also happy to announce that we have a new Core Faculty member of CWS, Kelly Ritter, Professor of English and incoming Director of First-Year Rhetoric.

  We want to celebrate as well the new positions of six Writing Studies students, who completed their PhD work in the last year....  Click the title above to read more!

• CCCC 2019 - CWS Faculty, Student and Alumni Panels

  Feb 20, 2019 4:30 pm252 views

  CWS is delighted to announce the list of presenters for the 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication. Current CWS-affiliated faculty and students are noted in bold, alumni are underlined.

  If you are attending the conference, be sure to stop by the CWS Social to catch up with student, faculty and alumni. 

  CWS Social at 4C's

  Thursday, March 14th @ 6:30pm

  Level 7 - Rooftop Hotel Bar

  1126 Smallman Street

  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222 Phone:  (412) 281-9300

• Dana Ferris on Providing Effective Feedback to Multilingual Writers

  Apr 6, 2017 3:00 pm321 views

  María Carvajal reflects on Dana Ferris' visit to campus 

• Site redesign, new blog, and academic year recap

  May 2, 2012 3:15 pm482 views

   

  Welcome to a slightly redesigned site for the Center for Writing Studies. We've made a few changes to make the site easier to navigate and more useful. 

  In particular, we've changed the layout of menu items to make it easier to find some of our activities (our Writing Across Media course, UIWP, and the Center's Speaker Series). The calendar of upcoming events has been moved to a side panel and in its place we now have this blog, a more dynamic and flexible space that will allow us to post a wide variety of information that may be of interest to Center For Writing Studies students, faculty, and visitors. If there is information you would like to have posted, submit it to our Assistant Director, Jon Stone (jwstone2@illinois.edu), for review. We invite news about conferences, calls for papers, events of interest around campus, and other relevant information and news. The blog is RSS enabled for those who would like to subscribe for external viewing. 

  We've also added a link that allows for secure donations to support special CWS programs and activities. 

  We want to acknowledge the close of a wonderful 2011-2012 academic year. We've had the privilege of hosting or co-hosting a wide variety of visiting scholars including Danielle DeVoss, Jonathan Alexander, Morris Young, Ralph Cintron, Neal Lerner, and CWS alum Derek Van Ittersum. Our Colloquium has also hosted talks by CWS graduate students: John O'Connor and Vanessa Roullion in the Fall and Heather Blain and Julia Smith this Spring. Our brownbag series has featured talks from Sharra Vostral, Brendesha Tynes, Lisa Nakamura, another visiting alum, Jody Skipka, and a group of graduate students (Jessica Bannon, Lauren Marshall Bowen, Amber Buck, Cory Holding, and Martha Webber) discussing their (successful) experiences on the job market. We also hosted thr 3rd annual Gesa Kirsch CWS Graduate Student Symposium. Our special thanks to everyone who participated in these events.. 

  We look forward to another great year in 2012-13 and wish you all a peaceful and productive summer. 

• Call For Bloggers: Write for Us!

  Oct 5, 2016 11:15 am517 views

  We want YOU to write for the Center for Writing Studies Blog!

  Build your online scholarly profile, work through ideas, start coversations, share the smart things that happen among CWS faculty and students. 

• CWS Brownbag: "Writing Centers and Online Tutoring" with Carolyn Wisniewski, María Paz Carvajal Regidor, Evin Groundwater, and Allison Kranek

  Nov 5, 2019 11:45 am2011 views

  Here's an abstract and biographical information for our forthcoming brownbag "Writing Centers and Online Tutoring."