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2014 IWAC Conference:

Shifting Currents / Making Waves

Call for Proposals

Literacy today is in the middle of a tectonic change *T+hese are structural changes global, educational, technologicalHow is it that what we teach and what we test can be so different from what our students know as writing ? KathleenBlake Yancey (2004)

Situations (contexts) do not just exist...*but+ are actively created, sustained, negotiated, resisted, and transformed momen t-by- moment through ongoing work. James Paul Gee (2000)

The Center for Writing and the Office of Undergraduate Education at the University of Minnesota aredelighted to announce a call for proposals for the 12th International Writing Across the Curriculum

Conference (IWAC), to be held in the Commons Hotel on the campus of the University of Minnesota in

Minneapolis, June 12 14, 2014.

Shifting Currents / Making Waves The conference theme, Shifting Currents/Making Waves, references the lively Mississippi River (a fewblocks from our on-campus conference hotel), WACs history as a progressive pedagogical movement,and its current activity in an era of accelerated change.

Among the shifts and waves we will discuss are those occurring in

disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourse communities and conventions

location, focus, and pace of WAC, WID, and CAC programming understanding of literacy development and transferability multimodal reading and writing methods used to access and attribute intellectual content (formerly known as reading and

citing) current influence of professional writing upon academic writing and writing instruction global languages and translingualism in the writing-enriched classroom course venues, class sizes, and instructor roles triggered by flipped classrooms, e-learning,

MOOCs, etc. writing assessment theory and practice

approaches to assessing and sustaining WAC, WID, and CAC programming graduate student mentoring and professionalization in WAC

Call for Session Proposals To facilitate constructive discussion of these and other field-relevant shifts, we will encourage innovative

formatting in concurrent sessions and will extend particular welcome to sessions that include interactionand discussion. We enthusiastically encourage proposals for sessions that include instructors from

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diverse academic disciplines and international settings. Proposals will require a short, one- or two-

sentence description of the presentation along with an abstract. Presenters will select from among the following formats:

Pre-conference workshop (180 minutes)

Proposals for these Thursday morning sessions will include session

choreography and a set of participant outcomes. If desired, sessionscan be scheduled into wired, active-learning classrooms .

5 X 10 talks (10 minutes)

Five slides, ten minutes. This innovative alternative to the poster

session provides a venue suited for brief, general-audience talks

accompanied by visual props. The 5 X 10 is particularly well-suited

for profiling institutional programs or drawing attention to a single

issue or innovation. Presented live, 5 X 10s will be also

videorecorded for looped airing later at the conference.

Individual presentations (20 minutes)

Individual presentations will be grouped into three-person panels byshared topic, and a session chair will be assigned. Individual

presenters are asked to limit presented segments to 15 minutes in

order to allow for substantial discussion at the end of the panel.

Multi-presenter panel ordiscussion(75 minutes)

Proposals for structured discussions (or full panels) will identify

sequence of activity, opportunities for interaction, session timing,

and a session chair. Possibilities here include point-counterpoint

discussions, choreographed roundtables, fishbowl discussions, andintentionally sequenced panels.

Teaching demonstrations (20 minutes)

Brief, interactive demonstrations of writing instruction from anyacademic discipline. These will be grouped by discipline or strategy,

and a session chair will be assigned.

Proposals will be judged against the following criteria: clarity of purpose, content, and design situatedness within WAC theory, research, and practice contribution to and engagement with conference theme potential to foster constructive interaction potential interest to a diverse cross-section of conference attendees

We will begin accepting proposals on August 1, 2013.Proposal deadline is 12 AM (CST) November 4, 2013.

TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL, VISIT THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://www.cce.umn.edu/iwac2014

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The 2014 IWAC will take place at the University of Minnesota at the Commons Hotel . We think that thisuniversity and the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are apt pla ces in which to contemplate WAC sshifting currents and wave-making.

Those who can bear to pull themselves away from sessions will find a variety of Minneapolitan (and St.

Paulite) things to see and do. Restaurants, for example: looking beyond hotdish , lutefisk , and food on astick , youll find James Beard Award winning chefs and locally-owned restaurants that advocate andenact sustainable, local food production residing beside eateries that proudly refuse to do so. World-class museums and theatres including the Walker Art Center and Guthrie Theater compete with dozensof local art and performance venues such as the Minnesota Center for Book Arts , Jungle Theater , and Intermedia Arts . We also know how to get around: in 2010, Bicycling Magazine voted Minneapolis thecountrys most bikeable city , which is not too shabby for a city that endures (celebrates) seven-monthlong winters. We are also serious about our sports teams. In summer, this means the Minnesota Twins , the Minnesota Lynx , and the St. Paul Saints . Attendees joined by families will appr eciate Minneapolismany picturesque parks and canoe-friendly lakes , the Science Museum , the Bakken museum (electricity!),

the nearby Mill City Museum (flour!), and the Childrens Museum . And yes, we also have the Mall of America .

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