These events have been planned for specific campus community members - writing instructors, graduate students, and faculty. To participate, please contact Kim Emmons (368-6924 or kimberly.emmons@case.edu). Thank You!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Workshop for Writing Faculty
"A Template Approach to Academic Writing"
Cathy Birkenstein-Graff & Gerald Graff
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Clark 209
Often without realizing it, experienced writers have come to
master certain rhetorical conventions or "moves" that underlie all
persuasive writing. In this workshop, Cathy Birkenstein-Graff and Gerald Graff suggest that these conventional moves are so commonly made that they
can be represented in basic templates: fill-in-the-blank grids or
scaffoldings that can be given directly to students to enable them to make
these sophisticated moves in their own writing right away. The basic
template that Cathy and Gerald will focus on is what, in their recent
textbook, they call the "They Say/I Say" move, which helps students
engage the arguments of others ("they say") in a way that sets the
stage for their own ideas ("I say").
Cathy Birkenstein-Graff received her PhD from Loyola University in Chicago in 2003 with a dissertation on the contradictions in the all-American story of individual upward mobility. A lecturer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, her teaching and research focus is in rhetoric and composition theory. In addition to a textbook, They Say/I Say (2006), co-authored with Gerald Graff, Birkenstein has published articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, and College Composition and Communication. A new project on academic discourse will examine the misunderstandings that circulate around the rhetorical standards academics use on a daily if not hourly basis.
Gerald Graff, Professor of English and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is one of his generation's most influential commentators on higher education. His many books include Professing Literature: An Institutional History (1987) and Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education (1992). With the publication of Clueless in Academe in 2003, Graff's work has focused particularly on (in the book's subtitle) "How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind," and how schools and colleges can demystify academic intellectual culture for all students, not just the high-achieving few. This book helped inspire his recent basic writing textbook, "They Say/I Say": The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing (2006), co-authored with Cathy Birkenstein. Graff was President of the Modern Language Association in 2008.
This event has been co-sponsored by the University Center for Innovation in Teaching and Education (UCITE) and by the Seminar Approach to General Education and Scholarship (SAGES) Program.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Medical Rhetoric Workshop
"Reading the Written Body"
Susan Wells
12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Guilford House Parlor (1st Floor)
Please note: as of 4/14/09, this workshop is full. If you've already received confirmation (and the reading for discussion), your spot has been reserved. We're sorrry for the inconvenience, but we hope you will join us for Prof. Wells' talk at 5:00 p.m.
This interactive discussion based on a chapter of Wells' forthcoming book, Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing (Stanford, 2010), is designed for faculty and students interested in writing studies, gender studies, history, communication, and science & technology studies. Participants will be provided with a copy of the chapter in advance.
Susan Wells received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, and taught at the University of Louisville and Wayne State University before coming to Temple in 1985. Her interests include rhetoric and composition, critical theory, theories of the public sphere, and feminist studies of science. Wells's book on nineteenth-century women physicians and scientific writing, Out of the Dead House, was published by the University of Wisconsin Press in 2001, and won the 2002 W. Ross Winterowd Award for the most outstanding book in composition theory. She has also published Sweet Reason: Rhetoric and the Discourses of Modernity (Chicago, 1996) and The Dialectics of Representation (Johns Hopkins University, 1985). Wells is currently finishing Our Bodies, Ourselves and the Work of Writing, forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2010. She served as chair of the Temple English department from 2003-2006 and is currently Director of First Year Writing.
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