ECWCA Conference1997
Featured Speakers
Patricia Stock is Associate Executive Director of the National Council of Teachers of English and Professor of English at Michigan State University. She has taught English literature and composition in high schools and universities. She helped to establish the Center for Educational Improvement through Collaboration at the University of Michigan, a writing program at Syracuse University and was the founding director of the Writing Center at Michigan State. In 1993, she was awarded the James N. Britton Award for her article "The Function of Anecdote in Teacher Research." Her most recent book, The Dialogic Curriculum, has just been awarded the Richard A. Meade Award. Her Friday evening talk, "Project Connects: A Programmatic Vision for Education in a Democracy," will describe the work of the MSU Writing Center.
John Trimbur is Professor of English and Director of the Technical, Scientific, and Professional Communication program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He has directed writing centers and peer tutoring programs at Rutgers in Camden, Community College of Baltimore, Rhode Island College, and Boston University. His article, "Peer Tutoring: A Contradiction in Terms?" won the National Writing Center Association Article of the Year Award. He has also published on collaborative learning and cultural studies. The book he co-edited with Richard Bullock, Politics of Writing Instruction: Postsecondary, won the CCCC Outstanding Book Award in 1993. His Saturday talk is entitled "Do Writing Centers Have a Politics?"