CSTW Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing

College of Humanities

Call for Papers:

As ECWCA marks its 30th anniversary, this year’s conference will engage histories of writing centers and how they influence the future. We’ll look to the past in order to understand what’s coming, asking questions such as

• What narratives have we created as a field? How have writing centers developed over the past thirty years? How have we defined, measured, and celebrated our achievements?
• How has your individual writing center grown and changed? What initiatives have you implemented and how do these initiatives contribute to future possibilities for your center? What plans do you have for the future?
• For tutors, how do concepts of history and development inform your concept of your role? What have you learned from participating in a writing center over the course of multiple years, semesters, or even multiple tutoring sessions? How has your approach to tutoring changed over time? How have you utilized your past experiences to grow and improve as a tutor?

In this spirit, we invite submissions on any aspect of writing centers. Come and join our conversation!

Session formats:

• Presentations—single or multiple authored talks
• Panels—groups of 3-4 presentations on related topics
• Roundtables—conversations among 5-7 participants
• Posters—multimedia or paper-based works that describe writing centers in the ECWCA area (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and parts of Kentucky, Illinois, and Pennsylvania), and their histories or plans.

Our Friday night banquet keynote speaker will be Andrea Lunsford

A limited number of scholarships will be available for student tutors. These will be accessible on the registration form (coming soon).

We will also be holding the ECWCA logo contest. More information is forthcoming.

To submit a proposal online, please see the East Central Writing Centers Association's Web site. On the front page you should find a link to submit a proposal online.

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