Hi everyone,
I've arranged for my flight to Fredericton, allowing for an extra day, May 31, to take part in the null working conference. I hope it's a day when the participants can provide one another with feedback on work-in-progress, work-in-progress of whatever kind. We did that last year and I found it extremely useful.
To be honest, spending the day asking ourselves questions such as 'what constitutes research in Writing Studies?' and 'what kind of relationship should Writing Studies have with the field of null/null' would be, for me, a total waste of time. I have no interest in these questions, personally, and I certainly don't see people in the larger field of Writing Studies posing them either.
While I intend to participate on May 31, I won't be paying $40 to become a member of null at this point. I want to know what kind of organization a resurrected null organization/conference will be before I consider joining. To me, the idea of having people buy a membership before there's at least some shared notion of what a new null would look like is way premature. I realize I won't be able to attend the null during the conference, but as you might guess what what I've said, that's something I can live with.
When I read what I've just written above, I can see that it's pretty salty in conveying my personal views with little regard for listserv decorum. I think I would have to attribute this to watching my beloved Purdue Boilermakers lose to Iowa this afternoon and blow a chance for a shared Big Ten championship.
Graham
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From: Doug Brent <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 14, 2011 5:39 pm
Subject: Re: Inkshed conference this year
To: [log in to unmask]
> Hi Roger,
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> I intend to be there. It`s too early for me to have formulated definite thoughts on what should be on the agenda, but certainly an AGM to settle some of the thorny issues should be on it -- perhaps as the first order of business.. If we put it last, we may lose any remote semblance of quorum.
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> Doug
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> On 09/02/2011 1:22 PM, Roger Graves wrote:
We're in the beginning stages of planning this year's Inkshed meeting in Fredericton, NB on May 31, the day after the CASDW (Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing) ends, and we'd like to invite Inkshed members, former members, and others interested in issues related to research and teaching writing in Canadian contexts to attend.
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> Registration
> To register, email me at [log in to unmask] I'll create an email list of those who are interested in attending and we'll go from there. Registration is free to members; non-members are welcome and whatever fee we ultimately charge will only be to cover food costs for lunch and coffee.
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> Program
> The initial plan will be to follow the format of last year's one-day conference. Sixteen people attended, and the program emerged from email discussions held amongst those who planned to attend. This was a "working conference": the focus was on discussion and exchange, with presentations used sparingly and as a way to prompt discussion. This year we also have ideas that were proposed at last year's meeting:
> What counts as research/Scholarship: Session at next conference people presenting the theoretical perspective for looking at this—statement from CASLL, CASDW, and CWCA on “Teaching and Scholarship in Writing Studies”—audiences: inside Writing Studies plus administrators, committees in other disciplines that Writing Studies work in: Intellectually rigorous, theoretically-based, inter-disciplinary, Canadian context;
> EAL/ESL relationship to Writing Studies: a discussion
> Another topic exchange/development discussion for research projects that participants are working on. Last year at least three of the projects discussed at this meeting were submitted for SSHRC Standard Research Grants and the PIs found the session useful to them as they developed their proposals
> These are, of course, only ideas and those who indicate an interest in attending this year's conference will ultimately decide what we spend our time working on.
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> The CASLL AGM
> Action items identified at the end of last year's meeting included the following:
> Future of the Inkshed (online discussion began and will culminate in CASLL AGM meeting at this conference)
Do it again next year in this format (this message starts that process)
Keep the google group private; put a link on the Inkshed website (did keep it private; no link put up)
Contact Russ to move it or take it over (we have established a site called inkshed.ca that is independent of a university and copied the files to that site)
Contact Patricia G-P re. budget (budget account has been transferred to Brock MacDonald; new memberships have been solicited; the Board will be elected at the AGM).
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> We'll schedule the AGM during the day sometime--it will be up to the conference participants to decide exactly when. Only members will be allowed to attend that session, however.
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> Membership
> To become a member, please send $40 membership dues f($20 for grad students) to Brock MacDonald at the address below. Make your check out to CASLL, or in full, the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning.
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> W. Brock MacDonald
> Director, Academic Writing Centre
> Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
> 119 St. George Street
> Toronto, ON M5S-1A9
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> I look forward to hearing from you and seeing you in New Brunswick.
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> Roger
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> Roger Graves
> Director, Writing Across the Curriculum
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