Just a couple of quick thoughts on the title -- I was just slightly bothered by the "101" part because they're called so many different things and by so many different numbers, and I'm not sure "101" conveys that. Still, it's worth remembering that one of the reasons that Inkshed originally started was that in Canada there is no tradition of those mammoth first year writing programs that "Comp 101" is a synechdoche for, and that affects a great deal of what we do and how we organize it, and what our assumptions and problems are. It seems to me a good idea to address that directly. We could call it "Freshman Comp," which is what it used to be called (and still is in most places), except that "Freshman" is distracting these days. How about "Teaching Writing without First-Year Comp"? I have no problem with the possibility of excluding people from high schools or other contexts because, as Rob points out, the conference is about "College" Composition. I go to NCTE and attend sessions on early childhood, simply because I'm interested, and don't feel excluded. -- Russ __|~_ Russell A. Hunt __|~_)_ __)_|~_ Aquinas Chair St. Thomas University )_ __)_|_)__ __) PHONE: (506) 452-0424 Fredericton, New Brunswick | )____) | FAX: (506) 450-9615 E3B 5G3 CANADA ___|____|____|____/ [log in to unmask] \ / ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.StThomasU.ca/hunt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~