Call for Papers

Writing and Legal Writing Teachers, Instructors, and Professors of Color and/or Progressive Orientation Conference (WLWTIPCPOC), Howard University School of Law, 16-17 May 2008 http://www.law.howard.edu/writingconference

This conference is for any person who has an interest in and concern for teaching writing at any of its levels and in any of its forms, from early childhood to graduate and professional programs. The conference is particularly designed to bring together writing teachers of color, writing teachers who are progressively oriented, and writing teachers who teach a significant number of students of color.

The conference theme is: From Grammar School to Graduate and Law School: Building to Bridge the Achievement Gap. In addition to plenary sessions, the Conference will also include numerous works-in-progress and colloquium presentations. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers on the following topics:

• Teaching writing to students of color
• Writing and social change and engineering
• Building coalitions among faculty: grammar to graduate/professional schools
• "Literacy" in immigrant communities
• Literacy in urban communities
• other

Please e-mail Christi Cunningham at ccunningham@law.howard.edu if you have any questions or are interested in

1. presenting a paper on one of the topics listed above
2. presenting a work-in-progress
3. being a commentator for a work-in-progress
4. proposing a panel topic

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is March 1 2008. Some conference papers may be published in the Howard Law Journal.

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Washington, D.C. in May 2008.

We greatly appreciate the contributions of Ernest O’Neil. Ernest has served as Editor and currently serves as Contributing Editor of this Newsletter. We are looking for additional Contributing Editors who, like Ernest, will provide topical content for the monthly Newsletter. In addition to providing this content, Contributing Editors are automatically placed on the Advisory Board of the International Conference on Learning and the International Journal of Learning. They also receive a complimentary registration to the Learning Conference and a complimentary subscription to the Learning Journal. Please send a letter of interest and CV to Helen Agans at helen@commongroundpublishing.com

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