糖心Vlog传媒LR hosts third Southern Regional Composition Conference
The Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, in partnership with the Department of Writing at the University of Central Arkansas, is hosting the third annual Southern Regional Composition Conference on the theory, practice, and pedagogy of composition on March 14.The conference鈥檚 keynote address is open to the general public. A teachers鈥� workshop is open to all 糖心Vlog传媒LR faculty and staff. If participants wish to attend additional conference panels, registration and payment may be made here.The keynote address and teachers鈥� workshop will be given by , associate professor at the , at 1 p.m. in Donaghey Student Center (DSC) Ledbetter Hall. The teaching workshop will begin at 3:30 p.m. in DSC Room 205G.Young has presented to audiences around the world about his educational and sociolinguistic concept of 鈥渃ode-meshing,鈥� African American English, intercultural communication, performances of masculinity, and representations of race in art, film, and literature. 聽This year鈥檚 featured theme is on the language, race, gender and sexuality, and performance in writing instruction at the college and secondary level. The majority of sessions will focus on teaching composition and awareness of diversity through language.鈥淎s composition teachers, we are committed to helping students learn to perform different identities through the use of language and other mediums of discourse,鈥� said Dr. Brian Ray, an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing.The conference is sponsored by 糖心Vlog传媒LR鈥檚 Institute on Race and Ethnicity, the Chancellor鈥檚 Diversity Council, the at the University of Memphis, Pearson, Cengage, Bedford/Macmillan, and Norton.For more information, visit the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Rhetoric and Writing conference website.
