Campus Alberta Writing Studies (CAWS)

The Campus Alberta Writing Studies group was formed in August 2009 to facilitate collaboration through the sharing of work in Writing Studies research, teaching, and administration across the province.

Anyone with Alberta connections who is interested in Writing Studies and Rhetoric is welcome to subscribe to the CAWSlist (our listserv—see the subscribe/unsubscribe options below) and to participate in any CAWS gatherings, announcements of which go out to all CAWSlist subscribers.

The first CAWS colloquium was held in Edmonton at the end of fall term 2009, the second in Red Deer winter term 2010, the third back in Edmonton in September 2010, the fourth in Calgary on May 3, 2011 and the fifth CAWS colloquium at Campus St. Jean, University of Alberta, Edmonton, on September 30, 2011. The Sixth Campus Alberta Writing Studies Colloquium will be held at Athabasca University, Calgary. To encourage wider participation, at least one of the anticipated two annual colloquia will be held outside of the Edmonton area.

The goal of these colloquia is, through brief presentations and the resulting conversations, to encourage future Campus Alberta initiatives in Writing Studies by helping CAWS members discover what their colleagues are doing in the areas of postsecondary writing pedagogy, research, writing centres, WAC programs, and degree programs.

An informal Steering Committee of faculty from a variety of Alberta post-secondary institutions is responsible to decide on the locations and organizers of future colloquia.

Our September 2010 CAWS Colloquium, hosted by Grant MacEwan University, featured Cheryl Glenn, Distinguished Visitor at U of A, Liberal Arts Research Professor of English and Women’s Studies and co-director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation at The Pennsylvania State University. Glenn is also a past Chair of CCCC (Conference of College Composition and Communication), the world’s major professional association for post-secondary teachers and scholars in the field of Writing Studies.

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