Several members of the NDSU community gave presentations at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, Ky., March 17-20. The Conference on College Composition and Communication is a constituent group of the National Council of Teachers of English.
English department faculty who gave presentations included Dale L. Sullivan, professor and head, “Remixing Institutional Expectations;” Amy Rupiper Taggart, associate professor, “Diffusing Tension Doesn’t Mean Critical Reflection;” Enrico Sassi, senior lecturer and assistant director of the Center for Writers, “Recomposing the Instructor;” and Kelly Sassi, assistant professor, who participated in the English Education/Composition Connections Special Interest Group.
Graduate students included Abigail Gaugert who presented “Reassessing Graduate Writers’ Needs,” Katie Gunter who chaired the session “Getting WAC to Work: Remixing Roles and Expectations of Graduate Writing” and Craig Rood who chaired the session “Rewriting Process to Invention: Academic Writing’s Greatest Hits.”
Karen P. Peirce, graduate writing coordinator from the Graduate School and managing editor of FYHC: The Journal of First-year Honors Composition, presented “Honors Composition at North Dakota State University: A Descriptive Study.”