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[Randy Popken]

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Call for Papers
Discourse Studies and the Teaching of Writing

A Proposed Special Session
South Central Modern Language Association Meeting
October 30-November  1, 2003
Hot Springs, Arkansas

In their recent book Discourse Studies in Composition, Ellen Barton and Gail
Stygall investigate new theoretical work on writing from a variety of fields
they call (collectively) "discourse studies." Scholarship in these areas,
according to Barton and Stygall, also holds potential as a theoretical
foundation for the teaching of writing.

This special session explores applications of work in discourse studies to
writing pedagogy. We are interested in papers and proposals on writing
pedagogy that derive from areas of discourse studies including (but not
limited to) discourse analysis; genre analysis; critical discourse analysis;
speech act theory;  Bahktinian translinguistics; conversational analysis;
Czech functional sentence perspective; corpus text linguistics; language
acquisition theory; pragmatics; Hallidayan functionalism; social ecology
(e.g., Goffman and Giddens); and identity theory.

Proposers may concern themselves with this theoretical application in any
area of writing pedagogy (e.g., basic writing, first-year composition,
advanced composition, ESL composition, learning disabilities composition,
journalistic writing, writing center, secondary or elementary composition,
creative writing, scientific writing, business writing,
technical-professional writing).

Send proposals, completed papers, or working drafts of papers to the
following address by February 1, 2003:

Randall Popken
Director of the Writing Program
Tarleton State University
Stephenville, TX 76402
popken at tarleton.edu
254.968.9037