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| Keynote speakers, Anne Herrington and Charles Moran
of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, are renowned WAC
leaders.
Their keynote address entitled, "Writing Across the Curriculum: The Power of An Idea," will discuss Writing Across the Curriculum as a seemingly intuitive idea that has had great staying power. But what is this idea? Why has it persisted? And what is its likely future? They ’ll begin by outlining what they see as the elements of the idea, ones that are central to its local variants. They ’ll then look at other ideas, alive and well in the national discourse, that, taking such forms as standardized testing and assumptions about a growing literacy crisis, threaten to constrain and subvert the implementation of the idea of WAC. They ’ll conclude by suggesting some strategies to implement to keep the idea alive and viable in the future.
Anne Herrington, Professor and Chair of English
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Anne Herrington is Professor and Chair of English
at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Her scholarly interests
are reflected in the following books: Writing, Teaching, and
Learning in the Disciplines (MLA 1992) and Genres across
the Curriculum (Utah State UP, 2005), both co-edited with
Charles Moran; and Persons in Process: Four Stories of Writing
and Personal Development in College (NCTE, 2000), co-authored
with Marcia Curtis. For the latter book, she and Curtis received
NCTE’s 2002 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research
in the Teaching of English. Throughout her career, she has maintained
a consistent interest in WAC program development, research, and
pedagogy.
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Charles Moran, Emeritus
Professor of English |
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Charles Moran is Emeritus Professor of English at the University
of Massachusetts. With Anne Herrington, he co-edited Genre Across
the Curriculum, published by Utah State University Press in
2005, and Writing, Teaching, and Learning in the Disciplines,
published by MLA in 1992. With Elizabeth Penfield, he co-edited
NCTE’s Conversations: Contemporary Critical Theory and
the Teaching of Literature (1990); with Pat Belanoff, Marcia
Dickson, and Sheryl Fontaine he co-edited Writing with Elbow
(Utah State University Press, 2002); and with Gail Hawisher, Paul
LeBlanc, and Cynthia Selfe he co-authored Computers and the Teaching
of Writing: A History (Ablex, 1996). He was the founding director
of his university’s Writing Program and Site Director of the
Western Massachusetts Writing Project 1992-2002. He has been given
Distinguished Teacher awards by his university, by the New England
Association of Teachers of English, and by the Massachusetts Council
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