2008 Fall Conference

Dear Members:

Please mark your calendars for a very important North Texas Writing Centers Association event. On Thursday, September 18th, NTWCA members are invited to join Texas Christian University’s William L. Adams Center for Writing in celebrating its 20th anniversary. Steve Sherwood and his extraordinary staff were kind enough to extend this invitation to our members. Special guest for the day is Dr. Michele Eodice, president of the International Writing Centers Association and Director of the Conoco Phillips Writing Center at the University of Oklahoma. For this conference, members will have lunch on their own, come to the NTWCA business meeting, and then attend Dr. Eodice’s presentation, “Peer Tutors and the Power to Shape Institutions.” More details about the program will be forthcoming as it is finalized in the next few weeks.

Again, please note the date on your calendar, since this is a departure from the Friday conferences we typically have. Enjoy the rest of your summer and watch for more details about the conference.

Thank you,
Alice Newsome
President, NTWCA

2008 Spring Conference

The North Texas Writing Centers Association will hold its 2008 spring conference at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas, on April 18, 2008. Keynote Speaker will be John Burkett, 2008 Mary Nell Kiviko Award winner and Ph.D. Candidate at Texas Christian University.

Program: Spring Conference, 2008

(additional information about this event and speakers involved can be found in the Spring 2008 Newsletter)

Location

Blagg-Huey Library, Library Conference Room (room 101)

Map to Campus: http://www.twu.edu/map_denton_location.asp

Map to Building (Blagg-Huey Library):

http://www.twu.edu/map_denton_campus.asp

2007 Fall Conference

2007 Spring Conference

The North Texas Writing Centers Association held its 2007 spring conference at Tarleton State University in Granbury, Texas, on March 30, 2007. Keynote Speaker was the 2007 Mary Nell Kivikko Award winner Karen Boozer, Founder and Director of the Writing Center at Fairhill School in Dallas, Texas.  Karen presented "The Birth of a Writing Center in a Private LD School." Following the MNK Award-winning presentation, tutors Joshua Hart  (of Tarleton State University), Dylan Taylor-Smith, Alicia Graber, and Tyler Fultz (of TCU) presented papers on issues ranging from the Online Writing Lab to "Love and Hate in the Writing Center."

Draft of Conference Program available at http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/ntwca/SP_07_program.htm

2006 Fall Conference

2006 Spring Conference

The North Texas Writing Centers Association held its 2006 spring conference at Tarleton State University in Granbury, Texas, on April 7, 2006. Conference theme was "Reflections from the Center." Speakers included 2006 Mary Nell Kivikko Award winner Dr. Rebecca Day Babcock of UT-Permian Basin ("Opening the Conversation Between Writing Centers and Disability Studies") and three undergraduate tutors from the writing center at Texas Christian University--Janna Pate (“Writing Center Ethics: The Process”), Katie Quinn (“A Peer Tutor's Take on Online Interactions”), and Ben Graber (“Three Years in the Writing Center: A Peer Tutor's Retrospection”).
 

2005 Fall Conference

The North Texas Writing Centers Association held its 2005 fall conference at Collin County Community College Preston Ridge Campus in Frisco.  Keynote speaker was Kevin Davis ("The Writing Center as Last Best Place: Six Easy Pieces on Montana, Bears, Love, Missions, and Tutoring"). We are proud to say a version of this piece was later published in the Writing Center Journal. 

Last updated 6/2007

since 8/2006