UPDATE: Enhancing Rhetoric Instruction: Using Technology to Support Argumentation and Discourse (7/27/01; CNYCLL, 10/28/01-10/30/01)

From: Gayle Geiger (geiger2@tcnj.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 17 2001 - 20:09:12 EDT

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    The final deadline for submissions to this panel has been extended to

    7/27/01.

    CALL FOR PAPERS:

    Cortland New York Conference on Language and Literature
    Cortland, New York
    October 28-30, 2001

    SESSION NAME: Enhancing Rhetoric Instruction: Using Technology to Support

    Argumentation and Discourse

    Technology and an understanding of technological theory is
    becoming increasingly significant and useful in teaching Rhetoric.
    Reconceptualising and identifying computer-based technologies as
    educational tools also raises pedagogical concerns such as: How should
    we close the gap between theory and practice, gaining insight?

    This session seeks to explore the subject of integrating technology into
    Rhetoric instruction in order to continue teaching students useful and
    essential strategies which will keep them engaged in argumentation, and
    in this technological world.

    How do teachers balance technological issues with pedagogical concerns?
    What are teachers doing in their Rhetoric classrooms to bring their
    students into this new technological world? In the twenty-first century,
    what do teachers still need to do to improve students writing and verbal
    skills as they continue to assess them? Overall what are the advantages
    and/or the effects technology brings to literacy, especially in the
    Rhetoric classroom?

    This session welcomes papers exploring these parameters, or any
    pedagogical practices which use computer technologies innovatively.
    The end result of this challenge for instructors is students who
    possess both critical thinking skills and technological literacy
    which is reflected thus in their writing and oral arguments.

    Complete papers (limited to 20 minute presentations), or 1-2 page
    abstracts, which include the author's home mailing address, home
    phone number, and email address must be submitted by 7/15/01.

    Please send abstracts or papers to: Gayle M. Geiger, 124 Princeton
    Arms North 2--Bldg. #9, Cranbury, N.J. 08512. Any questions please
    contact Gayle M. Geiger, Session Chair, at geiger2@tcnj.edu.

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