UPDATE: Critical Thinking, Thinking Critically: Ethics in Writing (5/1/05; SAMLA, 11/4/05-11/6/05)

The deadline for proposals to this session has been extended to May 1st.
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association convention will be held
at the Sheraton Colony Square Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia from November
4-6, 2005. The call for this panel is as follows:

The teaching of collegiate writing traditionally has required
incorporating some lessons on the ethics of conducting academic work.
Yet increasingly, the college writing classroom has become a focal point
for universities' administration and surveillance of the ethical tenor
of student communities. From emphasizing the interdisciplinary and
professional benefits of critical writing to wielding various
technologies that police plagiarism and academic misconduct, inculcating
institutional ethics has become a significant part of our jobs as
teachers of language and writing. This panel welcomes papers addressing
the correspondences, complications, benefits, and distractions of
teaching student writing under pressure to monitor student ethics. To
what extent does teaching academic writing lend itself to teaching
academic ethics? What measures have teachers taken to mediate curricular
demands, or day-to-day classroom demands, with growing concerns about
the prevalence of academic misconduct? What kinds of assignments have
teachers designed that combine writing skills with ethical lessons, and
how successful have they been? And, how, if at all, has this changed the
ethos of our profession? Please send abstracts of fewer than 500 words
to Thomas Lilly, the Georgia Institute of Technology, at
thomas.lilly_at_lcc.gatech.edu.

Proposals can also be mailed to:

Dr. Thomas Lilly
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Literature, Communication, an dCulture
Atlanta, GA 30332-0165

or

fax: 404.894.1287

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