Commerce Week on Writing
Commerce, Texas
10/19/09-10/23/09
October 19-October 23, 2009
All events are free and open to the public!
Visit the Converging Literacies Centerfor more.
Tuesday, 10/20/09
Wednesday, 10/21/09
Thursday, 10/22/09
Friday, 10/23/09
Monday, 10/19/09
printable schedule
available
Writing Local History
NCoW Theater
Writing Center Open House
Memoir Workshop
Norris Community Project
"The President's Table" (KETR)
Don't Be Silent!
"Literacy in the Lives of
Three PhD Students"
Open Mic for Kids
"On Being an Artist"
"The Use of Video for Art Making"
Creative Writing Workshop
"No Experience Necessary"
Open Mic (Mayo Review)
"No Experience Necessary:
Short Play Festival"
Story Slam!
Halls of Poetry
Writing Celebration Coincides with Congressional Resolution
Texas A&M-Commerce (10/15/09)
Commerce, TEXAS--Earlier this month, the United States Senate declared October 20th the National Day on Writing. To celebrate this official proclamation, Texas A&M University is inviting the entire community, students and residents, to participate in a Week on Writing. . . . (continued)
News Release
Texas A&M-Commerce (9/29/09)
Community Prepares for National Day on Writing
Commerce, TEXAS- The Commerce community will host a Week on Writing October 16-23, a celebration of writing in all its forms that will coincide with the National Day on Writing on October 20, an event sponsored by the National Council for Teachers of English.
“People ask me, ‘why a week of writing instead of just a day?’” said Dr. Shannon Carter, associate professor of literature and languages and director of the Converging Literacies Center (CLiC) at Texas A&M University-Commerce. “We decided to devote an entire week to writing because writing matters, . . ." (continued)
Commerce Journal (9/30/09)
Celebrate writing with the Commerce Week on Writing
By DANIEL WALKER
The Commerce Journal
Writing will take center stage in Commerce in mid-October with a planned Commerce Week on Writing celebration.
I had the opportunity to attend a planning meeting on the A&M-C campus a week or so ago and it sounds like it will be an exciting week. I hope youll join me and dozens of other community members celebrate the joy of writing. (continued)
Also covered at North Texas e-News (10/16/-09)
for the CLiC team
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Recent Publications
The Converging Literacies Center (CLiC) at Texas A&M-Commerce is an integrated model for the study, teaching, and support of writing and writers.
CLiC provides one-on-one, project-based support for writing and writers.
CLiC makes writing visible.
CLiC supports, engages in and disseminates original research in writing and literacy studies.
CLiC is about meaningful collaborations--across campus, in the community, and via professional organizations.
CLiC teaches writing and trains writing teachers.
CLiC responds to literacy as it lives in our lives and the lives of our students, which means we study and support writing with new media (sound, video, images) as much as we do more traditional forms of writing (print, alphabetic texts).
Carter, Shannon and Donna Dunbar-Odom. The Converging Literacies Center: An Integrated Model for Writing (Programs)." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 15.1 (Fall 2009).
Carter, Shannon. "The Writing Center Paradox." College Composition and Communication. (September 2009)
Current Projects (abbreviated list)
Institutional home for the National Conversation on Writingand the Conference on Basic Writing
--. "The Map is the Territory: A location-aware multimodal platform for under-represented and rural community archive aggregation and access." National Science Foundation: CreativeIT. (in development)
