Perhaps it is time to renew this discourse, not because it is necessary to resolve the question of what advanced writing is but because it is fruitful to ask: What are we doing with our Advanced Writing classrooms in this wide-open space? As early as the 1950s, gatherings at the Conference of College Composition and Communication included conversations about how to demarcate this terrain, which ended with no clear answers except that it was certainly time for a drink.īut does it matter that, after all this time, attempts to formulate a precise definition have failed? The strength of this area of teaching and scholarship may largely reside in this ambiguity, which creates flexibility for experimentation, diverse methodologies, and multi-modal creativity. Indeed, there’s a long history-even among composition scholars-of confusion surrounding what Advanced Writing is. Join us to explore emerging developments, as we strive to help our students become more effective communicators, critical thinkers, and rhetorical citizens in today’s rapidly changing world.Īdvanced Writing has been persistently and notoriously difficult to define. The USC Writing Program’s Upper Division Curriculum Committee welcomes proposals for “Uncharted Territories: Genre, Audience and Innovation in Advanced Writing Contexts.” This one-day online event aims to bring together teachers of advanced and/or upper-division college composition courses to discuss innovative methods and best practices for widening and strengthening student engagement with diverse genres and audiences. Deadline to Submit a Proposal: October 23, 2023
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