Category: Service

University of Mississippi Writing Centers to Host Regional SWCA Conference

University of Mississippi Writing Centers to Host Regional SWCA Conference

The University of Mississippi Writing Centers and the Department of Writing and Rhetoric are set to host the 2017 Southeastern Writing Center Association Annual Conference, February 16-18, 2017. Writing Center tutors, professional staff members, and administrators from around the southeastern region will travel to Oxford to present and discuss recent scholarship in the field of writing center studies. A gathering of around 400 people, this conference affords an opportunity for writing center professionals to share research related to best practices in the field, to interrogate those practices, and to explore opportunities for further research that will advance the discipline. The theme of the 2017 conference is: Welcome to Today’s Multimodal Writing Center. Co-Chairs Alice Myatt, Joanne Mitchell, and Brad Campbell, along with a stellar planning committee, hope to host the largest conference in SWCA history, and this will be the first time that the regional conference has been hosted in Mississippi.

Department of Writing and Rhetoric and UM Writing Centers Host MSWCA 2015

The Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi is excited to announce the annual Mississippi Writing Centers Association (MSWCA) conference held in conjunction with UM’s own fourth annual TutorCon in Oxford, MS, on January 29-30, 2015.

This year’s theme, “Lines of Connection, Lines of Communication,” seeks to capture/explore the ways in which writing centers communicate and connect across communities, institutions, campuses, and digital/technological pathways. These lines of communication and connection loop, echo, and build on each other in important and complex ways. As the writing center model expands in Mississippi at the university, community college, and secondary school levels, our collaborations throughout our communities warrant consideration and celebration. Additionally, the incorporation of more and more technology into writing center practices presents both exciting opportunities and complicated challenges for our relationships with the groups we serve.

By staging TutorCon alongside MSWCA, we aim for a conference where administrators, tutors, and students are able to explore these issues together by sharing strategies and experiences, challenging norms, and drawing attention to key areas for improvement.