Thanks to all who joined us for the first of many Third Thursday Talks. With three faculty members in attendance along with a number of students in various stages of the PhD process, we had a very productive conversation. We discussed many national organizations that rhet/comp graduate students can be a part of, whether by attending their conferences or joining a committee. Please see links to the following:
Rhetoric Society of America: RSA (http://www.rhetoricsociety.org/aws/RSA/pt/sp/home_page)
- Biannual Conference
- Biannual Institute
Southeast Writing Center Association: SWCA (http://www.iwca-swca.org/index.html)
- State Meeting
- Summer Institute
- Annual Conference (http://www.iwca-swca.org/Conferences.html)
Writing Program Administrators Graduate Organization: WPA-GO (http://wpacouncil.org/wpa-go)- Funding for Grad student travel
- Awards
- Currently looking for a Master’s student representative
College Composition and Communication
- Annual Conference (http://www.ncte.org/cccc)
- Research Network Forum
- Digital Poster Session
National Council of Teachers of English: NCTE (http://www.ncte.org/)
- Annual Conference
South Atlantic Modern Language Association: SAMLA (http://samla.memberclicks.net/)
Computers and Writing: (http://siteslab.org/cwcon/2015/cfp)
Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Wikki Project: http://www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/category/drc-wiki/
We also discussed the fact that while service is important, publishing should be a PhD student’s primary objective and here are some publishing opportunities to get started with:
Hybrid Pedagogy: http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/submissions/
The conversation has motivated the students in attendance to form a writing group that will meet and hold each other accountable. Please look out for announcements concerning the writing group as well as the next Third Thursday Talk, where we will continue the discussion of publishing in rhetoric and composition!