tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35212658239935493372011-04-21T13:11:38.516-05:00Paul's random thoughts on the profession.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07104502240294799035noreply@blogger.comBlogger261100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521265823993549337.post-49872906764408391482007-07-10T23:27:00.000-05:002007-07-10T23:32:40.690-05:00

I've decided to integrate my blog into my website, so I'm migrating again. The url for the new blog site is http://www.public.asu.edu/~pmatsuda/blog.html, but you can always find my most current blog site at http://blog.jslw.org/.

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Years ago, during a conversation with one of the colleagues at my home institution, I sensed a slight difference in how each of us referred to people we meet at academic conferences. I said something like "I really enjoy getting together with friends at those conferences." "Friends?" she questioned. "You mean, colleagues?" Well, colleagues, yes. But I'd also consider them my friends. She then

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The Chronicle: Daily news: 05/25/2007 -- 08: Japan's New Science Adviser Wants to Shake Up Higher EducationChanging the entrance exam system might be useful. Changing the hierarchical system? Hmm...it would be relatively easy to change the system, but that doesn't address cultural practices, which is much harder to change--especially with a top-down approach.

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Christina Ortmeier-Hooper has successfully defended her dissertation on Tuesday, May 15, 2007. Congratulations, Christina! Well done!

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I haven't been able to post anything on my blog for a while. It was partly because of many events happening at the same time--teaching, administrative duties, hosting guest speakers (Bruce Horner and Min-Zhan Lu), dissertation defenses and exams as well as CCCC, AAAL, Temple University conference and other speaking engagements. But there was another big reason: I was moving toward a major

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Christina Ortmeier-Hooper, one of my doctoral advisees, has accepted a tenure-track position in the School of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Christina also received the D. Scott Enright TESOL Interest Section Service Award at this year's TESOL. She spearheaded the effort to create the Second Language Writing Interest Section at TESOL and served as its founding chair.

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Here is the latest:2008CCCC: New Orleans, April 2-5 TESOL: New York, April 2-52009CCCC: San Francisco, March 11-14 TESOL: Denver, March 25-282010CCCC: Louisville, March 17-20TESOL: Boston, March 24-272011CCCC: Atlanta, April 6-9TESOL: New Orleans, March 16-192012CCCC: St. Louis, March 21-24TESOL: TBA2013CCCC: TBATESOL: Dallas, March 20-23

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I've been too lazy busy to update my blog, but here is a report from my visit to University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.My primary hosts were Dani Goldstein and Shereen Inayatulla, doctoral students in rhetoric and composition at UWM--it was great getting to know them. They picked me up at the airport and drove me around, which brought back lots of fond memories from my Wisconsin days. What a treat!I

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http://www.iiebooks.org/funforunstat.htmlThis is a resource I wish I had when I was a student. Whenever I looked for external sources of funding for my studies, I was discouraged because most of them were for U.S. permanent residents or citizens. Many of the grants were also off-limits to international graduate students unless they had a collaborator who qualified.I haven't actually seen the

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I'm writing this at Roanoke Airport, on my way home from Virginia Tech. At Diana George's invitation, Bruce Horner, Tom Fox and I got together for a panel and a workshop on language differences. It turned out to be a great combination, all of us representing more or less the same critical perspective but contributing different types of examples in different styles of presentation.Virigina Tech is

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WRITING RESEARCH ACROSS BORDERSAN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE2008 Santa Barbara Conference on Writing ResearchUniversity of California Santa BarbaraFebruary 22-24, 2008Call for ProposalsTheme: Writing Research Across BordersDue Date: May 1Length: under 300 wordsThe Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and the Writing Programs at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of

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The first major trip of this semester was a visit to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). I knew the name "El Paso" since when I was in elementary school because "El Paso" and "Houston" were the names of two lines of shoes produced by a Japanese shoe company. I didn't know much else about El Paso before--but I learned a lot about it during this trip.El Paso is located in the far western tip

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Here is the information about the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing Open Meeting at the 2007 meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Committee on Second Language WritingCo-chairs: Paul Kei Matsuda and Susan Miller-CochranDay: Saturday, March 24, 2007Time: 9:00 am–12:00 pm (Open)Location: Concourse H, Concourse LevelAnnounced in program as an open meeting. We

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07104502240294799035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521265823993549337.post-25671002250565252742007-01-30T10:18:00.000-05:002007-02-01T23:16:52.920-05:00

I just found out that the keynote speakers at this year's commencement are George H. W. Bush (aka GWB's Dad) and Bill Clinton.

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Someone just emailed me and asked if it was just a rumor--that the Ph.D. Program in Composition Studies at UNH was phasing out. Well, it's just a rumor.

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I just received a brilliant question about writing assessment from someone named "shirin," a Ph.D. student at Tehran University. I wrote a response, but the email address wasn't working. Shirin, if you see this message, please contact me again and give me an alteranative email address.

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CALL FOR PAPERSSubmission GuidelinesThe Asian Journal of English Language Teaching (AJELT) encourages submission of manuscripts that (1) link ESL/EFL theory, research, and pedagogy and (2) relate specifically to teaching English to Asians at the university level. Reviews of books and multimedia resources and reports of ongoing projects are also welcome.Manuscripts. Submissions should no more

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Here are my (still very tentative) plans for the next year and a half--my sabbatical year. Since I have received the Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, I will be on a year-long leave from June 2007 to August 2008. In general, I won't be available to anyone except those who are collaborating with me on a research project or whose dissertations I am chairing. I will still be available

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07104502240294799035noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521265823993549337.post-20379979137605803082007-01-22T03:03:00.000-05:002007-01-22T03:08:36.035-05:00

Cheryl Glenn, the CCCC Convention Chair, is interested in finding ways to help international participants to get the most out of the 2007 CCCC Convention in New York (March 21-24, 2007). Below, I have attached her message to the Executive Committee with a list of sessions with an international theme. Each year, CCCC hosts a morning reception for first-time CCCC attendees from 7 a.m. to 8:15 a.m.-

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A friend of mine, who has just gotten a WPA job asked me about an interesting institutional arrangement in U.S. higher education, which has not been discussed widely in the literature. Since I wrote a fairly extensive response that might be interesting to some people, I thought I'd post it here as well:I don't think there has been enough discussion of issues surrounding having mainstream and ESL

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You don't, of course.But it's impossible to have read everything, and at some point, we need to start publishing--otherwise no one will ever be able to publish anything.Some of my grad students in the research methods course last semester asked, "When can we say we've read enough?"This may seem like a complicated question, but here is my rule-of-thumb answer: When you know more than your

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Call for Conference ProposalLiteracies--Personal, Professional, Academic October 12-13, 2007 The University of New Hampshire is offering a composition conference with keynotes Ellen Cushman (Michigan State University), Paul Kei Matsuda (University of New Hampshire), Gwendolyn D. Pough (Syracuse University) and Stuart Selber (Penn State University). The focus will be on exploring literacy as it is

Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07104502240294799035noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3521265823993549337.post-72388235185559193982007-01-02T21:18:00.000-05:002007-06-14T01:45:33.314-05:00

Happy New Year to you all!Nagoya Symposium is coming up in about 9 1/2 months, and the deadline for proposals--January 31, 2007, is fast approaching. I'm glad to report that a good number of people have submitted their proposals, but given the general tendencies, many people will likely wait until the last few weeks of January to submit their proposals. Even writing teachers and researchers are

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In MemoriamDonald Morison Murray (1924-2006)Donald Morison Murray, Professor Emeritus at the University of New Hampshire, died of heart failure in the morning on Saturday, December 30, 2006. He was 82. After returning from World War II, where he served as a paratrooper, Don attended the University of New Hampshire on a G. I. bill, majoring in English. He became a journalist and, as an editorial

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Buying books has never been an issue for me. I grew up surrounded by books, and I still love being in a room filled with books. One of my best childhood memories is climing my father's tall bookcase and grabbing books from the top shelf. (Note: Don't try this at home.) My parents were not particularly wealthy, but they always made sure that I lived a life rich with literacy. As a child, I would

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I've migrated to a new Blogger site so I can take advantage of the new features. Hope this won't create any major problems.I will keep the original blog site available for a while. I may decide to archive the postings elsewhere, but I'll try to make them accessible from this site. Stay tuned.In any case, please use this URL to access this web site--in case I decide to migrate to another server

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