Migrating (again)

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/.

Dr. Ortmeier-Hooper!

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

A New Frontier

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 transition in my professional career.

In January 2008, I will be joining the English Department at the Arizona State University as an Associate Professor. There, I will work with doctoral students in Rhetoric, Composition and Linguistics; master's students in TESOL and Linguistics; and undergraduate linguistics majors. I will also be working with students in the new Ph.D. Program in Applied Linguistics.

I will, of course, have an opportunity to teach advanced graduate seminars on second language writing on a regular basis.

ASU is a great place to pursue my interest in preparing the next generation of second language writing researchers and teachers for obvious reasons: the program structure is ideal for my interdisciplinary work.

It seems that there is already a growing interest among ASU graduate students in second language writing. Over the years, I have met a number of impressive graduate students from ASU with an interest in second language writing, and I am really looking forward to collaborating with them on projects and contributing to their professional development.

It's also exciting to be able to work with a large number of outstanding faculty members in my own fields. Within the English Department, my colleagues in linguistics/TESOL will include Karen Adams, Dawn Bates, Elly Van Gelderen, Mark James and Roy Major; rhetoric and composition colleagues include Philip Bernick, Sharon Crowley, Greg Glau, Maureen Daly Goggin, Peter Goggin, Keith Miller, John Ramage, Duane Roen and Patricia Webb.

Some of my colleagues in other departments and campuses will include Akua Duku Anokye, James Paul Gee, Carole Edelsky, Chris Faltis, Patricia Friedrich, Sarah Hudelson, Jeff MacSwan, Barry Maid, Aya Matsuda, Kellie Rolstad, Bryan Smith and Terry Wiley.

I will be leaving UNH at the end of Spring 2007. In June, I will go to Malaysia to speak at Asia TEFL conference. I will spend the rest of the summer as a visiting researcher at the University of Hong Kong in June and then at the Graduate School of International Development at Nagoya University from July through the end of September.

At Nagoya University, I will teach a course on qualitative research in second language writing. For the rest of the time, I will be working on various research and writing projects while preparing for the Symposium on Second Language Writing, which will take place in September at Nagoya Gakuin University.

What that means, of course, is that my family has to relocate to the Valley of the Sun in May or June. It'll be a challenge, but I'm hoping that it'll somehow work out.

Congratulations, Christina!

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.

Congratulations, Christina! UMass is lucky to have you!

CCCC/TESOL Future Convention Dates

Here is the latest:

2008
CCCC: New Orleans, April 2-5 
TESOL: New York, April 2-5

2009
CCCC: San Francisco, March 11-14 
TESOL: Denver, March 25-28

2010
CCCC: Louisville, March 17-20
TESOL: Boston, March 24-27

2011
CCCC: Atlanta, April 6-9
TESOL: New Orleans, March 16-19

2012
CCCC: St. Louis, March 21-24
TESOL: TBA

2013
CCCC: TBA
TESOL: Dallas, March 20-23

CCCC 2007 L2 Writing Meeting

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 Writing
Co-chairs: Paul Kei Matsuda and Susan Miller-Cochran
Day: Saturday, March 24, 2007
Time: 9:00 am–12:00 pm (Open)
Location: Concourse H, Concourse Level
Announced in program as an open meeting.

We will discuss the status of L2 writing issues at CCCC. We will also plan panels, workshops, Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting, and other L2-writing events for CCCC 2008.

Everyone is welcome--you don't have to be a committee member to join us! Please feel free to drop by anytime during the meeting.

UNH Commencement Speakers

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.

Rumor Has It

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.

shirin

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.

CFP: Asian Journal of English Language Teaching

CALL FOR PAPERS

Submission Guidelines

The 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 than 20-pages double-spaced in length; reports should be no longer than 12 pages. Authors should include a cover page with the full title of the paper, the author’s name, e-mail address, postal address, phone number, and if available, the fax number. The author’s name should not appear elsewhere in the article.

Articles and reports should be sent as e-mail attachments (i.e., Microsoft Word documents) to AJELT Editors, Gwendolyn Gong and Peter Gu .

Review essays should be sent as electronic submissions to Review Editor, Lixian Jin .

It is important to include a statement indicating that the submission is neither currently being reviewed nor will be submitted for review at the same time the manuscript is being considered by AJELT.

References. In the text, references should be cited using the author’s last name and year of publication. If quotations are used, these should additionally have page numbers (Wong & Lam, 1993, p. 291). The reference list should be arranged alphabetically following the guidelines of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). TESOL Quarterly and English for Specific Purposes Journal follow these guidelines.

Abstracts. All articles should have an abstract between 100 and 200 words in length.

Tables and Figures. Numerical tables can be typeset. Figures (graphs, illustrations, symbols) must be submitted as camera ready.

You should receive acknowledgement of receipt of your article, followed by comments from referees. Articles accepted for inclusion in the next volume should be revised and returned in two forms: on paper and in electronic form.

The editors reserve the right to make minor changes within articles prior to publication.

Plans

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 for talks and consulting, but no more than usual because I will need to work on my writing projects.

In June, I will be traveling to various parts of Asia--Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto, Kobe, and possibly Beijing. From July through the end of September, I will be in Japan in preparation for the Symposium in mid-September. I will likely be a visiting researcher at a university in Japan--assuming that everything goes as planned.

I will be back in the States for the UNH Conference in October and NCTE in November. For the rest of the year, I will be working on my research and writing projects. I will, of course, attend a few conferences in Spring 2008.

AILA will be in late August, possibly during the first week of school. But it'll be in Essen, Germany. How could I possibly miss it?

Some of these plans are still very tentative because a few big pieces are missing. Not knowing exactly where I will be or what I will be doing is both exciting and unsettling at the same time.

CCCC 2007 and International Participants

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.--before the Opening General Session. If this is your first CCCC, you'll receive an invitation to this social event, where you will get to meet other first timers as well as many seasoned participants. I will be there to meet many of you as well.

To recognize the presence and contribution of all international participants, Cheryl has also asked me to compile a list of names and email addresses of international participants, including international students and faculty who are studying and/or teaching in North America. If you come from a country other than the United States, please visit the following web site to get on the list of international participants at CCCC 2007.

http://matsuda.jslw.org/cccc/committee/international.html

Also, the CCCC Committee on Second Language Writing will host an annual open meeting Saturday morning. Susan Miller-Cochran and I have requested a room from 9 to 12 on Saturday, March 24, 2007. As usual, it will not appear on the session schedule in the program because it is a committee meeting; instead, the time and room will be listed under committee meetings. At the meeting, we will discuss the status of L2 issues at CCCC and plan activities and sessions for the following year. Please feel free to drop by even for a few minutes just to say "hi" to a friendly community of L2 writing people at CCCC and to learn about various professional opportunities.

From: Cheryl Glenn
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:04 AM
To: CCCC Executive Committee.
Subject: [cccc-executive-committee] Sessions with International Perspectives at CCCC 2007


Dear Colleagues,

As you all probably know by now, this year's convention will host folks from every state in the union as well as from twenty countries outside the USA. I very much hope that our international guests will have a productive time with us--and that they'll return next year. Meeting in midtown Manhattan is a financial burden for all of us, to be sure, but for folks from Turkey, Lebanon, and China, the financial investment is even greater. So I'm thinking that if we work together to make the convention worth their investment, we'll also be enriching our own convention experiences and professional perspectives.

To that end, I am enlisting your support in introducing yourself to these folks, many of whom will be first-time attendees. You may recognize them by their institutional affiliation or their burgundy ribbon. I also encourage you to make the time to attend one of their sessions, which I've listed below. (I think I've located all of them and apologize ahead of time if I've missed any. Please feel free to emend and/or circulate my list.)

Thank you for considering my request.
I'm looking forward to seeing you all in March!

Cheryl

International Perspectives

A.03 The Circulation of Discourse across Institutional Boundaries: How (New) Genres (Re)Shape the Practices of Placement, Assessment, and Public Discourse
A.16 Still Fighting After All These Years?: Reflections on Jane Tompkins’ “Fighting Words”
B.03 Cultures of Writing and Writing Instruction: Toward Expressing Identity in an International Context
C.13 Transnational Rhetorics and Pedagogies
C.33 The Literature of Everyday Life: Teaching Creative Writing and Screen Plays with History and the Obscure
E.29 Re-thinking Voice(s)
F.00 Double Trouble: Misunderstanding Chinese Rhetorics
F.10 Individually and Institutionally Constructed Language Identities: Lessons from Multilingual Students
F.20 Pacific Islander Rhetorics: Language, Nationhood, and De/colonization
F.32 Interrogating Theory and Practices with ESL and Writing
H.25 Re-presenting Language Identities in Jamaican Composition Classrooms
I.12 Writing a Scholarly Identity: Disciplinary Identities, Discursive Cultures, and Rhetorical Agency
I.10 Trans-National Rhetoric: Queering Heteronormative Stated Identities
I.32 The Power of the People's Language and the Culture of Literacy
J.00 False Identities and the Lost Honour of Rhetoric
J.18 Forging Community Identities through Service Learning: The Complicated National and International Conversations in an Era of Immigration, Gentrification, and Migration
J.25 Grounded Theory in Practice
J.30 Advancing the Multiliteracy of ESL/EFL Students
K.29 Preparing Students to Communicate as Professionals through Grant Writing, Engineering Design, and 'Reality-Based' Approaches
L.04 Secret Identities Unmasked: Composition Meets Creative Nonfiction Face to Face
L.29 Discriminatory Institutions and Resistant Identities
M.04 The Visual Rhetoric of Ethnic Identity
M.10 Crafting Rhetorical Space: Public Discourse and the Forging of Complex Identities
M.29 Where the Bloody Hell Are We? Subverting and Resisting the Dominant Discourse through Hip Hop, Oral Tradition, and Online Text
O.12 Genre, Language, and Identity: Multiple Perspectives on the Study and Teaching of Genre
O.16 Escape from Flatland: Towards a Multi-Dimensional Identity
O.29 Assigning and Assessing Student Writing Across the Curriculum
P.01 Visual Constructions and Disciplinary Identity
P.06 Composition, Civic Responsibilities, and Situated Identities: Historical, Theoretical, and Pedagogical Perspectives on Teaching for Citizenship
P.09 (Re)Presenting Toulmin
P.30 Cultures of Writing and Writing Instruction: Toward Expressing Identity in an International Context
P.32 Perspectives on the Writing-Intensive Classroom
P.34 Identity, Ethnography, and Literacy Biographies

Cheryl Glenn
Professor of English
Associate Chair, Conference on College Composition and Communication
Co-director, Center for Civic Engagement and Democratic Deliberation
232 South Burrowes Building
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-6201
814/863-0271 (o)
814/863-7285 (fax)

Visit the CCCC 2007 Convention Preview: www.ncte.org/cccc/conv

CFP: 2007 UNH Composition Conference

Call for Conference Proposal
Literacies--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 learned inside and outside of school, and its multiple uses.

We invite proposals for 75-minute concurrent sessions. Sessions can be proposed by an individual or a group of presenters. We prefer interactive sessions and hope to avoid the reading of papers. Among the possible topics to be addressed are: literacy, technology and accessibility; multi-media literacies; virtual reading and writing communities; non-school sponsors of literacy; literacy norms and second language learners; literacy and popular culture; and new discourse conventions in academic writing.

Proposals should include: Session Title; Proposal Type (individual or group); Complete contact information of each presenter including name, address, daytime phone and email address; A 400-word session description as well as a 50-word summary.

Send to:

UNH English Department
Attn: Composition Conference
95 Main Street
Durham, NH 03824

Postmark deadline: Monday, May 14, 2007

Please direct all questions to Sabina Foote.

http://www.unh.edu/composition/conference/

In Memoriam: Don Murray

In Memoriam
Donald 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 writer for Boston Herald, received Pulitzer Prize at the age of 29. After a brief career as a freelance writer, he joined the University of New Hampshire faculty in 1963, where he established himself as one of the most prominent leaders of the writing process movement in composition studies.

His short 1972 article, "Teach Writing as a Process, Not Product" provided an influential catch phrase that stimulated the development of the process movement in composition studies. Various editions of A writer teaches writing, first published in 1968, also inspired generations of writing teachers.

Even after his retirement, he served as a writing coach to many while continuing to produce books as well as regular columns for the Boston Globe. He was also a neighborhood hero. Everyone knew Don Murray when he came into the Bagelry or Young’s Restaurant for breakfast.

He lost his second wife, Minne Mae, in February 2005, after years of fighting Parkinson’s disease. But he continued to cope with the joys and sorrows of his life by taking people out to dinner, by buying bigger and bigger computer monitors, by driving around in a new red Volvo, and by writing.

Don's favorite quote from Roman poet Horace (65-8 B.C.E.) was "nulla dies sine linea" (never a day without a line). He did indeed write everyday. He kept a log of the number of words he produced each day, taking particular pride in the fact that he kept up even in hospital bed.

In what has become his last Globe column, Don reflected on the reason he never took a job as an editor: “I'm a writer. I want to stay a writer. No promotions please.”

The Globe quotes Don’s daughter Anne as saying: "He basically lived through his writing. In some ways that was more real to him than his real life. Everything had to be sifted through his writing—the good and bad. His whole life was writing."

He was a writer indeed. Even those who have never met him will remember him through his writing.

http://www.unh.edu/journalism/donmurray.htm

Migrating

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 again:

http://blog.jslw.org/