Annual Jack & Ruth Gribben English Lectureship Series Presents:

Mike Palmquist
Friday, November 4, 2011

Online registration click here

Labette Community College will host its 28th annual Jack and Ruth Gribben English Lecture Series on Friday, November 4, 2011. It will take place on LCC's Main Campus in Parsons. Continental Breakfast and Registration begin at 9:00 a.m.

This year's lecture, "Teaching Writing as Conversation: Meeting Students on Familiar Ground," will be presented by Mike Palmquist, Associate Vice Provost for Learning and Teaching, Professor of English, and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University, where he directs the University's Institute for Learning and Teaching. His scholarly interests include writing across the curriculum, the effects of computer and network technologies on writing instruction, and new approaches to scholarly publishing.

His work has appeared in journals including Computers and Composition, Written Communication, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Engineering Education, Kairos, Council of College Teachers of English Studies, and Social Forces, as well as in edited collections. Since 1992, he has coordinated the development of Writing@CSU (http://writing.colostate.edu) and its Web-based learning environment, the Writing Studio. He is also founding editor of the WAC Clearinghouse (http://wac.colostate.edu) and academic writing, a refereed journal focusing on interdisciplinary perspectives on communication across the curriculum, which in 2004 merged with Language and Learning Across the Disciplines to form Across the Disciplines.

Palmquist is co-author, with Kate Kiefer, Jake Hartvigsen, and Barbara Godlew, of Transitions: Teaching Writing in Computer-Supported and Traditional Classrooms, published in 1998 by Ablex, and co-author, with Don Zimmerman, of Writing with a Computer, published in 1999 by Allyn and Bacon. He is also the author of  Joining the Conversation: Writing in College and Beyond (2010),  The Bedford Researcher (third edition, 2010), Designing Writing (2005), The Bedford Bibliographer (a Web-based citation tool released in 2006), the Bedford Research Room (a Web site for students and instructors), and the software program Research Assistant/HyperFolio for English, all published by Bedford/St. Martin's.

Palmquist currently serves as chair of the NCTE College Section Steering Committee and is a member of the NCTE Executive Committee. He is also a member of the CCCC LGBTQ Task Force. He served as the chair of the NCTE College Section Steering Committee Working Group on the Status and Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty, whose policy statement and recommendations are now being considered by the NCTE Executive Committee.

There is no fee to attend and registration must be completed by October 28, 2011. Registration can be completed at www.labette.edu/forms/lecture_reg.htm or by calling (620) 820-1281 or emailing Tammy Wilson at TammyW@labette.edu. For more information on the Jack and Ruth Gribben English Lecture Series, please contact Lindi Forbes, Director of Foundation and Alumni at (620) 820-1212.