Hi everyone! I never wrote to introduce myself, so let me do that now. I'm the associate director of the UW-Madison Writing Center, and I coordinate our Community Writing Assistance program. I've presented on community writing programs (with wonderful colleagues like Tiffany) at several conferences and I co-wrote an article that appeared in last spring's issue of the Community Literacy Journal. I have a deep and abiding interest in this work, and am very much looking forward to sharing ideas with all of you and our participants next fall.
To Tiffany's list of what we might cover in our pre-conference workshop, I would add some kind of intellectual / theoretical grounding -- not that we're going to deliver a lecture (eegads) but that we might offer participants a bibliography, suggestions for further reading. They might be surprised to know, as I was initially, that there's a body of scholarship starting to emerge -- and there's ample opportunity to contribute to it!
I'll post more thoughts as they occur to me. Tif, thanks for starting this!
Cheers,
Melissa
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Melissa, I agree that including a lit review of sorts would be valuable, particularly as a reference for participants in teh workshop. With that in mind, perhaps everyone would be willing to post the texts that have influenced their outreach work.
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