The 2024 Peck Symposium will be happening on Fri., Feb. 23, at MTSU, and will feature a keynote and a workshop led by Dr. Ashley Joyce Holmes of Georgia State University.

“PLACE-MAKING AND WRITING: LEARNING ON LOCATION IN A CHANGING WORLD”: A KEYNOTE AND WORKSHOP“

That will be followed by a business meeting for the Mid-South WPA. Feel free to share this information with colleagues at your institution and others around the region! Attendance is free, and spots are limited. Lunch will be provided.

• Time: 9:30am-3pm
• Location: Tom H. Jackson Building, MTSU
• Register by February 12: bit.ly/peck24

If you have any questions, please email Eric Detweiler: Eric.Detweiler@mtsu.edu.

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The University of Alabama First-Year Writing program has invited John Warner (Inside Higher Ed, The Atlantic, Why They Can’t Write, and others) to give a presentation and workshop on the pedagogical implications of ChatGPT. ChatGPT has been very much in the news recently; it’s an artificial intelligence chatbot that can write just about anything on demand.

John will give a large lecture from 5:30-7 pm on Monday, March 6, and a smaller (catered) lunchtime workshop for GTAs on Tuesday, March 7.

Both events are free of charge. If you are available, please join us! It would be great to see you.

Recommended Hotels near the University of Alabama Campus

Hotel Capstone  (on campus)                                                 $161
320 Paul Bryant Drive,
Tuscaloosa, AL. 35401
1-800-477-2262                    

Hampton Inn Tuscaloosa-University                                     $128
600 Harper Lee Drive,
Tuscaloosa, AL.  35404
205-553-9800   

Embassy Suites by Hilton Tuscaloosa Downtown                $164
2410 University Blvd
Tuscaloosa, AL  35401
205-561-2500

Comfort Inn & Suites Downtown near University                 $105
2285 Jack Warner Parkway,
Tuscaloosa, AL. 35401
205-614-9600

Home2 Suites by Hilton Tuscaloosa Downtown University   $160
2610 University Blvd.
Tuscaloosa, Al  35401
205-349-2002

Hotel Indigo Tuscaloosa Downtown                                      $148
111 Greensboro Avenue
Tuscaloosa, AL  35401
205469-1660

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If you’d like to be part of this mailing happening, please fill out this form by Friday, February 5, 2021.We will email you information for your pen pals and mail you materials in mid-February.

If you have any questions, please email Amie Whittemore: amie [dot] whittemore[at] mtsu [dot] edu.

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Dr. Tulley’s new book, How Writing Faculty Write: Strategies for Process, Product, and Productivity, will be available at the symposium.

These copies will be available for $20 cash! That’s $5.95 off the sticker price.

You may also order advanced copies from the Utah State University Press website with a 20% off code for $20.76. You’ll need to contact Julie Barger or Kate Pantelides for that code.

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Please consider joining us on Friday, April 13 for the 2018 Peck Research on Writing Symposium, sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University’s Department of English. This event has two purposes: 1) to engage writing faculty from area universities and secondary schools in considering timely issues in the research and teaching of writing, and 2) to bring together members of the WPA Midsouth affiliate of the Council of Writing Program Administrators for our annual meeting. This entire event is free, but space is limited, so each individual attendee must reserve a spot in our Google form (linked here).

We are pleased to announce that this year’s invited speaker is Dr. Christine Tulley, Director of the Masters in Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Findlay and author of the forthcoming How Writing Faculty Write.

The Symposium will be held at the Miller Education Center (parking is ample and passes are not required). Thanks to the generosity of W.W. Norton and Bedford/St. Martin’s, light breakfast and lunch will be provided at no cost to attendees. We do, however, respectfully request that only those certain to attend reply so that we will have an accurate headcount.

Tentative Schedule

8:30-10:00 WPA Midsouth Executive Board Meeting

9:15-10:00 Complimentary breakfast and book fair

10:00-11:00 Dr. Christine Tulley Keynote Address

11:00-12:30 Dr. Christine Tulley Interactive Workshop

12:30-1:45 Complimentary Lunch

1:45-3:00 WPA Midsouth affiliate meeting; Dr. Tony Baker Interactive Workshop

Complimentary reception after.

*Those not interested in attending the WPA affiliate meeting are welcome to stay and continue the day’s conversations with other participants or are free to depart after lunch.

We encourage you to forward this message to colleagues who might be interested in these topics. Please respond by Monday, March 12.

We look forward to hearing from you and hope you can join us.

Julie Myatt Barger and Kate Pantelides
Co-Presidents, WPA Midsouth

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