2013 Poster Session

Building Bridges to Professionalization: An Undergraduate Researcher Poster Session (CCCC 2013; Las Vegas, Nevada)

This poster session, organized by a team of undergraduate students and faculty, features students from a variety of undergraduate programs in professional writing, writing studies, rhetoric and composition, and related programs.

Students’ posters will be on display at Top of the Riviera South, Monaco Tower, 24^th Floor, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Thursday, March 14. Students will be available to chat with visitors from 10:00 to 10:30 AM (between the Opening Session and Session A) and from 11:45 AM to 12:15 PM (between sessions A and B).

Participants

• Jackie Adler and Maggie Kollar (Marquette University): From Writer to Tutor: Easing the Transition
• Elizabeth Barteau (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology): Do Students Transfer Skills Learned in Technical Writing Courses into Other Aspects of their Academic Careers?
• Molly Herber, Tom McGuire, and Leandra Wolf (University of Notre Dame): Meeting in the Middle: Peer Tutors and Professors Discuss Goals, Grades, and Forming Student Writers
• Eric Hunter (Florida International University): Divergent Thinking and the Multimodal Composition Process
• Karen Krumpak and Elizabeth Benshoff (Miami University): Training Better Consultants: The First Step to Making Better Writers
• Melanie Laberge (Worcester Polytechnic Institute): The Rhetoric of Trade Journals: An Analysis of Chemical Engineering Professionalization in Print
• Jack Labriola (SUNY Cortland): Networking Knowledge: The Link to Successful Communication
• Keegan Livoti (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology): Instructional Resources on Writing Center Websites: Prototyping How Small Writing Centers Can Build a Free- and Open-Access Network of Writing Resources
• Natalie Midiri (Rutgers University Camden): Can We Call it Research? Undergraduate Anxieties in the Humanities
• Katie Morris (York College of Pennsylvania): A Writer’s Distress
• Victoria Morrow (Arizona State University): Searching for Superman: The Role of Language in the Corporate Education Reform Movement
• Emily Jo Schwaller (Montana State University): E-mailing and its Effects on Construction of Professional Identity in Workplace Communication
• Emily Seiders, Ray Fu, and Megan Koehler (Miami University): Creating Universal Meaning: Using Metaphors to Edify and Explain in Writing Center Consultations and Writing Instruction
• Jonaki Singh, Josephine Marescot, Noshee Mahmood, and Pedro Alfonso (St. Johns University): Scribing, Re-Inscribing, Describing: Problem-Posing an Organic Tutor Development Program
• Abigail Smoake (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology): The Accessibility of Patient Education Materials
• Sonja Trierweiler and Alyson Gines (Michigan State University): Conceptions of the Writing Process in the Writing Center: The Professional Writing Program Influence
• Denise Umubyeyi (University of Notre Dame): Narrative Writing and its Transformative Potential

Poster Session Planning Team:

Alyssa-Rae Hug, St. John’s University; and Kelsey O’Connell, Jessie L. Moore, Rebecca Pope-Ruark, and Paula Rosinski, Elon University. Please direct feedback and questions to jmoore28@elon.edu.