IWCA Past President Roberta Kjesrud has prepared these two presentations as a way of reviewing the IWCA Board’s accomplishments during the past year. Prezi: http://prezi.com/jazpsrf9kxd6/present/?auth_key=2ty7gyc&follow=w97tomsahxwb#0 Screencast: http://screencast.com/t/q9SI2bwaWy

In addition to our regular business of awarding research grants, acknowledging outstanding scholarship, and planning and implementing the Collaborative at Cs and one of the biggest and best IWCA/NCPTW joint conferences to date (thank you Mid-Atlantic!), the IWCA Executive Board forwarded several initiatives in response to membership concerns about how current economic realities affect writing [...]

Michele Eodice, IWCA President 2007-2009, passes the gavels to incoming IWCA President Roberta Kjesrud at NCTE 2009. In this letter, I plan to • Introduce IWCA officers and board, • Summarize Board Biz, and • Invite your thoughts and ideas. If you are anything like I was before I got involved in this enterprise, you [...]

Cheers! Join me as I celebrate 20 years since my first day as a peer tutor.  When I look back, I see my professor Tom Reigstad (it was an internship experience for his class on the teaching of writing that placed me as a peer tutor) sending me on a path that would later define [...]

A new year:  I didn’t think I did too much holiday feasting, but that belt sure is tightening! Most of us move toward middle age by letting our belt slip to a next opening…we pretend not to notice how we are no longer letting that buckle slip into the most used and worn in comfortable [...]

I am amazed that I can actually say I wrote this “Letter from Norman” while in Norman because I have been traveling more this summer than I have been in Oklahoma. Yet travel is getting more difficult for all of us; with peak gas prices, airline delays, and shrinking travel budgets, it is a challenge [...]

Letter from Norman, March 2008 Last year my letter from Norman noted the wild weather patterns we experience in our home towns and inside our institutions. A year later I have to say that wild weather is still with us: the December ice storm here in Oklahoma altered our campus landscape dramatically, downing almost 1,000 [...]