Welcome

The Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association (RMWCA) is a regional chapter of the International Writing Centers Association. RMWCA members include administrators and staff of writing tutoring programs in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, and Montana.  This regional network acts as a support for administrators and student and professional tutors, provides a voice for the West on the IWCA Executive Board, and gathers yearly at the Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference to celebrate and learn from those who tutor writing.

 

 
 

 

What's New

The 2010 CWWTC/Rocky Mountain Peer Tutoring Conference will be held Feb. 12th & 13th at the  University of Denver in Denver, CO, hosted by the Colorado-Wyoming Writing Tutors mini-regional and chaired by Elaina Schonberg. This year’s theme is “Transfer and Transformation in and through the Writing Center."  For further information on registration, proposals, and local accommodations, please contact Eliana at eschonbe@du.edu

 

Call for Proposals

Proposals are due by Jan. 4th, 2010.

The CWWTC and the Rocky Mountain Regional of IWCA invite you to submit a proposal for our joint annual conference to be held Friday, February 12-Saturday, February 13, 2010 at the University of Denver.

We are seeking proposals for

--twenty-minute individual presentations and        --sixty-minute panels or workshops.

--In addition to papers, we are encouraging submissions for innovative and interactive workshops that might foster audience participation.

The theme for this year's conference is "Transfer and Transformation in and through the Writing Center."

Presentations might consider some of the following questions: What of our work transfers for students beyond their consultation? What ideas and skills do our consultants transfer from their home disciplines into their writing center work? What frustrations do students transfer into their work with us? How do we help writers transfer from one culture/language/institution to another? How do we help traditional and non-traditional students transition to school? From school? Between projects/disciplines/genres/styles? How do writing centers transform consultants? Writers? Institutions? How have writing centers transformed or evolved in the past five years? How should they?

Please include the following information with proposal submissions:

1. A cover sheet with the title of the proposed session and name(s) and affiliation(s) and contact information of the presenter(s)

2. A description of the proposed session (no more than 500 words for individual presentations and 750 words for panels and workshops)

3. Audio visual requirements for the presentation.

Please submit proposals electronically to eschonbe@du.edu

We look forward to seeing you in February!