Delivering the Story: The Canons of Rhetoric

***Open to faculty, graduates, and undergraduates***

The Federation Rhetoric Committee of the Federation of North Texas Area Universities
Texas A&M University-Commerce
February 23, 2007

The Rhetoric Symposium is now accepting proposals for papers and panels dealing with contemporary issues of the five canons of rhetoric--invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery—which we define broadly to incorporate a wide variety of research interests.

We welcome submissions from all areas including but not limited to: Rhetoric and Composition, English, Journalism, Political Science, Education, History, Film Studies, Media Studies, Art, Psychology, and Sociology.

Suggestions of possible areas of interest:

Critical Theory Pedagogy Rhetoric & Technology Composition & Rhetoric Creative Writing Science Fiction Writing Center Theory & Practice Basic Writing

Academia/Professional Issues Rhetoric & Philosophy ESL & Composition Pop Culture Film Studies Rhetoric of Mass Media Literary Studies Computers and Writing

The keynote speaker will be Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey of Florida State University. Her research interests include Composition Theory and Writing Assessment, especially Portfolio Assessment. Dr. Blake Yancey is the author of several significant works including her latest book Delivering College Composition: The Fifth Canon. She is a Professor and Director of the graduate program in Rhetoric and Composition at FSU. She also co-founded the journal Assessing Writing and co-founded and co-directs the National Research Coalition on Electronic Portfolios.

*Deadline for Submission of 250-Word Abstract (electronic format preferred): December 1, 2006.

*Individual and Panel Proposals Welcome

Please send all inquiries to:

eflanagan@leo.tamuc.edu

or via USPS

Rhetoric Symposium

c/o Elise Flanagan

Department of Literature and Languages

PO Box 3011
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429-3011