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2007
2006

Featured Speaker: Dr. Chris Anson

On Monday, June 9, Professor Chris Anson will be helping us understand what it means to support reading and writing across the curriculum. To learn more about Chris Anson, please read the following excerpt from his
Professional Biography webpage. Or click the url at the bottom of this
page.

Anson is University Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the
Campus Writing and Speaking Program at North Carolina State University,
where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in language,
composition, and literacy and works with faculty in nine colleges to reform
undergraduate education in the areas of writing and speaking. Before moving to NCSU in 1999, he spent fifteen years at the University of Minnesota, where he directed the Program in Composition from 1988-96 and was Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor. He received his Ph.D. and second M.A. in English with a specialization in composition studies from Indiana University, and his B.A. and first M.A. in English from Syracuse University.

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An avid writer, Chris has published thirteen books and over 80 journal
articles and book chapters and is on the editorial or reader's boards of ten
journals, including WPA, CCC, CE, RTE, Across the Disciplines, Written
Communication, Assessing Writing, and The Journal of Writing Assessment. His last book project, The WAC Casebook: Scenes for Faculty Reflection and Program Development (Oxford University Press, 2002) is an edited collection of scenarios for faculty development in writing across the curriculum. He has recently finished a new book on digital literacies with Richard Beach, Lee-Ann Breuch, and Thom Swiss, which is due to appear in November, 2007.

Chris has given over 350 conference papers, keynote addresses, and invited lectures and faculty workshops across the U.S. and in 18 foreign countries.

To learn more about Chris Anson, visit the following URL:
http://home.earthlink.net/~theansons/Portcover.html