Shannon,<br><br>I don't think my last email made it onto the list. I received an email saying it "bounced" Can you possibly re-post it? (all apologies for sending this current message to everyone)<br><br>Thanks, <br>
<br>Susan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Shannon Carter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu">Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I'm up for the consensus. Thanks for summing that up, hannah. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, as well, for the comments about mentoring and opening things up to more junior scholars in the earliest phases of a research project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Remember, too, that the roundtable presentation portion embedded in our proposal was actually imspired, in part, by the Research Network Forum. For that participants submit works in progress and are paired with a leading expert in that area for feedback and supper in moving the project forward.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>If (now or in the future) we treat <span>the roundtable discussions we were exploring as part of the way to get more, newer bw participants in cbw (with multiple, concurrent discussion tables going on and a very, very short presentation time--8-10 minutes each) perhaps we can accomplish both quality/selectivity and the mentoring of newer scholars/projects.</span></div>
<div><span><br></span></div><div><span>In other words, we could accept the best proposals for the panels in morning and afternoon and other promising yet still too raw/unrefined for general cosumption for the roundtable sessions.<span></span></span></div>
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On Sep 7, 2010, at 9:54 AM, "Kelly Ritter" <<a href="mailto:karitter@uncg.edu" target="_blank">karitter@uncg.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Marcia:<br><br>I like your idea of having senior scholars (or anyone who has interest) helping our junior folks write better proposals. I agree that BW is an area where people don't usually get a lot of help with their scholarship, and that having better work out there benefits us all.<br>
<br>Sorry if I grossed anyone out with my lice comment/oversharing. I promise I don't have it myself, for future encounters!<br><br>Kelly<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Ribble, Marcia (ribbleml) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ribbleml@ucmail.uc.edu" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:ribbleml@ucmail.uc.edu" target="_blank">ribbleml@ucmail.uc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hey, Kelly, hang in there. I don't know of anyone having head lice last forever. It's a shorter</div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">time than pregnancy....</font></div>
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">I like Kelly's idea, but want to add something, maybe because I'm used to thinking in terms of students</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">who could improve their writing with a little help. It makes sense to select the most excellent proposals</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">for presentation, but could we also (I'm thinking of us retired folks here who have no children with head</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2"><font face="tahoma">lice</font>) create a professional writing incubator process to help our junior scholars to improve the quality of</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">their writing? Seems to me that this would gradually raise the status of our field and our scholars if a</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">greater proportion of our folks were sending out publishable quality ms because they'd already gone
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<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">through presubmission critiques. Lots of our BW folks work at institutions where they may not have many</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">other BW folks to get critiques from, and folks outside our field may be willing to help, but not very helpful</font></div>
<div><font face="tahoma" size="2">because they're unaware of our expectations.</font></div>
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<div>I'm torn and can go either way but I think that Kelly makes a good point: fewer, longer discussions is probably better and more useful than briefer ones.</div>
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<div>Hi Hannah:<br>
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I will first admit that I did not read the proposals. Got a cat who needs a zillion day pill regimen and a kid with head lice. And some needy new TAs.<br>
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Having said that, my opinion may not be super-valid. But I think fewer proposals that have more space and time for discussion might be better than including everyone. I say this having been frustrated in recent years by how many mediocre proposals get through
the Cs review process, and hearing that from other attendees as well. We want to balance quality and inclusion; in the case of Cs in general, I think we may be leaning too far in the direction of inclusion.<br>
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If we have 6 really good proposals, to turn the question around, is that enough to make for a good workshop? If so, I would probably vote to limit and perhaps encourage Norris to submit to BWe, making clear that while her proposal wasn't a great fit for this
year's particular pre-conference activity, it *would* be a good submission for a print venue like BWe (or electronic print venue, if you will).<br>
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Kelly<br>
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Hello CBW reviewers (everyone else is getting this, too, but feel free to ignore):<br>
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So, based on people's rankings/responses, the following two items are clear; there is a question at #3 below.<br>
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1. The following six got consistent strongest rankings and we should accept them:<br>
Ianetta--DOE grant<br>
Rigolino--EOP coalition<br>
Hill--reading collaborative/physical plant/resistance<br>
Bryant--student support/eng 100 stretch<br>
Schreyer--adjunct faculty<br>
Olsen--survey results<br>
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2. The following proposal got consistent bottom rankings and we should reject it:<br>
Stevens-Piazza<br>
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3. Here is the question. The following four proposals got middle or mixed rankings:<br>
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Sunderhaus<br>
McLaughlin<br>
Norris<br>
Webb-Sunderhaus<br>
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Please let us know your thoughts on the following:<br>
a. Do we go for greater selectivity, with the idea being that we want to foster a sense that only the strongest proposals/work gets featured at our fabulous precon? Or do we go for greatest inclusivity, to bring more people into the conversation? Is there
a middle ground, to do both? (e.g, ask the four above for posters but not presentations, or something?)<br>
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b. Do we want to define the conference theme tightly, and reject proposals if they don't fit? As in, Norris's proposal, which several people have pointed out should go to BWe but perhaps does not belong in this year's precon?<br>
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Associate Professor of English, Composition & Rhetoric<br>
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