[ntwca] ntwca news!

[Shannon Carter]

The Fall 2006 issue of the NTWCA newsletter is now available online at
http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/ntwca/newsletter.htm. Thanks, Alice Newsome! 

CONFERENCES:
Please plan to attend our Fall 2006 Conference at Tarrant County
College-Northwest in Fort Worth, Texas, on September 22, 2006. Information
about parking, program details, and directions to the campus are available
online at http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/ntwca/conferences.htm. 

Keynote speaker: Richard Enos, Professor and Holder of the Lillian Radford
Chair of Rhetoric & Composition at Texas Christian University. 

Shannon Carter (A&M-Commerce), Lucy Smith (Founder and Director of Texas
HOPE Literacy), and Jake Pichnarcik (A&M-Commerce will follow Dr. Enos's
keynote address with a presentation that describes a prison literacy program
(Texas HOPE Literacy) that trains literate inmates to teach illiterate
inmates to read and write in English. The program--now almost ten years
old--won the 2006 Governor's Award for Innovation and is currently in place
at four units in the Texas prison system. Please visit www.hopelit.com 
for more information about this exciting program. 

Keynote speaker for our Fall 2007 conference will be Valerie Balester,
Executive Director of the Writing Center at Texas A&M-College Station and
keynoter for the International Writing Centers Association 2007. 

Keynoter for the Spring 2007 conference will be the winner of the Mary Nell
Kivikko Award for Excellence in Scholarship. Please see
http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/ntwca/mnk_award.htm for more. 

Hope to see all of you in a few weeks!

--Shannon


Dr. Shannon Carter
Director of the Writing Center and the Basic Writing Program
(2006-2007, Interim Director of First-Year Composition)
2006-2008, Vice President of the North Texas Writing Centers Association
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
PO Box 3011
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
shannon_carter at tamu-commerce.edu
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/
 

-----Original Message-----
From: lucysmith at hopelit.com [mailto:lucysmith at hopelit.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:11 AM
To: Shannon Carter
Subject: Emailing: nav03

Interesting aspect of researching "motivation..." We certainly fit in this
category, thought not this grant. It's another leg of the research.

Lucy Smith, MEd, CALT, QI
Texas HOPE Literacy
P. O. Box 905
Hurst, TX 76053
817-282-9489 or 817-919-3161
lucysmith at hopelit.com
www.hopelit.com