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style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000'>What We Do in Composition and the
Writing Center: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000'>It May Not Be What You Think!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Faculty Development Workshop<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000'>Tuesday, October 6, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Hall of Languages 106<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'>(Communication Skills Center)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'>12:00-1:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Dr. Salvatore Attardo, Head, Department of Literature
and Languages<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'>&<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Dr. Tabetha Adkins, Director of the Communication
Skills Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'>A discussion of the practices and theories <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'>in the Department of Literature and Languages <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt'>composition classes and Writing Center. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'>Register by emailing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="Sharon_Crump@tamu-commerce.edu">Sharon_Crump@tamu-commerce.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dr Salvatore Attardo is a
Professor and Head of the Department of Literature and Languages. He holds
degrees from The Catholic University of Milan (1986) and Purdue University (PhD
1991). He has published two books on the linguistics of humor and is the
Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research. He has also
published extensively in pragmatics and semantics, primarily on issues relating
to implicatures, irony, rationality and more generally on Neo-Gricean
Pragmatics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Dr. Tabetha
Adkins is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center/
Communication Skills Center. Her scholarship focuses on literacy studies,
research methods, and gender studies. She is currently working on a book
based on her ethnographic research of the literacy practices of an Amish
community in southeast Ohio.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>but feel free to bring your lunch along!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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