Michael Cripps presents and leads discussion at Writing Across the Curriculum Conference
Michael J. Cripps, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of English, presented a paper at the 2014 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, where he also served as an invited discussion leader for the closing keynote roundtable session.
The biennial conference, held June 12-14, 2014, at the University of Minnesota, draws scholars and educators from across the world to discuss disciplinary genres, student writing development in technical, professional, scientific, and humanistic fields of study, and institutional analyses of Writing Across the Curriculum and Writing in the Disciplines programs.
In his presentation, "What Does Across the Disciplines publish? A Distant Reading of ATD," Cripps used corpus analysis of the first ten volumes of Across the Disciplines, a major academic journal in the field of Writing Across the Curriculum, to develop a portrait of major concerns, themes, and areas of focus in the journal.
As associate editor of the journal, Cripps, along with the publication's editor, Michael Pemberton, professor of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University, talked with prospective contributors to Across the Disciplines about their research projects and their potential relevance for the journal.