Preparing for the Spilman Symposium

It is Spilman time again! Every fall the folks at the Virginia Military Institute hold the Spilman Simposium on Issues in Teaching Writing, on whose Advisory Board I sit. It is a great event which always features nationally and internationally recognized writing and rhetoric scholars in a small workshop-like setting. This year's theme is "Teaching Genre" and the featured guests are Cindy Selfe, Chris Anson, and Paul Heilker. Should be a good one, as usual. Also, this year, the program is augmented by Cindy Selfe's "Literacy Stories" presentation.

Last but not least, I have an added task this year--to promote the open access composition project Writing Spaces. My goal is to attract the participants' attention to the project, both as readers and classroom users and as potential contributors to future volumes.