2009 Spring Meeting—Friday, April 3

The meeting continues on Friday, April 3, at the Washington Court Hotel. A continental breakfast will be served at 8:00 a.m., and the meeting starts at 8:30.

Keynote Speech

Jacqueline Jones Royster, professor of English at The Ohio State University, will address the meeting in a talk titled "Responsible Citizenship in a Global Environment." Royster has written a number of books, covering topics such as feminism, literacy, rhetoric, and women of African American descent. Her book Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women (University of Pittsburgh, 2000) received the 2001 Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association.

For more, read NWP's profile of Jacqueline Jones Royster.

Roundtable Discussions

Two sets of twelve roundtable discussions focus on the latest issues that writing project teachers face today. Read the descriptions ›