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On Friday, Oct. 19th, Lord Fairfax Community College will host its second Symposium on Thinking and Writing at the College Level.
This event focuses on exploration of the writing process and current research about transferring skills across writing courses and disciplines. Participants will be teachers from different disciplines throughout high schools, community colleges, and universities. The symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Corron Community Development Center on the Middletown Campus.
Keynote speaker for the event will be Rebecca Moore Howard, a graduate of West Virginia University, and past instructor at Colgate, Texas Christian, Cornell, and Binghamton Universities. She is now Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at Syracuse. Her scholarly and pedagogical books and essays include Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators and Writing Matters: A Handbook for Writing and Research. She is a principal researcher in the Citation Project, a multi-site, data-based study of college students’ use of research sources.