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Welcome
Welcome to the website for the MA major in Rhetoric and Composition! We invite you to explore our program and the opportunities it offers for advanced study in writing and the teaching of writing, including such exciting areas as minority rhetorics, digital literacies, writing theory and practice, history of rhetoric, gender and language, political rhetoric, writing centers, and more.
If you're a prospective student, you'll find information here about admission and degree requirements, our faculty, and our students. Current students will find updated information about current and future course offerings, program announcements, and faculty and student accomplishments.
We invite you to see what we have to offer!
MARC Workshops: Spring 2012
Writing Successful Conference Proposals: Thursday, April 12, 2012, 5:00 pm-6:00 pm, Writing Center Classroom, Flowers Hall G04
MARC Social Gatherings: Spring 2012
Please join us for drinks, eats, and conversation at our two social gatherings this semester! All MARC students, faculty, and friends are invited!
February 29 (Wednesday): Grin's Restaurant, San Marcos, 4:30-6:00. Please contact Becky Jackson at rj10@txstate.edu for more information.
April 22 (Saturday): End-of-Semester Send Off and Celebration of MARC Grads! 1:00-4:00. Place TBA. Please contact Becky Jackson at rj10@txstate.edu for more information.
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Publications
Rebecca Jackson (with co-author Jackie Grutsch McKinney, Ball State University) published "Beyond Tutoring: Mapping the Invisible Landscape of Writing Center Work" in Praxis 9.1 (2012). Web.
Conference Presentations
Rebecca Jackson and MARC student Laura Clemens will present individual papers on the panel MA Programs in Rhetoric and Writing as Sites of Transition and (Trans)Formation at the March 2012 Conference on College Composition and Communication in St. Louis. Becky will present "Negotiating Knowledge, Identity, Institution: Making the Transition from Graduate Student to High School and Community College Teaching"; Laura will present "We Get by With a Little Help from our Friends: The Role of 'Community' in Graduate Students’ Writing Development"
Nancy Wilson, Sue Beebe, MFA poetry student Stephanie Noll, and MARC student Lisa Bovee presented “Say What? One Hundred Years of Pedagogical Struggles with Composition Handbooks” at the 2011 Annual Convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, to be held November 17-22, in Chicago, Illinois.
Dr. Deborah Balzhiser and Dr. Rebecca Jackson presented papers on the panel "Mapping Contested Spaces for the Undergraduate Major in Writing and Rhetoric" at the 2011 CCCC in Atlanta, GA. Dr. Balzhiser's paper is titled "Reading the Writing Major Configurations"; Dr. Jackson's paper is titled "Mission Work and the Work of Missions."
Dr. Octavio Pimentel and students Shana Hamid, Casie Moreland, and Cheyenne Riggs presented their panel “Ya Basta Con el Racismo!: Time to Recognize the OTHERS’ Space” at the 2011 CCCC in Atlanta, GA.
MARC students Justin Whitney, Alyssa Crow, and Lisa Bovee presented their panel “Minority vs. Majority Rhetoric: 3 Perspectives” at the 2011 SCOLAS ( Southwest Council of Latin American Studies ) conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
MARC students Shana Hamid, Casie Moreland, and Cheyenne Riggs presented their panel "Actions Speak Louder than Words" at the 2010 AESA Conference in Denver, CO.
MARC student Andy Besa presented "Cantifilas Sails: My Secret Life as a Writing Center Tutor" at the 2010 IWCA-NCPTW Conference in Baltimore, MD.
MARC student Andy Besa presented "The Nepantla beyond the Writing Center Door" at the New Directions Conference at the University of Arizona.
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