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Doug Downs

Listed at 18 conventions, 2004–2026, 45 listings. Printed as: Doug Downs (41), Douglas Downs (4).

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Career strip

2000200520102015202020251998 2004: chair (1)2004: speaker (1)2005: facilitator (1)2005: speaker (1)2006: chair (1)2006: facilitator (1)2006: speaker (3)2007: chair (1)2007: facilitator (1)2007: speaker (1)2008: facilitator (1)2008: speaker (1)2009: chair (1)2009: speaker (1)2010: facilitator (1)2011: chair (1)2011: speaker (1)2012: chair (1)2012: speaker (1)2013: speaker (1)2014: chair (2)2014: respondent (1)2014: facilitator (1)2014: speaker (2)2015: chair (1)2016: chair (1)2016: speaker (1)2017: chair (2)2017: respondent (1)2017: speaker (2)2018: chair (1)2018: facilitator (1)2018: speaker (1)2023: chair (1)2023: facilitator (1)2023: speaker (1)2024: speaker (2)2026: speaker (1)

speakerchairrespondentfacilitatorother Grey band: 2000–2003, not in the corpus.

Listings

YearSessionRoleAffiliation as printed
2004The Subaltern Can Speak: Composition TAs in Mentoring RolesChair University of Utah, Salt Lake City → University of Utah
2004The Subaltern Can Speak: Composition TAs in Mentoring Roles
“Making Them Matter: Unsanctioned TA Mentoring of Undergraduates”
Presenters University of Utah, Salt Lake City → University of Utah
2005Working with the Media to Shape Public PolicyDiscussion Leaders University of Utah, Salt Lake City → University of Utah
2005Redefining Success via/and Affirming the Discipline: FYC as Intro to Writing Studies
“‘I Never Knew There Was So Much to Study about Writing’: FYC Curricula that Change Public Discourse about Writing Instruction”
Presenters Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2006Gaining Voice(s): Student Feedback on Writing Courses about WritingChair Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2006Gaining Voice(s): Student Feedback on Writing Courses about WritingSpeakers Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2006Writing for Public Policy: Media Messages and GrantsFacilitators Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2006WPA Network for Media Action SIGSpeakers Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2006The Subject is Writing: FYC as an Introduction to Writing Studies
“Was It Worth It? Student Performance in Writing about Writing”
Speakers Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2007Students Becoming Scholars: Redefining Student/TeacherChair Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2007Students Becoming Scholars: Redefining Student/Teacher
“Not Another Marijuana Paper: Real Scholarship, Real Writing”
Speakers Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2007Changing the Frame: Developing the National Conversa-tion on Writing with the WPA Network for Media ActionFacilitators Utah Valley State College, Orem → Utah Valley University
2008Shaping WPA Work I: Diachronic and Synchronic Percep-tions of Writing Program Administration
“‘What We Need You to Do’: How Writing Program Sponsors’ Perceptions of Writing Instruction Authorize WPA Work/Spaces”
Speakers Utah Valley State College, Sandy → Utah Valley University
2008First-Year Composition as Writing Studies: Implementing a Writing-about-Writing PedagogyFacilitators Utah Valley State, Orem → Lebanon Valley College
2009Writing-about-Writing Pedagogies: First-Year Composition as Student Intellectual WorkChair Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2009Writing-about-Writing Pedagogies: First-Year Composition as Student Intellectual Work
“Finding What to Ask: FYC, Undergrad Research, and the Problem of Expertise”
Speakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2010Mentoring, Publishing, and Celebrating Student WritingFacilitators Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2011Looking the Wrong Way: Tales of Misdirection and a Call for Radical Revision in the Teaching of Citation (#burnthemanual)Chair Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2011Looking the Wrong Way: Tales of Misdirection and a Call for Radical Revision in the Teaching of Citation (#burnthemanual)
“Cite or Die: Good for Students but Not for Faculty?”
Speakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2012Extending Writing-about-Writing: Scenes of WAW beyond First-Year CompositionChair Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2012Extending Writing-about-Writing: Scenes of WAW beyond First-Year Composition
“‘Omit Unnecessary Words’: Resisting Negative Transfer in Disciplinary Writing with Writing-about-Writing”
Speakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2013Participating in Shaping Meaning: Student Encounters
“Rhetoric, Not Modes: The Inadequacy of ‘Critical’ Reading for Writing-about-Writing”
Speakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2014Open(ing) Conversation: What Are the Threshold
“Threshold Concepts in First-Year Composition”
Speakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2014Writing-about-Writing as a Pedagogy of TransparencyChair Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2014Writing-about-Writing as a Pedagogy of Transparency
“Radical Transparency: Opening Rhetorical Systems through Truth-Telling in WAW Courses”
Speakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2014Opening Writing about Writing Approaches to IdentityRespondent Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2014Designing Undergraduate Research Projects and Programs in Writing StudiesChair Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2014Designing Undergraduate Research Projects and Programs in Writing StudiesWorkshop Leaders Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2015Writing-about-Writing Development Group—StandingCo-Chairs Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2016Writing-about-Writing Standing GroupChair
2016Conundra of Tracing Learning Transfer: Methodological
“Do We Know *Anything*? On Designing Fault-Probable Methods”
Speakers Montana State University → Montana State University
2017Rethinking Technical, Professional, and STEM WritingSpeakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2017Writing about Writing Development Standing GroupChair Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2017Creating a Transferable Sense of a Writing Self: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of WAWChair Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2017Creating a Transferable Sense of a Writing Self: Findings from a Longitudinal Study of WAW
“Transfer or Transformation? Taking New Selves to New Sites of Writing”
Speakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2017Qualitative Studies of Writing about Writing: Classrooms, Programs, and TrendsRespondent Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2018Fostering Undergraduate ResearchWorkshop Facilitators Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2018Researching Transfer: Addressing the Challenges of Knowing What WorksSpeakers Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2018Cases of Writing Development: Reports on Longitudinal Study of Learning Transfer from Writing-about-WritingChair Montana State University, Bozeman → Montana State University
2023Working with Undergraduate Researchers: DevelopingWorkshop Facilitators Montana State University → Montana State University
2023Undergraduate Research Standing Group BusinessChairs Montana State University → Montana State University
2023Writing for New Publics in New Spaces: Bringing Students Into College Classrooms and Helping Them OutSpeakers Montana State University → Montana State University
2024Undergraduate Research Presentations, Sponsored by the CCCC Undergraduate Research Standing GroupSpeaker(s) Montana State University → Montana State University
2024Undergraduate Research Standing Group Open MeetingSpeaker(s) Montana State University → Montana State University
2026Their Conference and Their Conversations: Building an Undergraduate Community through the Naylor Workshop and an Undergraduate Research JournalPresenter Montana State University → Montana State University

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