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2005 · San Francisco

Empathy in the Contact Zone: Producing Polydiscursive Writing in a First-Year Humanities Course

Session E.6

Area: Practices of Teaching Writing · family: Teaching and pedagogy

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair Douglas Higbee University of California, Irvine → University of California, Irvine
Presenters Jim Zeigler University of Oklahoma, Norman → University of Oklahoma The Composition of Empathy: Post Card Subjectivity and Access to History
Presenters Naomi Silver University of Michigan, Ann Arbor → University of Michigan Writing to Empathize: Dialogue and Community in a Cross-disciplinary Classroom
Presenters Douglas Higbee University of California, Irvine → University of California, Irvine Assessment as Contact Zone

Source

NCTE's program, near page 133 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Empathy in the Contact Zone: Producing Polydiscursive Writing in a First-Year Humanities Course.” 2005 Convention Program, San Francisco, session E.6. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.