Conferences coming up…

I’ll be presenting at these conferences in the coming months. Stop by and say hallo!

• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), March 2012, St. Louis: “Preparing and Supporting Graduate Student Writers Across the University” (my paper is called “Teaching the Genres of Academic Writing”). Handouts are here.
• TESOL, Philadelphia, March 2012: “Preparing for Excellence: Practical Strategies for Improving Graduate Writing.” Workshop with Christine Feak, Grace Canseco, and Jennifer Greer. Handouts and Powerpoints.
• Also at TESOL: “Making Grammar Choices in Advanced Academic Writing” (publisher session for my new grammar textbook from the University of Michigan Press, due August 2012; sneak preview in my handout here)
• Genre 2012 – Rethinking Genre Twenty Years Later: An International  Conference on Genre Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 26-29, 2012: “Genre and Cognition in an MBA Program.” (results from a needs analysis of language skills required for international students in UD’s MBA program)

Author: Nigel Caplan

Nigel Caplan, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Delaware English Language Institution, as well as a textbook author, consultant, and speaker. Nigel holds a PhD from the University of Delaware, a master's in TESOL from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor's degree from Cambridge University. He is currently director of Project DELITE, a federal grant providing ESL certification to Delaware teachers. He also brews beer. View all posts by Nigel Caplan