Conference Presentations

I have an exciting year of conferences and workshops ahead. Here are the highlights and handouts!

• Penn-TESOL East Fall Conference, Saturday November 9. “From Generic Writing to Writing Genres.” PowerPoint.
• Maryland English Institute, invited workshop on teaching EAP Writing for MEI faculty, November 15
• University of Trento, Italy, invited 2-day workshop on effective EAP instruction, February 17-18, 2014
• Writing Research Across Borders, Feb 19-22, Paris, France. Oh yes, France.
  • Making Thinking Visible: Comparing Genre-Based Pedagogy and Cognitive Strategy Instruction (paper with Dr. Skip MacArthur and Dr. Zoi Philippakos). PowerPoint slides here.
  • Exploring Disciplinary Genres (colloquium, with Ryan Miller and Silvia Pessoa): The Conflicting Case of the MBA Case Study. PowerPoint slides here.
• TESOL 2014, Portland, Oregon (March 26-29)
  • What Graduate Writers Really Need (invited session, with Chris Feak)
  • Disciplinary Differences, Disciplinary Genres (colloquium, with Gena Bennett, Silvia Pessoa, Ryan Miller, and Kyung-Hee Bae)

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