THE YOUNG RHETORICIANS' CONFFERENCE on college rhetoric and composition, part conference and part retreat, invites reflection and welcomes your ideas for encouraging and enabling students’ skills and passions relative to all aspects of discourse — cognitive, pragmatic, and artistic.  Until April 15, 2009, we are accepting proposals for general and concurrent sessions.   In keeping with the sense of the conference, please try to show interplay of theory and practice—not privileging the one to the other.

You may submit a proposal for either a whole 90-minute session (two or more persons) or for a place in such a session.  Please focus your idea(s) and supporting material to read 250 words (one page).  Print the online form below and attach to your one-page proposal.  Send form and proposal by mail to each of the three chairs listed below.  (Forms cannot be sent electronically.)  Be sure to include your various means of contact:  address(es), affiliation(s), phone(s), and email.

 We look forward to learning of your ideas!

 CLICK HERE FOR THE 2010 PROPOSAL FORM

(in Adobe Acrobat format)