Conferences are a crucial part of professional development for academic professionals. Share your pedagogical expertise with others at national conferences and revitalize your teaching reservoir in the process. Use conferences as a springboard to produce scholarship in the field.

The following links provide advice and resources on networking, documenting your presentation, transforming the conference presentation into scholarship, and bringing your new knowledge back to share with colleagues and students alike.

The Conference Connection: Making the Most out of Academic Networking

Traci Gardner's Ten Ways to Document Your Conference Participation from the NCTE.org resource page provides an excellent list of suggestions for publicizing your attendance in your home institution as well as ways to turn conferences into genuine opportunities for professional development. See her tip #10 on publishing your conference paper online.

Links to Conferences for Teachers of Writing and Rhetoric

CCCC 2004: Making Composition Matter: Students, Citizens, Institutions, Advocacy: San Antonio, TX, March 24-27, 2004