Description: Drawing on Chafe’s research, Peter Elbow argues that intonation units or spurts of vocalization create voice in a silent text and enable us to teach students how to create a voice in their writing—how to embody the audible music of speech on the silent page. Panelists pose questions and draw the audience into discussing Chafe’s ideas.

Speakers

Whitney Gegg-Harrison, U of Rochester

Airlie Rose, Amherst C

Presider

Peter Elbow, U of Massachusetts, Amherst

Respondent

Natalie E. Gerber, State U of New York, Fredonia

Deborah Rossen-Knill, U of Rochester