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Scope and Contents

The Interviews sub-series contains materials related to a series of interviews, titled The Saturday Tapes, conducted with Lauer about the Rhetoric and Composition program at Purdue. Contents include letter and email correspondence, lists of topics and questions, and annotations from Lauer related to the interview questions as well as 20 cassette tapes and 17 CDs.

Scope and Contents This series contains materials pertaining to Lauer's career in the developing field of Rhetoric and Composition, before and during her employment at Purdue University. Types of materials include photographs, published and unpublished writings, books by Lauer and her graduate students, materials related to a summer seminar Lauer organized before and during her employment at Purdue, interviews with Lauer, letters from editorial boards and letters of recommendation, documents related to...

Scope and Contents The Summer Seminar sub-series contains materials related to the planning and implementation of an international two-week summer rhetoric seminar Lauer organized at the University of Detroit and Purdue University for 13 summers. Materials include schedules, staff lists, opening lectures, handouts from key speakers, images, essays, welcome packets, pamphlets, correspondence, bibliographies, evaluations, graduate student participation, reservations, advertising, notes on each yearly seminar,...

Scope and Contents The Janice M. Lauer papers were created and collected by Lauer and document her career prior to, and during, her time at Purdue University. Lauer assisted in developing the field of Rhetoric and Composition as an academic discipline and in 1979, Lauer founded the program at Purdue out of the English Department. Types of materials include scrapbooks, program documents, seminar and lecture notes, course and workshop evaluations, syllabi, and graduate student work; published and unpublished...