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Keynote Speaker

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Dr. Russ Ward, a veteran of over 33

years teaching college-level composition in Colorado.  After earning his doctorate degree in English with an        
emphasis in Rhetoric in 1986, he taught at Otero Junior College, Trinidad State Junior College, and Idaho
State University.  He finally landed at Aims Community College, where he chaired the English Department
for 13 years and added three more years as a professor before retiring in 2002.  Dr. Ward keeps his hand

in the field by teaching logic and writing part time at Aims.  Among his many notable accomplishments, he
has twice received both the 5C's Award for Teaching Excellence and the Aims Community College Award

for Teaching Excellence.  He was instrumental in creating the 5C's Conference nearly twenty years ago.    
He has published two composition textbooks, Logical Argument in the Research Paper (1997) and

(with  Anne Machin) Tools of the Writing Trade, with a third book forthcoming in Fall of 2007 titled The Mirror Images of Argument (also with Anne Machin).  Dr. Ward has been married for more than 32 years ("to      
the same woman!"); he and his wife have a son, 25, and a daughter, 18.