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Message from the ATTW President: On Transitions
ACM DIS 2006: The Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
DIS 2006 launches the second decade of the ACM conference series which has become an internationally-recognized forum for design researchers and reflective practitioners.
Writing : : Digital Knowledge
WIDE RESEARCH CENTER CONFERENCE
The WIDE Research Center announces the First WIDE Conference, “Writing : : Digital Knowledge” April 6&7, 2006 at the James B. Henry Center, Michigan State University in East Lansing , Michigan.
Online Graduate Certificate Program at BGSU
Bowling Green State University 's Scientific and Technical Communication Program is taking applications for its new, 12-hour Online Graduate Certificate Program in International Scientific and Technical Communication beginning May 1st.
Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professorship for the Humanities
The University of Missouri-Rolla is pleased to invite inquiries for a visiting position, the Maxwell C. Weiner Distinguished Professorship for the Humanities.
Special Issues of Technical Communication Quarterly
The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing is pleased to announce that special issues of Technical Communication Quarterly are now available to be purchased for personal or classroom use.
CFPs
Call for Papers: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
9th Annual Conference
This year's conference will explore our field's unique relationships with technology. We will explore and examine new research, teaching methods, workplace practices, and administrative activities that inform and teach us about new, current, and past technologies.
Call for Proposals: Technical Communication in the Age of Distributed Work
Special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly
In this special issue of Technical Communication Quarterly , we will discuss distributed work's implications for technical communication theory, methodology, pedagogy, ethics, and practice.
Call for Papers: Inaugural issue of the Community Literacy Journal
The peer-reviewed Community Literacy Journal seeks contributions for our inaugural, Fall 2006 issue. We welcome submissions that address any social, cultural, rhetorical, or institutional aspects of community literacy; we particularly welcome co-authored pieces in collaboration with community partners.
Call for Newsletter Items: Community Literacy Forum Newsletter
We take great pleasure to invite writing and publication contributions from Technical Communication practitioners, teachers, researchers, administrators, and community members. We welcome any news, course descriptions, projects in progress, conference materials, and other items you think might be of interest to people working in community literacy.
Call for Proposals: Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication in Celebration of its First Fifty Years
To celebrate fifty years of publications, we invite proposals for papers connecting the past, present, and future of research in professional communication for publication in the December 2007 issue. We are especially interested in papers that re-contextualize landmark publications from the past 50 years in order to provide an historical review of a research topic in professional communication.
Reviews
Textbooks for Business and Technical Writing Courses
Patricia Goleman, University of Houston-Downtown
Those of us involved in teaching the survey course in business and technical writing—one which encompasses a wide range of documents—frequently wonder if we are using the best textbook for our purposes.
Articles
Web-based translators in the technical communication classroom: What use are they?
Lee Tesdell, Minnesota State University Mankato
What should I do? As an instructor of technical communication at a public university, I am faced with a challenge: I know that I have a professional obligation to introduce my students to international technical communication in general and to localization/translation specifically.
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