Announcements

ATTW 2006 Conference and Award Winners

On March 23, 2006, ATTW held its annual meeting at the Palmer House Chicago. In addition to papers delivered and times of networking, ATTW presented awards to several individuals.

ATTW 2007 Call for Papers and Posters

The ATTW seeks 15-minute individual papers, 3-person panels, and posters that report new research, theory, and pedagogy that address the progress and purpose of a city triumphantly renewed with purpose and vigor and to consider the university as a city of knowledge challenged by political, economic, and cultural forces.

TCQ Job Announcements

ATTW is now accepting applications from individuals interested in serving as the next book review editor or special issues co-coordinator for Technical Communication Quarterly.

Conference Announcements

Article

Teaching Technical Communication on the Web and in the Traditional Classroom: A Comparison of Time and Effort

Does it take more time to teach a class online than it does to teach it in a traditional classroom? Many university faculty members think so. This article explores whether this thinking is accurate and focuses on the preliminary results of our research into the time and effort required to teach an online technical communication course versus the time and effort required to teach that same class in a traditional classroom.

CFPs

C & W Online Call

Conference Co-Chairs Keith Dorwick and Kevin Moberly are seeking synchronous and asynchronous presentations that address a wide conception of scholarship that focuses on a range of issues that could be briefly summed as “technology and society,” or, perhaps, “technologies and societies.”

Computers and Writing Call

The conference theme juxtaposes computers and writing with contemporary city life, representations of the urban, and the virtual encounters we create when technology and textuality are introduced into our places of work, study, and pleasure.

Edited Handbook Call

The Handbook of Research on Computer Mediated Communication will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important current issues, trends, and technologies related to professional computer mediated communication.

Gender and Technology Call

Proposals are now being accepted for the Gender & Technology Plenary Session, which will focus on the various relationships that exist between gender and technology.

Instant Messaging Call

The time has come for detailed and insightful inquiry into the roles, nature, uses, and consequences of IM use in professional communication. We invite thoughtful essays, empirical studies, and experimental research on the nature of IM use in the workplace as part of a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication focused on Instant Messaging.

Program Review and Assessment in Technical Communication Call

Technical Communication, the journal of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), is currently soliciting article proposals for an upcoming special issue on the review and assessment of technical communication programs in higher education.

Science and Government Call

We welcome articles that will help practitioners, teachers, and researchers understand strategies employed to deal with public-policy-related rhetorical situations; communication issues among the subject-matter experts, writers, and government officials; and methods teachers have adopted in the classroom to prepare students for these writing tasks. We seek articles from practitioners who have experience with these tasks, writers who can discuss successes as well as reflect on struggles that will assist others in their work. We also seek articles from researchers who have studied ethical dilemmas that arise when writers are charged with “translating” science into the grant proposals or research reports that cross policy-makers' desks.

TCQ Special Issues Call

Proposals to develop special issues of Technical Communication Quarterly are welcome. Topics for special issues could include (but are not limited to) communication design, the role of digital technologies in technical communication, the rhetoric of workplaces or professions, pedagogical approaches, the practices of publication management, dialogue between academics and practitioners, research methods in the field, and connections between social practices and organizational discourse.

Technostyle Call

Technostyle announces a special issue on written communication in a government context to appear in 2007.

Writing in Changing Communities Call

The conference organizers invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, or workshops that examine how writing practices have changed in varying academic, workplace, and public contexts and communities and how, in turn, these communities are using writing to shape change.