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Better Graduate-Level Technical and Scientific Communication Education Supported: House, Senate and President Pass New National Legislation
Karen Kurt Teal University of Washington
On August 9, 2007, President George W. Bush signed the “America COMPETES” Act (America Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology, Education, and Science) into law, supporting enhanced teaching of scientific and technical communication abilities.
Benefits of Team Teaching a Course in Multiple Genres with Literature Faculty
Ken Baake - Texas Tech
I can say with conviction that students of literature and of technical communication can benefit from studying each other's text genres and exploring their similarities and differences. Even if the marriage cannot be saved, at least a deep friendship should continue.
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11 th Annual ATTW Conference: “Connecting Communities”
As we journey to New Orleans, we come to a place historically connected to and by diverse neighborhoods, music, food, and festivals; a place more recently disconnected by disasters and tragedies; a place now trying to reconnect within its own communities and with those beyond. We come to a city whose recent history asks us to consider ethics, public rhetorics, technical failure, risk communication, and responsibility in ways we previously may not have. We come to a place that prompts us to ask if our research practices create connections among communities—whether those communities are situated within classrooms, neighborhoods, organizations, disciplines, universities. 200 word proposals are due October 31, 2007.
New Technological Spaces: Mastering the Literacies of Thinking and Doing across Multiple Modalities.
Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly
We live in an age of unprecedented information abundance, where more information is available to us in a greater variety of modal forms and in a greater number of places than ever before. Richard Lanham views this abundance as symptomatic of life in an information age, where people are just as interested in information about things as they are in the things themselves. E-mail proposals are due December 14, 2007:
Virtual Worlds and Technical Communication
Special Issue of Technical Communication
Technical Communication, the journal of the Society for Technical Communication is pleased to announce a special edition on the use, design, possibilities, and research questions related to virtual worlds as they are, and might be, used in technical communication contexts. 500-word proposals are due December 15, 2007.
Composition in the Freeware Age: Assessing the Impact and Value of the Web 2.0 Movement for the Teaching of Writing, Computers, and Composition
Guest-edited by Randall McClure, Michael Day, and Mike Palmquist
Web 2.0 technologies have clearly taken hold of early twenty-first-century culture, and some technologies, such as social networking sites, have also exerted their influence on higher education, including the teaching and learning of college composition. 500-word proposals are due January 1, 2008.
Community Literacy Journal
The peer-reviewed Community Literacy Journa l seeks contributions for upcoming issues. 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.
Gender and Technology Area of the
Southwest/Texas Popular & American Cultural Association
Individual paper proposals and panel proposals are sought for Gender and Technology area for the 29th Annual Meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular & American Cultural Association. 250-word abstracts are due November 1, 2007.
Opening the Information Economy
IEEE International Professional Communication Conference
This conference seeks to examine or to “open” this economic model by examining the connections between communication practices and the products, practices, and services that constitute the information economy. The objective of such an examination will be to help attendees better understand and participate in the information economy as both contributors and consumers. 250-500-word proposals due by October 15, 2007.
Kairos Logo Design Contest
Help Kairos (the online journal for rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy) re-envision its look by designing a new logo! The selected design will be featured on the masthead of every issue as well as on all our publicity materials. Deadline is November 1, 2007.
Call for Gould Award Nominees
The Jay R. Gould Award Committee is inviting submission of the names of eligible academics for this prestigious award honoring excellence in teaching technical communication. Deadline for receipt of applications is October 15, 2007.
Announcements Minutes of the ATTW Executive Committee
March 2007; New York , New York
New Society for Technical Communication Academic Programs Database Available
The Society for Technical Communication (STC) is re-launching its Academic Database, and we need information on your school's Technical Communication program.
Students Sought for Society for Technical Communication Honor Societies
The Society for Technical Communication (STC) sponsors two student honor societies.
Upcoming Conferences
IEEE in Japan; CPTSC; Knowledge Rights & Knowledge Sharing in the 21st Century Interdisciplinary Conference; Computers and Writing Online Conference: Exposing the Sole of the Academy with Web 2.
In Memorium: Victoria Mikelonis
ATTW fellow and long-term editor of The Technical Writing Teacher, Victoria Mikelonis, died Tuesday, August 14th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota after a battle with cancer. Vickie was a Professor in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota and an ATTW fellow.
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