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Helping Students Learn to Collaborate as Subject Matter Experts and Technical Communicators
Adrienne Lamberti
University of Northern Iowa
The uncertain, negotiated partnership between a subject matter expert (SME) and a technical communicator that tends to characterize collaborative workplace writing projects is important for students to experience. In order to help students practice this collaboration and investigate issues of SME/technical communicator identities, I have designed a team project that asks the students to act out SME and technical communicator roles.
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12th Annual ATTW Conference: "Beyond Work? Technical Communication in Professional, Community, & Social Networks"
Traditionally, teachers and researchers of technical communication have concentrated on communicating in workplace settings. And rightly so. But the spread of information technology into all areas of social life means that, increasingly, technical communication practices and genres arise and collide in social spheres other than the workplace. The ATTW invites you to consider the movement of technical communication beyond the traditional workplace.
Submission Deadline: October 31, 2008
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Special Issue: Technical Communication and Usability Studies
We encourage articles that describe and analyze approaches to teaching, testing, analyzing, or managing usability studies—approaches that involve technical communicators making unique or novel contributions to usability studies.
Deadline for Proposals: December 1, 2008
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy: dot mil: Rhetoric, Technology, and the Military Summer 2010 Special Issue
This special issue of Kairos seeks to investigate the intersections between technology, rhetoric, and the military, as well as the connections between the military and literacy instruction.
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 1, 2008
Journal of Business and Technical Communication Special Issue: Globally Networked Learning in Professional Communication
This special issue of Journal of Business and Technical Communication (JBTC) invites conceptual contributions that attend to larger questions surrounding the development of GNLEs in professional communication and specific case studies of GNLE development or other empirical research studies that focus on one or more of the key pillars of GNLE development—partnerships, policies, or pedagogies—in professional communication.
Proposal Submission Deadline: February 1, 2009
Handbook of Research on Virtual Environments for Corporate Education: Employee Learning and Solutions
The Handbook of Research on Virtual Environments for Corporate Education: Employee Learning and Solutions will be a resource for those who want to create corporate educational practices in virtual environments. As such, it will provide comprehensive coverage of the most important issues, concepts, and trends in the use of virtual environments for corporate education. Moreover, the volume will exhibit examples of corporate education occurring in virtual environments as well as examples of higher education practices in virtual environments that could provide models for corporate education.
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2008
Programmatic Perspectives
The editors of Programmatic Perspectives, the newly created journal of the Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, are soliciting articles about theoretical and practical aspects of technical communication program administration.
IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication Special Issue: Assessment in Professional Communication
To provide readers of IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication with useful and innovative information on a wide range of issues relative to assessment in professional communication, this special issue invites researchers and experienced practitioners to share the results of their research and experience via research papers, tutorials, and teaching cases, as well as book reviews of recent publications on assessment relative to assessing communication in the professions.
Deadline for Submissions : November 1, 2008
2009 STC Technical Communication Summit
STC's 2009 Technical Communication Summit will be held May 3-6 at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta , Georgia . The pre-conference sessions will be held on May 2-3 2009, and Leadership Day will be May 3, 2009.
Submission Deadline: October 20, 2008
Collaborative Writing in Virtual Workplaces: Computer-Mediated Communication Technologies and Tools
This book will investigate the use of CMC technology to facilitate effective interdependent collaboration in writing projects, especially in virtual workplace settings.
Proposal Submission Deadline: November 30, 2008
Announcements
Awards Given at ATTW 2008
A list of the award-winners from the 2008 ATTW Confernce
Minutes of the ATTW Executive Committee
March 3, 2008
New Orleans, LA
New Technical Communication Quarterly Editors Named
Beginning September 1, Amy Koerber (Associate Professor at Texas Tech) will begin a five-year term as Editor of Technical Communication Quarterly (TCQ).
Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Changes its Name
The Canadian Association of Teachers of Technical Writing has recently changed its name to the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW).
Diversity, Community, and Technology: A Workshop for New and Veteran Teachers of Technical and Professional Communication
New and veteran teachers of technical, professional, and scientific communication will want to mark their calendars for this workshop offered at CCCC 2009.
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