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Writing Across the Northern Border:
The Study of Writing and Discourse in Canada
David Beard
University of Minnesota Duluth
This essay reviews the interdisciplinary context of the Congress, discusses the unique disciplinary and research contexts of CASDW, and urges greater dialogue across our national borders.
ATTW Teaching Tips
Exploring Online Teaching and Learning
Meg Morgan, ATTW Teaching Committee
UNC Charlotte
This article analyzes a report by Jonathan Kaplan and proposes that the teaching tip column in future issues of the Bulletin might discuss online teaching, both in completely online courses and in hybrid courses.
Calls
Call for Proposals: 13th Annual ATTW Conference
Synergies: The Intersections of Research and Teaching
Deadline: October 5, 2009
The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) invites proposals for papers, poster presentations, and workshops to be given at its annual conference immediately preceding the CCCC. The thirteenth annual conference will be held in Louisville, KY, on Wednesday, March 17, 2010.
Call for Proposals
Society for Technical Communication Summit May 2-5, 2010
Deadline: October 5, 2009
The 2010 Society for Technical Communication’s Summit Call for Proposals is now open at www.softconference.com/subs/stc/2010/. You may submit more than one proposal, but each must be submitted separately.
Call for Proposals
Computer Connection at CCCC
Deadline: October 15, 2009
The Computer Connection, a project of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition (7Cs), seeks submissions for short presentations and workshops to be delivered at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Louisville, KY, March 17-20, 2010.
Call for Proposals: Winterthur Portfolio
Things in Common: Teaching and Learning with Objects
Deadline: October 15, 2009
The guest editors of this special issue of Winterthur Portfolio invite essays that engage object-based teaching and interpretation strategies at a variety of sites, including the secondary and college classroom, the museum gallery, the collection, the historic site, the national park, the archaeological dig, the library, the archive, and the World Wide Web.
Call for Volunteers
Your Service Can Strengthen Our Organization
Deadline: October 19, 2009
ATTW needs volunteers in these areas:
- Committee members: Ethics, International, Membership, Teaching, and Research & Research Grants.
- Organizational outreach liaisons to related societies and organizations, such as TYCA, CPTSC, STC, and IPCC.
- Editor or Co-editors for the ATTW Bulletin, beginning in 2010
Call for Proposals
Honoring the Past, Inventing the Future: TCQ Celebrates Twenty Years
Deadline: December 15, 2009
In 2011, Technical Communication Quarterly will publish its twentieth volume. Our fall 2011 issue (20.4) will serve as an occasion to celebrate this important milestone. Reflecting its broadly defined theme, the issue will use writing and research to think creatively about the field’s future while celebrating its past.
Call for Proposals
The 12th International Conference of SIG Writing
Deadline: February 15, 2010
SIG Writing, a Special Interest Group of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) is seeking proposals for its 2010 conference.
Call for Proposals
Writing Research across Borders II
Deadline: May 3, 2010
The conference Writing Research across Borders II will provide an opportunity for researchers to share their findings and set research agendas for the coming years. We invite proposals that will continue to deepen the cross-disciplinary, international dialogues across the many different domains of writing research.
Call for Teaching Tips
This new Teaching Tips column will appear twice a year and will address various topics, including new pedagogical ideas, curriculum innovation at the undergraduate and graduate levels, ways to reach out to a diverse constituency (such as older or second language students), challenges that we have faced and overcome, or successes in working with new constituencies.
Call for Proposals
Technical Communication Quarterly Special Issues
As special issue coordinator for TCQ, I invite ATTW members to propose a special issue for the journal. Each year, TCQ publishes one or two special issues on important topics that are shaping the field. Proposing and editing a special issue is a great way to generate articles in research areas that are important to you and the field.
Call for Participants/Collaborators
Society for Technical Communication Body of Knowledge Wiki
The Society for Technical Communication invites ATTW members to participate in a wiki project currently aimed at defining the broad outline of topics most relevant to the practice and teaching of technical communication.
Call for Papers
Programmatic Perspectives
As you plan publication projects, consider contributing a manuscript to Programmatic Perspectives a semiannual peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by CPTSC, the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication.
Announcements
Awards Granted at the 2009 ATTW Conference
The John R. Hayes Award for Excellence in Writing Research
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