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The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing 10th Annual Conference
We take the City of New York as our example and model for re-building and re-imagining the University as a site of resilient action. As we make pilgrimage to Ground Zero, we see a city renewed, its citizens united and defiant, economy and culture both booming and blooming.
UK Society for Technical Communication's First Event
The first STC UK event of 2007, on Sat March 10th, will be held in Birmingham, England.
Computers and Composition Book Award Nominations
The annual Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award honors book-length works that contribute in substantial and innovative ways to the field of computers and composition.
Computers and Writing Awards Nominations
At the annual Computers and Writing Conference, the editorial staff of Kairos: Rhetoric, Technology, Pedagogy will present annual awards in three categories.
Conference on Cultural Rhetorics
Participants will be interested in asking a variety of questions relative to cultural rhetorics.
Computers and Writing 2007: Virtual Urbanism
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.
IEEE Professional Communication Conference
Join a distinguished group of researchers and industry practitioners for an energetic and friendly conference that encompasses all aspects of professional and technical communication in a world of rapidly changing information and communication technology.
Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Fall Dates
The CPTSC conference will be held October 11-13, 2007, at East Carolina University in Greenville , NC . Further details will be forthcoming.
Review
National Endowment for the Humanities Funds Ethics Workshop in Technical Communication
Ethics is increasingly prominent in the field of technical writing and communication as people—whether professionals or laypersons, experts or novices—become more aware of the responsibilities entailed in their communication choices.
CFPs
Composing (Media): Composing (Embodiment)
The editors of this collection believe that as instructors of writing in this time we must encourage not only an expanded notion of what it means to be literate -- moving beyond literacy concerned only with singularly alphabetic texts -- but also must encourage a rich understanding of how identity is constructed and performed by and through the affordances of multimodal texts.
Call for Papers for Rhetorics and Technologies
20th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition
For more than two decades, the Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition has been an important forum for scholars interested in rhetoric and the teaching of writing. The 2007 Rhetorics and Technologies Conference program committee invites you to participate in the biennial Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition to be held July 8 - 10, 2007 on the Penn State University Park campus.
Call for Papers: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing Sessions at MLA 2007
ATTW will sponsor two panels at MLA for which we invite submissions. Participation by graduate students engaged in new research in technical communication is especially encouraged.
The Business Communication of Corporate Reporting
Special Issue of Journal of Business Communication
This special issue will be directed toward gathering data on the current state of corporate reporting, and especially its varied communication elements: genre, media, channels, audience, behaviors, perceptions, organization, intent, and practices.
Integrating and Assessing Communication within Engineering Curricula
Special Issue: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
With the exponential growth of such initiatives in recent years, this special issue seeks to bring together innovative approaches to teaching and assessing communication skills within engineering, particularly those skills most relevant to the global workplace.
2007 Call for Research Proposals
CTPSC Research Grant Committee
The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) invites interested members to apply for small research grants of approximately $500.
Call for Proposals: Technical and Professional Communication Sessions
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Proposals are requested for the four technical and professional communication sessions to be held at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference in Calgary , Alberta , Canada --October 4-6, 2007 at the Westin Calgary Hotel.
In Memorium: Teresa Kynell-Hunt
Dr. Teresa Kynell-Hunt, Professor of English at Northern Michigan University and long-time participant in ATTW, died on December 23, 2006 in Marquette , Michigan . In March 2006, Teresa was recognized for her contributions to the field when she was made an ATTW Fellow (see below).
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