Colleagues,
I apologize. I should not have assumed everyone would know already. MLA
will be held in New Orleans from 27-30 December 2001.
Best,
Roxanne Kent-Drury
>Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:28:47 -0500
>To:
>From: Roxanne Kent-Drury <rkdrury@nku.edu>
>Subject: CFP: MLA ATTW panels, "Professing Technical Communication" and
>"Web Development in the Technical Communication Service Course" (3/25/01;
>MLA 2001)
>
>
>The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (http://www.attw.org), an
>MLA affiliate, welcomes submissions of abstracts for papers on the
>following topics for MLA 2001:
>1. Professing Technical Communication
>Although the job market for literature and language PhDs is presently
>constricted as placement officers look for new career options for
>graduates, recent discussion in the professional writing field suggests
>that demand for qualified technical communications practitioners, graduate
>program applicants, and faculty far outstrips supply. At the same time,
>technical communication preparation has been described as uneven, even
>though practitioners and academics in the field are expected to display
>extraordinary versatility and awareness of social, rhetorical,
>theoretical, and technical contexts. For this panel, ATTW welcomes
>abstracts for papers that will encourage discussion of the future
>direction of the technical writing profession for teachers and
>practitioners, as well as submissions that offer new ideas about how
>technical communications professionals should be prepared for the field.
>
>2. Web Development in the Technical Communication Service Course
>Recent discussions in the field suggest that some technical communications
>academics are just beginning to incorporate web projects into their
>technical communication courses, whereas others have well-developed
>theoretical and pedagogical approaches. At the same time, research into
>the latest developments in web design suggests that some of the newest
>innovations require hardware and software that may leave some programs
>unable to participate. For this panel, a follow-on topic to last year's
>MLA panels and post-panel discussions, ATTW welcomes submissions that will
>open discussion about what we teach when we teach web development in the
>service course, how we teach it, and why.
>The deadline for submissions is 25 March 2001. E-mail and fax submissions
>are preferred; please include e-mail contact information if you wish to
>receive an acknowledgement. Send abstracts to
>
>Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury
>ATTW MLA Liaison
>Asst. Professor
>Literature and Language Department
>Northern Kentucky University
>Highland Heights, KY 41099
>
>E-mail: rkdrury@nku.edu
>Phone: (859) 572-6636
>Fax: (859) 572-6093
"Everything should be made as simple as possible,
but not simpler." --Albert Einstein
Dr. Roxanne Kent-Drury
Assistant Professor & Technology Chair
Literature and Language Department
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099
(859) 572-6636
e-mail: rkdrury@nku.edu
website: http://www.nku.edu/~rkdrury/
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