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11th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
"The Future is WAC"
The 11th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference
June 7-9, 2012
Savannah, GA
Hosted by The Department of Writing and Linguistics and the Division of Continuing Education
Georgia Southern University
The Department of Writing and Linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the Division of Continuing Education at Georgia Southern University are proud to announce the call for proposals for the 11th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference to be held in the Coastal Georgia Center in the Historic District of Savannah, Georgia on June 7-9, 2012.
The Future is WAC
In recent years, we have seen many changes in our institutions, from the increasing importance of digital communication technologies to challenging economic climates and changing demographics. "The Future is WAC" will focus on the ways in which WAC programs and professionals may need to expand their efforts in response to these challenges and how these initiatives can lead the way for our institutions to be self-sustaining and proactive in meeting the changing needs of our students and the communities of which we are a part. It will welcome presentations, interactive workshops, and posters that explore the ways in which WAC has been sustained and enhanced its presence in K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and around the globe. We hope that the conference will include multiple voices and a variety of perspectives on WAC today.
Call for Proposals
Each concurrent session at WAC 2012 lasts 75 minutes, allowing 60 minutes for presentations and 15 minutes for discussion. Conference chairs Randall McClure, Michael Pemberton, and Janice Walker welcome proposals for engaging, interactive
- 20-minute individual presentations
- 60-minute poster presentations
- 60-minute multi-presenter panels
- 3-hour pre-conference workshops (to be held Thursday morning)
In addition to proposals for presentations, panels, and workshops that respond to the conference theme, topics may include the following: administration, assessment, curriculum, economics, faculty development, history of WAC, interdisciplinary collaboration, student learning, politics, research, school/college collaboration, sustainability, teaching, technology, theory, writing, and other forms of communicating across the disciplines. We particularly encourage collaborative projects among contributors from varied disciplines.
Individual presentations will be grouped by shared topic, and a session chair will be assigned; all multi-presenter proposals should identify a session chair among the presenters. Proposals will require a short, one- or two-sentence description of the presentation along with a 250-word abstract (and another 250-word abstract of the entire session in the case of panels) and may be edited until the deadline date of November 1, 2011.
To Submit Proposals & For More Information
Proposals must be submitted via the conference website. Details on the conference and the website will be available soon. Please check http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/conferences.html for updates.
For more information, contact Randall McClure at randallmcclure@georgiasouthern.edu
2012 IWCA Conference
The SoCal Writing Centers Association invites you to attend the 2012 IWCA Conference in San Diego, October 25-27, 2012. We are now accepting proposals: the call appears below.
Like lines drawn in the sand, Writing Center work is continuously recast by ever-changing policies in higher education, innovations in technology, outsourced alternatives to student services, increased diversity of student populations, and progressions in writing center praxis. With the tides, we must be willing to shift within our philosophies and our policies in order to best support the communities with whom we work.
For our 2012 International Writing Centers Association conference in San Diego, we invite you to consider the centers where you work and write: What lines do you draw? How do those lines shift? How do shifting lines provide a chance for new definitions of yourselves and your work? How do the disappearing lines of work that you thought finished reappear as issues you must revisit and re-vision? How can the writing center community adapt to the tide so that it is second nature for us to live with the shifting sands? And how do we encourage others within our institutions to shore up student writing for/in the 21st century?
The deadline for proposal submission is April 23, 2012. For more information, visit http://www.socalwritingcenters.org/iwca2012/index.html.
QUWAC Fall 2012 Conference - New Vistas: WAC/WID Intersections in the 21st Century
Save the date! Our fourth biennial conference on critical thinking and writing will be framed around the effects WAC and WID programs have upon the teaching of critical thinking and writing in first-year composition, general education cores, and major programs of study. In focusing on these effects, we hope to create a forum to consider two related questions: If the responsibility for critical thinking and writing is no longer located solely in English and Composition and Rhetoric departments, where does the work of writing specialists and disciplinary faculty meet? Where and how might we work together in ways that support the global aims of undergraduate education and stronger learning outcomes in the majors?
To advance a collaborative dialogue about writing across and within the disciplines, we invite writing specialists and disciplinary faculty to share their experience teaching critical thinking and writing in composition, general education courses, and the majors. In addition to investigating theoretical concerns, presenters are encouraged to provide practical, research-based techniques and strategies that promote critical thinking and writing in a variety of contexts across the spectrum of liberal arts and sciences, business, health sciences, communications, and education. Presenters will be invited to submit their papers for review for publication in the inaugural edition of Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing. Barbara Waalvoord, Professor Emerita, Notre Dame University, will serve as keynote.
Conference registration and accommodations information will follow. Deadline for paper/presentation proposals is Monday, June 18th, 2012. For more information about New Vistas, contact Paul Pasquaretta, Director of the Quinnipiac University Research and Writing Institute, at 203-582-8509, or Paul.Pasquaretta@Quinnipiac.
Fourth International Writing and Critical Thinking Conference: New Vistas: WAC/WID Intersections in the 21st Century
Quinnipiac University’s fourth biennial international conference on critical thinking and writing will be framed around the effects WAC and WID programs have upon the teaching of critical thinking and writing in major programs of study, general education cores, and first-year composition. To advance a collaborative dialogue about writing across and within the disciplines, we invite disciplinary faculty and writing specialists to share their experience engaging WAC and WID programs and strategies. In addition to investigating theoretical concerns, presenters are encouraged to provide practical, research-based techniques and strategies that promote critical thinking and writing in a variety of contexts across the spectrum of liberal arts and sciences, business, health sciences, communications, and education. In focusing on these effects, organizers hope to create a forum to consider several related questions:
- How are WAC and WID programs implicated in critical thinking and writing pedagogies in the disciplines?
- If the responsibility for critical thinking and writing is being shifted over to the departments, where does the work of writing specialists and disciplinary faculty meet?
- Where and how might we work together in ways that support the global aims of undergraduate education and stronger learning outcomes in the majors?
- What is critical thinking within a given disciplinary context? What does the writing look like that captures that thinking?
- What specific writing strategies and techniques have been found to foster critical thinking and disciplinary expertise in the majors?
Keynote: Barbara Waalvoord, Professor Emerita, Notre Dame University
Proposals: We welcome both individual proposals and panel proposals. Individual papers/presentations will be held to 15 minutes in length, panels will be held to 50 minutes total, with time left at the end of every session for questions. The registration cost for the full conference (Friday and Saturday) is $300 and includes all meals and receptions, shuttle service, keynote address, and presentations. The cost for Saturday only is $150.
Presenters will be invited to submit their papers for review for publication in the inaugural edition of Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing.