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Announcing the 2010 Writing Across the Curriculum Conference at Indiana University 
 
The 2010 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference will be hosted by the Campus Writing Program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Conference dates are May 20-22, 2010. Deadline for proposal submissions is October 19, 2009. Notification of acceptance will be no later than December 4, 2009. The deadline for conference registration is April 1, 2010 (those registering after this date will be charged a late fee). 
 
This biannual conference, the only U.S. conference dedicated exclusively to writing across the curriculum (WAC) and writing in the disciplines (WID), is typically of interest to people who are concerned with using writing to improve teaching and learning--faculty, administrators, and students from post-secondary institutions, as well as faculty and administrators from secondary schools. 
 
Conference chairs Laura Plummer and Jo Ann Vogt welcome workshops, panels, and individual presentations on topics of true interest and concern; there is no delimiting theme. Potential WAC topics include: 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. 
 
Bloomington is located about 50 miles south of Indianapolis in the limestone hills of south central Indiana, a region noted for its rustic beauty and artistic traditions. Travel to Bloomington is easy, and lodging in the Indiana University Memorial Union (where the conference is to be held) is affordable and pleasant. 
 
Further information will be available on the conference website, http://www.iub.edu/~wac2010 or by email (wac2010@indiana.edu) or phone (812-855-4928). 
 

(Added by Dan Melzer on April 21, 2009 | Last Updated on April 21, 2009)

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Call for Proposals: Writing Research Across Borders II 
 
George Mason University 
 
February 17-20, 2011 
 
Proposal Deadline May 3, 2010 
 
As societies become more knowledge-intensive and communication technologies draw us more closely together, the importance of writing in economic, scientific, civic, personal, and social development becomes more apparent. Correspondingly, the imperative to conduct research on writing in schools and the workplace, in relationship to learning and development, and in all aspects of our lives has invigorated work among scholars in all regions of the world. The conference Writing Research across Borders II will provide an opportunity for researchers to share their findings and set research agend as for the coming years. 
 
Continuing the success of the three previous international research conferences held at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the 2011 Writing Research Across Borders II will be held at George Mason University in the Washington D.C./Northern Virginia area. We invite proposals that will continue to deepen the cross-disciplinary, international dialogues across the many different domains of writing research. 
 
As in past years, this conference will focus on writing development across the lifespan, including the impact of new technologies on learning to write, early acquisition of writing, writing across grade levels (K-20), writing in the disciplines and professions, and writing in the workplace or other community and institutional settings. We invite proposals presenting research in these areas. We also invite proposals on any other areas of writing use and practice, such as writing in progressive or large scale educational programs, or proposals that link writing research and policies. We welcome papers raising methodological issues about researching writing. We invite work from any research tradition that is grounded in the tradition’s previous research and pursues the methodical gathering of qualitative or quantitative data appropriate to its claims. 
 
Proposals should identify the format preferred (panels, roundtables, individual presentations, and poster presentations). Individual or poster proposals should be a maximum of 500 words. Proposals with multiple presentations (panel20and roundtable) should contain a short overview statement and then no more than 400 words per speaker. Proposals should specify the relevant research literatures, research questions, methods, data, and findings, as well as the scope and duration of the research projects. 
 
The deadline for proposals is May 3, 2010. Please submit proposals in .doc or .rtf format by email attachment to <writing@education.ucsb.edu>. Also, be sure to include a title for your proposal and each speaker’s individual talk, as well as contact information for each individual presenter. 
 

Professor Charles Bazerman 
Department of Education 
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education 
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 
phone: 805-893-7543 
bazerman@education.ucsb.edu 
http://www.education.ucsb.edu/bazerman 
 
--Karen Lunsford, Assistant Professor of Writing 
Mailing address: 
Writing Program, South Hall 1520 
University of California, Santa Barbara 
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3010 
klunsford@writing.ucsb.edu 
http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/lunsford/ 
805-893-8556 

(Added by Dan Melzer on May 6, 2009 | Last Updated on May 6, 2009)