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Conferences EATAW Conference 2011 The Role of the Student Experience in Shaping
Academic Writing Development in Higher Education The University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland The 2011 EATAW conference invites all those interested in academic writing development in higher education to contribute to the discussion on enhancing the quality of the student experience through writing. Enhancing the student experience is central to the vision and mission of most higher-education institutions in Europe and beyond. How both undergraduate and postgraduate students experience academic writing has a major impact on the students’ participation in academic and disciplinary environments and on the development of their identity. Writing programmes and initiatives that actively engage students in the practices of their academic communities can enhance the quality of the student learning experience. Contributions addressing writing developments which attempt to respond to the student experience will be welcome. The conference will be a place to reflect on practices that aim to enhance the learning experience of both undergraduate and postgraduate tudent writers across and within the disciplines (for example, WAC/WID initiatives). Such reflections may also extend to programmes which aim to enhance staff/academics’ writing development. For a detailed ‘Call for Proposals’ and updates, please consult the EATAW 2011 conference website. EATAW Conference 2009 June 30-July 2, 2009 Coventry, England The conference theme was 'The Roles of Writing Development in Higher Education and Beyond'. The fifth biennial EATAW conference was hosted by the Centre for Academic Writing (CAW) at Coventry University. The EATAW conferences aim to share and celebrate the work of writing teachers and scholars in Europe, but also to look beyond the European context to learn about other innovations in researching and teaching student writing. The EATAW Board was able to offer two types of funding awards for the June 2009 EATAW conference. These scholarships are intended to enable the participation of writing scholars who have had papers accepted for the EATAW 2009 conference but who are unable to attend because of economic hardship. The board awarded a total of seven scholarships. Full Conference Scholarships covered the conference registration fee, accommodation for three nights, and travel expenses up to 325 Pounds Sterling. Partial Conference Scholarships covered the conference registration fee, and travel expenses up to 50 pounds. Other Conferences Symposium of Second Language Writing: Crossing
Disciplinary Boundaries Over the years, the field of L2 writing has grown and expanded in many directions in terms of the theories that have informed research in the field, the inquiry methods employed, and the populations, educational and professional contexts investigated. With the theme “Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries”, the 2010 Symposium intends to be a forum for a retrospective and critical analysis of these various avenues along which L2 writing theory, research, and pedagogy has expanded. Please find further information on the conference website. Computers and Writing Conference As mobile communication takes hold, Web 2.0 matures, and serious gaming and virtual worlds offer us more enticing opportunities for communication, instructors in Computers and Writing are being challenged to integrate these technologies into writing classrooms in ever newer ways. So, too, are scholars of writing technologies challenged and inspired by online participatory cultures to forge new meanings for composing in these virtual worlds. Such integrations and their challenges have pushed the boundaries of composition. Please find further information at the conference website. 2nd ESP / EAP conference: Innovations in Tertiary Settings - Proposals and Implementations 21-23 May, 2010 The Kavala Institute of Technology Foreign Language Instructors are pleased to invite contributions to the 2nd ESP/EAP Conference. The Conference welcomes papers on:
The temporary web site for the conference is available here. EWCA 2010 Conference at the American University
of Paris This conference will celebrate the EWCA's 12th birthday and its 7th international gathering of a community of scholars, professors, administrators, students, writing center tutors and professionals. Central to the conference theme will be to:
Please find further information on the conference website. 2nd Annual Conference of the Canadian
Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing / Association
Canadienne de Rédactologie We invite papers that examine all aspects of connecting writing studies from the social to the technological, the disciplinary to the interdisciplinary, the historical connections with rhetorical studies to the future connections to digital communication studies. Please find further information on the conference website. 3rd International Conference of the
Forum wissenschaftliches Schreiben (Forum Academic Writing) Writing during university education and writing in academic work and life interact with each other. The aim of this conference is to discuss the possibilities and limitations of these interactions, and to find ways in which they are brought into closer contact. Please find further information on the conference website. Second International Conference on Linguistic
and Intercultural Education (CLIE2) CLIE2 is open to linguistic and cross-cultural education-related topics broadly defined, looking more closely into the current dynamics in Europe between old and new trends, local and global tendencies, progressive and conservative views, stabilisation and destabilisation patterns, national and European identities. In that context, the special focus theme proposed for the conference this time is universal vs. culture specific in the discourse of academic and professional rhetoric. Even though our aim is to focus primarily on European learning communities and their culture specific identities, we would welcome participants representing other geographical and geo-political regions and their contributions as well. Please find further information on the conference website. 13th Writing Development in Higher
Education (WDHE) Conference The 2010 WDHE conference invites all those interested in academic writing development in higher education to contribute to the discussion of the possibilities and challenges of embedding sustainable writing development. The conference will be a place to reflect on issues of sustainability with respect to pedagogical practices that aim to enhance students' learning experience, academic writing as a research area, and programme development at institutional level. It also invites reflection on the potential unwanted consequences of embedding writing within institutional and disciplinary agendas, including concerns about a weakening or appropriation of the humanistic and critical agendas that have been a motivating factor for many who have been responsible for shaping the present field. The temporary web site for the conference is available here. Mapping language across cultures: Textual analysis
in cross-cultural and intercultural communication (MLAC10) The general aim of this conference is to bring together researchers of discourse analysis, textual data mining and information retrieval working in different theoretical and methodological frameworks. It is an interdisciplinary conference combining Discourse Analysis approaches, computational linguistics, sequential analysis and contrastive cross-cultural approaches. Please find further information on the conference website. Multimodality and Learning Conference: Environments,
Rhetoric, Recognition, Play, and Methods The overall aim of the conference is to explore multimodal perspectives on learning and to open up theoretical, methodological and pedagogical questions and debate. The conference will be of interest to educational practitioners, research students, researchers and academics from a variety of disciplines including semiotics, linguistics, sociology, anthropology and design. Please find further information on the conference website. IFAW First International Conference on Academic
Writing in Israel In keeping with the intercultural and multi-linguistic nature of today’s societies, invited speakers at the first international conference on academic writing in Israel will address current issues in first language, second (third, fourth, etc.) language and foreign language writing. We are also planning to present a panel of writers in English, Hebrew, Arabic, and perhaps other languages on the topic, “Universals and Specifics of Academic Writing across Languages”. Participants will address the question of what it means to write in their various languages. Chris Anson, Debra Holdstein, John Harbord and Otto Kruse will be our keynote speakers. Please find further information on the conference website. University Literacies: Knowledge,
Writing, Disciplines / Littéracies universitaires: Savoirs,
Écrits, Disciplines In France as in other European countries, research in the field of didactics about writing and reading practices at university becomes more and more important. There is now a need for these studies to have dialogues with those developed in the US field of Composition Studies and the UK Academic Literacies. One of the aims of this conference is to meet these three fields of research around issues currently under debate. Please find further information on the conference webpage. 12th International Conference of the
EARLI Special Interest Group on writing The aim of the SIG Writing conferences is to promote interaction among researchers (cognitive and social psychologists, linguists, educational and developmental specialists, and others) from all over the world who are interested in understanding the cognitive, social, and developmental processes involved in writing, who are concerned with designing writing instruction in various educational settings, or with exploring the functions of writing in different social and institutional contexts. Please find further information on the conference webpage. Civilisation and Fear: Writing and the Subject/s of Ideology 22-25 September 2010 The Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, the University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland, will have the honour and pleasure to host the international conference on civilisation and fear: writing and the subject/s of ideology. We extend a cordial invitation to all scholars who take genuine interest in any of the issues raised in the title of the conference. Our aim is to address a multiplicity of concerns which often coincide and intersect in modern discourses (including literary and cultural studies, psychology, sociology, religious studies, art and others). Please find further information on the conference website. Academic Writing from bachelor to PhD 7-8 October 2010 Academic writing competence is critical for student performance at all levels and thus also for the quality of research studies and for the dissemination of research. In Norway compulsory writing at bachelor level has increased dramatically in many disciplines after the Quality Reform of higher education. Consequently, students spend more time on writing and teachers spend more time on providing feedback and assessment to student texts. How do we make sure that this improves the quality of writing? The conference will address the issue of how to build writing competence systematically and effectively, for instance through a combination of direct teaching, writing-intensive courses and high quality feedback and supervision. Please find further information on the conference website. Thomas R. Watson Conference 14-16 October 2010 The eighth biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and
Composition Please find further information on the conference website. 22nd Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition: Rhetoric and Writing across Language Boundaries 10–12 July 2011 Developments in globalization, new media literacies, and postcolonial
perspectives have called attention to the transnational flow of
people and texts and to the hybridity of language itself. These
developments have made scholars in rhetoric and composition aware
of the monolingual assumptions informing their disciplinary discourses
and pedagogical practices. In light of these disciplinary trends,
the 22nd Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition will
focus on defining a multilingual rhetoric and writing practice.
Featured speakers will include leading The program committee invites proposals for papers focusing on the questions by February 15, 2011. Please find further information on the conference website.
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