Early registration for ATTW has been extended to March 6. Early registration fees are $125 for regular members and $50 for student members. After March 6, registration for regular members will rise to $150.

Seeking graduate students and faculty members who would be willing to participate in the Career Workshop at the ATTW Conference on Wednesday, March 13, in the afternoon (in conjunction with the CCCC). The workshop will be about an hour and fifteen minutes.

March 12, 2013 in Las Vegas before ATTW/CCCC

A Limited Number of Scholarships Still Available for Graduate Students!

Honor the distinguished research contributions of Dr. Ken Rainey by nominating yourself or a colleague for the prestigious 2013 STC Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research. The Ken Rainey award celebrates Ken Rainey’s passion for research that results in significant improvements to technical communication, especially to practice. It rewards a lifetime of quality research in the field, a single high-quality empirical study, or a set of related high-quality studies.

This year the STC J. R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching Award Committee is seeking nominations from you for this award.  Please help us recognize excellence in teaching through this award.

Please join the IEEE Professional Communication Society for the International Professional Communication Conference 2012 (IPCC 2012) at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, October 8-10. IPCC 2012’s theme is “Communicating Vision,” and the conference will offer presentations on visual rhetoric and its many applications, as well as other topics.

Taylor & Francis has just launched their latest free article promotion. This year's featured TCQ article is "Politeness, Time Constraints, and Collaboration in Decision-Making Meetings: A Case Study," by Erin Friess, and it is published in TCQ, 20, 114-138. Here is the link for free access to the article: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10572252.2011.551507.

A message passed along from Richard Johson-Sheehan:

Richard Johnson-Sheehan is seeking grad students and faculty members who would be willing to participate in the Career Workshop at the ATTW Conference on Wednesday, March 21, in the afternoon (in conjunction with the CCCC). The workshop will be about an hour and fifteen minutes.

Conference Registration for ATTW 2012 is now open!

Please visit the following page on the ATTW site to register:

http://www.attw.org/?q=node/421

All those with a speaking role in the conference must register. 

TCQ 21(1) is now available online and will be arriving in print version soon. This is a special issue, “Making the Implicit Explicit in Assessing Multimodal Composition,” guest edited by Susan M. Katz and Lee Odell. The issue includes the following articles: