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.

TCQ authors recently received two prestigious article awards:

Conference Theme: Communities, Workplaces, and Technologies

Submission Deadline:  May 1, 2012

Conference Location: Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Can the obsoleteness of technology be overlooked in donations?

Newton Buliva

MA, Technical Communication

Texas Tech University

Groups, Groups, and More Groups: Using Groups Throughout the Semester

Meg Morgan, Department of English

UNC Charlotte

ACM SIGDOC (Special Interest Group Design of Communication) will begin publishing Communication Design Quarterly Review (CDQR) in mid-2012 with four issues per year.     

It seeks to be the premier informational source for industry, management, and academia in the multidisciplinary field of the design and communication of information.  Edited by Michael Albers and Liza Potts, it will contain a mix of peer-reviewed articles, columns, experience reports, and brief summaries of interesting research results.

Call For Proposals

Rhetoric and the Digital Humanities

(Editors: Jim Ridolfo and William Hart-Davidson)

Deadline for 500-750 word chapter proposals: April 1, 2012 (Notification by June 1, 2012)

Date for full manuscripts: January, 2013 (Responses to manuscripts by April, 2013)

Call for Proposals

Conference Theme: Communities, Workplaces, and Technologies

Conference Dates: September 27‐29, 2012

Conference Location: Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2012

Overview

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2012

Conference Location: Albuquerque, NM

Conference Date: July 19-22, 2012

“Location, location, location! The Role of Technical and Professional Writing and Communication Programs Within or Alongside Writing Programs.” CWPA Conference. 7/19-22

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