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The ATTW Bulletin now has a new format! Articles, announcements, CFPs, news stories, and teaching resources will now all be published using a blog-styled format.

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Call for Proposals
Submission Deadline: April 25, 2012

CFP for the Edited Collection

Best Practices in Undergraduate Online Writing Instruction (OWI): A Showcase of Techniques

Deadline for chapter manuscripts: January 30, 2012 (Response by the end of March 2012)
Deadline for final chapter manuscripts: June 1, 2012

Call for Papers: Rhetoric and Technical Communication
Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association
33rd Annual Conference

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2011
Conference Date: February 8-11, 2012

Conference Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Michael J. Albers
East Carolina University
Spring 2009

Paul Dombrowski
University of Central Florida
Spring 2009

Rhetoric and ethics are related, Aristotle noted long ago. Our rhetorical choices reflect our values and our purposes. Especially in our activities to engage the public in complex technical issues, appropriate and effective rhetorical choices are vitally important.

David E. Hailey, Jr 
Utah State University
Spring 2009

Instructors designing online courses may want to look into Adobe’s newest suite for tools that will help them create interactive course content. Below I discuss my experiences with this new version as I designed online courses. In general, I found that the new suite works well, but it may also provide users with challenges.

Meg Morgan, ATTW Teaching Committee
UNC Charlotte
Fall 2009

David Beard
University of Minnesota Duluth
Fall 2009

Those of us who work primarily in the United States may not be familiar with the study and teaching of writing in the institutional and scholarly traditions north of the border within the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW).  Its May 2009 meeting in Ottawa, Canada, at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences provided several insights about the perspectives that this group represents.