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New Listserv for Women in Professional and Technical Communication

The Women in Professional and Technical Communication (WPTC) list is for teachers, learners, practitioners, and scholars to share their stories, ideas, pedagogies, rants, raves, and anything else related to PTC. The list is meant as a place to forge and maintain productive professional relationships with others.

Click here to join: http://bit.ly/yeROiV

ATTW Career Workshop

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.

Ultrabooks: The Next Big Thing in Portable Tech?

For those interested in new "tools of the trade" check out this article!

 

Tech Trends

Keep an eye open for the next "Tech Trends" article!

ARST Article of the Year Award Nominations

The Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology's (ARST) Article of the Year Award recognizes the most outstanding rhetoric of science and technology-related article published the preceding calendar.

Criteria for selection include:

1) How well the article extends practical and theoretical knowledge related to the rhetoric of science and technology

2) The article’s potential for cross-disciplinary fertilization

3) The article’s potential for teaching future generations of ARST scholars

4) The overall quality of writing and thinking

ATTW Conference Registration Is Open

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. 

Digital Communication Specialist Position Announcement

The Department of Humanities at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ) invites applications for a Digital Communication Specialist. Appointed at the assistant or associate professor level, this tenure-track position seeks outstanding candidates with special emphasis on digital communication that leverages the web, social networking, and mobile apps.

Weblog for Small Nonprofits

Weblog for small nonprofit
Daniel Richards
University of South Florida

Rationale:

This project was taught to a third-year professional writing class consisting of students from all majors of life. The theme of the course was "Social Media: Transforming Professional Communication Practices," and as such each project required a certain degree of participation in social media platforms. In this case, students were asked to create a Wordpress blog and envision themselves as an intern or new employee at a zoological rescue/rehabilitation center (obscure, I know, but I wanted to choose one organization for the entire class to help facilitate class discussions and have a more centralized and relevant common course content).

CFP: Technical and Professional Communication Sessions at the RMMLA

 

Submission deadline: March 1, 2012

Conference date: October 11-13, 2012

Conference location: Boulder, CO

Proposals are requested for the four technical and professional communication sessions to be held at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference in Boulder, Colorado on October 11-13, 2012.

An Exercise in Ethical Criticism: Celebrex© on TV

Paul Dombrowski
University of Central Florida

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