The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) invites interested members to apply for research grants up to $1,500. CPTSC funds research projects that contribute to our collective knowledge about all aspects of program administration. Proposed research projects should relate to one or more of the following goals:

CPTSC Conference

Submission Deadline:  May 1, 2012

Conference Theme: Communities, Workplaces, and Technologies

Conference Dates: September 27-29, 2012

Conference Location: Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Call for Proposals

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization

Special Issue on “Human Rights” (scheduled for publication: September 2013)

Editors: David Alan Sapp, Gerald J. Savage, and Kyle Mattson

Proposals (up to 500 words) for article manuscripts due: June 1, 2012

Full manuscripts (5000 words, APA style) due: November 1, 2012

Call for Proposals for an Edited Collection:

Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in a New Age of Austerity

Deadline for proposals: July 15, 2012

Selection for manuscript submissions: August 15, 2012

Deadline for manuscripts: December 15, 2012

Submission deadline: June 15, 2012

Conference date: November 9, 2012

Conference location: Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN

The Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing is proud to announce our 2012 Annual Conference. This year's theme is Politics and Communication: Negotiating Meaning in Our Classrooms, Our Research, and Our Lives.

Submission deadline: April 25, 2012

Workshop date: May 17, 2012

Workshop location: Raleigh, NC

The Graduate Research Network (GRN) invites proposals for its 2012 workshop, May 17, 2012, at the Computers and Writing Conference hosted by North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. 

Conference Theme: Communities, Workplaces, and Technologies

Submission Deadline:  May 1, 2012

Conference Location: Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

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

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