The University of Waterloo Writing and Communication Centre is seeking an experienced writing centre tutor to fill an 18-month contract role to begin immediately.

The role will be posted until filled. Applications can be submitted here.

This is a full-time position (35 hours/week) providing individual and small-group appointments (grad and undergrad), facilitating workshops, collaborating with course instructors, and working with a team of communication specialists to deliver various programs and services on campus. Experience with a range of disciplines, genres, and academic and professional documents is an asset in this role.

The Association for Writing Across the Curriculum, the conference directors, and the conference advisory board are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 2020 International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference. The conference will be held June 3^rd through 6^th at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The deadline for proposals is October 14, 2019. Proposals can be submitted here.

Proposals are welcome in the following general areas:

• The history of WAC
• The role of WAC as an educational movement
• WAC pedagogy and practices
• WAC program design and leadership
• The impact of larger educational contexts and trends on WAC pedagogy and practices
• WAC as an international and transnational movement
• The role of WAC in addressing social justice
• The impact of WAC in diverse social and linguistic contexts
• WAC and institutional and interdisciplinary dynamics
• The impact of the polis on WAC

The following types of submissions are welcome:

• Interactive workshops
• Panels (typically, three or four speakers)
• Roundtables (typically, more than three or four speakers)
• Individual presentations (which will be combined with other proposals to form a panel)
• Teaching demonstrations
• Poster presentations (both print and digital)

The 2019 Annual Award for Best Dissertation submitted in 2018 goes to Sarah Whyte (Waterloo, 2018) for her dissertation, The Rhetorical Life of Surgical Checklists: A Burkean Analysis with Implications for Knowledge Translation. 

The 2019 Annual Award for Best Article or Chapter published in 2018 by a member of CASDW goes to James Corcoran, Antoinette Gagné, and Megan McIntosh for “A conversation about ‘editing’ plurilingual scholars’ thesis writing” in Canadian Journal for the Study of Discourse and Writing 28 (2018).

Honourable Mention was awarded to Katja Thieme and Mary Ann S. Saunders for “How do you wish to be cited? Citation practices and a scholarly community of care in trans studies” in Journal of English for Academic Purposes 32 (2018).

Congratulations to all the winners!

The University of Waterloo Writing and Communication Centre is seeking an experienced writing centre tutor to fill an 18-month contract role to begin immediately. The role will be posted until filled. Please submit applications as soon as possible. This is a full-time position (35 hours/week) providing individual and small-group appointments (grad and undergrad), facilitating workshops, collaborating with course instructors, and working with a team of communication specialists to deliver various programs and services on campus. Experience with a range of disciplines, genres, and academic and professional documents is an asset in this role.

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English is planning their 2020 conference, which will be held at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, hosted by Western University in London, Ontario, from May 30-June 5, 2020. The Call for Panels can be found here. The deadline to submit a Member-Organized or Joint-Sponsored panel proposal is September 1, 2019. The CFPs for accepted panels will be publicized to the ACCUTE membership in late September with a deadline for submissions of November 15, 2019.