Special CFP: Play, visual strategies and innovative approaches to graduate student writing development

The Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie invites submissions on playfulness, visual strategies, and alternative or innovative approaches to graduate student writing development. The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2017.

The guest editors invite submissions that respond to any of the following questions:

• What alternative or innovative pedagogies inspire graduate students to think deeply about their research and to write with confidence?
• How might playfulness, visual strategies and alternative or innovative approaches be important for graduate student writing development?
• What are some challenges with using playful or visual approaches to engaging with writing/stumbling blocks? What are some successes?
• What strategies or tactics do supervisors, writing centre tutors or teaching assistants use to support post/graduate students with navigating stuck places?
• While there is a sense that space is important in the pedagogies of research writing literature, how space is conceptualised and applied in the research writing literature is limited. As such, how might an understanding of liminal writing spaces be informed by theories of place, space, and embodiment?

Theoretical and empirical submissions, as well as reflections on practice, are invited.

Please note: The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2017.

Submission Guidelines

Manuscripts should not exceed 9,000 words (including references and appendices), and should be submitted electronically in MSword (.doc or .docx format). Please refer to the APA Handbook (6th edition) for style guidelines. Manuscripts that do not follow these guidelines will not be considered suitable for review. Please note: The deadline for submissions is June 15, 2017. Online submissions are made using a registered account here.

Special Section Editors

Authors are encouraged to email the special section editors with their questions.

Britt Amell, PhD Student, Applied Linguistics & Discourse Studies, Carleton University
brittany.amell@carleton.ca

Cecile Badenhorst, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, Memorial University
cbadenhorst@mun.ca

Penn State’s English for Professional Purposes Intercultural Center (EPPIC), affiliated with the Department of Applied Linguistics at Penn State University, is seeking applicants for two positions in 2017-2018:

• Lecturer in English for Specific Purposes
• Postdoctoral Scholar in English for Academic Purposes/English for Specific Purposes

EPPIC is a new research and service center designed to provide a flexible menu of advanced academic and professional English language support services to multilingual students and scholars at Penn State, to conduct research in ESP/EAP, and to foster engaged intercultural exchange within the larger university community. To learn more about EPPIC’s mission and services, please visit www.eppic.la.psu.edu.

Full CASDW 2017 Program

The Ninth Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW/ACR)

The Presence of Writing: Making a Place for the Study of Writing and Discourse

Keynote: Professor Rebecca Moore Howard, “Teaching Rhetorical Ethics in a Post-Truth Economy”

Closing Plenary Address: Professor Catherine Schryer, “Reflections and Connections: Genre and Discourse Studies in the Canadian Context”

Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Summary of Key Events

Saturday, May 27

• 8:30 am            Welcome
• 8:45 am            Opening Keynote Address
• 10:00 am          Sessions A, B, and C (until 4:30 pm)

Sunday, May 28

• 8:00 am            Breakfast Networking Event
• 9:00 am            Sessions D, E, F, and G (until 4:30 pm)
• 5:00 pm            President’s Reception
• 6:00 pm            Annual Dinner at the Mill Street Brewery, Beer Hall

Monday, May 29

• 9:00 am            Session H
• 10:45 am          Closing Plenary Address
• 1:00 pm            Annual General Meeting of CASDW

Full CASDW 2017 Program

 

The University of Toronto’s Innis College invites applications for a two-year, limited-term, teaching-stream appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream. The successful candidate will be part of the Writing and Rhetoric Program and the position will begin July 1, 2017 or shortly thereafter, and end June 30, 2019. The deadline for applications is May 25, 2017.

Innis College is seeking applicants with extensive knowledge of writing and rhetoric as conjoined fields of study.  The successful candidate will teach courses at the undergraduate level in subjects including: Theories of Rhetoric; Writing Essays; and preferably, both Digital Rhetoric and Writing for Social Change.

Ideally, the candidate will be equipped to teach any number of courses currently offered by the program, a listing of which appears on the program website. For that reason, the candidate should have experience teaching a range of courses, from lecture-based survey courses to seminars, and, preferably, possess experience supervising teaching assistants. The candidate will also be expected to teach select courses within the core curriculum of the program, including INI103H (Writing Essays).

While this position requires general knowledge of the fundamentals of writing and rhetoric, candidates should also demonstrate specialization in an area that would complement the Writing and Rhetoric program’s current course offerings.

Candidates must demonstrate evidence of excellence in teaching and preferably have three years of experience teaching at the post-secondary level. Evidence of excellence in teaching will be demonstrated by strong endorsements from referees, teaching accomplishments highlighted as part of the application, and teaching dossier and teaching evaluations as part of the application. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Writing and Rhetoric (or a related discipline) in hand by time of appointment or shortly thereafter. Salary to be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Submission guidelines can be found here. We recommend combining documentation into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format.  Applications should include:

1. a cover letter of no more than two single-spaced pages, and containing a concise articulation of the candidate’s teaching philosophy;
2. a curriculum vitae;
3. a teaching dossier containing a list of courses taught, course syllabi, and teaching evaluations;
4. an example of published scholarship not exceeding twenty pages.

Candidates should also arrange to have three letters of recommendation focusing on their teaching abilities sent to Charlie Keil, Principal, Innis College, and Chair of Search Committee. All inquiries should be directed to Maitri Vosko, Assistant to the Principal.

 

The 2017 Technology for Second Language Learning Conference at Iowa State University (September 22-23) invites abstract submissions from prospective presenters wishing to contribute to the program with a paper, poster, or colloquium on the theme of boundary crossing in technology and second language learning. The Call for Proposals is open now, with proposals due May 18.

Conference Theme:

Crossing Boundaries: The Geographical and Intellectual Diffusion of Technology for Language Learning

Technology serves as a bridge that crosses historically constructed boundaries between second language teaching and other disciplines. It has created an unprecedented level of interconnection between language learning researchers and language teaching classrooms. It also provides the affordances to connect language teachers throughout the world in mutually beneficial interactions and expanded educational circles.

At the 15^th Annual TSLL conference, we will highlight, explore, and celebrate the multifaceted ways that the spread of technology internationally and disciplinarily prompts new paths for inquiry and education. We look back on 15 years of research and development of technologies for second language learning from previous TSLL conferences as a springboard for boundary-crossing work of the future.

Important Dates:

Call for Proposals Opens: March 31, 2017

Call for Proposals Closes: May 18, 2017

Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2017

Conference Dates: September 22-23, 2017