MIT anticipates hiring a lecturer to work as a writing in the disciplines specialist in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program (WRAP). A thriving program with over thirty lecturers, WRAP collaborates with faculty across MIT to provide communication instruction within communication-intensive subjects in all departments. Through a team-teaching structure, WRAP lecturers embedded in disciplinary classes teach students to analyze audiences and attend to differences in discourse conventions, to analyze and produce specialized genres and forms of argumentation, and to compose, evaluate, and integrate oral, written, visual, and digital modes of communication.

This lecturer will 1) team teach communication in communication-intensive classes primarily in STEM subjects; 2) work with faculty to develop pedagogy, instruction, and assignments that teach the rhetorical principles of written and oral communication; 3) evaluate and respond to student communication assignments in a variety of contexts, and provide guidance to faculty and TAs for evaluating and responding to student communication assignments.  The teaching load is the equivalent of three classes per term.  Salary is commensurate with experience, and MIT offers full benefits and support for professional development for lecturers.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Substantial teaching experience; experience teaching technical communication, and in WAC/WID contexts preferred.
• Master’s degree required, Ph.D. preferred, in Rhetoric, Composition, or Technical/Professional Writing, or equivalent experience in the teaching of academic writing.
• Comfort with highly technical subject matter, and understanding of principles of effective communication of technical material for multiple audiences required; familiarity with rhetoric and WAC/WID pedagogy preferred.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate effectively with faculty, TAs, and administrative staff.
• Experience with assignment design, oral communication instruction, or visual rhetoric preferred.

Applications should consist of a cover letter, a curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information for three references.  Applicants should submit their applications online in reference to job number 14752.

Lecturer in Rhetoric and Technical Communication

The Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Waterloo invites applications for a three-year definite-term appointment starting August 1, 2017 at the rank of Lecturer in Rhetoric and Technical Communication.

The successful candidate may be considered for reappointment at the completion of the contract.

Applicants must have a completed PhD and a substantial record of teaching by the time of appointment. The successful candidate will teach a writing- and speaking-intensive engineering communication course for first-year engineering students; thus, evidence of experience teaching technical communications courses at the post-secondary level will be considered an important asset. The successful candidate will also contribute to other areas of undergraduate teaching in communication and rhetoric.

This position is designated as 80% teaching and 20% service, with duties normally spread over three academic terms each year. The salary range for the rank of Lecturer is $60,000.00 to $80,000.00. Negotiations beyond this salary range will be considered for exceptionally qualified candidates.

The application deadline is June 5, 2017. Please submit applications to the Department Chair, Kate Lawson. Application materials must be submitted online as PDF files here. Please include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and a teaching dossier, and arrange for three letters of reference to be uploaded (addressed to Professor Kate Lawson, Chair, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo).

Academic Writing Now: Policy, Pedagogy, and Practice

The draft programme for EATAW 2017, the 9^th Conference of the European Association for Teaching Academic Writing, is now available.

Conference dates: June 19-21, 2017

Location: Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.

Keynote speakers: Professor Rowena Murray, Professor Ron Barnett, and Dr Katrin Girgensohn

Registration deadline: May 26, 2017

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.