The University of British Columbia is hiring a new Program Manager for the Centre for Writing and Scholarly Communication. The Program Manager works as part of a team of learning specialists, librarians, and peer writing consultants. There is a tight turnaround time on filling this position, so the posting will only be available until April 19. You can find the position here. Scroll down until you find the listing for ‘Program Manager’ (Library – Irving K. Barber), Job ID#26155.

CASDW invites nominations for its Annual Research Award—an award given to the author(s) of the best journal article or book chapter published by a 2016 CASDW member during the 2016 calendar year. Co-authored articles or chapters will be eligible as long as one of the authors was a CASDW member during the year of the award.  The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2017. The winner of the award will be announced at the 2017 CASDW conference at Ryerson University.

The selection criteria are as follows:

•    Significance and contribution to the field.
•    Depth of the research.
•    General quality of the writing, including its comprehensibility.
•    Originality.

The award includes a prize of $100 and a one-year CASDW membership for the following year.

Please note: Ideally, e-mail nominations will include an attached pdf of the journal article or book chapter, as well as a complete reference.

Nominations should be sent in an e-mail addressed to Graham Smart (GrahamSmart@CUNET.CARLETON.CA) and copied to the other members of the selection committee: Sarah Banting (sbanting@mtroyal.ca), Sheila Hannon (shannon2@uwo.ca), and Duncan Koerber (dkoerber@ryerson.ca).

Authors are invited to nominate their own publications as well as those of other CASDW members.

The Joan Pavelich CASDW Annual Award for the Best Dissertation in Writing and Discourse Studies recognizes the most outstanding PhD dissertation in Writing Studies, Discourse Studies, Rhetoric, or a cognate field for the preceding year. The award will be given to a student in a Canadian university or to a Canadian student studying outside Canada.  To be eligible, dissertations must have been defended between January 1, 2016, and December 31, 2016. An announcement of the winning dissertation will be made at the CASDW Annual General Meeting.

The award includes a prize of $100 and a one-year free CASDW membership for the following year.

The deadline for nominations is April 30, 2017. Self-nominations are accepted. The assessment criteria for the award are the following: (1) the overall quality of the writing and thinking; (2) the significance of the question(s) addressed in the research; (3) the importance of the new knowledge presented in the thesis; and (3) and methodological rigour and/or innovation.

Applicants/nominators should send the following items to each member of the selection committee listed below: a pdf file containing the dissertation (or a link to an online repository), a CV, and a cover sheet with the applicant’s full name, citizenship, institution and degree program, and the contact information for their primary supervisor.

Doreen Starke-Meyerring doreen.starke-meyerring@mcgill.ca

Jay Dolmage dolmage@uwaterloo.ca

Rachael Cayley rachael.cayley@utoronto.ca

Patty A. Kelly patty.kelly@ubc.ca

 

Early-bird registration rates for Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences 2017 will end on March 31!

To register now, click here.

To renew or sign up for membership in CASDW, click here.

 

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

Saturday, May 27 to Monday, May 29, 2017

Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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

Closing plenary: Professor Catherine Schryer, Ryerson University

For more information on the CASDW conference, click here.

 

University of Waterloo Teaching and Learning Conference

Cultivating Curiosity in Teaching and Learning

Waterloo, Ontario

April 27, 2017

Learn more on the conference website.

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University of Toronto Teaching and Learning Symposium

Intersections: Where Instructional Design Meets Learning Science

Toronto, Ontario

May 1, 2017

Learn more on the conference website.

 

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Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Educations Conference

Gateways in Higher Education: Cultures, Transitions, Transformations

Halifax, Nova Scotia

June 20—23

Learn more on the conference website.