The 2017 IWCA Summer Institute will be held in Vancouver, Canada, from Monday, June 19 through Thursday, June 22 (with an opening reception the evening of Sunday, June 18).

The Summer Institute (SI) is an opportunity for both new and experienced writing center administrators, scholars, and practitioners to develop their practice. Focusing on the theme “The Relevant Writing Center: Advocacy through Inquiry,” SI 2017 workshops will cultivate informed, sustainable, and effective writing centers by focusing on tutor training, budget and logistics, diversity and inclusion, institutional advocacy, and qualitative and quantitative assessment and research. This year’s leaders include Vershawn Young (Waterloo University), Lucie Moussu (University of Alberta), and guest presenter Harry Denny (Purdue University) as well as SI co-chairs Christopher LeCluyse (Westminster College, UT) and Stacia Watkins (Lipscomb University) and IWCA President Shareen Grogan (  National University).

More information is included below. Participants must be IWCA members and can register through the IWCA members website. Please let SI co-chairs Chris LeCluyse or Stacia Watkins know if you have any questions.

 

The Relevant Writing Center: Advocacy through Inquiry

An established tradition within the International Writing Center Association since 2003, the Summer Institute (SI) is meant to guide current or would-be writing center directors and assistants, writing program administrators, tutors, writing teachers (high school or college), curriculum developers, graduate students, new PhDs, and academic leaders. SI leaders offer presentations, workshops, and discussions on a variety of writing center topics. Leaders also work one-on-one with participants throughout the week.

The fifteenth annual IWCA Summer Institute will be held June 19-22, 2017, in Vancouver, Canada, at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel. This year?s SI focuses on how writing centers can demonstrate their relevance both inside and outside institutions by cultivating evidence-based practices. Basing our work in sustained research?whether it takes the form of assessment or scholarly inquiry?helps us not only teach writing effectively but also empower writing tutors and student writers to engage in a complex, often conflictual, world. Grounding our work in inquiry can also reveal the important, idea-driven work writing centers engage in daily, enhancing their role and value within academic communities. SI 2017 workshops will cultivate informed, sustainable, and effective writing centers by focusing on tutor training, budget and logistics, diversity and inclusion, institutional advocacy, and qualitative and quantitative assessment and research.

Leaders for the SI 2017

Christopher LeCluyse, Westminster College (Utah), Co-Chair Stacia Watkins, Lipscomb University, Co-Chair Shareen Grogran, National University; President, International Writing Center Association Lucie Moussu, University of Alberta Vershawn Young, University of Waterloo Harry Denny, Purdue University, Guest Presenter

Registration

Participants can register online. Registration will be open until March 25, 2017. After the first 50 applications are received, a wait list will be started.

The SI registration fee of $900 includes participation in all workshops and presentations, receptions on Sunday, June 18, and Thursday, June 22, daily breakfast, and outside events. A limited number of travel and lodging grants are available. Please contact SI co-chair Chris LeCluyse if you would like to be considered for a travel or lodging grant.

Location

The IWCA Summer Institute 2017 will take place in Vancouver, Canada, at the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel. Room reservations can be made directly with the hotel (phone 604-331-1000); a special conference rate of $205/night Canadian (about $150/night U.S.) has been secured for the SI. This beautiful, cosmopolitan city boasts many natural and cultural attractions. Special excursions during the SI will give participants the opportunity to connect with this remarkable and diverse city.

Emily Carr University of Art + Design invites applications for a new full-time faculty position of Multilingual Learning Specialist. The successful candidate will develop and maintain support programs for students, staff and faculty in the area of supporting multilingual students. This position will work in collaboration with both the Writing Centre and the Teaching and Learning Centre.

Reporting to the Dean of Culture and Community, this position will directly support multilingual students at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as build staff and faculty awareness and expertise in pedagogical practices for multilingual students.

While the primary emphasis of our current support is in the area of writing, support for reading, listening and speaking will be necessary sites of future development.

The Emily Carr Writing Centre is a key resource in coordinating co-curricular instruction and support for our many multilingual students. The Writing Centre works closely with faculty instructors, student teaching assistants, student services staff, administration, and individual undergraduate and graduate students to maintain a network of support and advancement in areas of writing and language development.

The full posting can be found here.

The IWCA Collaborative at CCCC 2017 will be accepting proposals for sessions through Friday, December 16. We invite you to join your Writing Center colleagues from around the country for a day of active collaboration at Portland State University on March 15, 9am-6pm.

We are calling this year’s Collaborative “The Change Lab: Collaborating, Cooperating, Coordinating.” Why do writing center scholars go to professional conferences? To share the findings of our scholarly work, sure. But, many of us also go for the chance to engage with our peers from other institutions—to learn together, to problem solve, and to plan for the future in ways we cannot do alone. The IWCA Collaborative at CCCC offers the writing center community an opportunity to spend a full day of working together—not to share what we’ve already done, but to help each other with what still needs doing. It is our goal that if you participate in the 2017 Collaborative as a presenter or attendees you will finish the day with concrete “Monday morning moves”—plans you can immediately translate into action.

Read our full call for proposals here. To propose a session and/or to register for the conference, go to the IWCA Members page. We hope to collaborate with you! If you have questions about the conference, your proposal, or registration, we’re happy to talk with you: Jennifer Follett (jfollett@ycp.edu) or Lauri Dietz (ldietz@depaul.edu).

The Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric (CSSR / SCÉR) invites scholars and students to submit proposals for presentations in English or French.

Our next annual conference will be held at the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities’ Congress 2017 (www.congress2017.ca) at Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada, May 30 – June 1, 2017.

• Download the full CFP document from https://app.box.com/v/cssr-cfp-2017
• Proposals are due by January 15, 2017.

Our special theme this year is “Rhetoric and interdisciplinarity/disciplinarity.” However, proposals are not limited to the special theme.

The society welcomes papers on all aspects of rhetoric:

• rhetorical theory, criticism, and/or history
• rhetoric in popular culture and everyday life
• rhetoric and the media, film, gaming, and visual culture
• rhetoric and the physical environment
• rhetoric and the body, sports or performance
• rhetoric in the fine arts and literature
• rhetoric and identity, women’s/gender studies
• rhetoric in various disciplines and professions
• rhetorical discourse analysis and genre studies
• rhetoric of political, legal or public discourse
• biographical research on rhetors or rhetoricians
• rhetorical aspects of sociolinguistics and semiotics

We foster dialogue among scholars from diverse disciplines and professions who are interested in rhetoric. We welcome not only mainstream rhetorical scholarship, but also “rhetoric in/and” a wide variety of domains or disciplines and through interdisciplinary frameworks.

PDF version: CASDW 2017 Bilingual CFP

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”

Ryerson University – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Saturday, May 27 to Monday, May 29, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS

We invite papers on all aspects of writing studies for the ninth annual conference of CASDW/ACR, the largest gathering of writing studies scholars in Canada.  In particular, we invite papers on research and writing theory and pedagogy that connect with our theme, The Presence of Writing. This theme encompasses research and theoretical studies about the nature, place, role, and impact of writing, whether in the academy or other professional and public contexts.

Papers might address topics relating to the presence of writing and discourse such as the role of:

• writing and discourse in cultural and political debates
• writing and globalization and multilingualism
• writing in digital places and in the context of multimodality
• writing in institutional, professional, and cultural settings
• writing development across the lifespan including in K-12, undergraduate and graduate curricula
• writing within and across disciplines
• writing assessment
• writing centres and teaching and learning centres
• student writing and institutional approaches to plagiarism
• the development of future writing teachers, scholars, and leaders

We invite papers that draw on work in writing studies, genre studies, rhetorical theory, writing centre theory and practice, professional and technical writing research and practice, cultural studies, and faculty and TA development. We welcome papers that connect with CASDW’s heritage as a place for sharing research on technical and professional writing as well as those that connect with its more inclusive mission to examine all forms of discourse and writing and to explore pedagogical practices and innovations.

The proposal deadline is January 27, 2017 (See Proposal Requirements)

For more information about CASDW and to join the association or renew your membership, please visit https://casdwacr.wordpress.com/about/. For more information about the Congress or to register, visit www.congress2017.ca.

CASDW 2017 – Proposal Requirements

PLEASE DON’T use .pdf format as it complicates the process of preparing proposals for blind review.

1. Paper title and a short (75-word) description for the program overview
2. Name, title, institutional affiliation, & email for ALL presenters
3. Session format (check one)
   • INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATION: a 15- to 20-minute individual paper presenting the results of new research or focusing on a pedagogical issue or innovation.
   • PANEL PRESENTATION of 90-min. (3-5 speakers) comprising a collection of individual papers on a shared topic of interest related to discourse or the teaching of writing.
   • WORKSHOP of  90-min.   or   180-min.  focusing on a research method, pedagogical concern (e.g., assignment design or feedback), or professional skill (e.g., grant writing or interviewing).

4. Abstract for the proposed presentation (400 words maximum, plus references)   For individual papers and panels, please
   1. state the research question or describe the pedagogical issue or innovation;
   2. establish its significance;
   3. outline the theoretical framework and research method; 
   4. highlight key findings (and, optionally, implications);
   5. include a brief reference list.

Note: panel proposals may include a separate title, short description, and abstract for each paper OR  include a single title, description, and abstract encompassing all the papers in the panel.

For workshops, please describe the objectives and proposed workshop activities.

5. AV requirements:
   • Projector & screen
   • Laptop
   • Other:________________________

Proposal deadline: January 27, 2017

Please email proposals and questions to the program chair, Andrea Williams: al.williams@utoronto.ca. All proposals will be subject to blind peer review. Proposers will be notified of their acceptance status by March 3, 2017.

PDF version: CASDW 2017 Bilingual CFP

La Presence de la rédaction:
Faire une place à la rédactologie

La neuvième conférence annuelle de l’Association canadienne de rédactologie (ACR)

Discours d’ouverture: Professeur Rebecca Moore Howard, “Teaching Rhetorical Ethics in a Post-Truth Economy”

Université Ryerson (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Du 27 mai au 29 mai 2017

APPEL DE COMMUNICATIONS

Nous sollicitons des articles sur tous les aspects de la rédactologie pour la neuvième conférence annuelle de CASDW/ACR, le plus grand regroupement de chercheurs en rédactologie au Canada.  En particulier, nous sollicitons des articles sur la recherche en théorie et pédagogie de la rédaction qui sont reliés au thème de la conférence, La Présence de la rédaction. Ce thème inclut la recherche et l’étude théorique de la nature, la place, le rôle et l’impact de la rédaction, que ce soit en milieu académique ou dans d’autres contextes d’engagement publics ou professionnels.

Les articles peuvent traiter the sujets liés à la présence de la rédaction, tels que le rôle de :

• la rédaction dans les débats politiques et culturels
• la rédaction dans le contexte de la globalisation et du multilinguisme
• la rédaction dans l’espace digital et dans un contexte multimodal
• la rédaction dans les milieux institutionnels, professionnels et culturels
• le développement des aptitudes rédactionnelles, de l’école primaire aux études graduées
• la rédaction dans les disciplines et entre les disciplines
• l’évaluation des travaux écrits
• les centres d’écriture, de même que les centres d’enseignement et d’apprentissage
• les travaux écrits et les approches institutionnelles pour contrer le plagiat
• le développement de futurs instructeurs, chercheurs et leadeur en rédaction

Nous sollicitons également des articles qui contribuent aux connaissances existantes en rédactologie, en études de genre, en théorie de la rhétorique,  en théorie et pratique sur les centres d’écriture,  en recherche et pratique sur la rédaction technique et professionnelle,  en études culturelles et en développement des professeurs et assistants d’enseignement. Nous accueillons tout particulièrement les communications qui sont reliées au patrimoine de l’ACR en tant que lieu où l’on partage la recherche sur l’écriture technique et professionnelle et celles qui établissent un lien avec sa nouvelle mission encore plus inclusive qui examine toutes les formes de discours et d’écriture, ainsi que l’exploration et l’innovation en pédagogie.

Veuillez soumettre vos propositions avant le 27 janvier 2017. (Voir les modalités de soumission.)

 MODALITÉS DE SOUMISSION

1. Titre de la communication et bref résumé pour le programme de la conférence (75 mots)
2. Nom, poste, institution et courriel de TOUS les présentateurs
3. Format (cochez l’option voulue)
   • PRÉSENTATION INDIVIDUELLE (15à 20 min) : Une communication présentant les résultats d’une nouvelle recherche ou se concentrant sur unequestion ou une innovation pédagogique.
   • GROUPE DE SPÉCIALISTES (90 min) : De trois à cinq conférenciers présentant une collection de communications sur un sujet d’intérêt commun lié au discours ou à l’enseignement de la rédaction.
   • ATELIER (90 ou 180 min): Une séance se concentrant sur une méthode de recherche, une question pédagogique (p. ex., rétroaction), ou une compétence professionnelle (p. ex., demande de bourse).

4. Résumé (400 mots, plus les références)

Pour les présentations individuelles et de groupe, veuillez

1. préciser la question de recherche ou décrire la question pédagogique ou l’innovation d’intérêt;
2. établir son importance;
3. décrire le cadre théorique et les méthodes de recherche;
4. décrire les conclusions principales (et les implications pour la pratique);
5. comprendre une brève bibliographie.

Les propositions de groupe peuvent comprendre un titre, une description et un résumé propre à chaque communication, OU comprendre un titre, une description et un résumé qui englobe l’ensemble des communications du groupe de spécialistes.

Pour les ateliers, veuillez indiquer les objectifs et les activités prévues.

5. Exigences AV (cochez les options voulues)
   • £ Projecteur et écran
   • Ordinateur portable
   • Autre : ____________________

Veuillez ne pas utiliser le format PDF, car toutes les propositions seront soumises à l’examen aveugle. Veuillez faire parvenir vos propositions de communication et toute autre question au directeur du programme, Andrea Williams (williams@utoronto.ca), avant le 27 janvier 2017. Les auteurs seront informés de leur statut d’acceptation avant le 3 mars 2017. Pour obtenir plus de renseignements sur l’ACR, pour devenir membre ou pour renouveler votre adhésion, veuillez vous rendre au https://casdwacr.wordpress.com/about/; pour obtenir plus de renseignements sur le congrès ou pour vous y inscrire, veuillez vous rendre au congress2017.ca.

PDF version: CASDW 2017 Bilingual CFP