Essays and ideas are being sought for a freshman composition textbook entitled "Thinking Critically About the Computer Age." This reader will include essays and fiction relating the following topics: artificial intelligence, computer-assisted education, hyperfiction, "technobabble," impact of computers on jobs and the workplace, gender and cultural issues, research on the internet vs. traditional research methods, censorship and the internet, etc. Anyone who has written, or knows of, essays on these topics that would interest college freshmen should recommend or submit them to Dr. Anthony Manousos at amanousos@aol.com or send them via snail mail to 1446 E. Ralston Ave, San Bernardino CA 92404.

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Announcement:


Discussion list for graduate students in the modern languages

E-Grad is intended principally as a sheltered but open forum for the concerns of graduate students in the modern languages. It is maintained by members of the Graduate Student Caucus, an allied organization of the MLA. As an allied organization, GSC does not represent the MLA. Rather, it is a group of its members, who are graduate students. You do not need to be a member of the MLA or the GSC to subscribe to E-Grad.


1) Send a message to

listproc@listproc.bgsu.edu

2) Leave everything else blank except for a line in the message section with:

subscribe e-grad firstname lastname

3) Shortly after that, you'll get a welcome message which you might want to save.

If you have problems or questions, please feel free to e-mail me (Alan Rea) at alan@bgnet.bgsu.edu and I'll be more than happy to help. --
Joe Aimone
Department of English
University of California, Davis
joaimone@ucdavis.edu

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Rhetorical Bodies: Toward a Material Rhetoric

will be the theme of The Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition to be held July 6-9, 1997, in State College, Pennsylvania.

Please note: The conference is taking a hiatus in 1996 and will return in the summer of 1997 with a more focused, thematic format. A call for papers will arrive in August 1996 soliciting position papers which address the conference theme.

Deadline for proposal submission will be December 1, 1996.

Visit the WWW site at:
http://www.cde.psu.edu/rhet&comp/

For more information, contact:
Christina Haas
Department of English
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park PA 16802
e-mail ala2@psu.edu or axg5@psu.edu

To receive a BROCHURE, call: 1-800-PSU-TODAY or e-mail: lion@cde.psu.edu

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Hey, DIWE teachers!

It's that time of year again--Wings submission time. I'm looking for pieces from those of you teaching at two-year colleges especially, since we'll be distributing at the 1996 CCCC in Milwaukee where the theme is teaching writing in the community college/2-year college setting. Please query me about possible ideas and topics. I'm a good brainstormer, and I'd love to hear from any and all of you.

Remember that I'm looking for pieces that run approximately 200 words, for which Daedalus will pay you $50. Please notify me of your interest in submitting by February 2 and submit pieces on-line (preferably) by March 1. I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Nancy Peterson
Editor, Wings

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*Call for Manuscripts
WEBGEIST


Atavism is "the reappearance of a characteristic in an organism after several generations of absence, caused by a recessive gene or complementary genes" (American Heritage Dictionary). Metaphorically, atavism is a desire to return to the past, which allegedly was a "golden age" when things worked, people behaved, god was in heaven, and all was right on earth. We would like to see writing that addresses the idea of atavism in American education, politics, family life, daily life, religion, and so on. All viewpoints are encouraged.

Also, we would like to make a general call for stories and poems, book, video, movie, and CD reviews, as well as anything in the other categories listed below. Graphic artists are encouraged to submit small (30-50K) JPG or GIF files of artwork.

Additionally, as you might expect of a magazine named Webgeist, we would like to compile coinages of words that are uniquely cybercentric. If you have made up a word or can provide one, please send it to us with attribution [see example at the end of this message].

Please see the *Guide for Authors* below, which lists the several categories of writings we would like to publish. Either query or send complete manuscripts.

All manuscripts should be emailed to:

Patrick Bjork: bjork@plains.nodak.edu
Richard Cummins: rcummins@ctc.ctc.edu

Editors
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*Guide for Authors*

The Webgeist is published quarterly on the Wide World Web at http://www.ctc.edu/~rcummins and through email subscription. Intended as an electronic magazine for academics and intellectuals who are weary of theoretical mumbo-jumbo, Webgeist seeks to provides fresh perspectives on topical matters in art, culture, and society. Since the magazine is a free 'zine, there is no remuneration to authors, who retain copyright of their work.

The readership includes teachers, scholars and researchers in many fields and lay readers of diverse backgrounds. A Webgeist article is written clearly and simply and avoids technical terms or jargon. All submissions are evaluated in terms of clarity, originality, relevance, authority, and relation to the issue's topic.

*Types of Submissions*

Categories for contributions include Articles, Book Reviews, CD Reviews, Film and Video Reviews, News and Commentary, Letters to the Editors, Poetry, and Forum (the topic of that particular issue), which may include the following: longer thought pieces, jokes, top ten lists, short zingers.

Articles: Articles may be evaluative, explanatory, or argumentative, but will be well-focused discussions of topical interest to readers involved in education: citizens, teachers, students, administrators, staff. Articles can be on any subject. We are particularly interested in articles that bring a fresh perspective to old stuff or that introduce new material.

Even on the Web, space is a consideration because many accepted articles will be awaiting publication, and many excellent articles will not be published. Be concise. Articles are typically 500-2000 words (about two to eight double-spaced typewritten pages). Articles should be organized around one central point or theme.

Articles should be preceded by a ten- to twenty-word summary of the central point, which will in most cases be included with the article. Since we don't have much in the way of graphics or layout, the abstract will be a reader's aid. Also include your name, address, affiliation, telephone numbers, and email address. Unless otherwise requested, the author's email address will be included with the article. Please include a brief, one- or two-sentence biographical note. If you do not wish to have your email address included, please state so.

Book, CD, and Video Reviews: Most reviews are about 500-1500 words. Both solicited and unsolicited reviews are used. Include the publication data at the top of the article (Title, author, publisher, city, year, number of pages, hardcover or paper or both, price, OR Title, artist, label, year, number of cuts, price, OR Title, director, cast, studio or production company, year, running time, format, price). Include a small JPG scan (20-30K) of the book jacket, cover, or poster, for illustration, if possible.

News and Comment: News articles from 250-1000 words are welcome.
Forum: The Forum consists of longer pieces of non-fiction that explore aspects of that issue's particular theme [see "Call for Submissions"].

Poetry & Fiction:
Letters to the Editors: This section is reserved for issues that arose in preceding issues. Letters should not be more than 200 words. Representative letters will be published, and where it is relevant, authors whose views or writing has been criticized will be asked to respond.

We strongly encourage JPG or GIF files for graphics, illustrations, and so on. While these will not be available for the email version of the magazine, they will be included in the version archived at the Webgeist's Website.

All manuscripts should be emailed to:

Patrick Bjork: bjork@plains.nodak.edu
Richard Cummins: rcummins@ctc.ctc.edu

Editors

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OCC-L on LISTPROC@HAWAII.EDU On-Line College Classroom


OCC-L, the On-Line College Classroom, is an open, unmoderated discussion list devoted to discussions, announcements, papers, etc. that are pertinent to those who are teaching (or planning to teach) college classes on-line. The emphasis is on both the practical considerations of planning and implementing on-line instruction as well as on theoretical or philosophical issues. Discussions are aimed at the needs of both the beginner and the expert. Questions and responses to the entire list are encouraged.

To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of mail to LISTPROC@HAWAII.EDU on the Internet:

SUBSCRIBE OCC-L yourfirstname yourlastname

For example: SUBSCRIBE OCC-L Joe Shmoe

Owner: Jim Shimabukuro jamess@hawaii.edu

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in Rhetoric and Technical Communication 1996-1997

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI The Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, invites applications for Visiting Research Scholars in Rhetoric and Technical Communication for the 1996-1997 academic year. The Department is nationally-recognized for programs in rhetoric and technical communication, composition studies, computers and composition studies, writing across the curriculum, writing center studies, and international and intercultural communication, among others. The Department of Humanities offers both the M.S. and Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Technical Communication, the B.S. and B.A. in Scientific and Technical Communication, and B.A. degrees in English and Liberal Arts.

Scholars with interests in interdisciplinary humanities studies or research projects in one or more of the following areas are encouraged to apply:

* any aspect of technical communication research or pedagogy;

* discursive or rhetorical dimensions of science or technology-- from the perspectives of feminist studies, cultural studies, composition theory, theories of visual representation, communication theory, computer studies, policy development, foreign languages, literary studies, philosophy, psychology, or linguistics.

The Scholars' positions will appeal to faculty on sabbatical leave and to holders of research grants. Applicants must have an earned doctorate or the equivalent in experience, research, and publications.

The Scholars' positions are available for a period of three months to one year. No stipend is attached; however, limited teaching may be available, depending on expertise and departmental need. The Department of Humanities will provide office space, university affiliation, library privileges, access to e-mail and a fully-equipped computer classroom, and the opportunity to participate in a rich, interdisciplinary environment conducive to research and collaboration with faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

Application packets should include a curriculum vitae, letter of introduction, detailed description of the research project to be undertaken while in residence, and the names of three references. Send applications to:

Dr. Cynthia L. Selfe, Head
Department of Humanities
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive
Houghton, MI 49931

Michigan Technological University is an equal opportunity educational institution/equal opportunity employer.
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Karla Saari Kitalong kitalong@mtu.edu
Department of Humanities http://www.hu.mtu.edu/~kitalong/
Michigan Technological U.
1400 Townsend Drive voice: 906-487-3262
Houghton, MI 49931 fax: 906-487-3559
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TEACHING ENGLlSH IN THE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE

is planning a special issue for October 1996 on technology and the two-year college.

Manuscripts are sought on all facets of the subject from successful use of new technologies in the classroom to the problems of funding and access. Research that specifically explores how technology complicates and/or enhances the particular contexts of two-year colleges will be especially appropriate for this issue.

Essays can address but are not limited to computerized instruction in all areas of writing, (especially creative writing and technical writing), computer use in literature classes; technology and basic writers or ESL students; CD-ROM technology; uses of the Internet; the cultural politics of technologizing the classroom; issues of teacher training; distance learning; e-mail and the two-year college; software design, development, and evaluation; issues of authority in networked classrooms; design and architecture for the technologized classroom; computer and writing program administration and design; and the influence of word processing on student writing.

Submissions are also sought on the theme for regular journal features such as What Works for Me and reviews of books as well as software.

Inquiries about possible subjects should be addressed to the guest editor:

Todd Taylor
Department of English, CPR 358
4202 East Fowler Ave.
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL 33620-5550

e-mail: taylor@chuma.cas.usf.edu
FAX: 813.974.2270
Phone: 813.974.0782

Completed manuscripts should range from 8 to 15 typed, double-spaced pages (2000-3750 words) and follow the documentation style of the _MLA Handbook_ (1995) to include a works-cited list in MLA style at the end of the article. Use endnotes not footnotes. Authors should use a large font size, dark ink, and ample margins to provide an easily readable article. When accepted and any revisions completed, information on disk submission will be provided. Initially, authors should submit an original and two photocopies of their manuscripts. Please include unaddressed manila envelopes with sufficient unattached first-class postage (stamps only) for mailing to two reviewers. The author's name should be included on the cover letter only along with address, work, home, and fax numbers and an e-mail address. This letter must include a statement that the article has not been published or submitted elsewhere.

Completed manuscripts must be mailed by MARCH 1, 1996 to:

TETYC
P. O. Box
250 Brewton, AL 36427

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An additional copy of this CFP is available (when the server is working) at:

http://www.cas.usf.edu/JAC/tetyc.html

Slightly more detailed submission information is available at:

http://www.cas.usf.edu/JAC/tetyc2.html

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CALL FOR HYPERTEXTS

Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments



Kairos is a hypertext journal exploring all aspects of the pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertext, written in hypertextual format(s). It is designed to serve as a resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing, including: Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature.

We are interested in receiving hypertexts addressing the following:

*hypertexts designed to help ground pedagogical theory in classroom praxis;

*reports on empirical research conducted in and related to networked writing
environments;

*editorials from teachers regarding classroom experiences;

*sample syllabi, with notes and commentary from teachers and students;

*commentary and reviews of on-line resources, including websites, M**space,
listservs, newsgroups and print resources;
reviews of pertinent software;

*interactive responses to hypertexts published in previous issues.

Please see our most recent issue at:
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/index.html

If you do not have a Netscape 2.0 browser, please see: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/tocnf.html

The June 1996 issue will partially focus on distance learning and M**space. We would be particularly interested in hearing from hypertext authors who have syllabi for M**-oriented classes, or would be willing to review various types
of and specific sites for M** interaction. However, we will be happy to consider any h-texts related to writing pedagogy.

Inquiries are due by February 1, 1996.
Completed texts for review are due by April 1, 1996. Final hypertexts must be completed by May 1, 1996.

If you are a novice with hypertext, we can help you -- don't let that keep you from submitting! For details regarding our non-blind interactive peer review editorial process, please visit our homepage:

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/

Address questions and inquiries to Assistant Editor Elizabeth Pass at: ngpas@ttacs.ttu.edu

Kairos is published by the D'Artagnan Communications Group and sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing.

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Remember the symposium on the History of Computers and the Teaching of Writing we had last May? I finally managed to get the fourth week of the discussion (which actually stretched over five weeks, with tangential tendrils sprouting until the end of June) on the web.

If you just want to take a look at the new section, it's at

http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/history_week4

If you want to review the whole thing, see

http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/cwhistory.html

Sorry it took so long to get the thing more or less whole. It's not finished, of course, since nothing on the web ever is. So if anyone wants to make design suggestions, feel free.

And if anyone, while reviewing the conversation, wants to add to the discussion, please feel free. I'll get a form made to facilitate that, but not until next week.

--Eric

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RhetNet,
a cyberjournal for rhetoric and writing

http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/rhetnet.html |

New Snapshots
"The Main Problem" "Grading: Power Vortex in the Classroom"
Fred KempEric Crump
What if someone said that writingteachers, most of them, are not really writers, that they tend to shy away from the same challenges they ask students to face? What if someone said that this lack of engagement with the craft they teach was the root of most pedagogical evils? Grading debates inevitable swirl to the heart of the evaluation system: a concentration of evaluation power in a single person,the teacher. What if all efforts at distributing authorityin the classroom are futile as long as this condition persists?
Fred so asserts.Eric so asserts

* RhetNet Snapshots:
* http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/snapshots.html
RhetNet readers are always also RhetNet writers (if they want to be). Please don't take these texts lying down. Feel free to contribute your thoughts on the issues they suggest.

New Net/Text

"The Main Problem: MBU-L --> RhetNet"

Fred Kemp's snapshot was originally posted to MBU-L@ttu.edu (Megabyte University). It provoked a lively discussion, including debate about the truth of his claim, musing about the nature of writing and the function of rules, as well as the usual tangents zipping off this way and that.
Nearly all of the MBU-L conversation is now available on RhetNet's web pages.
http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/the_problem
RhetNet readers are always also RhetNet writers (did I say this already?). Please feel free to add your bit to this collection of texts.
Keep the conversation going!

Reminder: Special Issue

RhetNet will publish a special issue consisting of essays, articles, hypertexts, scribbles on the backs of napkins, and other interesting textual shapes pertaining to Richard Lanham's _The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts_.
The editors are coordinating this project with Cynthia Haynes, guest editor of _Pre/Text_'s special issue on virtual rhetorics.

Calls for participation:
http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/ew_call.html http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/virtual_rhetorics_call.html
Deadline for submissions:
January 31, 1996

See also: http://miavx1.muohio.edu/~pretext/

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The inaugural issue of:
Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 1996)

Published by the D'Artagnan Communications Group Sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/index.html for Netscape 2.0 browsers

http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/tocnf.html for Netscape 1.x and all other web browsers

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Cover Web:
Online Writing Labs: Should We? Will We? Are We? Stuart Blythe, J Paul Johnson, Camille Langston, Jane Lasarenko and Suzan Moody present varied takes on the challenges and benefits of OWLs

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Featured Webs:

The Case of Object #143 or A Manifesto of CineTextual Writing Anthony Rue, University of Florida

Stories & Maps: Postmodernism and Professional Communication Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Purdue University

Get to Know John Burroughs
Walt Carroll, Olympic Media Information

Mapping Ecash: Using the Internet for Business Writing Tim Krause, Purdue University

What Matters Who Writes? What Matters Who Responds? Issues of Ownership in the Writing Classroom Andrea Lunsford, The Ohio State University with Rebecca Rickly, University of Michigan Michael J. Salvo, SUNY-Binghamton
Susan West, The Ohio State University

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Hypertext and Pedagogy in the News:

Should We MOO What We Can?
Kairos Talks With the Proprietors of the Netoric Cafe

News From the MOO . . . CWTA and You?

*Utah State to Host 1996 Computers and Writing Conference *Writing for the World Aims to Connect Writing Classes *Epiphany Project Will Interconnect Universities Nationwide *Calls for Proposals in Computers and Writing and Related Fields

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Reviews of:

David Kolb's _Socrates in the Labyrinth_ by Nick Carbone

Nicholas Negroponte's _Being Digital_
by Tyanna Herrington

George Landow's _Writing at the Edge_
by Douglas Eyman

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This issue also includes contributions from ACW's Fred Kemp; from Michael Joyce and students at Vassar College; and "Pixelated Rhetorics," a virtual Burkean Parlor/whiteboard for commentary from members of the Kairos editorial board and others.

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Issue 1.1 of Kairos is available at:
(best viewed)
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/index.html for Netscape 2.0 browsers or
http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/tocnf.html for Netscape 1.x browsers and all other web browsers

Please direct commentary and questions to: Mick Doherty, Editor

The Call For Hypertexts for Kairos 1.2 is available at: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/1.1/news/cfh.html And will be posted to relevant electronic lists shortly.

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Technical Writer Wanted

Tektronix, headquartered in Wilsonville, Oregon, currently has several opportunities for technical writers. Tektronix is a global high-technology company based on a portfolio of measurement, color printing, and video and networking businesses. For more information on Tektronix consult the Internet: http://www.tek.com

Purpose of Position:

This position is responsible for creating, editing, and verifying product documentation for our video and networking business. Documentation products include:
-- hardware and software user and service manuals -- on-line help and tutorials
-- programming documents
-- reference documents

Key actions include:

-- Authoring hardware and software documentation featuring audio, video and graphics and producing visually appealing publications using the latest communications technologies and tools
-- Planning, estimating, and tracking projects; meeting all product development schedules
-- Establishing and maintaining rapport with design engineers to assure timely responses to technical changes
-- Maintaining an understanding of leading industry trends in information management and presentation (hypermedia, HTML, SGML, WinHelp, MPEG, etc.)
--Tools include: FrameMaker, MS Word, RoboHelp and HTML

Requirements Include:

-- 5-10 years technical writing experience for senior positions, less for junior positions
-- Bachelor's degree (electrical/electronic engineering, computer science, or technical communications preferred)

Location of Job:

Beaverton, Oregon (in the Portland Metro area)

Salary Range:

Tektronix offers an excellent salary, benefits, and relocation package. The specific salary depends on experience

If Interested:

Contact by phone, e-mail, or fax your resume to:
Tektronix
Melissa Burton, Staffing & Workforce Planning Department 503-685-3598
503-685-3961 (fax)
e-mail: Melissa.L.Burton@Tek.com

** Tektronix supports a drug free work environment and is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.

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The University of Louisville

Thomas R.Watson Conference
on
Composition & Rhetoric


Conference Theme

History, Reflection, and Narrative:
The Professionalization of Composition 1963-1983

October 9 - 12, 1996
Featuring the Following Speakers:

David Bartholomae * Patricia Bizzell * Joseph Comprone
Robert Connors--KEYNOTE * Charles Cooper * Edward Corbett Frank D'Angelo * Peter Elbow * Janet Emig * Lester Faigley
Winifred Horner * Jacqueline Jones-Royster--KEYNOTE
James Kinneavy * Richard Larson * Janice Lauer
Richard Lloyd-Jones * Andrea Lunsford * Lee Odell * Richard Ohmann Sondra Perl * Nancy Sommers * Stephen Witte * Richard Young

The University of Louisville has received a generous gift from Dr. Thomas R. Watson that will support a biennial thematic conference in rhetoric and composition and, in alternate years, a Visiting Distinguished Professorship of Rhetoric and Composition.

The first University of Louisville Thomas R. Watson Conference will focus on how Composition came to be the profession it is, how the present builds on the past, and how the future may challenge the present.

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations or 90-minute panels for presentations on the history, development, identity, and future of Composition as a profession. We especially welcome proposals that consider the work or influence of featured speakers or of movements and innovations with which they are associated.

For individual presentations, submit 3 copies of a 250-word proposal; for panels, submit 3 copies of a brief description of the panel as well as 250-word proposals for each presentation. Send paper submissions to Brian Huot at his campus address, or electronic submissions to the Conference email address:

watson@homer.louisville.edu

Deadline for Proposals: April 3, 1996

Conference will be limited to 500 registrants.

Registration forms will be mailed to all CCCCs members in late January or early February.

Further Information

Brian Huot Steve Watkins
Conference Director Assistant Director
Department of English
University of Louisville jswatk01@
Louisville, KY 40292 homer.louisville.edu

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The Communication Review

Call for Papers


Special issue on Networks, Communities, and the Public Sphere

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After thirty years of slow propagation from military research centers in the United States, computer networking has become a broad-based social movement. This movement is best known through the popular discourse of "network communities" on the Internet and other global network services. But it also includes significant efforts to develop "community networks" to facilitate community organizing, local business alliances, and access to government information. The dualism of these two phrases -- network communities and community networks -- is one indication of the complex interweaving between the social dynamics and the technical structures of computer networking. The new technologies provide an infrastructure for a wide variety of organizing activities, and they are widely held to portend substantial changes in the character of democracy. Differential access to networking technology, moreover, has been widely predicted to hold serious consequences for both economic and political equality in an emerging information society.

Interdisciplinary research on networks and communities can contribute to an evaluation of these claims. How do network communities operate in practice? What social processes condition an individual or group's ability to benefit from computer networks? How are the social movements around computer networking organized? How do the dynamics of community life influence the shape of networking movements, and how do the emerging networks interact with the communities around them? How are emerging media changing the classical issues of political participation such as freedom of speech and the press, political knowledge, and the nature of social movements? How are law and policy responding to these changes? And what challenges, if any, do these new developments pose to the very concepts of community and polis?

This special issue of The Communication Review will examine these questions. Articles are welcome from all disciplines relating to human communication research, including anthropology, law, political science, rhetoric, and sociology. These articles should be around 10,000 words in length and should bring a developed theoretical discussion to bear on particular empirical materials. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is March 1st 1996 but potential contributors are encouraged to correspond with the special issue editor, Phil Agre , well before that date.

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The Communication Review:

With the goal of exploring new, disciplined approaches to communication studies, The Communication Review seeks a synthesis of concerns traditional to the field of communication and human studies scholarship. The journal's heuristic division of the field into three analytical perspectives provides a natural structure for creating new knowledge across conventional disciplinary boundaries:

* Communication as a Social Force -- focusing on the historical
evolution and contemporary transformation of mass communications, telecommunications, and information systems, emphasizing their political-economic, technological, and institutional dynamics. * Communication and Culture -- proving the questions of producing
meaning and interpretation by way of analyzing culture through literature, the visual and dramatic arts, folklore, and anthropology.
* Communication and Mind -- examining the individual socially
constituted through language and other media in their cultural and economic contexts.

The editors view these as different perspectives on a unitary system of communicative activity. The journal recognizes that while scholars in diverse fields once took "mediational" institutions, forms, and practices for granted, now communication presents fundamental problems that require analysis.

Further details about the journal are available on the WorldWide Web at http://communication.ucsd.edu/commreview/commreview.html

or by sending an electronic mail message of the following form:

To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: archive send tcr

For subscription information and a free copy of the first issue contact:

Christopher Davis
International Publishers Distributor
Gordon & Breach Publishers, Inc.
820 Town Center Drive
Langhorne, PA 19047
Phone: (215) 750-2642 x129
Fax: (215) 750-7343

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Just a reminder as we all reach the end of your semesters/quarters that I'm gathering together a page on the WWW that is nothing but a set of links to student texts (not texts about students, nor references for students, but the texts they create in our courses themselves). I don't want the texts themselves but only links to texts that already exist on the WWW.

The Writing for the World page is at
http://icarus.uic.edu/~kdorwick/world.html and includes a direct link to my e-mail address.

To be included, I need three pieces of info by e-mail: Your name, the name of the link (i.e., English 313 Class Compositions), and your e-mail address if you want me to include an e-mail link to you so that others can reach you with questions and comments....

I'd appreciate your putting a link to the Writing for the World page on your course pages in return, but that isn't necessary.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Keith Dorwick
Teaching Assistant, Department of English The University of Illinois at Chicago
Dept. of English, 601 S. Morgan, m/c 162 Chicago, IL 60607-7120

home page: http://icarus.uic.edu/~kdorwick

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are sending this out as a call for materials that you could contribute for the workshop in January. We'll feature a hefty handout, a spiral bound "guidebook" type of thing with lots of resource materials for attendees. If any of you have seen AAHE's TLTR materials, this is the model we're using.

We need to include the following handouts but don't have them yet, so if you have such materials readily available, please share:

list of Internet terminology (Michael Day?)

sites on the Web for teaching w/ technology--URLs compiled

organizations or groups to connect with for resource materials and more information--"map of the profession" (a Trent quote)

listserv and listproc discussions focused on the area of teaching & technology

reading lists w/ books publications, articles on info tech in the classroom

reprints of helpful articles w/ permission to use (i.e. we hope to use the AAHE articles on tech in _Change_ magazine)

samples of syllabi or teaching handouts

ideas for training student lab helpers or TAs who work w/ computers

what else??????????

anything else that's informational and helpful to teachers wanting to learn how to use computers in the classroom

In the end, this "guidebook" won't make up the final Epiphany package because one of the end goals is to come up with descriptions of various kinds of training workshops. Since January is our first workshop, we'll still be compiling that, but we do want to have a substantial corpus of information to share.

You can email information to me or to Epiphany-L, or you can send by US Mail to me at:

3542 S. George Mason Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302

By the way, we are open to *any* help, advice, suggestions, materials or whatever you'd like to share. Your guidance and help are invaluable in making this major venture a success.

Thanks very much for your help.

Judy


Judy Williamson
George Mason University, Cultural Studies Doctoral Candidate Epiphany Project Manager and Research Assistant http://mason2.gmu.edu/~jwillia9/epiphany.html

Email: JWillia9@gmu.edu http://mason2.gmu.edu/~jwillia9/ Voice:
703-845-1453
FAX: 202-651-5620
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mark your calendars:
"Teaching & Learning with Technology" -- February 9, 10, 1996 a Mid-Atlantic Alliance for Computers & Writing conference at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Featured speakers to include:
Michael Joyce
Carolyn Guyer
Nancy Kaplan
Stuart Moulthrop
and John O'Connor, Trent Batson, Randy Bass, Steve Gilbert (AAHE Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable program), Leslie Harris ("Composition in Cyberspace" Project), Steve Ehrmann ("Flashlight" Project) and many more!
For more information:
http://mason2.gmu.edu/~jwillia9/maacw.html (or, send me email)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Check out the CWTA (Computers & Writing Teaching Assistants) Home Page
http://scf.nmsu.edu/~cwambeam/sig.html

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Next semester, my freshman students will be reading Fitzgerald's _The Great Gatsby_ and writing their major research paper on it. My Survey of American Lit I students will be reading and writing about Hawthorne's _The Scarlett Letter_. I plan to create home pages highlighting the works of each--BTW, Daniel Anderson at U. of Texas has a great page on Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," which is at url:

http://www.en.utexas.edu/~daniel/amlit/goodman/goodman.html

If you and/or your students have written anything on any of Fitzgerald's or Hawthorne's works, especially but not exclusively the aforementioned novels, and would me like to add them to our page, please e-mail the essays to me at the following address:

Larry Clark
ljc@acs.tamu.edu


Thanks!

Larry

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The Virtual Classroom: Writing Across the Internet

Saturday, March 16, 1996
University of California at Berkeley


The Virtual Classroom: Writing Across the Internet, is a one-day conference dedicated to exploring the educational uses of Internet-based communications environments. This conference will focus specifically on the instructional use of Multi-user Domain, Object-Oriented environments: MOOs, MUDs, and the newest member of the family, Web-MOOs (or WOOs).

Papers on the topics of virtual classroom interaction, gender and virtual environments, student MOO (or Web-MOO) projects, MOO-based collaborative inter-class projects, and papers focusing on social/theoretical issues pertaining to student MOO practices are welcome. In addition, we encourage papers concerning foreign language or other discipline-specific uses of MOOs, Web-MOOs, or the virtual classroom in general.


Submitting Proposals

- 300-word abstract
- Deadline: 9 February, 1996
- All submissions must be made electronically.

Send abstracts to < moo_conf@cafe.berkeley.edu

The Virtual Classroom: Writing across the Internet, is co-sponsored by the UC Berkeley Instructional Technology Program, The Berkeley Language Center (tentative), and the Annenberg/CPB Composition in Cyberspace Project.

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Colleagues--

A very early call for papers (proposals are not due till June 15, 1996).
With such an early call, I'm hoping that you'll have time to consider this
special issue in terms of the courses you're teaching this spring. Please
distribute widely.


CALL FOR PAPERS

Computers and Composition:
An International Journal for Teachers of Writing

invites submissions for a special issue on Technical Communication Studies
*************************************************

Computers and Composition: An International Journal for Teachers of Writing will publish a special issue on technical communication studies-=D1issue 14.3, December 1997. The guest editor for this special issue seeks original contributions employing a wide range of research methodologies, including rhetorical, theoretical, empirical, and historical. Papers should discuss computer-related pedagogical and programmatic issues of specific interest to technical communication teachers, program directors, and educators in workplace settings. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following broad areas:

pedagogical and theoretical frameworks for teaching about and with computers in technical communication instructional contexts

innovative classroom practices and projects in technical communication, including their complications

technical communication curricula and course designs that balance practice and theory and/or production, literacy, and humanistic concerns

instructional issues and strategies relating to technical communication and computer networks, computer conferencing, electronic mail, the World Wide Web, hypertext, multimedia authoring, MUDs and MOOs, and distance learning

This special issue will be guest edited by Stuart A. Selber, who encourages you to communicate with him about ideas, proposals, and drafts:

Stuart A. Selber
Department of Technical Communications Clarkson University
Box 5760
Potsdam, NY 13699-5760

sselber@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
315-268-6450 (phone)
315-268-6485 (fax)

Please send a 500 word description of proposed papers by June 15, 1996. The special issue will be published in December 1997.

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Call for Papers
Computers and Composition
WWW Journal

The Computers and Composition online journal invites electronic submissions for publication on its NEW WorldWide Web site, now opening at http://human.www.sunet.se. The purpose of this site is to provide a vigorous fourm for the submission and publication of electronic texts on the topic of computers and composition that go beyond traditional print formats to include audio, sound, video, and hypertext. Contributions may take the form of electronic manuscripts, hypertexts, multimedia constructions, or Web documents in html format.

We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to computers and composition, including reports of research, reflective or theoretical essays, personal accounts of teaching experiences, book and software reviews, poetry, professional articles, or bibliographies.

Submission form: Maximum size of submissions is 5 MB. Contributions must be submitted in electronic form, either via e-mail (as an attachment), URL or FTP address, or computer disk. Please send submissions to Keith.Comer@ihu.hk-r.se.

Submission review: All submissions will be blind reviewed, electronically, by our web site editorial board. Hence, all identifying information should be removed from the document upon submission. Authors should make sure to include the titles of their submission as well as their names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers in an accompanying e-mail message to the web editors (Keith Comer, via
Keith.Comer@ihu.hk-r.se or Margaret Syverson, syverson@uts.cc.utexas.edu).

Style: Insofar as possible, submissions should conform to the guidelines presented in the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.

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Rick Smolan and the team that created the "Day in the Life", "From Alice to Ocean" and "Passage to Vietnam" photography books, want to shoot you and your friends! They're looking for the best examples about how Cyberspace is changing peoples lives all over the world and if they like your story they may send one of the world's top photographers to shoot pictures of you on Thursday, February 8, 1996. On that day over 1000 photographers armed with digital cameras will be dispatched around the globe to show how Cyberspace is beginning to reach out and affect peoples lives. It's going to be one of the largest photographic projects ever done and certainly one of the biggest collaborative internet projects.

The Focus of "24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the Digital Cave" will be on the human stories behind the technology; the new ways in which we work, play, learn, conduct business and interact. These photographs will be transmitted digitally back to project headquarters in San Francisco that same day, where an international team of 80 editors (representing Time, Newsweek, Life, National Geographic etc), plus designers and programmers will assemble a unique "instant" 24-hour World Wide Web site. The goal is to produce unprecedented online, real-time photojournalism on a global scale.

The idea is to use the power of the Internet to let people around the world both contribute and view images and stories of things that happened since they woke up that day.

The goal here is NOT to show people sitting at computer terminals and it's not about collecting lots of random "bits". The project is driven by carefully researched assignments and is both photograpic and edit driven. The goal is to show in photographs and words how peoples lives are being affected as a results of being wired.

The leads can be about you, a friend, something you read about that was cool, etc. A team of professional journalists on the 24 Hours staff will follow up any interesting leads.

If you think you've got a great story to tell and would like to either submit an assignment idea or learn more about how you can participate in this cool project please send your ideas to: Stories@Cyber24.com or check out: http://www.Cyber24.com.

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ACM SIGDOC 96 Conference

The Association for Computing Machinery's 1996 Special Interest Group on Documentation Conference
A CALL FOR PAPERS
Marshalling New Technological Forces: Building a Corporate, Academic, and User-Oriented Triangle.
October 19-22, 1996
The Sheraton-Imperial
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
OVERVIEW: Historically, corporations, researchers, and user communities have tackled these problems separately. SIGDOC 96 will marshal the efforts of corporations, researchers, and user communities to respond actively to the challenges presented by new technologies.

CONFERENCE THEMES
Share your experiences, research, and development solutions with your colleagues in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Papers, panels, posters, demonstrations, and tutorials addressing the following areas are encouraged:
* How _existing research_ on hardcopy information delivery can help us
understand working with new technologies.
* How _new technologies_ are altering the ways we perceive information
delivery and the audiences who process our products.
* How once _disparate fields_ such as technical communication, instructional
design, computer science, ergonomics, information science, and graphic design are increasingly necessary training for the producers of online information.
* How _corporations, the academy, and user communities_ might form
stronger and more mutually beneficial research partnerships.
PRESENTATION TYPES AND RULES FOR SUBMISSION
For all submissions, include, on a separate page, the name, title, organization, address, and telephone number of each participant. Please indicate the principal contact. Finally, outline the hardware required for any software demonstrations that you would like to give.
_papers_
* 60- to 90-minute in-depth presentations * 30-minute presentations of a paper by one or more authors * 20- to 30-minute presentations of two or three related papers.
Please submit a 500- to 1000-word description of the session topic, outlining the thesis, main points, and implications for the field. Please include an estimate of the time required for your presentation.
_panels_
* discussion involving a moderator and a number of speakers with audience
participation.
Please submit a 500- to 1000-word description of the panel topics, outlining the connected theses, and the panel's implications for the field. Please include an estimate of the time required for your presentation. If you need more than 30 minutes, provide an outline with the time breakdown.
_posters and demonstrations_
* on-going demonstrations of software that you are currently or have
completed designing.
Please submit a 200- to 300-word abstract of your poster topic and, if you plan to do one, a description of your multimedia demo.
_tutorials_
* half- or full-day hands-on workshops that explore one of the themes of
the conference.

Please submit a 750- to 1000-word description of the tutorial's overall organization and some reference to hands-on issues dealt with over the course of the half-day or full-day session (specify the length of your proposed session).

SUBMISSION ADDRESS

SIGDOC 96

Attention: Dr. Brad Mehlenbacher
Technical Communication, Box 8105
North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Raleigh, NC 27695-8105

E-mail:
URL: Fax: 919.515.1836
Phone: 919.515.4178

SUBMISSION AND REVIEW DEADLINES

The Program Committee must receive all proposals by March 1, 1996. We will let you know by May 15, 1996, whether or not your proposal has been accepted. Accepted papers and abstracts will appear in the proceedings (CACM). We must receive an electronic, final copy of your paper via e-mail or on diskette by July 15, 1996.

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Howdy!


I'm not sure if this is an appropriate post to this list or not, so somebody please let me know if it isn't, but if it's okay I would appreciate if y'all could forward this message along to your students as well as any other lists you own or belong to, print it out and post it in your campus computer labs, etc. It would be of great benefit to us in trying to get this program off the ground, and I think there are many people out there who would be interested if they were aware of it.

Now that I think of it, maybe somebody at ACW (oops--I have a feeling who might get volunteered!) could compile a list of ALL English via WWW courses being taught at colleges around the country/world, put the list in an e-mail message, and forward it back to ACW-L, where our members could distribute the message to whatever other lists they belong to.

I know there is already a list of "Internet Writing Courses" at the ACW Web site, but the last time I looked, it was kinda outdated, and I'm not sure how many people outside our membership visit that page (or the ACW site) on a regular basis. Distributing the information through listservs could be another way of informing the public (and the US Congress) of the ways ACW members are using listservs and the Web for legitimate academic purposes.

BTW, if anyone is wanting to offer a course via WWW, they would be more than welcome to audit (free of charge) any of our WWW courses, and/or borrow our source codes, link to any of our pages, etc. I only made my first Web page in February of this year, so I'm sure our structure, design, content, etc. leave much to be desired, but hey, we're all learning this stuff together, eh? :)

Any constructive criticism would also be appreciated.

Anyway, here's the info on what we're up to in the spring:



SPECIAL NOTICE: COLLEGE LEVEL ENGLISH COURSES TO BE TAUGHT USING LISTSERVS AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB

Tomball College, a community college located in a rural/suburban area northwest of Houston, will offer a wide variety of English courses using listservs for course discussion and World Wide Web pages for posting course information, assignments, links to pertinent Web sites, and tips and guidelines on various types of writing ranging from business memos and technical reports to literary essays and research papers. Students can take these "virtual courses" from virtually anywhere in the world, as long as they have access to a PC with a modem and access to the internet.

Courses to be offered in Spring 1996 include:

Composition and Rhetoric I
Composition and Rhetoric II
Technical Communications
Survey of American Literature I

In the Fall of 1996, the following courses will also be added:

Survey of American Literature II
Survey of World Literature
Special Topics in Literary Studies: The Bible as Literature

For more information, contact Lawrence J. Clark at the address below and/or visit the Tomball College Online English Dept. Home Page at url:

http://nhmccd.cc.tx.us/people/ljc/edept.html

Thanks for your interest. Please forward this message to any individual or list you might feel would find this information useful.

Larry

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Lawrence J. Clark
Owner, AMLIT2-L, GATSBY-L, TEKCOM-L
Director, The Gatsby Project
Regional Director, East Texas/Louisiana Alliance for Computers and Writing Professor, English
Tomball College
Tomball, TX
(713) 357-3766
ljc8132@acs.tamu.edu or ljc@www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us http://nhmccd.cc.tx.us/people/ljc/index.html

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CALL FOR PAPERS


38th Annual Convention
MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
APPLIED LINGUISTICS SECTION

TOPIC: ELECTRONIC LITERACY

NOVEMBER 7-9, 1996

Minneapolis Marriott City Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota


The 1996 Applied Linguistics Section of M/MLA invites papers that explore the ways in which computers are affecting language practices and the politics of literacy. Popular writers and literary scholars often discuss the dramatic ways computers are affecting reading and writing in the late twentieth century. What do applied linguists say?
What does linguistic analysis tell us about the ways computers are transforming our language practices?

Possible presentation topics include:

changes in language theories
due to electronic literacy

methodologies useful for
researching the impact of computers on language

ethnolinguistic studies of computers
in schools and workplaces

empirical studies of new genres
or other language formations

the possibilities, features, and problems of hypertext as a new genre

the significance of race, class, and gender variables on electronic literacy

the implications of electronic literacy
for critical or social change education

cyberspace as a new
linguistic frontier

One or two page proposals should be
received by Friday, March 29, 1996. Include the title of your presentation and list your name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address. Please remember the format for M/MLA presentations: individual presentations are limited to fifteen minutes; final papers are limited to 8 single-spaced pages; and papers will be made available to session participants before the conference.

Send proposals or information queries to:

Carol L. Winkelmann
English Department
Xavier University
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45207-4446
e-mail: winkelma@xavier.xu.edu
fax: (513) 745-1954

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CWRL

welcomes submissions that address computer-aided pedagogy in the fields of Rhetoric, Composition and Literature. Past issues have included articles on the use of hypertext, newsgroups, Interchange, and MUDs in composition and literature classrooms. We are particularly interested in submissions which apply theoretical models to specific classroom practices.


The deadline for submission for Volume II, issue 1 is November 15, 1995. Send submissions or queries by electronic mail or send disks by snail mail.

e-mail:
cwrl@auden.fac.utexas.edu

Snail mail address:
CWRL E-journal
Attention: Albert Rouzie
Division of Rhetoric and Composition
University of Texas
Parlin 3
Austin, TX. 78712

Format:
We request that submissions be HTML formatted, if possible. For format guidelines, please view articles published in our first two issues.

CWRL, The Electronic Journal of Computer Writing, Rhetoric, and Literature http://www.en.utexas.edu/~cwrl/

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Poetry and Computers sessions at MLA

I'm organizing two sessions for next year's MLA convention (in Washington, DC, from December 27 through 30, 1996) on behalf of the Assocation for Computers and the Humanities.

And the subject is:

Poetry and Computers. The role of computers in any aspect of the composition, cultivation, dissemination, or study of poetry.

Detailed proposals or 8-page papers by 1 March 1996 to John Lavagnino, 117 Pratt Street, Providence, RI 02906-1412 USA; John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu.

The Association for Computers and the Humanities is a professional society for scholars working in computer-related research in literature and language studies, history, philosophy, and other disciplines of the humanities. For information on joining the ACH, contact Charles Bush, ACH Treasurer (chuck_bush@byu.edu).

John Lavagnino
John_Lavagnino@Brown.edu

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You might be a graduate student if...

The Computers and Writing Teaching Assistants' Alliance (CWTA)

is a growing collective of students from many campuses across the United States who are working or have worked in computer labs in the capacity of graduate assistants. Based loosely on the model of the Wyoming Resolution and the efforts of adjunct faculty in English departments, our goal is to construct a clear set of criteria, responsibilities, and job titles that are appropriate for the work we do.

Our first meeting was at last year's 4Cs. Because of the success of this get-together, we will be participating in another Special Interest Group (SIG) at next spring's 4Cs and a meeting at the Computers & Writing Conference in June. We have become more than a SIG, however; the CWTA has turned into a regular advocacy association.

If you are interested in joining our group or the group's discussion, contact Judy Williamson (jwillia9@gmu.edu), or find us in our rooms at Mediamoo: CWTA Outpost & CWTA Meeting Room (look for Cin, Douglas, Eric, JudyH, KarlaK, and MikeS).

Further information (and some great jokes) can be found at our web site:

http://scf.nmsu.edu/~cwambeam/sig.html

You might be a graduate student if... ___(_) _ __ Cindy Wambeam : ./~ paint me :
/ __| | '_ \ New Mexico State University : on velvet ./~ :
| (__| | | | | English department :(Austin Lounge Lizards):
\___|_|_| |_|.......==>cwambeam@nmsu.edu
(http://scf.nmsu.edu/~cwambeam/Index.html)

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Call for Abstracts
for a collection of essays on
Writing and Speaking the Body: Rhetorical and Feminist Studies of Reproductive Technologies

Deadline: January 22, 1996

This collection of essays will address the rhetorical construction of women's bodies and women's reproductive functions. The essays will focus on particular cases (historical or current) or theoretical overviews in which the connection between language and science or technology illuminates the attitudes, values, and goals of reproductive science and technology. Three academic presses have expressed a strong interest in the collection.

We invite scholars and researchers using a variety of methodologies to submit abstracts. However, we would like the proposed essays to approach the question of science/technology and women's bodies, particularly reproductive functions, from the "lens" of language and rhetoric. We imagine, therefore, that interested authors will look at texts (for example, medical texts, scientific articles, and transcripts from public hearings), specific wording or language choices (for example, metaphors, definitions, and rules and regulations), rhetorical strategies (for example, persuasive choices, establishment of credibility, and identification with discourse communities), or rhetorical situations (for example, competing values, development of genres, and intersections of knowledge, power, and discourse).

This collection was inspired by the Gender, Women, and Science Question conference at the University of Minnesota in May 1995 and will contain a preface by the conference organizers, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt and Helen Longino. Scholars and researchers, including conference participants, are invited to submit an abstract for a proposed paper to be included in the collection. The sponsoring body for the collection is the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. The editorial collective for the collection consists of Clare Gravon (Administrator in Center for Advanced Feminist Studies and the Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute); Laura Gurak (Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric); Mary Lay (Professor, Department of Rhetoric, and Director, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies); and Cynthia Mynnti (Co-Director, Center on Women and Public Policy, Humphrey Institute) from the University of Minnesota.

Interested authors should submit a two-to-three-page abstract and a 100-200-word biographical sketch by January 22, 1996 to:

Editorial Collective--Writing and Speaking the Body Center for Advanced Feminist Studies
University of Minnesota 496 Ford Hall
224 Church Street S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455-0110 FAX: 612-624-3573
Internet: gurakL@epx.cis.umn.edu

Submissions may be made via FAX, US mail, or the internet. Electronic files should be in ASCII or RTF format only; if you wish to send a compressed file, binhex is the only compression format we can accommodate.

Authors will be invited to submit papers based on successful abstracts. Papers will be due in early summer 1996, with revisions submitted in fall 1996. Please address any specific questions to Mary Lay, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies at the address above, or call 612-624-9809, or communicate via internet to mmlay@maroon.tc.umn.edu.

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I've seen a few messages scroll by in the past few days asking people to take a look at their Web pages, which gave me an idea. I'm teaching a tech writing class this semester, and I'd like to have my students comment on other people's Web pages -- to offer critique based on the criteria for good pages which we've established in class.

If anyone's interested in having their pages visited & critiqued, please e-mail me off-list. I'll send you the criteria, and let the students know. You should get four or five responses within a week or so.

I'd really appreciate the chance to have my students write for someone who'd be interested in what they have to say . . . and I bet they might even be of service to people, too.

Marcy Bauman
Writing Program
University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Rd.
Dearborn, MI 48128

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CALL FOR PAPERS


Note new deadline: March 15, 1996

Special Issue of _Computers and the Humanities_
on
Computer Programming for the Humanities


Guest Editor
Eric Johnson


TOPICS: Submissions of articles are invited that focus on any aspect of computer programming for the humanities -- including articles on topics such as the following:

Programming methodologies and software design principles used to create computer programs in the humanities;

In particular, description of facets of humanities programming which distinguish it from other kinds of programming;

An overview (or projection of the future) of programming for the humanities using

C and C++
Icon
Pascal
Perl
SNOBOL4 and SPITBOL
other computer languages

Descriptions of actual programming experiences (recently finished or in progress) which raise significant questions and problems.

Description of a specific programming application (or a type of application) for the humanities -- including the visual arts, drama, history, and music as well as literature and linguistics.

In addition to technical papers, general discussion or opinion papers are invited on topics that grapple with questions such as the following:

Do humanists who create computer programs do so in ways different from computer scientists? Do they more (or less) readily grasp an overview of a computing problem and see the general framework of a solution? Do they write computer code differently? Do they prefer particular computer languages?

Occasionally those with humanities educations and solid academic positions in the humanities assume positions normally held only by those with degrees in computer science. How is that possible? Do those with educations in computer science ever assume positions in the humanities?


LENGTH: Articles of any length will be considered. It is expected that articles will range from 2,500 to 12,000 words -- except for opinion articles or overview articles which might be shorter.


FORMAT: Submissions should be in the same form as regular submissions to Computers and the Humanities:

they should begin with the following information:

Title of paper
Name of author(s)
Affiliation of author(s) including email address List of up to 10 key words
Abstract of article

followed by the text of the paper with a blank line between paragraphs.

All notes should be collected at the end of the paper under the heading of "Notes." A section titled "References" or "Works Cited" (if needed) is the last part of the paper.


SUBMISSION: All submissions should be via electronic media -- email and FTP are strongly encouraged. Articles that can be saved as ASCII files (with line breaks and lines no longer than 80 characters) should be sent via email to the guest editor, Eric Johnson, at

JohnsonE@columbia.dsu.edu

The guest editor should be contacted via email at the above address about arrangements to transmit articles containing special characters or graphics that cannot be saved as ASCII files.


DEADLINE: March 15, 1996

Writers are encouraged to contact the guest editor to ask questions or to express interest in contributing to the special issue prior to emailing submissions.

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A CALL FOR ELECTRIC AND HYPER ESSAYS


Rhetnet, A Cyberjournal for Rhetoric and Writing, and _PRE/TEXT_, A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, announce a collaborative call for papers and submissions of hypertext, hypermedia, and electronic essays which reflect, expand upon, contextualize, or explore the themes and issues of Richard Lanham's _The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts_. (A sample chapter from this collection of essays [published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1993] can be found at the following URLs:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/lanham.sample ftp://press-gopher.uchicago.edu/pub/Excerpts/lanham.txt)

THREADS OF EXPLORATION

Lanham's work touches on a number of themes of interest to humanities scholars and the questions below offer just a brief suggestion of possible explorations.
In our academies, our intellectual integrity, reputations, reward systems are tied very much to print. We contribute to our field's knowledge by publishing. We become known by being cited and quoted. We borrow print-based economics to help negotiate how ideas are shared--plagiarism as an aspect of intellectual property; copyright as a way to protect the sellability of our particular enunciation of an idea. At the same time we disdain the economics--we distrust that which sells too well or that which is written to attract a larger audience than our relatively small circle of peers. Thus textbooks are seen as 'less valuable' than a book of 'pure' scholarship. How will digital technologies change this long-standing tradition? What will it cost?

Text is more malleable, as are graphics, music, and video. It's easier to reproduce and to share these pixellated artifacts, but only if one has access to the technology which can manipulate them. To what degree is access an issue? After all, _The Electronic Word_ exists as both a book and in a hypertext edition for Macintosh. As a work in part about the future of print, it appears in print. Is that simply a matter of our culture being in what Charlie Moran has called an amphibious stage? What is the future of access and how will it matter for a Democracy?

We are sure you have better and wiser questions to explore than these few suggestions and we welcome them in electronic text, hypertext or hypermedia.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES, DEADLINES, AND PEER REVIEW

About the collaborative call:

Not too long ago, _PRE/TEXT_--for a special issue to be guest edited by Cynthia Haynes-Burton--issued a call for papers on Virtual Rhetorics, a call which coincided with Rhetnet's plans for a special issue which considers _The Electronic Word_. Because the two calls overlap so much in theme, the two journals plan to complement each others efforts. Those who submit to _PRE/TEXT_ can have the option of recasting their essays electronically--as an e-essay, or in some hyperform. Similarly, authors who submit electronically to Rhetnet's Lanham call might be invited to be recast or excerpted in _PRE/TEXT_.

Cynthia Haynes-Burton's _PRE/TEXT_ call is available on-line at: http://www.missouri.edu/~wleric/rhetnet/virtual_rhetorics_call.html

_Rhetnet_ is overseeing the call for electronic and hyper essays on Lanham, and _PRE/TEXT_ will continue to work to develop its issue on Virtual Rhetorics. The editors of each journal will meet regularly to keep one another up to date on the types of submissions each has received, to look for areas of overlap and conjunction, and to work together to suggest options for writers or to extend invitations to writers to adapt, expand, or transmogrify some or all of their work for inclusion in the other journal. We would like to bridge print and pixel, net-native forms and traditional essays, and two different (in form and as entities) journals.

Since we will be working in new digital forms, we will be borrowing, and amending, some conventions from print publications, chief among them a deadline for submission and the use of peer review. SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR LANHAM CALL Please submit all essays and abstracts by January 31, 1996.

Submission processes--

ELECTRONIC ESSAYS:

Electronic essays can be e-mailed to Eric Crump at wleric@showme.missouri.edu .

Authors who know how to use Hypertext Markup Language (html) for formatting an essay for viewing in the World-Wide Web, and who want their essay to include html features, should apply the html coding to their final draft. Please do not code the submission drafts.
Authors who do not use html but would like their essay coded for them, can request that and we'll be happy to insert the appropriate code.

_Rhetnet_ can store the electronic essays on their site, or can link to them at the author's site, or we can do both (The Rhetnet site essays would remain unchanged, while authors could make changes to the copy of the essay stored on their computer--a prospect which offers interesting possibilities.)

HYPER-ESSAYS

Since we are a publishing on the World-Wide Web, essayists will need to know the computer paths and names of files in order to create the necessary links in their works. The only feasible way we can see to do this is for hyperessay authors to create their works on their own computer systems. Rhetnet will create a page which *links to the hyperessays*. What this effectively means is that authors have more control over their essays than Rhetnet editors.

To *submit* these essays, please send an abstract which outlines your hyperessay's themes and architecture; provide the necessary URLs for us to visit your project, and of course your e-mail address.

[This posting extended beyond the text limits of Filemaker Pro. If you are interested in finding out more about this very interesting call, please contact Eric or Nick. -ACW]

You can e-mail either Eric Crump at wleric@showme.missouri.edu or Nick Carbone at nickc@english.umass.edu

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Kairos: A Journal For Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments_

Kairos is a *true* hypertext journal: it explores all aspects of the pedagogical and scholarly uses of hypertexts, and is written in hypertextual format. This new hypertext journal is designed to serve as a resource for teachers, researchers, and tutors of writing at the college and university level, including: Technical Writing, Business Writing, Professional Communication, Creative Writing, Composition, and Literature. Therefore, we are calling for hypertexts addressing the following: (If you are a novice with hypertext, we can help you--don't let that keep you from submitting.)

PLEASE VISIT THE _KAIROS_ HOMEPAGE FOR A MORE COMPLETE DESCRIPTION:
http://www.rpi.edu/~doherm/kairos/homepage.html

Questions? Inquiries? Please address them to Elizabeth Pass at:
ngpas@ttacs.ttu.edu

*****Inquiries are due by October 1, 1995*****

*****Submission are due by November 1, 1995: http://www.rpi.edu/~doherm/kairos/submissions.html (Any hypertext not in final form by December 15, 1995, cannot be considered for the January 1996 issue.) Please check the URL for links, text, and submission requirements*****

_Kairos_ Editorial Staff:
Mick Doherty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Editor and Publisher (doherm@rpi.edu)

Elizabeth Pass, Texas Tech University
Assistant Editor (ngpas@ttacs.ttu.edu)

Michael J. Salvo, State University of New York at Binghamton Managing Editor (salvo@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu)

Jason Teague, IBM/Research Triangle
Graphics Editor (teaguj@rpi.edu)

Amy Hanson, Texas Tech University
Chief Copy Editor (ykfam@ttacs.ttu.edu)

Greg Siering, Ball State University
Links Editor (00gjsiering@bsuvc.bsu.edu)

Corey Wick, North Dakota State University Production Manager (cwick@badlands.nodak.edu)

_Kairos_ Editorial Review Board (all submissions to _Kairos_ will be interactively peer reviewed):
Wayne Butler, University of Michigan (wbutler@umich.edu) Christine Boese, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (boesec@rpi.edu)
Eric Crump, University of Missouri
(wleric@showme.missouri.edu)
Dean Fontenot, Texas Tech University (gjdhf@ttacs.ttu.edu) Jeff Galin, University of Pittsburgh (galin+@pitt.edu) Amy Hanson, Texas Tech University (ykfam@ttacs.ttu.edu) Bill Hart-Davidson, Purdue University
(davidswf@sage.cc.purdue.edu)
Lee Honeycutt, Rensselear Polytechnic Institute (honeyl@rpi.edu)
Steve Krause, Bowling Green State University (skrause@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
Lorrie LeJeune, O'Reilly Associates (lorrie@ora.com) Rebecca Rickly, University of Michigan
(becky.rickly@umich.edu)
Richard Selfe, Michigan Technological University (rselfe@mtu.edu)
Elizabeth Overman Smith, Auburn University (smitheo@mail.auburn.edu)

_Kairos_ is a subsidiary of the D'Artagnan Communications Group sponsored by the Alliance for Computers and Writing.

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The Communication Review


Call for Papers

Special issue on Networks, Communities, and the Public Sphere

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After thirty years of slow propagation from military research centers in the United States, computer networking has become a broad-based social movement. This movement is best known through the popular discourse of "network communities" on the Internet and other global network services. But it also includes significant efforts to develop "community networks" to facilitate community organizing, local business alliances, and access to government information. The dualism of these two phrases -- network communities and community networks -- is one indication of the complex interweaving between the social dynamics and the technical structures of computer networking. The new technologies provide an infrastructure for a wide variety of organizing activities, and they are widely held to portend substantial changes in the character of democracy. Differential access to networking technology, moreover, has been widely predicted to hold serious consequences for both economic and political equality in an emerging information society.

Interdisciplinary research on networks and communities can contribute to an evaluation of these claims. How do network communities operate in practice? What social processes condition an individual or group's ability to benefit from computer networks? How are the social movements around computer networking organized? How do the dynamics of community life influence the shape of networking movements, and how do the emerging networks interact with the communities around them? How are emerging media changing the classical issues of political participation such as freedom of speech and the press, political knowledge, and the nature of social movements? How are law and policy responding to these changes? And what challenges, if any, do these new developments pose to the very concepts of community and polis?

This special issue of The Communication Review will examine these questions. Articles are welcome from all disciplines relating to human communication research, including anthropology, law, political science, rhetoric, and sociology. These articles should be around 10,000 words in length and should bring a developed theoretical discussion to bear on particular empirical materials. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is March 1st 1996 but potential contributors are encouraged to correspond with the special issue editor, Phil Agre , well before that date.


Further details about the journal are available on the WorldWide Web at http://communication.ucsd.edu/commreview/commreview.html

or by sending an electronic mail message of the following form:

To: rre-request@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: archive send tcr

For subscription information and a free copy of the first issue contact:

Christopher Davis
International Publishers Distributor
Gordon & Breach Publishers, Inc.
820 Town Center Drive
Langhorne, PA 19047
Phone: (215) 750-2642 x129
Fax: (215) 750-7343

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>rouzie@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
>http://www.en.utexas.edu/~rouzie/rouziepage.html/

>Dept. of English
>U. of Texas/Austin
>Austin, TX

John Slatin
Director, Computer Writing & Research Lab Division of Rhetoric and Composition and Department of English
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
(512)471-8743/fax (512)471-4353
jslatin@mail.utexas.edu

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THE TWELFTH COMPUTERS AND WRITING CONFERENCE MAY 30-JUNE 2, 1996
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY
LOGAN, UTAH 84322-3200

The Twelfth Computers and Writing Conference: Technology & Change
((to be held May 30- June 2, 1996, at Utah State University in Logan, Utah) invites proposals that pertain in some way to the uses of computers at any level of writing education.

Theme: Technology and Change

The rapid acceleration of change in the area of computers and writing causes some consternation--but also considerable exhilaration--among educators at all levels. The conference will highlight our attempts to cope and to stay current with the potential for technology in the writing field. This unique conference brings together educators from all levels and types of educational institutions who have a common interest in the uses of computer technology for writing instruction.

Invitation: Send in your Proposals

We invite proposals that pertain in some way to the uses of computers at any level of writing education: K-12 to all types of post-secondary educational institutions. We especially welcome proposals for hands-on sessions, demonstrations, or any other interactive format. Concurrent sessions will accommodate individual 20-minute "talks," panels with three to four speakers, or one-and-a-half hour interactive presentations or demonstrations. Ongoing "poster" sessions for demonstrations throughout the conference are also possible. Furthermore, we are looking for half-day workshop proposals, to be offered both pre- and post-conference. Standard networked PC and MAC equipment will be provided.

Suggested Topics: classroom uses, collaboration, distance education, networks, hypertext & hypermedia, virtual classrooms, impacts of the internet. Proposals must be postmarked or dated October 1, 1995. Notification of acceptance will be by January 1, 1996. Mail three copies of a two-page (double-spaced) abstract for a paper, panel, poster session, demonstration, or workshop (Or e-mail one copy to the address below.) Please include the name, affiliation,
address, e-mail, and phone number of all presenters.

Please note: abstracts become the property of CWC96 and may be published in other venues, including a web site.

Send e-mail proposals to: computerwritingconference@writectr.usu.edu Send print proposals to: Christine Hult, CWC96 Program Chair, Department of English, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-3200.

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