Each year, CWRL staffers entering the job market are able to capitalize on their experience working, teaching, and doing research in the Lab. By explaining their Lab experience to prospective employers, these staffers can boast a wide range of skills, from troubleshooting software and hardware to designing multimodal writing assignments. This kind of experience puts CWRL staffers at a distinct advantage as they interview for jobs in the academy and elsewhere. In the coming weeks, we will be publishing a series of "Exit Interviews" with outgoing staffers. We hope that these interviews will provide some valuable advice and insight to current staffers as they begin to think about their own career plans.
Grant Funding Sources
The following internal and external links are a great place to beging the grant seeking process.
Internal Links
Fast Tex (Faculty and Student Teams for Technology)
(http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cit/fasttex)
CWRL Library
The CWRL maintains a library of resources for lab instructors and staff, including reference manuals and tutorials on major software applications, systems, and programming languages; primers and guides on pedagogy, both general and computer-assisted; and academic and popular texts on topics of interest in the lab. We also have electronic resources such as CD-ROMs and DVDs. To check out materials (or make purchase recommendations), please see Aimee in FAC 8.
Fellowships in Technology & Writing
Fellowships
A worldwide competition providing $17,500 (renewable for up to three years).
According to the site, "Students must be nominated by a faculty member. They must be enrolled full-time in a college or university PhD program, and they should have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination. Awardees will be selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM, and their academic progress to-date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head."
Online Writing Labs
Rhetoric and Composition list of OWLS
List of Writing Centers (maintained by The Writer's Garden)
Conferences and Organizations
Conferences
UPenn Calls For Papers - Computing and the Internet
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH / ALLC Annual Conference information)
Journals in Technology & Writing
Alliance for Computers and Writing journals listings
Kairos: Rhetoric | Technology | Pedagogy (Texas Tech) :: Kairos is a refereed online journal exploring the intersections of rhetoric, technology, and pedagogy.
Extensions: The Online Journal of Embodied Technology :: Extensions is produced by the UCLA Dance and New Media Project.
Electronic Book Review :: E-journal with numerous articles and book reviews on critical theory and cyberculture.
Journals listing (maintained by Rhetoric and Composition website)
IBIBLIO's page of ejournals relating to Computers & the Internet
TEXT Technology :: The Journal of Computer Text Processing. Published by the Humanities Computing Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
Syllabus :: Technology for higher education
Designing a Professional Website
by Eve Dunbar, CWRL Instructor (from Fall 2003 newsletter)
Because the start of the semester is always a hectic time for CWRL instructors, creating a stylish and informative professional Web page is probably the furthest thing from your mind. However, developing an electronic public interface is important: as its name suggests, your professional Web page provides outsiders their first glimpse of who you are and what you're doing in the CWRL--and in graduate school for that matter. From students to potential employers, your professional Web page is the starting point of your relationship with the world.
Tips for Writing a CV
by Susan Somers-Willett, former CWRL Instructor (from Fall 2003 Newsletter)
Tip #1 Highlight your CWRL experience in job materials
- Mention CA teaching in your job letter. If you're applying for job that doesn't call for experience in technology, you might want to mention it as you talk about teaching.
Programs in Technology & Writing
Brigham Young University: Computers and the Humanities
Brown University: Scholarly Technology Group
Georgia Tech Univesity: School of Literature, Communication and Culture