CFP
Call for Papers
Association of Teachers of Technical Writing
9th Annual Conference
Wednesday, March 22, 2005, 8:30 a.m. =96 8:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the 2005 CCCC Annual Convention (March 22-25)
Chicago, Illinois
Proposals due: October 28, 2005
Submission process open: September 12, 2005

Texts/Technology

ATTW invites proposals for papers, panels, and poster presentations to be given at its annual conference immediately preceding the CCCC. The full-day event includes concurrent sessions, poster presentations, book exhibits, and opportunities for exchanging ideas, working on projects, and networking in a supportive and challenging academic environment.

Conference theme: Technology as Text

This year's conference will explore our field's unique relationships with technology. We will explore and examine new research, teaching methods, workplace practices, and administrative activities that inform and teach us about new, current, and past technologies. The goal of these presentations will be to help us better understand and practice technical communication and communication in scientific, professional, and workplace contexts.

Inform, Teach, Critique

We challenge participants to create presentations that will inform the field about new communication technologies and at the same time interrogate these technologies for their social, ethical, technical, practical, environmental, or material implications. Rather than look to tutorials or demonstrations, we are seeking robust studies, explorations, and research partnerships that engage subjects on several levels and demonstrate new ways to study and report on the technologies that we invent, use, and are subject to in workplace, academic, and daily practices.

Potential Topics

Some particular areas of interest include (but aren't limited to) research that examines
* the implications, challenges, and rewards a specific
technology brings to communication practices,
* connections between technological and theoretical knowledge building,
* relationships of our own technology learning to the practice of scholarship: what does mastering a new technology or creating new technology, constitute in terms of our scholarly, intellectual enterprise?
* presentations that teach and interrogate a specific technology,
* the social values associated with specific communication technologies including the economic value, ethical implications, and value added of communication technologies,
* pedagogies that enable students to engage, address, and use communication technologies
* research methods that the field can use to examine and understand new, current, and past communication technologies.
* investigations into the social contexts in which technologies are implemented and used.
Proposals, limited to 200 words, are due October 28, 2004. We offer two general formats:
Regular Sessions: 15 minute talks within 45-minute panel presentations. We will give presenters the opportunity to post copies of their presentation or paper at the ATTW Conference site approximately two weeks before the conference.
Poster Presentations: We will include opportunities for posters (3'x4') to be presented throughout the day with special times dedicated for conversations and specific discussions regarding this work.
Submit proposals for regular sessions via the ATTW website at http://www.attw.org. Connect to the site, register (or enter your password), then follow the links for conference paper submissions. All proposals will be peer reviewed. Proposals will be accepted after September 12, 2005.
Workshop Sessions: We will make room for two 1 1/2-hour workshops as an alternative to panels of speakers. Workshops might focus on pedagogical issues, strategies for working with external partners, consulting, or research issues. Please submit workshop proposals directly to Brenton Faber at Clarkson University (faber@clarkson.edu).
Registration and updates will also be available on ATTW=92s e-mail discussion list (ATTW-L) and web site (www.attw.org). For additional information, contact Brenton Faber at Clarkson University (faber@clarkson.edu) or Bill Karis at Clarkson University (karis@clarkson.edu).