Call for Proposals

Computers and Writing 2K Conference

Special Strand:
"Communicating Across the Curriculum"

Strand Coordinators:
Mike Palmquist (MPalmquist@vines.colostate.edu)
Martin Rosenberg (mrosenbe@kettering.edu)
Donna Reiss (tcreisd@tc.cc.va.us)

May 25-28, 2000 Fort Worth, TX
Hosted by Texas Woman's University
Dene Grigar, Chair; John Barber and Hugh Burns, Co-Chairs
http://www.eaze.net/~jfbarber/cw2k/bridge.html

Deadline date: October 15, 1999

Computers & Writing (C&W), an annual national conference is actively soliciting proposals for a special strand entitled "Communicating Across the Curriculum," for its upcoming conference, "Evolution, Revolution, and Implementation: Computers and Writing for Global Change."

At the 1999 WAC Conference at Cornell University (www.arts.cornell.edu/jskwp/wac99.html), sessions focusing on computers and new media were well attended. The Computers and Writing 2000 Conference in Fort Worth, TX, provides an opportunity to continue the conversation on these issues during a year in which the WAC conference does not meet. For CW2K we are organizing a cluster of sessions linked by a common theme: the role of computer-mediated communication and new media in fostering and supporting interdisciplinary inquiry as a venue for the teaching of writing and/or communication across the curriculum (WAC/CAC).

We welcome proposals from a wide range of disciplines and encourage multi-disciplinary strategies at the level of theory, and cross-disciplinary collaborative tactics at the level of practice. Short papers and presentations that foster discussion and audience participation are preferable; related longer papers by the presenters will be considered for publication in a special edition of Academic.Writing: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Communication Across the Curriculum (www.colostate.edu/Depts/WAC/journal/).

Topics on the role of computer-mediated communication and new media in fostering and supporting writing and/or communication across the curriculum (WAC/CAC) might include the following:

• Conceptualizing and reconceptualizing WAC/CAC courses and programs, in particular those that consider the role of interdisciplinary inquiry as a teaching and/or learning strategy

• Considering and reconceiving substantial interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary inquiry

• Considering and reconceiving definitions of "writing," "genre," and "disciplines" (as suggested by George Landow, Kenneth Gergen, and others at WAC 1999)

• Cross-disciplinary collaboration in WAC/CAC courses and programs teacher preparation, renewal, and collaboration within WAC/CAC programs

• Writing centers and writing programs in relation to WAC/CAC programs Direct student support in WAC/CAC

• Professional development with students (and faculty) for technological as well as disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise

For more general information about the conference, visit the CW2K website. (www.eaze.net/~jfbarber/cw2k/bridge.html).