Literacy Management

The Role of the Student Experience in Shaping Academic Writing Development in Higher Education

Wednesday 29th June – Friday 1st July 2011, The University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland, Hosted by the Regional Writing Centre in conjunction with the Centre for Teaching and Learning, UL

The European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing (EATAW) is a scholarly forum which seeks to bring together those involved or interested in the teaching, tutoring, research, administration and development of academic writing in higher education in Europe.

The 2011 EATAW conference invites all those interested in academic writing development in higher education to contribute to the discussion on enhancing the quality of the student experience through writing. Enhancing the student experience is central to the vision and mission of most higher-education institutions in Europe and beyond. How both undergraduate and postgraduate students experience academic writing has a major impact on the students’ participation in academic and disciplinary environments and on the development of their identity. Writing programmes and initiatives that actively engage students in the practices of their academic communities can enhance the quality of the student learning experience.

For further information, please consult the conference website at: http://www.ul.ie/rwc/eataw2011/

Am 23. und 24. Juni 2011 findet das IX. Prowitec-Symposion “Schreiben unter den Bedingungen von Mehrsprachigkeit” statt. In den Panels “Mehrsprachigkeit in der Akademia”, “Sprach- und Schreibtraditionen im Wandel” und “Mehrsprachigkeit in Arbeitskontexten und Medien” werden wir uns in Vorträgen, Diskussionen und Workshops mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen. Organisiert wird das Symposion von der Hochschule für Technik in Rapperswil, CH.

Europe University Viadrina (EUV) in Frankfurt/Oder (Germany) is about to start the second local ILM course just a couple of months after the first one at the ZHAW in Switzerland started. Watch this blog for news from our partners in Frankfurt/Oder!

The Department of Writing and Linguistics in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the Division of Continuing Education at Georgia Southern University are proud to announce the call for proposals for the 11th International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference to be held in the Coastal Georgia Center in the Historic District of Savannah, Georgia (USA) on June 7-9, 2012.

The Future is WAC
In recent years, we have seen many changes in our institutions, from the increasing importance of digital communication technologies to challenging economic climates and changing demographics. “The Future is WAC” will focus on the ways in which WAC programs and professionals may need to expand their efforts in response to these challenges and how these initiatives can lead the way for our institutions to be self-sustaining and proactive in meeting the changing needs of our students and the communities of which we are a part. It will welcome presentations, interactive workshops, and posters that explore the ways in which WAC has been sustained and enhanced its presence in K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and around the globe. We hope that the conference will include multiple voices and a variety of perspectives on WAC today.

Call for Proposals
Each concurrent session at WAC 2012 lasts 75 minutes, allowing 60 minutes for presentations and 15 minutes for discussion. Conference chairs Randall McClure, Michael Pemberton, and Janice Walker welcome proposals for engaging, interactive
20-minute individual presentations
60-minute poster presentations
60-minute multi-presenter panels
3-hour pre-conference workshops (to be held Thursday morning)
In addition to proposals for presentations, panels, and workshops that respond to the conference theme, topics may include the following: administration, assessment, curriculum, economics, faculty development, history of WAC, interdisciplinary collaboration, student learning, politics, research, school/college collaboration, sustainability, teaching, technology, theory, writing, and other forms of communicating across the disciplines. We particularly encourage collaborative projects among contributors from varied disciplines.

Individual presentations will be grouped by shared topic, and a session chair will be assigned; all multi-presenter proposals should identify a session chair among the presenters. Proposals will require a short, one- or two-sentence description of the presentation along with a 250-word abstract (and another 250-word abstract of the entire session in the case of panels) and may be edited until the deadline date of November 1, 2011.

To Submit Proposals & For More Information
Proposals must be submitted via the conference website. Details on the conference and the website will be available soon. Please check http://ceps.georgiasouthern.edu/conted/conferences.html for updates.

For more information, contact Randall McClure at randallmcclure@georgiasouthern.edu.

The certificate program on International Literacy Management (ILM) has its first small group of active participants! These participants of the Swiss ILM course (ZHAW Winterthur) will focus on literacy issues in Colombia, Austria, and Germany. They are planning to finish their certificate by the end of 2011. Feel free to join them or start a new group! Enrollment in the course is possible all year round.

A kick-off workshop for the first group of ILM certificate participants will be held March 19 through 22, 2011, at the Freiburg writing center. Feel free to join us – please register at info@international-literacy-management.org.

The ILM certificate program received its first two sign-ups – two people from Germany: one coming from higher edcuation trying to set up a peer tutoring program, the other trying to establish herself as a coach for companies seeking improvement in dealing with texts. Both decided to start working on the program in a few weeks in March.