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ATTW 2010Synergies: The Intersections of Research and Teaching 13th Annual ConferenceMarch 17, 2010Louisville, KY The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) invites proposals for papers, poster presentations, and workshops to be given at its annual conference immediately preceding the … Continue reading →

With the submission and publication of a whitepaper entitled “Archive 2.0: Imagining The Michigan State UniversityIsraelite Samaritan Scroll Collection as the Foundation for a Thriving Social Network,” the Archive 2.0 project team officially wrapped up the startup phase of their … Continue reading →

Participants in “Visualizing Patterns of Communication in Digital Workspaces” at the 2009 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute spent two and a half days learning to use analytic techniques developed by Spinuzzi, Zachry, and Hart-Davidson such as Genre Ecology Models … Continue reading →

Last week, Kirk St. Amant of East Carolina University visited MSU and offered a workshop and a presentation. Both were very well attended events. Below, we’ve provided a short summary and a link to a PDF of slides from each … Continue reading →

WIDE researcher and recent Rhetoric & Writing MA graduate Jake McCarthy’s research is featured in the article “Finding Usability in Workplace Culture” published in the June 2009 edition of Intercom, a publication of the Society for Technical Communication. The article … Continue reading →

According to an announcement from the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), “last week, the Copyright Alliance Education Foundation (a nonprofit mouth piece for the entertainment and software industries) unveiled plans to spread its protectionist ideas to the nation’s schools and libraries … Continue reading →

WIDE researcher Jim Ridolfo & WIDE interaction designer Mike McLeod are heading to Israel this week in conjunction with the Archive 2.0 Samaritan Scrolls project. While there, they will be doing community-driven design research with groups of cultural stakeholders in … Continue reading →

Martine Courant Rife, JD, PhD, will present arguments before two panels at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, May 6-7, on the subject of Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Rulemaking. Rife will make her case before the Librarian of … Continue reading →

Jeff Grabill spoke about digital writing on May 15 at Cool U, an event hosted by the College of Arts and Letters at MSU. Cool U is designed for adults who lovelearning. Cool U features four lectures from professors from … Continue reading →

Lee Sherlock’s article entitled “Genre, Activity, and Collaborative Work and Play in World of Warcraft: Places and Problems of Open Systems in Online Gaming” is available now electronically via the JBTC pre-publication site. Check it out! AbstractThis article examines the … Continue reading →