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The proposal submission site is now available for ATTW 2010. Please link directly to the online proposal submission system at: http://english.ttu.edu/attwconf/2010conference/ProposalRegistrationForm.asp After registering, use the same email address and password that you just registered to log in to the site … Continue reading →

In this second installment of WIDE’s idea documents that take up challenges to and opportunities for writing programs, Jeff Grabill addresses a range of issues that writing programs might consider as they adjust to the new economies of higher education. Grabill attempts to work back and forth between the general and the specific, but as with Julie Lindquist’s document on possible relationships between writing programs and English Education, this piece is situated within the case of the writing program at Michigan State. Continue reading →

NCTE just announced that Stuart Blythe, Jeff Grabill, and Kirk Riley were named winner of the 2009 NCTE Award in Technical and Scientific Communication in the category of Best Article Reporting Qualitative or Quantitative Research in Technical or Scientific Communication.

WIDE recently announced that we were interested in generating and sharing a set of idea documents that proposed innovative approaches to a set of writing program issues that took into consideration the severe economic conditions that higher education must navigate … Continue reading →

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 →

WIDE would like to give a heads up to friends and colleagues that a key project for the Center this year will be to generate and discuss issues and concerns connected to what writing programs should look like in the … 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 →