Council of Writing Program Administrators

The Department of Writing is seeking to fill several full-time, non-tenure-line positions in Composition and Writing. Our Visiting Faculty teach 11 or 12 credits per semester (depending on course credits this could work out as either a 3/3 or 3/4 load), mainly first-year or junior-level writing. In addition, we have a particular need for teachers of professional writing courses, including Business Communication and Introduction to Professional Writing as well as someone to teach Creative Non-fiction.

This position is designed for recent PhDs or MFAs planning to seek

The Department of Writing at Grand Valley State University is seeking to fill a tenure-track position beginning August, 2008. A Ph.D. in English, Rhetoric/Composition, or Writing is required for appointment at the assistant level. The typical teaching load is 3 courses per semester and may include first-year composition and a range of courses in our curriculum, including courses in style and professional writing.

The Department of Writing is seeking to fill several full-time, non-tenure-line positions in Composition and Writing. Our Visiting Fellows teach 11 or 12 credits per semester (depending on course credits this could work out as either a 3/3 or 3/4 load), mainly first-year or junior-level writing, but there is also some opportunity to teach introductory creative writing or other creative or professional writing courses as fits the faculty's experience and preparation.

CFP: Computers and Writing Online 2005

When Content Is No Longer King: Social Networking, Community, and Collaboration

David Reed explains that in the early stages of a network's formation and growth, that “content is king,” that there are a “a small number of sources (publishers or makers) of content that every user selects from" (qtd in Rheingold Smart Mobs 61). As the network scales, “group-forming networks” occur, and the value of the network increases exponentially in relationship of the number of users, otherwise known as Reed's Law, privileging the social interaction over content.

We can see this change in network valuation in today's Internet. The increased valuing of social interaction in large scale networks is reflected in the new technologies that place emphasis on social communication and community over content. These technologies, often dubbed “social software” are applications that, as Clay Shirky explains, “support group interaction.”

We invite proposals from scholars, graduate students and others who have an interest in computers and writing and social interactions and are working on projects in gestation, in progress, near completion, or at any stage in between, whether a thesis or dissertation, article, book project, or just want to preview and fine-tune your conference presentation for Computers and Writing Conference hosted by Stanford University. This is a unique opportunity for extended discussion of your ideas before heading to Palo Alto. Conference organizers are particularly interested in presentations that address, but are not limited to, the following concerns:

From an announcement on Kairosnews:

Clemson University invites proposals for The Eighth National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, May 18-20, 2006, at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.

We encourage proposals from all disciplines—and from cross disciplinary teams—on a wide range of topics of interest to faculty, graduate students, and administrators at two- and four-year colleges. These topics include: WAC: Writing Across the Curriculum; WID: Writing in the Disciplines; CAC: Communication Across the Curriculum, which includes oral, visual, digital, and written communication; and ECAC: Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum. The keynote address will be delivered by Anne Herrington and Charles Moran, both of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.