Announcing:The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing10th Annual Conference Conference date: Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 8:00 a.m.In conjunction with the 2007 CCCC Annual Convention, March 21-24, New York City, New York pw.english.purdue.edu/ATTW Resilience: Rebuilding (in) New YorkWe take the City of New York as our example and model for re-building and re-imagining the University as a site of resilient action. As we make pilgrimage to Ground Zero, we see a city renewed, its citizens united and defiant, economy and culture both booming and blooming. Families are moving into the city center. Neighborhoods thrive. And New York is a shining example of resilience in the face of challenge.                        Following 9/11, the city was wounded, and significant economic change rippled across the nation, challenging our sense of purpose as the economy shifted to accommodate both business adjustment and physical assault. This year in New York, we gather to consider the progress and purpose of a city triumphantly renewed with purpose and vigor, to consider the University as a city of knowledge challenged by political, economic, and cultural forces. The Association of Teachers of Technical Writing invites you to register and attend the 10th Annual Conference in New York.  Some sample titles of panels, papers, and posters include:

• Recovery Down South: How Technical Writing Students are Helping Rebuild Louisiana in the Wake of Katrina


• Sarbanes Oxley: The Technical Communicator's Role in Compliance Documentation


• Re(Building) Technical Communication as a Research Discipline: A Community Model for Program Assessment


• Safe Schools, Healthy Schools: Technical Communication & Community Development


• Popular Representations of Nanotechnology, 2000-2006


• Academic and Practitioner Research: Organizational Barriers and Opportunities


• First Responders as First Rhetoricians: Emergen[t]/[cy] Rhetorics, the (Re)Construction of Reality after 9/11, and Professional Communication 


• Medical Writing in Multiple Contexts


• The Technical Communication Internship: Research and Cases


• Lessons for NYC: Historical precedence in shaping knowledge

 To register, go to the web: http://pw.english.purdue.edu/ATTW for registration information and additional information about the conference.   Information and updates will be posted to [ ATTW-L ] email discussion forum. For additional information, contact Michael J. Salvo at Purdue University [ salvo@purdue.edu ] or Carol Johnson at The New Jersey Institute of Technology [ cjohnson@ADM.NJIT.EDU ].  New teachers of technical and professional writing are particularly invited to attend the conference, as are CCCC attendees interested in technical writing.