“The wind was blowing harder now, and the snow was coming down in thick flurries, which quickly turned the fronts of their clothes white and made it difficult either to see or hear; but Dora thought she heard a snatch of music. Then one of the little boys started jumping up and down and pointing. 'Look! Look! They're dancing! They're dancing!' Everyone looked where the little boy was pointing. On the far side of the snow-field, next to the fir trees, the snowmen and snow-women were moving.”

ATTW 2009 : : Beyond Work? Technical Communication in Professional,
Community, & Social Networks

12th Annual ATTW Conference
March 11th, 2009
San Francisco, CA

Traditionally, teachers and researchers of technical writing have
concentrated on writing in workplace settings. And rightly so. But the
spread of information technology into all areas of social life means
that, increasingly, technical communication practices and genres arise
and collide in social spheres other than the workplace. Combine this
trend with an increasingly mobile work environment in which people are

Today a student e-mailed me that she was confused by the university's new student portal, so she used Google to search for my senior-level writing course. Instead of locating the advanced technical writing course site, she stumbled into my personal pages and my business pages.

This is not much of a problem, since my personal pages deal with my freelance writing. Having a student read my CV isn't exactly an issue. It's not exciting reading.

Abhay Parekh recently launched a new application, Flowgram, that those in the computers and writing crowd may want to check out. Think of it as Powerpoint-plus. An online screencasting program, Flowgram enables you to load URLs, images, and Powerpoints onto the web, to add layered audio, notes, and highlighting, and then to play the pages or to share them.

_Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture_, an online, interdisciplinary journal listed on the MLA and other databases, is looking for someone with technical expertise and a commitment to being
a full-fledged member of our editorial collective. _Reconstruction_ is in its eigth year of production, is read in 110 countries, and has a non-robotic hit rate of 1500 per day.

If you are interested in this position or know anyone who might be, please

Stargate Atlantis needs our help! Sign the petition!

According to CNET, starting October 1, Comcast is capping your monthly usage to 250Gb a month. If anyone hears about a class action lawsuit against this, please let me know. I will gladly sign up.Not only do I have to pay $50 a month for mediocre service, but now they are going to tell me what "acceptable" uses of the web exist.

I don't know how everybody else is faring now that Obama has chosen Joe Biden for his running mate...You've no doubt heard about Biden's Pro-RIAA, pro-FBI voting record. Still, we can hope that all this talk about the "little guy" will somehow pertain to people besides Jack Valenti, who is surely not all that downtrodden (really). Being disgruntled (and wondering if anyone has ever been just gruntled?), I checked out some of the fringe action and found some interesting stuff.

Hi,

I am just about lead a major change to the way we assess learning and teaching at our University.

I am hoping some members of this community will vist this site and post a comment

http://medusa.ballarat.edu.au/wordpress/jameso/student-evaluation-of-tea...

Lookng forward to hearing from you

Exploring a Corpus-Informed Approach to Writing Research

CFP:

Since the development of the Brown Corpus in the 1960s, leveraging language corpora and corpus-based methods to analyze and to describe spoken and written language has become an established tradition within the broad field of linguistics.