24 Aug

TT Position in Professional and Technical Writing

Posted by Kiwi in jobs, professional writing, technical writing, tenure-track position, tt

The Department of Writing and Linguistics is pleased to offer a tenure track position at the assistant professor level. The Professional and Technical Writing component of the BA in Writing and Linguistics is growing exponentially with the addition of P&T Writing to the online Bachelor of General Studies degree. We are currently planning a graduate certificate in P&T Writing, and our department will begin planning other graduate programs this year.

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
University System of Georgia
Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Writing—Search #59339

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19 Aug

"Extraordinary Discourse" by Jack Saturday

Posted by Edward Picot in audio collage, documentary, podcasts, polemic

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15 Aug

Special Issue CFW for Kairos: Multimodal Research Within/Across/Without Borders

Posted by mjacobeCommEd in cfp, cfw, kairos, Lunsford, multimodal, research, webtexts

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is seeking webtexts for a planned special issue: Multimodal Research Within/Across/Without Borders, guest edited by Karen Lunsford. 

With publication in the spring of 2013, proposals for webtexts are due November 1, 2011.

The full CFW and general submission guidelines are available at Kairos.

15 Aug

Kairos 16.1--Unde​rgraduate Scholars in Writing and Rhetoric--​now available

Posted by mjacobeCommEd in digital rhetoric, digital scholarship, kairos, kairos article reviews, undergraduate research

Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is pleased to announce the release of Issue 16.1 for Fall 2011.  This special issue, (Re)mediating the Conversation: Undergraduate Scholars in Writing and Rhetoric, is guest edited by Shannon Carter and Bump Halbritter and rises from several related questions: What does undergraduate research in new media look like? How do we support it in the classroom? How do we support it beyond the classroom?
 

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30 Jul

Same Topic, Different Year

Posted by llcadle in blogging, identity, kairosnews

Once again, I am thinking about domain name and identity, especially when it comes to blogging. I asked this question on Kairosnews November 19, 2003 and got some good responses, ones that were not all in agreement, but that is typical of Kairosnews and I think, one of its strengths. I began Techsophist using Drupal soon after that, but I now find I'm ready to move to a domain based on my own name, mostly because of the reasons I detail here.

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