29.442, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Botswana

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Subject: 29.442, Calls: Applied Linguistics/Botswana

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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 18:28:40
From: Boitumelo Ramoroka [ramorokab at mopipi.ub.bw]
Subject: 4th International Conference in Academic and Professional Communication

 
Full Title: 4th International Conference in Academic and Professional Communication 
Short Title: ICAPC 2018 

Date: 09-Jul-2018 - 11-Jul-2018
Location: Gaborone University of Botswana, Botswana 
Contact Person: Boitumelo Tiny Ramoroka
Meeting Email: ramorokab at mopipi.ub.bw
Web Site: http://conferences.ub.bw/index.php/ICAPC/index/schedConfs/current 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 30-May-2018 

Meeting Description:

This conference brings together researchers, educators, trainers and students
involved or interested in the teaching, tutoring, research, administration and
development of academic and professional writing in education around the
world. The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for sharing
experience, expertise and innovative ideas on the teaching of academic and
professional writing and to reflect on the past, present and future of
academic and professional writing pedagogy, research and practice.


Call for Papers:

Second call for papers now open from January 23 - May 30 2018

Theme:

Advances in Academic and Professional Writing Research, Pedagogy and Practice
in  Education: The Past, the Present and the Future.

Sub-themes:

i. New forms of academic writing
ii. Writing in the disciplines-
iii. Multi lingualism and academic writing
iv. Academic writing Practice and pedagogy
- Academic literacies
- Advancing academic writing through corpora
- Multi-modality and academic writing
- Collaborative academic writing
- Teaching academic writing to large groups
- Feedback in academic writing
- Metadiscourse
- Influencing institutional policies

v. Professional Writing
- Pragmatic approaches to technical writing
- Discursive approaches to professional writing
- Representations, identity and power in professional writing
- Ethics and morals in professional writing

Author Guidelines:

Include the following in your submission;

- Title of presentation
- Presenter(s) name(s)
- Relevant strand(s)
- Submission type
- Equipment needed.

Abstracts should be submitted using the system at
http://conferences.ub.bw/index.php/ICAPC/ICAPC2018/author/submit?requiresAutho
r=1  .




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