30.176, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Writing Systems/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-176. Sat Jan 12 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.176, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Writing Systems/USA

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Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 05:03:02
From: Amy Russo [amy.russo at sjsu.edu]
Subject: Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference

 
Full Title: Northern California Writing Centers Association Conference 
Short Title: NCWCA 

Date: 05-Apr-2019 - 06-Apr-2019
Location: San Jose, CA, USA 
Contact Person: Michelle Hager
Meeting Email: michelle.hager at sjsu.edu
Web Site: http://www.sjsu.edu/ncwca/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Writing Systems 

Call Deadline: 25-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

Mixing It Up: Working with all Our Audiences in the Writing Center
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rebecca Day Babcock

Dates and Location:
April 5-6, 2019

San José State University
1 Washington Sq, San Jose, CA 95192
San José, California

This conference brings together Writing Center directors, staff, and tutors to
discuss the changing issues surrounding writing, tutoring, and work with
diverse audiences. This is the California regional affiliate of the
International Writing Centers Association.


Call for Papers:

Submissions:

Submit your proposals online: https://goo.gl/forms/1FAd6JorvyOGkp9u2

Proposals are due Monday, January 25, 2019 by midnight PST.

Call for Proposals:
 
The writing center inhabits a unique place on campus in which all its
employees—tutors, directors, coordinators, admins—encounter an extraordinary
range of diverse populations. The audience of a tutoring session changes with
each session, workshop, and special event; writing center practitioners have
to alter their own rhetoric to adjust. Tutors have to consider, for example,
what explanations or analogies will work for their current audience. An
analogy that was perfect for one student in a previous tutoring session might
not make sense to a different writer. 

In addition to the diversity inherent to writing center users (the
“audience”), there are other, additional groups that are traditionally
considered as having their own needs: “Basic writers, writers with
disabilities, second-language writers, and graduate student writers have been
treated as ‘different’ populations in the writing center literature” (Babcock
and Thonus, 2018). Babcock and Thonus go on to encourage “writing center
administrators and researchers to consider not only specific practices likely
to better support such tutees but at the same time to avoid ‘othering’ them”
(2018). We invite you to join us as we discuss how the writing center serves
and supports its many different audiences. 

Area Clusters:
This conference will have a variety of topics/sub-themes to help provide a
robust experience for all participants. The following topics/sub-themes cover
many areas of discussion related to writing center studies. When you submit
your proposal, please choose 1-2 area clusters from the following list that
your topic falls under:

Administration
Diverse Audiences and Populations
Engagement/Public Relations
Research (e.g., a research study you completed)
Technological Innovations
Types of Tutoring (e.g., embedded, online, drop-in) & Tutoring Best Practices
Other

Session Formats:

Concurrent sessions will be one hour in length. You are welcome to propose any
of the following types of session.

Panel Presentation: 3-4 presenters focusing on a specific
theme/topic/question; each presenter should plan to speak for 10-15 minutes
with time allowed for Q&A
Individual Presentation: 1 presenter focusing on a specific
theme/topic/question; the presenter should plan to speak for 10-15 minutes
with time allowed for Q&A; accepted individual proposals will be combined into
a panel by the program chair
Workshop: 2-4 presenters leading a workshop that involves all attendees in
active participation/learning
Tutor Tips Roundtable: 4-7 tutors leading a roundtable discussion about tips
for tutoring; each tutor should plan to offer a 5-minute tip about a practice
that has worked well in their tutoring experience; strategies will then be
discussed with all roundtable participants
Proposal Submission Guidelines:
Proposals are due on Monday, January 25, 2019 by midnight PST and should be
250 words. You will also be asked to submit a 50-word description of your
session for the conference program. You are welcome to submit more than one
proposal. Proposals may be submitted by anyone interested in writing centers:
faculty, staff, tutors, administrators, directors, graduate students, and
undergraduate students. Submit your proposals online.

You will be notified of your proposal status by mid-February, 2019. Please
contact Michelle Hager (Michelle.Hager at sjsu.edu) if you have any questions.




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