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Posted Tuesday, March 5, 2013 at 7:30 PM to Announcements. Comments: 0   
Ten faculty, graduate students, and recent alumni from EMU's Written Communication program will deliver presentations next week in Las Vegas, Nev., at the 16th anual Conference of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW), on March 13, and at the 64th annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 13-16. 

ATTW Presenters

Wednesday, March 13
3:15-3:45 p.m., Poster Session II, Grand Ballroom H
A Crash Course in Cultural and Pedagogical Negotiation: Lessons from an International ESL Writing and Technical Editing Collaboration 
ATTW Teaching Committee: Alexis Hart, Virginia Military Institute; Guiseppe Ghetto, SUNY Cortland; Stuart Selber, Penn State University; and Steve Benninghoff, Eastern Michigan University

Wednesday, March 13
2-3:15 p.m., Concurrent Session C.6 MOOCs in Professional Writing: Could We? Should We?, Skybox 211
MOOCs: The "M" is for "Meh"
Steve Krause, Eastern Michigan University

CCCC Presenters

Wednesday, March 13
6:30-8:30 p.m., Royale 4, First Floor
Master's Degree Consortium of Writing Studies Specialists Annual Meeting
John Dunn, Jr., co-chair, Eastern Michigan University
Derek Mueller, co-chair, Eastern Michigan University

Thursday, March 14
10:30-11:45 a.m., Grande Ballroom B, First Floor
A.12 14 Original Heuristics for Solving Writing Problems: A Roundtable in Tweets
Co-Chairs: Stuart Selber, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park
Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY 
Speakers: Bernadette Longo, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, "What can History Teach Us about Technical Communication?” 
James Porter, Miami University, Oxford, “How Can Rhetoric Theory Inform the Practice of Technical Communication?” 
Karen Schriver, KSA Communication Design and Research, Oakmont, PA, "What Do Technical Communicators Need to Know about Information Design?” 
Ann Blakeslee, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, “What do Technical Communicators Need to Know about Writing?” 
Rebecca Burnett, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, “What do Technical Communicators Need to Know about Collaboration?”
Brent Henze, East Carolina University, Greenville, “What do Technical Communicators Need to Know about Genre?”
Jim Henry, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, “How Can Technical Communicators Fit into Contemporary Organizations?”
Bill Hart-Davidson, Michigan State University, East Lansing, “What are the Work Processes of Technical Communication?”
T. Kenny Fountain, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, “What can History Teach Us about Technical Communication?”
L. Andrew Cooper, University of Louisville, KY, “What do Technical Communicators Need to Know about Collaboration?”
Antonio Ceraso, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, “How can Technical Communicators Plan for Users?”
Jason Swarts, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, “How can Work Tools Shape and Organize Technical Communication?”
Anne Wysocki, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, “What do Technical Communicators Need to Know about New Media?”
Candice Welhausen, University of Delaware, Newark, “What do Technical Communicators Need to Know about Collaboration?”
Clay Spinuzzi, University of Texas, Austin, “How can Technical Communicators Study Work Contexts?”
Cynthia Selfe, The Ohio State University, Columbus, “What Are the Boundaries, Artifacts, and Identities of Technical Communication?”

Thursday, March 14
10:30-11:45 a.m., Interactive Digital Poster Session
Steve Krause, Eastern Michigan University
"Apple's iBooks Author and Self-Published Textbooks:  A Work in Progress"

Thursday, March 14
3:15-4:30 p.m., Royale Pavilion 8, First Floor
D.31 Constructions of Composition Students as Exigencies for Change: Four Critical Perspectives on Going Public
Chair: Nicole Varty, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 
Speakers: Jessica Winck, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, “Constructions of Students Online: An Examination of Teacher-Generated Discourse” 
Becky Morrison, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, "Exploring the Identity Formation of First-Year Writing Students” 
Aylen Rounds, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, “Where Students Are: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Seating Arrangement, Identity, and Performance in the Composition Classroom”
Kelly Waldschmidt, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, “Examination of a Summer Bridge Program: Student Identity and Transition”

Thursday, March 14
4:45-6 p.m., Royale Pavilion 5, First Floor
E.Featured Interactive Roundtable Cross-Generational Connections among Retired Faculty, Retiring Faculty, and the Emergent Professoriate: Beginning a Conversation
Co-Chair: Louise Wetherbee Phelps, Old Dominion University
Co-Chair: Rochelle Rodrigo, Old Dominion University
Facilitator: Eric Bateman, San Juan College
Facilitator: Louise Bown, Salt Lake Community College
Facilitator: Beverly Derden Fatherree, Hinds Community College
Facilitator: Brent Henze, East Carolina University
Facilitator: Joseph Janangelo, Loyola University, Chicago
Facilitator: Derek Mueller, Eastern Michigan University
Facilitator: Rochelle Rodrigo, Old Dominion University
Facilitator: Donald Samson, Radford University
Facilitator: Wendy Sharer, East Carolina University

Friday, March 15
8-9:15 a.m., Skybox 211, Second Floor
F.31 Reaching Out to a Discipline and Profession: Writing and Reading in Nursing Studies
Chair: Ann Blakeslee, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
Speakers: Sarah Primeau, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti
Ann Blakeslee, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti

Saturday, March 16
9:30-10:45 a.m., Grande Ballroom E, First Floor
L.18 Articulating the Infrastructure of the Field: Perspectives on the 2012 Survey of the Master’s Degree Consortium of Writing Studies Specialists
Chair: John Dunn, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 
Speakers: Kristine Blair, Bowling Green State University, OH, “A Perspective on the 2012 Master’s Degree Consortium Survey from the Consortium of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition” 
John Dunn, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, “An Overview of Findings from the 2012 Master’s Degree Consortium Survey of Writing Studies Specialists” 
Helen Foster, University of Texas, El Paso, “A Perspective on the 2012
Master’s Degree Consortium Survey from the Association of Undergraduate Rhetoric and Writing Studies Majors” 
Derek Mueller, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, “Considerations of
Research Design and Analyzing Large Data Sets in the 2012 Master’s
Degree Consortium Survey” 
Rochelle Rodrigo, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, “A Perspective
on the 2012 Master’s Degree Consortium Survey from the Two-Year College Association (TYCA)”

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