The meeting will be hosted by the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University. Position papers are invited on the conference theme, Managing Change and Growth in Technical and Scientific Communication. Information technologies Papers should discuss how connections in these areas complement, complicate, or even challenge programmatic perspectives and issues in technical and scientific communication. Sample position papers are available by looking at past conference programs . Please note that position papers should focus on programmatic issues as opposed to reports of specialized research or discussions of particular teaching strategies.
Participants present five-minute papers in order to generate discussion.
The audience includes people from new as well as established programs, and anyone with programmatic interests in technical and scientific communication. While contemporary scholarship in composition studies has labored to expose the influence of race, class, and gender in the construction of classroom practice and institutional politics, there is little discussion of how Judaism, whether as religious doctrine or cultural identity, has influenced the field of composition studies. This chasm in composition scholarship is surprising, given that composition studies has, for the last twenty years, been a discipline that has vigorously claimed to embrace and advocate a politics of diversity. Further, we are interested in exploring how Judaic rhetorical texts can be used to reconstruct traditional rhetoric through its use of language, style, and symbolism. The Editors seek strong, theoretical essays that will cover comprehensive areas of investigation.