Apparently I did something wrong when forwarding the following message to the
listserves yesterday because some people were not able to read it. I hope that
this time everybody will be able to read the announcement below.
EATAW conference wrote:
> Final call
>
> (altered deadline: November 30)
>
>
> (Our apologies for possible double mailings)
>
>
> Call for Conference Proposals
>
>
> Teaching Academic Writing
> across Europe
>
>
> First Conference of EATAW: The European
> Association for the Teaching of Academic
> Writing
>
>
> in cooperation with
>
>
> First Conference of EWCA: The European
> Writing Center Association
>
>
> 18-20 June 2001, Groningen, the Netherlands
>
>
> Writing program administrators, writing centre staff, teachers,
> researchers, and students with an interest in the teaching of
> academic writing, are all welcome to participate in the first
> EATAW conference, held in cooperation with the first EWCA
> conference. This conference derives from some inspiring,
> successful and pleasantly informal conferences that were first
> organized in Germany for members of an emerging German
> network (Erfurt, 1997, Bochum, 1999), as well as from a
> gathering of forces and efforts on the part of Writing Centers
> across Europe in co-operation with the NWCA (National
> Writing Center Association). The resultant emerging networks of
> teachers, consultants, and Writing Center personnel are now
> expanding on a European level, through the formal establishment
> of EATAW, EWCA, and the organization of their first
> conference.
>
> The aims of both newly-founded organizations and of the
> conference is to create a forum for European colleagues, to
> support a European development in the teaching of academic
> writing, and to establish a supporting network of Writing Centers
> developing and functioning within a European context. The
> conference provides means for:
>
> connecting with people and institutions from all European
> Countries and contributing to the creation of a network
>
> exchanging experiences and ‘best practice’ examples from
> teaching and tutoring methods and strategies, as well as of
> theoretical and organizational frameworks (for example
> concerning writing and teaching writing in different writing
> cultures)
>
> providing a venue for teachers and researchers to interact and
> bringing participants up-to-date on developments in the fields of
> composition teaching and writing center tutoring in Europe
>
> The conference marks the formal establishment of EATAW and
> of EWCA with the ratification of their individual constitutions.
>
> Conference themes:
>
> ‘best practice’ examples (rationale, practice and material) of:
> teaching-the-teachers initiatives
> general writing courses and subject-specific writing courses
> on-line teaching of writing and computer-assisted writing
> instruction
> program establishment (models, politics, strategies, faculty
> development) writing tutoring and counseling practice
> writing center practices in relation to cultural contexts
> the use of peer tutors in second-language contexts
> American and European writing center practices: convergences
> and divergences:
> what we can gain from and teach one another
> the role of writing centers within the institutional context (relation
> to writing-across-the curriculum; contribution to institutional
> mission, etc.)
> approaches to the teaching of individual and co-operative
> writing, and pedagogical strategies
> academic genres and subgenres, writing conventions, academic
> language, writing cultures and intercultural aspects of academic
> writing instruction
> writing and designing instructional materials for the teaching of
> academic writing
> researchers and therapists views on, for example:
> cognitive styles of writers and teaching/individual tutoring
> hypotheses on procrastination and blocking in academic writers
> hypotheses on plagiarism in academic writing
>
> The program will include keynote speakers as well as interactive
> sessions to encourage participation and the exchange of ideas. The
> organizing committee welcomes proposals for panel discussions and
> round table sessions with both:
>
> researchers and teachers discussing the relation between
> theories/empirical findings and the practice of the teaching of writing, or
>
>
> educational politicians, funding organizations and practitioners
> discussing the financial, political and strategic possibilities for the
> establishment of writing centres and writing programs in Europe.
>
>
> Types of sessions:
> Workshops (90 minutes)
> Presentations (20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion)
> Panel discussions and roundtable sessions (60 minutes)
>
> Guidelines for proposals:
>
> Proposals are invited from writing program and writing centre
> staff, teachers, scholars, writing tutors and counselors,
> researchers, teacher educators and curriculum specialists. Those
> wishing to propose a session at the conference are requested to
> submit a one-page proposal to the organising committee, stating:
>
> who they are
> their subject, approach, rationale and practice (with a focus on
> the practice of their work, and with theoretical underpinnings
> where possible)
> the possible practical applicability of their contribution to the
> teaching and/or tutoring of academic writing (contributions that
> pose open questions and encourage discussions are preferred
> above presentations of practice)
> the form of the contribution: workshop, presentation, panel
> discussion or roundtable session
>
> Deadline for sending in proposals (in English and by e-mail):
> November 30, 2000
>
> Confirmation + provisional program will be issued in January
> 2001
>
> Conference language: English
>
> Location and lodgings:
> The conference is to be held at the Faculty of Arts at the heart of
> the old centre of Groningen, where a variety of hotels will be
> available within walking distance. The Faculty of Arts is easily
> reached by public transport (a 10 minutes walk from the train
> station).
>
> EATAW board:
> Lennart Björk (university of Göteborg)
> Peter Stray Jorgensen (university of Copenhagen)
> Jacqueline van Kruiningen (university of Groningen)
> Otto Kruse (university of Erfurt)
> Lotte Rienecker (university of Copenhagen)
> Gabriela Ruhmann (university of Bochum)
>
> EWCA associated institutions:
> American University in Bulgaria
> University of Copenhagen, Denmark
> Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen, The Netherlands
> University of Northumbria at Newcastle, England
> Richmond, American University in London, England
> American University in Paris, France
> American University in Athens, Greece
> American College of Thessaloniki, Greece
> La Verne College in Athens, Greece
> Koc University in Istambul, Turkey
> Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey
> Bilgi University in Istambul, Turkey
> Sabancy University in Istambul, Turkey
> American College in Dublin, Ireland
> Webster University in Switzerland
>
> Organising committee:
> Jacqueline van Kruiningen, Henrike Padmos, Femke Kramer,
> Alice Pomstra: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, (University of
> Groningen), Anna Challenger (American College of
> Thessaloniki).
>
> Conference mail:
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
> fax: ++31.503636855
>
> Updates on the conference:
> http://www.hum.ku.dk/formidling/eataw/
>
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Natasha Artemeva
Program Chair, CATTW/ACPRTS 2001
http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~goldjo/CATTW/
Engineering Communication Program Coordinator
School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1S 5B6
Tel.+1 (613) 520-2600 ext.7452
Fax +1 (613) 520-6641
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