Tanya asked me for the latest CATTW program and I thought I'd post it to
both list serves. I would like to remind everybody of the CATTW book
display which takes place on Saturday, May 27. Please bring your and
your colleagues' publications for the display.
Natasha
Thursday, May 25 Room T1-91
Rhetorical Approaches to Workplace and Academic Communication
A joint session with the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
CATTW would like to acknowledge funding granted for this session by the
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada.
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome
9:15 - 10:45 Rhetoric in the classroom and in the workplace
Session Chair/Présidente de la séance: Lilita Rodman
· Jennifer MacLennan, University of Saskatchewan
Mastering the art of verbal self-defense: the role of rhetoric in the
engineering curriculum
· Bill Bunn, Mount Royal College
Turning analysis on its head: Teaching analytical structures as poetic
strategies
· Catherine Schryer, University of Waterloo
Structure and agency in workplace genres
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 From classroom to workplace
Session Chair/Présidente de la séance: Jennifer MacLennan
· Burton Urquhart, University of Saskatchewan
Communicating in the technical professions: implications for teaching
Communication Skills to Professional Engineers
· Shurli Makmillen, Simon Fraser University and Diana Wegner, Douglas
College
Writing pedagogy and the acquisition of professional genres: knowledge
and authority in virtual and classroom communities
· Barbara Schneider, University of Calgary
Field notes and the construction of ethnographic knowledge
12:30 - 1: 45 Lunch break
1:45 - 3:15 Professional discourse
Session Chair/Présidente de la séance: Tracey Whalen
· Kathleen Venema, University of Alberta
The business of (a) writing community: negotiating status and identity
in 19th century Hudson's Bay Company correspondence
· Claire Harrison, Carleton University
Rhetorical genre-stretching: Creating a dialogic performance appraisal
review at Health Canada
· Linda Sanderson, University of Waterloo
"The thisness of a that, or the thatness of a this": metaphors in
mediation discourse
3:15 - 3:30 Coffee break
3:30 - 5:00 Negotiation practices in Aboriginal issues
Session Chair/Présidente de la séance: Barbara Schneider
· Megan Huston, University of Saskatchewan
Mediation as rhetorical situation: a functional analysis
· Charles Horn, Ministry for children and families, B. C.
"Let's include Gambier Island": mapping practices in negotiations
· Janet Giltrow, University of British Columbia
Type and instance: the production of the 'Transfer of Authority' genre
5:00 - 7:00 President's reception
Friday, May 26 Room T3 - 58
Rhetorical Approaches to Workplace and Academic Communication
A joint session with the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric
(continued)
9:00- 10:30 Visual rhetoric
Session Chair/Présidente de la séance: Linda Sanderson
· Paula Loewen, University of Waterloo
A new space for female travelers?: The implication of generic
similarities between two travel web sites
· Tracey Whalen, University of Winnipeg
Visual rhetoric in a textbook and the inculcation of place
· Mark Wallin, University of Waterloo
"Never a machine forever": Towards a "Queering" of technical imagery
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 - 12:15 Technical and scientific communication
Session Chair/Présidente de la séance: Anne Parker
· Ron Blicq, RGI International Inc.
Establishing Standards for English-language International Technical
Documentation
· Lilita Rodman, University of British Columbia
Discipline differences in the use of Important, Significant,
Interesting, Clear and Obvious
· Michael Jordan, Queen's University
Interactive problem solutions: a set of rhetorical structures in science
writing
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch break
CATTW SESSION Room T1-125
1:30 - 2:00 Sandra Ingram and Anne Parker, University of Manitoba
Gender and modes of collaboration in the engineering classroom: a report
on the third research team
2:00 - 3:00 Keynote speaker: Heather Silyn-Roberts,
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Loo, what sholde a man in thyse dayes now wryte? Engineers and their
interaction with the written and spoken word.
3:00 - 3:15 Coffee break
3:15 - 5:15 AGM
CATTW dinner
Saturday, May 27 Room T1-125
9:00 -10:00 The Role of Feedback in Technical Communication
Session Chair/Présidente de la séance: Janet Giltrow
· Yaying Zhang, Simon Fraser University
Feedback: the facilitator or hinderer of communication?
· Natasha Artemeva and Susan Logie, Carleton University
Peer feedback: to feed or not to feed?
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:15 - 11:15 The Role of Feedback in Technical Communication
(continued)
Session Chair/Président de la séance: Michael Jordan
· Bill Bunn, Mount Royal College
The effects of assignment instructions on student responses
· Wendy Strachan, Simon Fraser University
Giving written feedback in large classes: An inquiry into marker
response with and without a genre-specific rubric
11:15 - 12:00 CATTW book display/Salon du livre de l'ACPRTS
12:00 - 1:15 Lunch break
1:15 - 2:30 Discourse and communication
Session Chair/Présidente de la séance: Donna Shultz
· Kristen Yip, Carleton University
The demystification of mythical discourse
· Graham Smart, Purdue University
Exploring the borderlands: a model for using student work internships
to research writing in a workplace
2:30 - 2:45 Coffee break
2:45 - 4:30 Roundtable "All, Nothing, or Somewhere In Between? Views
About Teaching Writing Online"
· Janice Freeman, University of Winnipeg
Wagging the Dog: Can Administrative Support Improve On-line Delivery
of Writing Courses?
· Amanda Goldrick-Jones, University of Winnipeg
Both/And: Online Teaching as a Supplement to Traditional Writing
Instruction
· Doug Brent, University of Calgary
Web Packages: Building walls around the 'Classroom Without Walls'
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Natasha Artemeva
Program Chair, CATTW/ACPRTS 2000
Engineering Communication Program Coordinator
School of Linguistics and
Applied Language Studies
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