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Greetings from your new Inkshed editors, and apologies for our resounding silence about upcoming newsletters. As one of the editors, I've volunteered to send out the following important newsflashes: 3 ISSUES A YEAR NOW! Much busywork has occurred behind the scenes over the last 2-3 months as we've been getting ourselves and other things organized. One of the things we've decided is to cut down the number of mailed-out issues per year to a total of 3: these would come out in November (sort of), February-March, and June-ish. (Note, please, how subtly we fudge these dates. We need a bit of elbow-room for things like mail strikes, sick children, system outages, etc.) ABOUT THE NOV. ISSUE In October, Janice Freeman, Sandy Baardman, Barry Nolan, Laura Atkinson, Pat Sadowy, and I met to discuss ideas for upcoming issues and ways to twist peoples' arms to contribute. The next issue (your new editors' first newsletter) will focus on the MOO-session held as part of Inkshed 14 last May; we'll include part of the transcript as well as comments and reactions from people who were "there," both physically and virtually. We'll also print the call for papers for Inkshed 15. A SHAMELESSLY OPEN REQUEST To Russ, Marcy, Doug Brent, and anyone else who participated in the MOO-- we'd *really* appreciate a brief note on your reactions (if you can remember them) sometime during this week if you can manage it. Our e-mail addresses are below. IN CASE OF A MAIL STRIKE! We will prepare a web-edition of the Nov. newsletter as well as a print edition. If a strike occurs and looks as if it'll last through Nov., we'll publish the Nov. Inkshed newsletter on the web, at an address to be announced. FOREVER ON-LINE? We are also investigating regularly putting issues on the Web, possibly adding one wholly on-line and/or hypertext issue per year. Consider this an open invitation for all interested CASLL members.to submit ideas, comments, and cool stuff; see e-mail addresses below. THE NEXT ISSUE AFTER _THIS_ NEXT ISSUE Finally, just to let you know that the Feb-Mar. issue will focus on ways in which Canadian universities are implementing, or experimenting with, writing across disciplines: through coursework, research, writing centres, on-line teaching. . .? E-MAIL ADDRESSES Please send any material or ideas for the Nov. and/or Feb-Mar issues either to me ([log in to unmask]) or to Janice ([log in to unmask]) Thanks to all for your patience and understanding! Amanda Goldrick-Jones . . . . . . University of Winnipeg Secretary-Treasurer, Cdn. Assoc. of Teachers of Technical Writing (CATTW/ACPRTS). . . . . . [log in to unmask] Phone: 204-786-9453 . . . . . . . Fax: 204-774-4134 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~caw/amanda.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~