Julie Platt's chapbook manuscript, "In the Kingdom of My Familiar," was selected as a finalist for the BOOM Chapbook Contest from Bateau Press. Winners will be announced in the upcoming month. Please keep
your fingers crossed for Julie!
Staci Perryman-Clark has heard from Ford (National Academy of the Sciences) and, so far, has been awarded Honorable Mention. Perryman-Clark is also on a list of alternates--in the event that someone declines the main fellowship offer (they received 1200 applications and only award 60 fellows). The final results will be a month from now. We're keeping our fingers crossed for you, Staci!
Martine Rife's article "Technical Communicators and Digital Writing Risk Assessment," which appeared in Technical Communication, was named the winner of the 2007 Frank R. Smith Outstanding Journal Article Award. The award is presented at the society's annual conference, which will be held this year in Philadelphia, 1-4 June.
Congratulations, Martine!
Please join the Graduate Program in Rhetoric & Writing at our annual CCCCs party.
This month, Shreelina Ghosh has set quite an academic pace.
First, Shreelina received an "honorable mention" at the Excellence in Diversity Awards and Recognition program organized by the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives for "Making a Difference thorugh Artistic Expression." Then she presented at the The Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Conference on March 7, 2008. Her presentation was on "Cultural Specificity and Intellectual Property: How international students cope with the differences." And soon, Shreelina will be presenting a paper on "Dyslexia and Website Design: The Importance of User-based Testing" at the Quantitative Inquiry conference at Urbana Champagne on May 16. The paper is co-authored by Sarah J. Swierenga James E. Porter, Shreelina Ghosh and Jacob E. McCarthy.
Martine Rife's latest article "The fair use doctrine: History, application, and implications for (new media) writing teachers" not only appears in the latest issue of Computers & Composition, it's the 3rd most downloaded article! Check out the abstract.
Danielle DeVoss and Sue Webb's article "Grand Theft Audio: Negotiating Copyright as Composers" was recently published in Computers and Composition's special issue on media convergence. Check out their abstract.
Technical Communication Quarterly 17.1, 2008
Bill Hart-Davidson, Grace Bernhart, Mike McLeod, Martine Rife, and Jeff Grabill have an article titled "Coming to Content Management: Inventing Infrastructure for Organizational Knowledge Work."
And Stewart Whittemore has an article: "Metadata and Memory: Lessons from the Canon of Memoria for the Design of Content Management Systems."
Over the weekend, you can all attend C&W Online 2008 -- without ever leaving your homes!
Shreelina Ghosh presents Sunday evening (8:30 EST), and Danielle DeVoss and Sue Webb are scheduled to present on Monday evening (8:00 EST, with live chat at 8:45). The link below takes you to the full list of online events..
