Computers and composition awards

Computers

1997 and Composition

Awards

At the Thirteenth Computers & Writing Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, the editors of Computers and Composition, on behalf of the Editorial Board, awarded the 1996 prizes for outstanding scholarship in the field of computers and composition studies. Each of the awards highlights a dissertation or published article of exceptional merit. The Hugh Burns Award for Best Dissertation and the Ellen Nold Award for Best Article are annual prizes regularly awarded at the Computers & Writing Conference. For Best Dissertation

in Computers and Composition

Studies

The Hugh Burns Award Sibylle Gruber, Northern Arizona University Nontraditional Multiple Literacies in a Multicultural Setting: Contextualizing Students’ Appropriation of Virtuality and Reality. University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign.

For Best Article in Computers and Composition

Studies

The Ellen Nold Award Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Purdue University, and Stuart Selber, Texas Tech University “Policing Ourselves: Defining the Boundaries of Appropriate Discussion in Online Forums.” (1996) Computers and Composition, 13 (3) 269-29 1.

Finalists: Jane Yellowlees Douglas, University of Florida “Abandoning the Either/Or for the And/And/And: tative Writing.” (1996) The Australian Journal 305-3 16.

Hypertext and the Art of Argumenof Language and Literacy, 19 (4)

Patricia Sullivan, Purdue University, and Jennie Dautermann, Miami University “Issues of Written Literacy and Electronic Literacy in Workplace Settings.” In Patricia Sullivan and Jennie Dautermann (Eds.), Electronic literacies in the workplace: Technologies of writing (Advances in Computers and Composition Studies Series) (pp. vii-xxxiii). Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996. The winners of the Hugh Burns and Ellen Nold Awards receive a cash prize of $150. In addition, each winner and finalist receives a plaque noting the author’s outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of computers and composition studies. We invite all readers to submit nominations for the 1997 Computers and Composition Awards, including your own work. Nominations should be received by January 1, 1998. Prizes will be awarded at the 14th Computers & Writing Conference in Gainesville, Florida. Send nominations

to Gail E. Hawisher Department of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 608 South Wright Street Urbana, IL 6180 1

Call for Nominations 1998

Computers

and Composition

Awards

The editors of Computers and Compositiorz, on behalf of the Editorial Board, invite all readers to submit nominations for the annual Computers and Composition Awards for outstanding scholarship in the field of computers and composition studies. The Hugh Burns Award highlights an outstanding dissertation and the Ellen Nold Award an article of exceptional merit. The winners of the Hugh Burns and Ellen Nold Awards receive a cash prize of $150. In addition, each winner and finalist receives a plaque noting the author’s outstanding scholarly contribution to the of computers and composition studies. Nominations should be received by January 1, 1998. Prizes will be awarded at the 14th Computers & Writing Conference in Gainesville, Florida. Send nominations

to

Gail E. Hawisher Department of English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 608 South Wright Street Urbana, IL 6 180 1 Previous Recipients

I996 1995

Hugh Burns Award

Ellen Nold Award

Sibylle Gruber

Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Stuart Selber Christine Hult and Joyce Kinkead

Elizabeth Sanders Lopez/David

Coogan

Cynthia L. Selfe and Richard J. Selfe. Jr.

Margaret A. Syverson 1993 1992 1990

Johndan Johnson-EiloWJoan Tharon Howard Sarah Sloane Mark Mabrito

Tornow

Susan Roman0 Charles Moran Nancy Kaplan and Stuart Moulthrop Christine Neuwirth and David Kaufer

Call for Papers Computers

and Composition Special Issue

From Codex to Code: Programming Composition Classroom

and the

Guest Edited by: Ron Fortune, Joel Haefner, and Jim Kalmbaeh In Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the Histoty of Writing, Jay David Bolter notes that the that “computer programming is a kind of writing” and that the computer “is called on to read and write either formal (programming) or natural language (e.g., English).” The computer performs “a kind of writing on the world.” The December, 1999, special issue of Computers and Composition will examine the kind of writing programming does and how it interacts with our usual notions of writing. The focus of the issue will be theoretical and practical implications of programming languages for the computer-supported writing classroom. Papers are invited that explore how computer code complements, complicates, inhibits and liberates composition classes. Articles detailing the practical uses and abuses of code in the classroom might include: . . . .

. .

specific hypertext projects; the use of the World Wide Web and HTML the use of software authoring programs such as TOOLBOOK the customization of standard interfaces multimedia and text-based classroom activities e-mail and peer review

Theoretical . . . . . . .

or HYPERCARD;

topics might include:

theory of coding institutional structures and software development copyright and authorial ownership visual rhetoric and multimedia scripting orality and code speech act theory and code reader-response theory and user-defined software or hypertext

All topics and papers must be closely linked to the use of computers in writing instruction, focusing on how the above or similar topics interact with the issues inherent in teaching students to write. The deadlines are 15 October 1997 for abstracts and 15 March 1998 for accepted papers. Please submit three copies of a 500-word abstract to: Ron Fortune, Chair 4240 English Illinois State University Normal, IL 6 1790-4240 Fax: 309-438-5414 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected], Documents attached to e-mail are acceptable. message. We invite inquiries.

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Computers in Writing-Intensive Classrooms: A Summer Workshop for leachers of English June

75-26,

1998

This two-week summer workshop is designed for teachers of English who want to integrate computers into their writing-intensive classrooms. It takes place at Michigan Technological University, an institution that has a national reputation for scholarship and teaching in the field of computers and composition. Dr. Cynthia Selfe is the workshop coordinator. Participants need have no previous computer knowledge; individualized instruction will be provided. At the same time, participants who do have extensive experience with computers will find plenty of challenge and room to explore within the framework of the workshop. Participants from all educational levels are encouraged to attend. The workshop will be held in fully equipped, networked, state-of-the-art computer lab/ classroom designed especially for teachers of English as a writer’s environment. The workshop also provides hints about how to transfer teaching strategies to other computersupported environments (non-networked labs, one-computer classrooms, etc.) The workshop itself will consist of ten, six-hour work days. In addition to attending regularly scheduled sessions, participants will have 24-access to the lab/classroom for additional explorations and practice. Cynthia Selfe and a team of knowledgeable student consultants will provide one-on-one instruction-on both Macintosh and IBM platforms-in developing and using applications suited for their own classrooms and English programs. Among topics to be covered are the following: The World Wide Web, networks, hypertext, electronic conferencing, purchase of hardware and software, lab/classroom design and operation, staffing, budgets, and managing administrations. All participants receive three (3) quarter-hours of graduate credit for the workshop.

Enrollment For a brochure, contact: Conferences and Institutes Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend Drive Houghton, MI 4993 1 906-487-2263

is limited. Apply early!

14th Computers and Writing Conference May 28931,1998 University

of Florida

Gainesville, Florida The 14th Computers and Writing conference focuses upon the distances transcended by the Internet-oriented writing classroom: distances abridged between content (as dictated by curricular disciplines) and method (as enabled by computers and networking), between the Socratic dialogue of the face-to-face literate classrooms and the more studio-like conditions of the (potentially) distance-learning networked writing situation, between the different areas of study within English and Composition/Rhetoric, and between English/Composition/Rhetoric and the other disciplines within institutions of higher education (such as design and fine arts, architecture and the computer sciences) touched upon by the explosion of network-oriented writing practices. We plan to extend these issues to a second level: how to related professionally among ourselves with these tools, just as in literacy we teach writing but also use writing to relate professionally. To such an end, we encourage proposals for “practica” in sustaining distance professional relations. Another way to state the focus would be: the profession publishing, the electronic metamorphoses of the academy

goes online-from

teaching to

Participants will have the opportunity to engage in development of our on-line conference web as part of their conference experience. A dynamic online conference will include the opportunity to create wen pages, add to the MOO, and interact with conference participants before, during, and after the sessions in Gainseville. The University of Florida will sponsor several creative projects to be constructed during the conference using our online facilities. These projects could be web-based, MOObased, both, or involve technology to be developed between now and the conference date in 1998. The conference organizers would select several projects for construction during the conference. In this way we plan to add another dimension to the electronic dialogue by working collaboratively during our time together. Visit the C & W 98 web site at . & W 98 at .

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