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Kairos Journal Hiring Assistant Editors: Applications Due July 21st

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I hope many of our graduate students will consider applying for an Assistant Editor position with the journal Kairos. I started as an AE 5 years ago and have moved up to an Associate Editor and now Section Editor with the journal. It provides you with excellent professional experiences in digital publishing and editing for the Web, and you get to work with an awesome staff and make professional connections in the field. If you have questions about the demands of the work or your qualifications, please feel free to send me an email (aholmes@gsu.edu). ~Ashley Holmes

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Link to call: http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/jobads.html

Call for Applications: Assistant Editors

Kairos is hiring several Assistant Editors to help produce the bi-annual journal.

Responsibilities

Assistant editors are responsible for collaboratively copy- and design-editing accepted webtexts, wiki entries, and, on occasion, video/podcasts for publication, with attention to style, accessibility, readability, and usability. Kairos uses a modified APA style and a specific technical style sheet that is provided to AEs during on-the-job training. The average expectation of time required is 2-3 hours per week, on average, with up to 10 hours per week during twice-a-year heavy production cycles. AEs are required to communicate via a variety of online media (email, wikis, video conferencing), depending on the task, and must meet strict deadlines that the Editor outlines at the beginning of each production cycle.

Qualifications

  • experience with HTML and CSS, plus wiki mark-up and some javascript is helpful
  • experience editing audio and video a plus
  • initiative to learn new technologies and programs, as needed for editorial purposes
  • knowledge of scholarly, pedagogical fields related to digital writing studies, particularly multimodal rhetorics & practice
  • prior editorial experience with a (digital or analog) scholarly journal or peer-review systems preferred, or a willingness to learn quickly
  • proven track record of quick, efficient, and professional online communication practices
  • ability to collaborate with others in online environments
  • ability to work flexibly and quickly within overlapping publication timelines

Candidates who have a research and/or pedagogical agenda related to this position’s responsibilities would be a big bonus, but that qualification in not required. Research and teaching based on your Kairos work is encouraged.

Benefits

These positions are volunteer/unpaid. However, the benefits of working for Kairos are numerous and include scholarly/professional editing experience in a digital environment, working closely with scholars in the field (through contact with editors and authors), creating a network of friends and colleagues who meet at conferences, being the first to see the most up-to-date scholarship, and gratitude/recognition by your peers. In addition, Kairos staff members enjoy a vita line, recommendation letter for their portfolios, and beverages at major conferences.

How To Apply

Applications are due July 21, 2017. Applicants who meet the minimum qualifications will be invited to take a copy-editing test. The position starts September 1(ish). To be considered, please send the following materials to Kairos Editors Douglas Eyman and Cheryl Ball at kairosrtp@gmail.com [Subject line: Assistant Editor application: Full Name]:

  • An in-email letter of application that describes your qualifications for the position (2-3 paragraphs, more or less). Please include links to relevant examples of your qualifications, if not on your CV already.
  • An abbreviated C.V. that includes relevant qualifications (as an attached document or embedded link).
  • The name, email address, and title/affiliation-to-you of a person willing to recommend you for the position.

University Writing Program Conference, UNC-Charlotte, October 20, 2017

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Posted on behalf of Dr. Gaillet:
Fourth Annual University Writing Program Conference
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Center City Campus
October 20, 2017
Keynote Speaker:  Ellen C. Carillo
 
Call for Proposals
 
In calling for a reinvigorated discussion of reading in composition, Ellen Carillo asserts:
 
Reading is a deliberate intellectual practice that helps us make sense of—interpret—that which surrounds us. And, that which surrounds us includes so much more than published texts. We also read our own writing, our own and others’ belief systems, as well as everything from ideological and social structures to political and advertising campaigns to each other’s expressions and our personal interactions. The range of activities that falls under what might be called “reading” demands a more complex practice than a one-size-fits-all mechanical process of decoding.
 
Given how closely these ideas echo the assertions we make about writing as a situated and rhetorically contextualized practice, why doesn’t critical reading figure more prominently in writing pedagogy? Can one be an effective writer without being a critical reader? How do critical reading practices inform writing practices and vice versa? And how do these practices, in tandem, prepare students for broader social engagement beyond the classroom?
 
The 4th Annual UWP Conference at UNCC invites proposals for individual presentations, panels, workshops, roundtable discussions, and posters that address these questions, or various others such as:
 
·       How do colleges, universities, and schools prepare students for their roles as critical readers, writers, and thinkers? How do we teach students to read into writing?
·       How do we get students to understand connections between reading and writing?
·       How do we adjust critical reading strategies to account for digital texts? And how do we leverage technology and/or digital texts to bolster reading and writing pedagogies?
·       How does a critical reading focus help us teach genre?
·       How do we harness the reading and writing students do in their own lives with what we teach?
·       What are we preparing students for in reading and writing? Our class? Or beyond?
·       How do school practices of reading writing and thinking transfer to roles in a democratic society? Is there a difference between teaching critical, rhetorical practices and promoting a political agenda?
·       How can instructors at the secondary and postsecondary levels teach critical reading to help prepare students not only to recognize post-truth rhetoric but to resist it?
 
Please submit a 250-500 word abstract via the UWP Conference Proposal Submission Site by August 1, 2017. Successful abstracts will indicate how the presentation will address issues of critical reading in the writing classroom at the secondary and post-secondary level.
 
Computers, laptop connections, and projectors will be available in presentation classrooms. Please specify any additional support needed.
 
For more information and conference updates, please visit the UWP Conference website. If you have any questions, please contact Jon Pope at uwpconference@uncc.edu.
 
 
Keynote Speaker: Ellen C. Carillo
 

CCCC Proposal Workshop: Wed., Apr. 26th 12-1

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We had a number of GSU students and faculty presenting at or attending the Conference on College Composition and Communication this past year, and we had a great time celebrating in Portland at our second-annual GSU social. We hope many folks will be able to join us next year in Kansas City! You can read more about the conference theme in the CFP for 2018, and you’ll see proposals are due May 9th.

In advance of the proposal due date, we’re holding a CCCC Proposal Workshop on Wednesday, April 26th from 12:00 – 1:00 in the Troy Moore Library (23rd floor of 25 Park Place). Plan to bring your ideas for a proposal and/or a draft of your proposal, and use this time to exchange ideas, form panels, and receive feedback. This event will be held immediately after “The Job Market and Your Dissertation” panel at 11 in TML and is open to any student interested in submitting a CCCC proposal. You’re welcome to bring draft proposals for other conferences. See and share the flyer below:

Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Events at C’s

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If you’re attending C’s in Portland, please consider adding one or more of the events below, which are sponsored by the CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric book series:

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On Wednesday at C’s, SWR will sponsor an all day workshop entitled, “Rhetorics and Realities: Exploring New Potentials for Scholarly Production to Transform the Meaning of Scholarship.” Among the participants are Jackie Rhodes and Jody Shipka. There will also be a presentation by Tamera Marko, Ryan Catalini, and Mario Ernesto Osorio from MobilityMovilidad.org on their use of video documentation to support their work for immigrant rights. (See http://swreditors.org/rhetoric-and-reality-workshop/ for full, and almost, final details.) Session Number, I think, B113.

On Thursday at C’s, SWR will sponsor “Cultivating Capacity for Authors, Creating Change in the Field,”  at4:45pm, which will feature Rhea Lathan (SWR Author) and Jay Jordan (SWR Author/Board Member), who will speak about working with the series. Then, Jaquetta Shade (Native American Caucus Member, MSU Graduate Student), who will speak about the “Book That Needs Published.” SWR Board members and authors will be there to talk about possible book projects with those in attendance at the end of the session. I think this Session Number is E145..

Finally, if you are interested in listening to SWR authors speak about their work, you can find out who will be at C’s by going to http://swreditors.org/swr-authors-at-cs-2017/​

Posted on behalf of Steve Parks, Editor of Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

GSU CCCC Social: Please RSVP

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If you plan to be at the Conference on College Composition & Communication in Portland this March, we hope you will join us for a social hosted by the Rhetoric & Composition Program at Georgia State University. Please click the invitation above for more details and to RSVP. We need to give our venue a head count, so please RSVP as soon as possible. We hope to see you at Punchbowl Social in Portland!

And, yes, there will be bowling.

Punchbowl Social, Portland, OR

 

WPA-Graduate Committee Seeking Members

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See below for information about a great professional development opportunity to serve on a graduate committee for the national CWPA organization. If you have any interest–now or in your future–in administration, this would be a great opportunity. Plus, our own Kristen Ruccio (kruccio1@student.gsu.edu) has been serving on this committee and has offered to answer questions you may have! If you’re not already a CWPA member, you can easily become one in order to apply for this position (or to just become a member).

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WPA-GO Graduate Committee (GC) will invite applications for three new Graduate Committee member positions. New GC members will begin their terms at the July 2017 CWPA Conference and serve for up to two years or until the CWPA Conference of the year the member graduates from their program.

Responsibilities: GC members do the following:

  • Chair or co-chair at least one subcommittee, soliciting members and setting/executing the annual agenda;

  • Attend biannual GC meetings during CCCC and CWPA. At least one meeting must be attended in person. The other can be attended by video / audio conference;

  • Work with local Writing Program Administrators, Writing Center directors, graduate students, and Writing Studies faculty to promote WPA-GO to a wider group of graduate students

  • Work with Digital Presence committee to assist in advertising WPA-GO events, nominations, calls, and news items. This may include rotation(s) posting through social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter.

Qualifications: Nominees must be:

  • Current PhD students with a demonstrated interest in Writing Studies. Master’s students are invited to apply for the Master’s Degree Representative position.

  • Current members of the CWPA and WPA-GO. For membership or other information, go to http://wpacouncil.org/wpa-go.

Application Process: Submit a WPA-GO Graduate Committee Application by Monday, February 27th.

Selection Process: Nominations are reviewed by the WPA-GO Elections Committee. Complete applications received by the deadline will be posted directly to the WPA-GO website for members to review. Voting will close on Wednesday, March 8th, and results will be announced by March 10th.    

Contact: If you have questions, contact WPA-GO Elections Co-Chairs, Matthew Tougas (mtouga1@lsu.edu), Lindsey Albracht (lindsey.albracht@gmail.com) or Diversity and Outreach Committee Chair, Sherri Craig (craig36@purdue.edu).

We look forward to receiving your applications!

-The WPA-GO Elections Committee

KSU conference for part time, adjunct, and contingent instructors

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Please consider submitting or share with folks who may be interested in the Symposium for Part-time, Adjunct, and Contingent Educators (SPACE) conference, hosted by KSU’s Center for Teaching and Learning. SPACE is an opportunity for PT, adjunct, and contingent educators from the region and beyond to present their original scholarship. It is also an opportunity to connect with and share innovative teaching practices with colleagues.

This year, SPACE is scheduled for June 10, 2017, at the Crowne Plaza Ravinia in the Perimeter area. Proposals are due February 7th online.

http://www.spaceducators.com/