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You may submit full papers for the Computers and Writing Conference proceedings, which will be published on CD-ROM, until April 30, 2004. Please refer to the submission guidelines for how to format your paper. Papers must be submitted through your My Computers and Writing account. Go
to My Computers and Writing All proposals must be submitted through your My Computers and Writing account. Please read the descriptions of types of proposals and adhere to the word limit. Proposals will be selected through a blind review process. Descriptions of Session Types Below are descriptions of session types for the Computers and Writing conference. For specific examples of each, please see last year's program. Individual Presentation Presentation
time: 20 minutes **Please note: Proposals for individual presentations should be written with the understanding that presenters will be placed onto a panel with 2-3 others who have also proposed individual presentations and whose topics/interests are related. Hence the 20-minute guideline. Please see additionally the description below for Panel Presentations. An Individual Presentation often takes the form of traditional academic paper being read aloud with visual/technological aids such as Powerpoint. But it can also take many other forms that are less monologic and may include audience participation: for example, giving audience members short writing assignments that lead to a discussion or directly engaging the audience in a series of guiding questions. Regardless of the form it takes, an Individual Presentation should highlight an issue of relevance to the audience and provide them with new understandings, through (for example) informed argumentation, methodological analysis, and/or sustained, directed inquiry. Your proposal should clearly indicate the issue of relevance that you are highlighting, and it should contextualize that issue within recent theories, practices, technologies, or circumstances (in the process justifying such relevance). Your proposal should further indicate the new understanding (the thesis, the set of concerns, etc.) that you hope to cultivate, as well as your approach. Panel Presentation Presentation
time: 75 minutes, including at least 20 minutes for post-panel
discussion A Panel Presentation normally consists of 3-5 people (including a chair, who may or may not present but whose main tasks are [1] to ensure timelines are followed by each panelist and [2] to moderate the post-panel discussion). Panel members present their views on a common theme, issue, or question, and then open up to a discussion of them with the audience. Panelists have a range of options available to them: for example, they can present traditional academic papers, possibly using powerpoint or similar visual aids; for another example, they can raise a series of cogent, coherent questions for the audience to discuss, perhaps involving the audience's participation with short writing prompts. Regardless of how the panelists choose to present their material, the panel as a whole must leave a minimum of 20 minutes for discussion with the audience. In some cases, audience members will have read panelists' work ahead of time, and so the bulk of the presentation can be devoted to a discussion with the audience. (This year, for the first time, Computers and Writing is offering presenters the option of sending in a completed manuscript in advance of the conference; the manuscripts will then be published and sent to participants before they arrive.) You may propose a Panel Presentation with colleagues from the same or different institutions. If you have proposed an Iindividual Presentation, you will be placed onto a panel with other individual presenters whose interests intersect with yours. You will be strongly encouraged to communicate with those others well in advance of the conference, so that you may share your work and collaborate on a plan for presenting as a group. Workshop Presentation
time: half-day (9 am to 12 pm) or full-day (9 am to 3:30 or 4:00
pm, with time off for lunch) Workshops are intended to engage attendees' critical, practical, and theoretical understandings of a specific area of disciplinary work. Typically for this conference, workshops involve "hands on" activities (often with some form of technology), and they tend to provide practical and theoretical information on teaching, publishing, researching, and/or working in industry. Examples from previous conferences are as follows: using computer games (and computer game theory) to teach writing; learning new software programs, such as course management applications; electronic publishing; and avenues for scholarship/publication in disciplines related to computers and writing. Proposals should clearly indicate the aims of the workshops, the intended audience (including if appropriate their desired experience level and prerequisites), and the design or approach, explaining concretely what participants and workshop leaders will actually do. Proposals must also indicate whether the workshop will be half-day or full-day. Poster Session Presentation
time: 60 minutes Poster sessions enable researchers and non-commercial developers to demonstrate and discuss their latest results and developments in progress in order to gain feedback and to establish contact with others engaged in similar projects. Poster presentations usually include a visual, multimedia, and/or interactive representation of the project, such as a working model of the materials under development. Roundtable Presentation
time: 75 minutes These sessions are designed for extended conversations, by a small group, on a single topic. The format is appropriate for idea-sharing, for critical inquiries into practice and/or theory, or for discussing works or projects in progress. The emphasis of Roundtables should be on free-flowing discussion rather than on planned presentations. Materials presented or described should be considered as a prelude to discussion among Roundtable leaders and participants together. Roundtable organizers may wish to give very short (2-5 minutes each) position statements to spur disucssion. Go
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