CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Digital Rhetoric and Global Literacies: Communication Modes and Digital Practices in the Networked World

Edited Collection Call for Chapter Proposals

Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization 

Please join the IEEE Professional Communication Society for the International Professional Communication Conference 2012 (IPCC 2012) at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, October 8-10. IPCC 2012’s theme is “Communicating Vision,” and the conference will offer presentations on visual rhetoric and its many applications, as well as other topics.

Submission Deadline: Ongoing—Manuscripts are due October 1, 2012 for the March 2013 issue.

Programmatic Perspectives, the Journal of the Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC), is soliciting articles about theoretical and practical aspects of technical communication program administration. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

Call for Proposals:  College Composition and Communication Special Issue

Deadline for proposals and vignettes:January 7, 2013 (no duplicate submissions)

Call for Proposals for an Edited Collection: Pressures on Technical Communication Programs in a New Age of Austerity

Deadline for proposals: August 15, 2012

Selection for manuscript submissions: September 15, 2012

Deadline for manuscripts: January 15, 2013

ACM SIGDOC (Special Interest Group Design of Communication) will begin publishing Communication Design Quarterly Review (CDQR) in September 2012 with four issues per year. It seeks to be the premier informational source for industry, management, and academia in the multidisciplinary field of the design and communication of information, including technical communication, user experience, information architecture, and HCI. It will contain a mix of peer-reviewed articles, columns, experience reports, and interesting research results.

Second Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information

Submission deadline:2-page proposal due September 15, 2012

Notice of acceptance: November 1, 2012

Papers for workshop due: February 1, 2013

Workshop dates: February 25-26, 2013

Workshop location: East Carolina University, Greenville NC

Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization Special Issue on “Human Rights” (scheduled for publication: September 2013)

Proposals (up to 500 words) due:June 1, 2012

Full manuscripts (5000 words, APA style) due:November 1, 2012

The Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) invites interested members to apply for research grants up to $1,500. CPTSC funds research projects that contribute to our collective knowledge about all aspects of program administration. Proposed research projects should relate to one or more of the following goals: