Opportunities
Proposals due by April 30: MENAWCA’s 9th Biennial Conference
MENAWCA’s 9th biennial conference is a platform for instructors, tutors, peer tutors, center directors, researchers and other professionals supporting student writers in the MENA region, to share innovative practices and research. We invite you to submit proposals to this year’s conference which will be hosted by New York University Abu Dhabi from 9 - 12 October, 2025.
Reviewers Needed for the Journal for Writing Scholarship
We rely on the help of the international writing center community and are looking for A and B reviewers for a blind peer review. The A reviewers will give 2x feedback on an article and the B reviewers 1x. The timeline would be: Review 1 (A and B): 27.11.2024 Review 2 (A): 21.01.-03.02.2025 We would be very grateful if you would contact us as a reviewer and thus contribute to the internationalization of the writing centre work. Please write to, if you are interested to be a reviewer: josch.journal@gmail.com
Call for Submission to the WLN Journal
If you’re mulling over what you want to write about, consider questions that arise in tutor training classes and questions from tutors that need thought and perhaps research to answer. When you realize that a quick answer isn’t adequate, then it could be one you can pursue. Those are exactly the kinds of articles WLN welcomes! They are the real ones, and they need answers.
Resources
New Edited Collection on Digital Writing Technology
Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Practice is a new edited collection on digital writing technology, with over 30 chapters and more than 50 international contributors on all the major technological innovations in writing, from the first word processors to automated text production.
From Online Writing Centers Association: Genres of the Job Market
On Wednesday, August 16th, presenters Dr. Andrea Hernandez-Holm and Dr. Jill Dahlman provided an overview of the academic job search process from researching positions to interpreting job descriptions to preparing the various documents required for applications.
Explore the Blog of South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners
For those who're interested in scholarship in the South African context, we invite you to take a look at the blog of South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners: https://www.saaalp.com/blog-1
Watch This: Building Visibility as a Writing Center Professional and as a Writing Center Field: Trends and Observations
On March 24th, we co-presented a webinar with Muriel "Mickey" Harris and Karen Gabrielle Johnson on trends and observations we've seen on the WLN journal and the CWCAB blog, hosted by MENAWCA. You can now watch the recording in this post.
New Edited Collection! Emerging Writing Research from the Russian Federation
This book explores the rationale for importing and adapting international models of academic writing and rhetoric and composition, the role of the English and Russian languages in the development of this field, and the specific needs of faculty and student writers in Russia. This is an open-access publication available in PDF and ePub formats. It appears in the International Exchanges on the Study of Writing book series, edited by Joan Mullin, Magnus Gustafsson, Terry Myers Zawacki, and Federico Navarro.
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