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> WDHE 2002
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> > ANNOUNCEMENT, CALL FOR PAPERS & PROPOSAL AND REGISTRATION FORMS
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> 16-17 April 2002
> > Annual Conference
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> 15 April 2002
> > Pre-conference Workshop
>
> Venue: University of Leicester, UK
> Conference Website: http://www.le.ac.uk/tlu/wdhe-2002.html
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>
> Writing Development in Higher Education:
> Progressing Writing for Learning and Employment
>
> Writing development provides one of the key interfaces between secondary
> education, tertiary education and employment. Students entering
> universities are required to learn new ways of writing and to develop
> their existing writing skills to higher degrees of proficiency. Students
> leaving universities are required to adapt their writing for new
> contexts in employment and further study. Such planes of progression and
> transition require a creative response from academic programme managers
> and writing developers to ensure that students receive appropriate
> guidance, practice, assessment and feedback on their writing throughout
> the learning process.
>
> In addition to progression for the individual learner, the nature of
> writing demands in higher education are changing as students are
> required to become proficient in writing for different audiences and
> increasingly through a range of different media in addition to the
> academic page. The role of new technologies in the teaching and
> publication of writing and the increasing interdependency of the written
> word and visual image require new writing development theories and
> approaches to help students master and progress their writing skills.
>
> These emerging trends raise many issues for the development of students'
> writing skills, prompting consideration of new priorities and approaches
> for the practices, theories and locations of writing development in
> higher education. Issues to be addressed at the ninth annual Writing
> Development in Higher Education conference include:
>
> - how can institutions support the transition from a diversity of
> learning contexts to learning and writing in higher education?
> - how can institutions respond to the needs of the individual learner in
> an expanding system of higher education?
> - how might curriculum design promote actual progression in students'
> abilities as writers through sustained incremental development (or do we
> simply get them to write more)?
> - how effective is writing for learning in preparing students for
> writing in employment?
> - how are institutions experimenting with new media and other approaches
> to promote range and flexibility in the development of students' writing
> skills?
> - how might universities promote students' grasp of different writing
> demands, embracing confidence with the visual image as well as the
> written word?
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>
> THE ANNUAL CONFERENCE
> The 9th annual Writing Development in Higher Education conference will
> explore the locations, practices and theories of writing development to
> help address the progression of writers and writing in tertiary level
> education. The conference will be structured to provide delegates with
> coherent opportunities for learning and networking, bringing
> participants together in a range of discursive activities including
> keynote presentations, conference papers, practical workshops and a
> poster reception. To enhance opportunities for networking and the
> sharing of innovative approaches, all delegates will be invited to share
> their work and resources in the conference market place.
>
> CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
> Key features of the 2002 conference programme are highlighted below.
>
> - Pre-conference Workshop: 15 April 2002
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>         Joan Mullin
>         Director of the Writing Center and Writing Across the
> Curriculum,
>         University of Toledo
>
> The WDHE Conference Committee are delighted to announce an additional
> element to the annual conference programme: the pre-conference workshop.
> Run by Joan Mulin, a much respected writing developer from the USA, this
> workshop will be a highly stimulating and rewarding experience for all
> participants interested in translating the work in writing centres in
> the USA to the unique contexts in their institutions. This interactive
> session will allow participants to take a template of writing
> development theories and strategies that have worked in the USA, examine
> their own local contexts, target problem areas of administration,
> educational assumptions, and institutional constraints, and develop an
> action plan for promoting writing for learning with current resources.
> Exchanges of ideas and networking will also allow for individual
> strategic planning for the future development of writing to learn in
> participants' local contexts.
>
> Spaces on the pre-conference workshop are strictly limited, so early
> booking is advisable. Optional evening entertainment will be provided
> and overnight accommodation is available (see below).
>
> - Keynote presentations
> The main conference programme will be structured around three keynote
> presentations, including a keynote presented by Professor Mike Sharples
> (University of Birmingham, UK). Other keynote presentations will be
> announced on the conference web site (see below).
>
> Mike Sharples
> Kodak/Royal Academy of Engineering Professor of Educational Technology
> School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
> University of Birmingham
>
> Authors of the Future: from Writing to Interaction Design
> Far from computers leading to the death of text, we are turning out more
> words than ever before. We are creating new genres, such as mobile phone
> texting, and new combinations of word and image. What has changed is
> that narrative is being lost to interactivity. Instead of writing and
> reading stories we are interacting with them, creating fragmented and
> labile texts with no sense of overall structure or closure. Some people,
> though, have managed to rise out of this tangled net by creating the
> environments in which others interact. These are the authors of the
> future: web site designers, interactive media composers, computer game
> writers and hypertext authors. Their tools are the new writing
> environments that can display and control the structure of
> interactivity, programs such as Authorware, Director, and Dreamweaver.
> But this software has been designed by programmers rather than writers.
> Can we build literacy into the tools for multimedia authoring? How
> should we train this new generation of authors? What are the connections
> between academic writing and interaction design? In my talk I shall show
> some examples of the new writing environments and describe attempts to
> teach interaction design in higher education.
>
>
> CONFERENCE THEMES
> Conference contributions are invited in the following themes (although
> other areas will be considered):
>
> Transition
> students' expectations of writing in HE / evaluating and consolidating
> prior experience / effective diagnostic testing at (pre-) entry /
> introducing the conventions and standards of academic writing / the
> roles and forms of induction / responding to individual need / preparing
> students for employment
>
> Progression
> institutional teaching, learning and assessment strategies / developing
> the writer as well as the writing / promoting self awareness and self
> evaluation / curriculum design and innovation to promote progression /
> providing and evaluating feedback on writing / reflecting on and
> recording achievement
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> Curriculum development
> designing degree programmes, coursework and assessment activities to
> progress writing / case studies in educational (re)design / embedding
> writing within and across the disciplines / designing inclusive
> curricula to facilitate writing development for all
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> Re-thinking writing development
> subject specific and/or institutional approaches / devolving writing
> development to the disciplines / the role and value of the discipline
> specific writing teacher / identifying and sharing roles and
> responsibilities for writing development across the university /
> teaching the teachers: promoting academic staff skill at supporting and
> developing writing
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> Experiments in writing
> moving writing and writers from the academic page /  promoting the
> transferability of writing / identifying and exploiting new audiences
> for academic writing / re-thinking the essay, report, thesis / training
> and development for writing developers: broadening our horizons
>
> Changing writing demands
> the challenge of responding to the changing communication landscape /
> using new media to promote new literacies / promoting visual literacy
> beyond art and design / ways of assessing a range of media.
>
> Contributions are invited in the following formats (see below for
> details):
>
> conference paper * workshop * poster presentation * resources for
> display/demonstration.
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
> Conference Papers are invited that address the conference themes
> (although papers that fall out of these areas will also be considered).
> Sessions will normally last 40 minutes and it is expected that session
> leaders will allow equal weighting for presentation and discussion.
> Workshops are also invited that offer practical insights into the
> conference themes. The Poster Reception is an ideal opportunity for
> sharing ideas and 'work in progress'. Open exhibition space will be
> provided for the duration of the conference in the Resource Market.
> Abstracts for all proposals should be no longer than 200 words and
> should contain the following information:
>
> Conference Paper:
> *       the type of paper (e.g. for discussion, report)
> *       the conference theme to be addressed
> *       an outline of context (if reporting work in process)
> *       the issues to be raised
> *       the relationship with relevant research/literature
> *       the likely recommendations or conclusions
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> Workshop:
> *       the conference theme to be addressed
> *       the issues/approaches/skills to be explored
> *       the proposed learning outcomes
> *       the relationship with relevant research/literature
> *       the workshop methods to be used (e.g. brainstorming, group,
> activities, role play).
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> Poster Presentations:
> *       the poster title
> *       an outline of the context
> *       summary of poster content
> *       intended outcome if any (e.g. setting up a network)
>
> Resource Market:
> *       description of resources to be displayed
> *       an indication of display needs (e.g. notice boards, visual aids,
> computing equipment).
>
> SUBMITTING A CONFERENCE PROPOSAL
> All proposals should be submitted with the accompanying Proposal Form
> and sent to the Teaching & Learning Unit at the University of Leicester
> along with your Conference Registration Form. Please supply electronic
> copies of your abstract(s) in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format (RTF).
>
> THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS IS:
> *       Friday 1st February 2002
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> CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
> All contributors will be invited to submit their work for publication in
> the Conference Proceedings. Please note that all submissions for the
> proceedings will be reviewed by the Conference Committee and sent for
> evaluation by external referees. Submission does not guarantee
> publication.
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> WDHE 2002
> > PROPOSAL FORM
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>
> Please complete this form if you would like to contribute to the
> conference.
>
> ·     All proposals will be assessed by the Conference Committee on
> the grounds of their quality and relevance to the conference themes.
> ·     Multiple proposals are encouraged (e.g. a paper and a poster):
> please copy this form as required.
> ·     All contributors will be invited to submit their work for
> inclusion in the refereed conference proceedings (please note that
> submission does not guarantee publication).
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> PROPOSED TITLES
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> PRESENTER(S)
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> 1. TITLE: .........  FIRST NAME: .............. SURNAME:
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> 2. TITLE: .........  FIRST NAME: .............. SURNAME:
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> 3. TITLE: .........  FIRST NAME: .............. SURNAME:
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> TYPE OF PRESENTATION (please circle)
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> - Conference paper (20 minute presentation and 20 minute discussion)
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> - Workshop (40 minutes)
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> - Poster (maximum size A1)
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> - Resources for display/demonstration
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> 1.      Please attach an electronic copy of your written proposal
> (maximum length 200 words) in either Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format
> (RTF). This can be sent on disc or via email to: [log in to unmask]
> 2.      Details for the writing of proposals are contained within the
> main conference announcement/call for papers and are also highlighted on
> the conference web site: http://www.le.ac.uk/tlu/wdhe-2002.html
> 3.      Please include a completed Registration Form and payment for
> each presenter to attend the conference. Copy as required.
>
> RETURN FORM BY FRIDAY 1st FEBRUARY 2002 TO:
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> Teaching and Learning Unit
> University of Leicester
> University Road
> Leicester, LE1 7RH
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> WDHE 2002
> > REGISTRATION FORM
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>
> To register for the conference, please complete and return the
> Registration Form to the University of Leicester by Friday 22nd March
> 2002.
>
> Please complete in BLOCK CAPITALS
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> DELEGATE DETAILS:
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> Title:
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> First Name:
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> Surname:
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> Job title:
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> Address:
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> Postcode:
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> Telephone:
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> Special dietary or physical requirements (please specify):
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> MODE OF ATTENDANCE
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> 1. FULL DELEGATE OPTIONS
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> Full Delegate (Workshop & Conference: 15 - 17 April 2002)
> £205
> to include workshop and conference resources, all meals and refreshments
> - including the Poster Reception and Conference Dinner - and en suite
> accommodation for  two nights (15 & 16 April) *
>
> Full Delegate (Conference Only: 16 - 17 April 2002)
> £155
> to include conference resources, all meals and refreshments - including
> the Poster Reception and Conference Dinner - and en suite accommodation
> for one night (16 April) *
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> * additional nights' accommodation available on request.
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> 2. DAY DELEGATE OPTIONS
> to include resources, lunch and refreshments
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> Please circle the appropriate day(s)
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> Pre-conference Workshop (15 April 2002)
> £35
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> Conference: Day One (16 April 2002)
> £35
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> Conference: Day Two (17 April 2002)
> £35
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> Conference Dinner
> £25
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> TOTAL  £.....................
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> PAYMENT
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> 1. BY CHEQUE
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> I enclose a cheque/sterling bankers draft drawn on a UK bank made
> payable to the University of Leicester for: £...........................
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> 2. BY INVOICE
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> Please invoice my organisation for
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> £..................
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> Quote official order number:
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> Please send invoice to (if different from the above)
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> First Name:
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> Surname:
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> Job title:
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> Address:
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> RETURN FORM BY FRIDAY MARCH 22nd 2002 TO:
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> Teaching and Learning Unit
> University of Leicester
> University Road
> Leicester
> LE1 7RH
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