CFP: Academic Writing Theory and Practice in an International Context

In the autumn of 2012, The Centre for Academic Writing at Coventry University will launch the first taught postgraduate programme in Academic Writing in the UK and Europe: The MA/PG Diploma in Academic Writing Theory and Practice/The PG Certificate in Academic Writing Development. To mark the launch of this programme, we are organising a one-day conference, with the theme, ‘Academic Writing Theory and Practice in an International Context’.

We invite 20-minute presentations (followed by 10 minutes of discussion) on research into academic writing as text, process and practice, within national and/or international contexts. The sub-themes of the conference are:

• Forms and practices of disciplinary and interdisciplinary writing
• Teaching and developing student and professional academic writing
• Rhetoric and academic writing 
• Writing/publishing in English as an academic lingua franca and the trans-nationalisation of knowledge 
• Writing programme development and management

The keynote speaker of the conference is Dr. Theresa Lillis from the Centre for Language and Communication at the Open University, UK. Dr. Lillis has published research on student and professional academic literacies and is the author of Student Writing: Access, Regulation, Desire (Routledge, 2001) and, with Mary Jane Curry, Academic Writing in a Global Context: The Politics and Practices of Publishing in English (Routledge, 2010).

The conference panels as communities of knowledge and practice!
We would very much like the panels of the conference to become small interpretive communities through the dialogues between panellists and their audience. We encourage participants, whether presenters or non-presenters, to remain in the panels they choose to attend and engage with the topics and ideas of the respective panel.

Non-presenters who would like to share in the conference discussions are also invited to attend.

Proposals and Registration
To submit a proposal, please email a 250-word abstract to writing.caw@coventry.ac.uk by 31 January 2012. We will send you a response by 5 March 2012.

Registration for the conference will be open between 5 March and 10 April 2012. The registration fee is £45 (British Pounds Sterling). Payment and booking details will follow at a later date.

東北大學的多語言環境

我剛跟一個韓國學生聊天了(聊了天？)。她說她會講四種語言，以前覺得還不錯，可是來到東北大學以後認識了一些會講七種語言的同學!我覺得自己很糟糕，連一種外語也沒有學好......

快要開學了

我最近在想，用第二個語言(或者第三,四,五個語言)寫作要經過多少翻譯 呢？像我 ， 為了寫我剛剛寫的句子，必須先用英文想 ， 想到了以後開始慢慢地翻 ， 結果我寫到的中文句子跟我原來用英文想的句子不太一樣 。 這可能是因為我寫的時候 ， 忘記我本來在想甚麼。

我們快要開學了。

CFP: Asian Culture(s) and Globalization

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Papers are invited for publication in a special issue entitled "Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" -- edited by I-Chun Wang (National Sun Yat-sen U) -- of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb (ISSN 1481-4374). A humanities and social sciences quarterly published since 1999 by Purdue University Press, the journal is peer-reviewed, in full-text, in open-access, and ISI-AHCI, MLA, Scopus, etc., indexed.

"Asian Culture(s) and Globalization" is not concerned with East meeting West; rather, it pays attention to aspects of Asian culture(s) in transformation owing to the impact of globalization. During the past thirty years, scholars and critics have noticed the transformation of Asian culture(s), its resistant voices, and the redefinition of local cultures. As the largest and most populous continent, Asia is home to a large number of languages and cultures: Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Pacific Islanders, etc., contributions of cultural products and thought represent a significant part of today's global culture. Authors of the issue discuss redefined regional cultures in the context of globalization in the fields of literature, education, music, urban studies, cinema, gender studies, sociology, history, and related fields in the context of comparative cultural studies.

Papers are 6000-7000 words in length and in the MLA parenthetical sources and works cited format (but no footnotes or end notes): for the style guide of the journal consult .

Deadline of submissions is 31 May 2012 to I-Chun Wang at
icwang@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw

Professor I-Chun Wang
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
Director / Center for the Humanities
National Sun Yat-sen U, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan

看房子

我們今天去看了兩間公寓.兩間都不錯,而且週邊生活機能完善.可是我覺得買房子是個很大的決定...

累壞了...

最近一直熬夜改學生的作文.("Portfolio"中文怎麼說?)還好明天不用上課,下禮拜因為感恩節只要上一天的課.

下雪了

萬聖節還沒到，怎麼會下雪？