The Winter 2012 Issue of Academic Exchange Quarterly, an independent double-blind-peer-reviewed print journal, is now accepting submissions for its special section on Writing Center Theory and Practice.

Articles may explore issues of theory, practice, and experience in writing center work,

including qualitative and empirical studies and discussions of pedagogy. Articles may

also consider the following: How writing center professionals cope with change and the

Giving and Getting Access: Student Access and Success in General Education Courses

This round-table explores possible solutions to help diverse student bodies succeed in general education courses.  Send 250 word abstracts to Rachel Dean-Ruzicka (rachel.dean-ruzicka@lcc.gatech.edu) by March 15, 2012; Nirmal Trivedi (nirmal.trivedi@lcc.gatech.edu) and Vanessa Cozza (cozzav@gmail.com).

Works in Progress An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference

June 1, 2012 University of Cincinnati Department of English & Comparative Literature Cincinnati, OH

2012 Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference: Call for Papers Saturday, April 14, 2012, 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

The 2012 Oregon Rhetoric and Composition Conference brings together educators from high schools, community colleges, and four-year public and private colleges and universities to consider a range of practical and theoretical issues related to rhetoric and composition, language, and literacy.

Dear Colleagues,

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association welcomes submissions for the “Allotropes of the Academic Essay” Panel at the 66th Annual RMMLA Convention next fall (Oct. 11-13, 2012) in Boulder, CO.

CFP: Allotropes of the Academic Essay: How to Teach Writing for the Academy without Assigning the ‘Academic Essay.’

Proposed Collection: Identity and Status in First-Year Writing

Editors: Elizabeth Kimball, Melissa Nicolas, and Karen Schiler

A “NON-PLACE” TO VISIT: Exploring the Employment Practices and Working Conditions that Affect Writing Instructors

***Call for Proposals*** Game of Words, Words of Play: Essays on the Terminology of Videogame Theory

This call seeks essays devoted to the terminology of videogame theory and videogame studies for an edited anthology forthcoming from McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers in 2012.

Virtual identity vs. “real” identity vs. projective identity.

Ergodic gameplay.

Simulacra and simulation.

Avatars, agents, and cyber-beings.

Flow.

Procedural rhetoric.

Call for Proposals for a collection

Environmental Rhetoric: Ecologies of Place

Peter N. Goggin, editor

Whatever a sustainable society may be, it must be built on the most realistic view of the human condition possible. Whatever the perspectives of its founders, it must be resilient enough to tolerate the stresses of human recalcitrance. --David Orr

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Call for Papers Generation Vet: Composition, Veterans, and the Post-9/11 University