[end of Schlobin article at top of this page]
SPRING CONFERENCE OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY WRITING COUNCIL, "The Written Word and the Word Processor ` February 25, 1984, Villanova University. Contact: Thomas E. Martinez, Director of Freshman English, Villanova University, Villanova, PA 19085.
CONFERENCE ON COLLEGE COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION, March 29- 31, Sheraton Center Hotel, New York, NY. Contact NCTE, 1111 Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801 for more information.
COMPUTERS AND WRITING: RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS, April 1 2-14, 1984, at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Write Lillian Bridwell or Donald Ross for more information.
MICROCOMPUTERS AND BASIC SKILLS IN COLLEGE, April 13-15, 1984, in New York City. For further information, write Geoffrey Akst (Instructional Resource Center, CUNY, 535 East 80th Street, New York, NY 10021).
BRIDGING THE GAP: FROM IVORY TO CORPORATE TOWER, a conference sponsored by the American Business Communication Association will be held in Ames, Iowa from April 18-20, 1984. For more information, write Dr. Donna Kiengler, Department of English, 203 Ross Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011.
WRITING FOR THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY, June 16, 1984, at Plymouth State College in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Write Sally Boland for more information.
NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL COMPUTING CONFERENCE, Dayton, Ohio, June 13- 1 5, 1984.
A conference on WRITING FOR THE COMPUTER INDUSTRY will be convened at Plymouth State College (Plymouth, New Hampshire) on June 16, 1984. Lectures and presentations are invited on both new and traditional approaches to documentation. The deadline for papers is January 5, 1984. Send papers, proposals, and inquiries to:
The University of Minnesota announces a conference entitled COMPUTERS AND WRITING RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS on April 12-14, 1984 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference is designed to bring together research reports on the kinds of software that will or should be available in the next decade and discussions of current applications in hardware and software. First deadline for abstracts or panel proposals is February 1, 1984, final deadline, March 15. For further information write conference organizers:
The Instructional Resource Center of The City University of New York will present a conference entitled MICROCOMPUTERS AND BASIC SKILLS IN COLLEGE from April 13- 15, 1984, in New York City. Papers on the use of microcomputers in post-secondary basic skills instruction (writing, ESL, reading, speech, math, etc.) are invited. Abstracts (typed, single-spaced, one page) will be accepted until January 15, 1984. For more information, write
Papers on computers and composing, the composing process, and computer-assisted instruction will be accepted until January 13, 1984, for a conference sponsored by the American Business Communication Association, BRIDGING THE GAP: FROM IVORY TO CORPORATE TOWER. Send proposals (approximately 500 words) to: