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The Instructional Resource Center of the City University of New York announces new entries in the Research Monograph Series. The first, Microcomputers and Teaching English as a Second Language: Issues and Some CUNY Applications by Gerard M. Dalgish provides a resource and critical review of computer-assisted instruction currently in use by ESL faculty and provides some guidelines for evaluating and creating software and programs. Copies are available for $2. The second recently released monograph, Microcomputers and Teaching English in College: Issues and Some CUNY Applications by Clara Alexander, focuses on software for reading instruction. It too is available for $2.
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(212) 794-5425
Computers and Composition proudly announces the publication of selected papers from the 1984 Minnesota conference on Computers and Writing: New Directions in Teaching and Research, edited by Lillian Bridwell and Donald Ross. The volume includes fifteen papers presented at the conference in April, 1984, and is available for only $5. Send checks payable to Computers and Composition, to Professor Cindy Selfe, Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931. Please note that your check is payment for the proceedings.
The National Testing Network in Writing, The City University of New York, The University of California, and The California State University announce the THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON WRITING ASSESSMENT on March 6, 7, and 8, 1985 at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. The conference is for educators, administrators, writers, and test developers and will be devoted to critical issues in assessing writing in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary settings. Discussion topics will include theories and models of writing assessment, the politics of testing, computer applications in writing assessment, the impact of testing on minorities, research on writing assessment, and the effects of testing on curriculum and teaching.
For information and registration materials, please write to:
Don't forget CCCC sessions on computers. The Special Interest Group--The Fifth C: Computers--will meet Thursday, March 21, from 4:00 to 5:15. Other sessions on computers will take place throughout the conference in Minneapolis, March 20-23.
NCTE will also sponsor the NCTE Spring Conference on Teaching English Language Arts for elementary, junior high/middle school, and high school teachers and teacher educators. The conference will be held March 27-30 at the Hyatt Regency Houston. For more information contact NCTE.
The Western College Reading and Learning Association will also feature computer sessions at its annual conference from March 28-31 in Denver, Colorado. Contact:
The UCLA Conference on Computers and Writing: New Directions in Teaching and Research will bring together software designers and college instructors from around the country to demonstrate software and to present papers that discuss new writing courseware and ways to integrate computers into the composition curriculum. Presentation topics include pedagogy, logistics, research and theory, software design, and other applications. Registration is limited to 250 participants, so please register before March 15. Contact:
The Second Annual Conference "Writing for the Computer Industry," Saturday, June 15, 1985, will be a practical working conference to meet the writing needs of
While much material presented at the conference will be of perennial interest, the emphasis will be on material developed in the past year, especially in presentations that discuss new and promising practices, the future of the profession, and ways that communicators can prepare to meet the challenges of the coming decade. Contact:
ICDBHSS/85 (International Conference on Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences) will bring together several hundred participants from around the world to share information about creating, using, and maintaining data bases in the humanities and social sciences. Conference concerns include: crossing of disciplinary lines between humanists and social scientists with common interests in data bases; identifying existing data bases and providing access to them via electronic networks using data bases in education and integrating computers into curricula with emphasis on data
retrieval; creating and cataloguing data bases and collections of data bases. The conference will focus on the opportunities for data base users provided by such new technologies as microcomputers, on-line catalogs, national and international electronic networks, electronic bulletin boards and videodisks.
The conference will be held June 22-24 at Grinnel College. For more information, contact:
ICCH85 (International Conference on Computers and the Humanities) offers scholars and students an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas about their experience in using the computer as a tool for research and instruction in a variety of humanistic disciplines. Topics at past ICCH meetings have included archaeology, art, bibliography, composition, computer-assisted instruction, dance, editing, graphics, history, lexicography, language teaching, linguistics, literature, medieval studies, music, philosophy, textual analysis, translation, and word processing.
The site for ICCH85 is the Conference Center of Brigham Young University from June 26-28, 1985. For more information, contact:
Computers and Composition will begin publishing longer articles (15 or more manuscript pages) in Summer, 1985. Please send any contributions for review to Kate Kiefer or Cindy Selfe at the addresses noted on the back of the newsletter. Send two copies of double-spaced manuscripts; please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Contributors should follow MLA guidelines for references.
Computers and Composition strives to meet the NCTE guidelines on nonsexist language.
Ellen McDaniel of Texas A & M is compiling information on text-analysis and writing-instruction programs, available or under development, for a bibliography of software that she hopes to compile, publish, and maintain. She does not currently include word-processing programs and spelling checkers, except for those integrated into analysis or instructional programs.
Please complete a sheet with the following information:
Programs for Text Analysis and Writing Instruction
Title
Author(s)
Publisher or Marketing Organization
Contact Person
Address
Phone
Availability
Computer(s) it runs on
Operating systems
Memory requirements
Language programmed in
Price
Brief description
Send all descriptions to:
Professor Ellen McDaniel
Department of English
Texas A & M University
College Station, TX 77843-4227
(409) 845-9935