LINGUIST List 24.4640
Wed Nov 20 2013
Calls: Applied Linguistics/Switzerland
Editor for this issue: Bryn Hauk
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Date: 20-Nov-2013
From: Morgan Powell <powm
zhaw.ch>
Subject: 5th International Conference of the Forum for Academic Writing: Writing in Professional Contexts
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Full Title: 5th International Conference of the Forum for Academic Writing: Writing in Professional Contexts
Short Title: FWS/FWA
Date: 05-Jun-2014 - 06-Jun-2014
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland
Contact Person: Monique Honegger
Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://www.forumschreiben.ch
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Call Deadline: 24-Jan-2014
Meeting Description:
Writing in Professional Contexts
Professional writing has increasingly become a focus of international writing research: interest has focused on project outlines, reports, offers in technical fields or correspondence in business contexts. Further fields of interest are multilingual communication in a globalized world, minutes from legal contexts or scientific texts with a research background. All of these forms of professional writing have developed their own distinctive forms of written communication.
The 5th International Conference Forum for Academic Writing is dedicated to professional writing both in professional education and academic contexts (universities, schools of applied sciences, colleges etc.). It aims to investigate textual routines and (more or less) flexible writing patterns. Textual routines constitute genres and writing processes by virtue of being applicable in different tasks and communicative contexts. This is why they are especially important for teaching or learning writing competence in professional contexts.
A core goal of this conference, therefore, is to open up different perspectives on textual routines in professional writing, linking research with practice.
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Torsten Steinhoff, TU Dortmund
Prof. Dr. Katrin Lehnen, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen
Dr. Mark Torrance, Senior Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University
Call for Papers:
You are invited to send a text of 1200 1500 characters (max), describing both form and content of your intended presentation. A panel of experts from the Forum for Academic Writing and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Arts will evaluate the proposals. Detailed criteria for acceptance can be found on the conference website.
Please send your contributions to info.fws
zhaw.ch.
More information and the complete call for papers are available at:
http://www.forumschreiben.ch/medien/documents/125-993-2213.pdf
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