2011 Call for Proposals

Posted on August 27, 2010

Call for Proposals

24th Annual

Research Network Forum at CCCC

Atlanta, Georgia

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 from 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Please join us for the 2011 Research Network Forum, Wednesday, April 6th - Atlanta Georgia.

To participate as a Work-in-Progress Presenter, please fill out 2 forms: the Participation form and the Proposal form.

To participate as a Discussion Leader or Editor, you only need to fill out the Participation form.

Questions?  Email chairs@rnfonline.com

Deadline: Sunday, October 31st, 2010

CFP:  The Research Network Forum was founded in 1987 as a pre-convention workshop at CCCC, and continues to be an excellent opportunity for published researchers, new researchers, and graduate students to discuss their current research projects and receive responses from new and senior researchers. The forum is free to CCCC convention participants.  You need not be a work-in-progress presenter to attend.

As in last year’s RNF, the 2011 RNF will begin with a morning plenary session featuring two scholars:

  • Kathleen Blake Yancey, “The Making of Knowledge in Rhetoric and Composition’s Contested Space and Contested Knowledge:  Mapping Assumptions, Inquiry, Claims, and Evidences in the 21st Century”
  • Mike Palmquist, “Find a Way into Research: Mentoring, Research Archives, and New Approaches to Publication”

At the subsequent dialogic roundtable discussions, held in the morning and afternoon sessions, Work-in-Progress Presenters discuss their current projects and gain the responses of other researchers, including the discussion leaders, who are senior researchers. Rather than present a formal conference paper, Work-in-Progress Presenters are grouped by thematic clusters in which they will discuss their projects with 3-5 other researchers and discussion leaders, in an eight-minute writers’ workshop presentation.  Work-in-Progress Presenters should bring fifteen copies of their abstract, working bibliography, and 3-5 typed questions, which they are encouraged to distribute in hardcopy to participants at their tables in an effort to have their questions answered to turn their work-in-progress into finished pieces of research.  Multi-media equipment will NOT be available for Work-in-Progress Presenters to use.

The afternoon session will start with the Editors’ Roundtable where all will be able to discuss their research with editors from printed and electronic journals of composition/rhetoric who will discuss publishing opportunities of completed works-in-progress.  We encourage participants to bring a copy of the journals they edit/publish, any other publications, and announcements, which will be displayed at the RNF meeting and highlighted at the Editors’ Roundtable.

Please join us in Atlanta on Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 from 8:30 AM-5:00 PM to present a Work-in-Progress Presentation, serve as a Discussion Leader (for those who are seasoned, established researchers), and/or exhibit publications as an Editor (for those who edit journals/presses).  Electronic proposal forms will be available at www.rnfonline.com/blog.  Deadline: October 31, 2010.

You may appear on the RNF Program in addition to having a speaking role at the Conference on College Composition & Communication.  Questions: contact chairs@rnfonline.com.

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