Comp/Rhet Conference Presentations—Some Interesting Links

General Advice:

Mark D. Hill’s “Oral Presentation Advice” and David Patterson’s “How to Give a Bad Talk”

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/conference-talk.html

Brief and funny advice from a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin.

Nancy J. Karlin’s “Creating an Effective Conference Presentation”

http://www.psichi.org/pubs/articles/article_91.asp

A psychologist at the University of Northern Colorado gives her advice.

Sharon Downes’s “The Art of Giving a Good Conference Talk”

http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/Scott/SharonTalks.html

Bullet points from a research at the University of Sydney

Conference Links:

The National Council of Teachers of English’s Conference Page

http://www.ncte.org/profdev/conv

Links to the CCCC (“Four C’s) Convention, the NCTE Convention, and many others.

The MLA’s Call for Papers

http://www.mla.org/conv_papers

You must be a member to log in, and most deadlines are in early March.

UCWrite’s Professional Resources Page

http://ucwrite.org/classtech/proresources.html

Links to professional organizations and online journals in comp/rhet which list conferences, especially those related to computers and writing.

Computers and Writing 2004

http://www.hawaii.edu/cw2004/

This year’s site for the Computers and Writing Conference, attended by many WP faculty.

The WAC Clearinghouse’s Conferences and Events Page

http://wac.colostate.edu/conferences/

Conference listings related to WAC issues, from a great web site sponsored by Colorado State University.