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CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Transactions On Professional Communication special issue
Using Computers in Professional Communication Classrooms
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The IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION will
publish a special issue on using computers in professional communication
classrooms. The editor of this special issue seeks original contributions
employing a wide range of research methodologies, including rhetorical,
theoretical, empirical, and historical. Papers should discuss the ways in which
computer technologies either support or challenge traditional notions of
professional communication pedagogy and practice. Topics include, but are
not limited to, the following:
* pedagogical issues * computer networks
* curricular issues * computer conferencing
* programmatic issues * electronic mail
* teacher education and resources * World Wide Web resources
* computer literacies * hypertext and hypermedia
* social and political issues * multimedia authoring
* collaboration and cooperation * MUDs and MOOs
* information design and testing * computer classroom design
* distance education * computer classroom operation
This special issue will be guest edited by Stuart A. Selber, who encourages you
to communicate with him about ideas, proposals, and drafts:
-Stuart A. Selber
-Department of Technical Communications
-Clarkson University
-Box 5760
-Potsdam, New York 13699-5760
Please send a 500 word description of the proposed paper by December 1, 1995.
The deadline for submission of papers is March 1, 1996. The special issue will
be published in December 1996.
