Call for Proposals: ACM SIGDOC 1999

[Johndan Johnson-Eilola <johndan -at- PURDUE -dot- EDU>]

call for papers

TRADITION AND CHANGE IN DOCUMENTATION: ACM SIGDOC 1999
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The Association for Computing Machinery's 1999 Special Interest Group on
Documentation Conference will be held September 12-14, 1999 in New Orleans, LA.
We invite you to submit a paper, panel, poster, software demonstration, or
tutorial appropriate to this year's theme: Tradition and Change in
Documentation. You are encouraged, though not required, to consider the
following areas:

        - industry-wide and site-specific best practices, design
          principles, and standards in document development that
          help ensure usable online and print-based systems;

        - approaches to and forms of documentation that respond to new
          models of audience and work, and to new types of media;

        - technical, professional, legal, international, and
          organizational challenges for the new millennium;

        - roles and responsibilities of documentation specialists
          in the contemporary workplace;

        - challenges in the education and training of documentation
          specialists.

Proposals must be submitted by March 15, 1999. See the program Web site for
submission rules and details:

        <http://addison.english.purdue.edu/sigdoc1999/>.

Email questions to the Conference and Program Co-Chairs:

        Stuart A. Selber, Penn State University <mailto:selber -at- psu -dot- edu>
        Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Purdue University <mailto:johndan -at- purdue -dot- edu>

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- Johndan Johnson-Eilola
  Director of Professional Writing
  Department of English                            voice: 765.494.3772
  Purdue University                         <mailto:johndan -at- purdue -dot- edu>
  West Lafayette, IN 47907-1356     <http://tempest.english.purdue.edu>


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