General Information

Conference Theme: “Technology-Enhanced Writing”
Location: Fully online, via Whova app and Zoom
Dates: October 21-27, 2024
Conference Chair: Tingjia Wang, Hiroshima University

Important Dates

Proposal deadline: Monday, May 27, 2024
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, June 14, 2024
Early Registration Deadline: Friday, October 11, 2024

To Submit a Proposal

To present at the IWCA 2024 Online Conference, visit https://iwcamembers.org . Current or expired members may log in to their IWCA member accounts and submit a proposal by clicking the link on the right-hand side of the page. Non-members may create a free account at iwcamembers.org and submit a proposal without joining. (Registration rates for non-members will be higher than rates for members, so prior to registering, non-members should consider joining IWCA.)

Conference Schedule

To be announced.

Registration

IWCA members can register by logging in to your IWCA member account and selecting “IWCA 2024 Online Conference” in the box titled “Available Conference Registrations.”

Non-members can create a free account at https://iwcamembers.org and then register as a non-member, OR create a free account, purchase an IWCA membership, and receive the discounted registration rate.

Individual Rates

IWCA Member, Professional: $150
Non-Member, Professional: $200
IWCA Member, Student: $50
Non-Member, Student: $65

Institutional Registration

Institutional Registration attached to an IWCA membership (up to 5 registrants): $300
Institutional Registration WITHOUT an IWCA membership (up to 5 registrants): $400

Institutional Registration attached to an IWCA membership (6-12 registrants): $600
Institutional Registration WITHOUT an IWCA membership (6-12 registrants): $700

Both members and non-members who have questions about which registration rate they should choose should email chris.ervin@oregonstate.edu .

Call for Proposals

Emergent technologies (e.g., AI, AR, VR, machine translation) have been transforming the reading and writing experiences of English texts in higher education and heightening the level of engagement with technologies in writing practices. Scholarly attention is urgently needed to describe the profound transformation of academic writing due to advances in emergent technologies and to examine and conceptualize the role of writing centers in the latest trend towards technology-enhanced writing in higher education.

The International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) 2024 Conference invites proposals that will contribute to a collaborative conversation focusing on the impact of emergent technologies on writing centers and writing pedagogy, including but not limited to:

  • the latest ethical and equity considerations in AI-generated academic writing
  • administrative management of writing centers
  • institutional attitude and policy towards technologies
  • training and assessment of writing advisors and tutors
  • assessment, management, and improvement of writing center services
  • design, development and implementation of writing center curricula, materials, and services
  • selection, application, and evaluation of technologies in writing center services
  • critical language awareness and methodologies for understanding technology-enhanced writing practices
  • teaching and learning feedback regarding the engagement with technologies in academic writing
  • other related topics that can well fit the conference theme.

The IWCA 2024 Conference welcomes proposals of original research, case studies, practitioner reports, service or teaching ideas, and administrative reports. The Conference will be held online via Zoom through the Whova app between October 21 and 27, 2024. Conference events will be anchored in two time zones to promote participation globally throughout the week: Japan Standard Time and Eastern Standard Time (U.S.). We aim to facilitate a fruitful conversation among writing center practitioners and researchers from different social, cultural, linguistic, and institutional contexts.

Session Formats

If you have a project to present, we welcome proposals for a Panel Presentation or Workshop:

Panel Presentation (20-30 minutes per presentation, including discussion; 90 minutes per panel)

  • Each panel will include 3 to 4 presentations or reports (research, pedagogical or administration-focused) under a shared topic. Proposers can form their own panel and submit the proposal as a team. Alternatively, proposers can submit an individual proposal; the Conference Committee will assemble a panel with similar presentations.

Workshop (90 minutes or longer per workshop)
We welcome proposals for workshops that

  • train audiences to use a new pedagogical approach that you use in your classes or services
  • facilitate collaborative writing on a topic of importance to writing center professionals (e.g., a statement of ethics related to AI-generated writing)
  • engage audiences in other active learning activities.

If you have ideas/thoughts/concerns to share, we welcome proposals for Special Interest Groups or Roundtable Discussions:

Special Interest Group (SIG) (90 minutes per group)

  • SIGs are strategic conversations led by colleagues who have similar interests, institutional settings, or identities. You are welcome to take part in existing SIGs or to propose a new SIG and invite other writing center professionals into conversation and potential action on the SIG’s focus area.

Roundtable Discussion (90 minutes per discussion)

  • You are welcome to propose a Roundtable discussion, which includes a 15-minute introductory framing followed by discussion among attendees.

If you have in-progress manuscripts and want to receive feedback/consultation from experienced scholars in the field, we invite you to propose to participate in our Work-in-Progress Session:

Work-in-Progress Session

  • Option 1: 1-on-1 Consultation (30 minutes per writer)
  • Option 2: Group Consultation (90 minutes per Session; 2-3 writers with 1-2 group leaders)

If you want to promote your writing center, your services or your upcoming events, we welcome proposals to our Branding & Multimodal Gallery:

Branding & Multimodal Gallery (30 minutes per center)

  • Each center will have 30 minutes to introduce and promote their services and events. You are invited to provide posters of your center or upcoming events. We will set them up in our Multimodal Gallery for further promotion and networking during the conference.

Conference presenters are welcome to submit the full manuscript for consideration in our Conference Proceedings publication in the form of a Special Issue or an edited book. More information will be announced in the Conference.

Proposal Process
Submit a 100-word abstract (to appear in the conference program) and a 300-word description (to help with the review process) of your proposal. Proposers will also be asked to include a brief (100 words or so) rationale for the format they selected (e.g., why this format suits your proposal topic).

Proposal Review Criteria

Proposals will be reviewed based on four (4) criteria:

  1. Grounding in a wider network of knowledge, such as previous scholarship or a scholarly or community tradition of practice and values.
  2. Transferability or generalizability to a writing center audience. While the work need not be appropriate for all sites and purposes, the proposal should demonstrate how specific members of our community might employ, extend, respond to, etc. presented practices, ideas, and studies within their contexts.
  3. Respect for the diversity of people, places, and values within our community.
  4. Clarity of purpose for the proposed presentation (it’s clear what the audience will learn or create together during the presentation)

Please do not hesitate to contact the Conference Committee at Tingjia Wang ( twang@hiroshima-u.ac.jp ) (conference program chair) or Chris Ervin (chris.ervin@oregonstate.edu) (IWCA Vice President) should you have any questions about the IWCA 2024 Conference.

We are looking forward to having you with us in October!

Exhibitors

Exhibitors should contact chris.ervin@oregonstate.edu to be added to a contact list.

FAQs

Forthcoming.

Questions?

Use the form below to contact the conference chair and Vice President of IWCA: