Proposal Submission Deadline Extended to April 15th

  • Posted on: 7 April 2009
  • By: pz

The deadline for proposal submission to the first volume of Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing has been changed from April 10 to April 15. This is due to conflicting information that appeared in one of our earlier listserv posts announcing the project. We hope that the extension will give those contributors who had read that information the opportunity to work on the proposal for a few more days.

We do encourage early submissions, though.

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How Technology Will Reshape Academe After the Economic Crisis

  • Posted on: 26 February 2009
  • By: admin

In response to the current economic crisis facing not only our nation, but also higher education, Chronicle of Higher Education blogger Lev Gonick

predict[s] fundamental change is the impact of open educational resources on the textbook market. Traditional textbook publishers have held an iron lock on the industry’s model for too long, and universities have been tacitly complicit of the system. In the Web era, however, this oligopolistic business practice is imploding.

See the rest at the CHE website

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Welcome to the Writing Spaces website

  • Posted on: 8 February 2009
  • By: admin

This is the website for Writing Space: Readings on Writing, a new book series that will contain peer-reviewed collections of essays composed by teachers for students, with each volume freely available for download under a Creative Commons license.

Learn more about the project by visiting our About page. Our first CFP will be announced at the end of Feb 09.

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