Fwd: 2008 ASGPP Writers Workshop

[Edward Schreiber]

Dear Mike and Conference Program Committee,

I want to ask you to reconsider putting this into the program.
Last year it was very well attended and amazing work got done.
A second round, more specific to writing for ourselves and our Journal
was the hope and the workshop I assume was going to meet that need.

We have to support the Journal and writing for the Journal is the way  
to support it,
but most of us need some role training for that.

For someone like me, needing that support, this workshop would be  
important,
and honestly unique:  no other workshop like it.

I hope the conference will be flexible enough to put this in, and  
offer what the Journal
needs to thrive.

Best,

Ed

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "T. Treadwell" <ttreadwe at grouptalkweb.org>
> Date: October 10, 2007 11:16:54 PM EDT
> To: list at grouptalkweb.org
> Cc: ttreadwe at mail.med.upenn.edu, Linnea_Carlson- 
> Sabelli at rsh.net.premer, Tianmanhattan at aol.com, @uky.edu
> Subject: 2008 ASGPP Writers Workshop
>
> Writers Workshop Not Accepted --
>
> The executive editors submitted a writers workshop proposal, based  
> on the
> writing model used at the 2007 ASGPP conference, to be presented at  
> the
> 2008 ASGPP conference.  We have heard positive comments on how the
> workshop was received thus we submitted another proposal.
>
> The conference committee informed us that the workshop was not  
> accepted
> due to lack of space.  Last year we developed a writers’ circle  
> made up of
> persons who were interested in helping members write.  The writers’  
> circle
> is made up of professionals who are not part of the executive  
> editorial
> staff.
>
> What is confuses us is writing for one's discipline is critical to  
> keep
> any professionalism in an acceptable light, both practical/applied and
> research.  By not having such a workshop limits us in a big way - we
> cannot talk and discuss with members, writing difficulties and  
> successes,
> and as a result we handicap our membership thus demoting our  
> discipline.
>
> I had one of my workshops accepted yet i would be willing to give that
> slot up for the writers’ workshop.  [I think the writing workshop  
> is more
> important].
>
> However, I would appreciate feedback from the listserv regarding their
> impression of having or not having a writer’s workshop.
>
>
>
> Thomas Treadwell         CompSoc - GraphPlot                
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