2012 Galway Symposium on Higher Education - The power of the written word

This, the tenth Galway Symposium on Higher Education, will focus on aspects of written or textual communication in higher education, spanning topics as diverse as:

• the development of student academic writing skills (undergraduate and postgraduate)
• integrity, voice, identity, narrative, in forms old and new
• the challenges of writing for publication in an era of metrics
• writing for and communicating with a public audience
• new media, new literacies
• models of publication: open access and its implications
• sense-making and communication in the dgitial university

The call for papers will be announced in early January and further information will appear then on our website at http://www.nuigalway.ie/celt 

Suggestions for keynotes, plenary sessions, thematic discussions and workshops are also welcome. 

Please contact: iain.maclaren@nuigalway.ie