The 2005 Great Plains Alliance for Computers and Writing Conference will be held April 15-16, 2005 and will be hosted by the English Department of Minnesota State University, Mankato. This conference is open to anyone interested in the teaching and learning of writing with computers. For more information on the conference, please visit http://www.ndsu.edu/gpacw.

Currently, as computers and writing scholars and teachers, we live in the age of the "post". Message boards, chatrooms, websites, email lists, and blogs are just some of the "posting" technologies available to writing teachers and students. So what's next? What is post-"post"?

Therefore, the title of this year's conference is Post-"Post": Sowing the Seeds for Future Work in Computers and Writing. This year's theme explores the histories as well as the emerging and future uses of technology in the teaching and learning of writing; therefore, conference organizers seek individual and panel proposals from faculty (full-time, adjunct, and teaching assistant) as well as graduate students that discuss topics such as the following:

• Historical analyses of computers and writing, with local or disciplinary emphases
• Analyses of textual/visual/multimodal teaching and learning
• Online pedagogies, policies and practices in English Departments
• Regional, national, international, global collaborations: projects and implications
• Futures for ECAC (Electronic Communication Across the Curriculum) and other interdisciplinary work in the electronic age
• Narratives of teaching and learning writing with computers
• Trends in electronic publishing
• Electronic collaborations in the writing classroom

While we are particularly interested in proposals that address the conference theme; however, papers and panels on all aspects of computers and writing, including the roles of computers and writing in all types of writing courses (i.e., composition, business, technical, literature, creative), will be considered.

Please send a 250-word abstract with panel or paper proposal information including title of paper(s), and name, address, email, and affiliation of presenter(s) by March 1, 2005. Panels are scheduled for one hour with reading time for individual papers/presentations of no more than 15 minutes.

Send proposals via e-mail to Dr. Randall McClure, Department of English, Minnesota State University at randall.mcclure@mnsu.edu.