<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div dir="ltr" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span id="gmail-m_-6877616770419389913gmail-docs-internal-guid-b2358891-7fff-8e39-9739-e7a2607b79f2" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><p style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues, </span></p><p style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt">Please feel free to share this CFP with your graduate students in Professional Writing and/or Technical Communication. Our student-run event attracts globally distributed technical communication practitioners and is free to attend/present. </p><p style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt">All the best.</p><p style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt">Huiling </p><p style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt">***************************************************</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hi everyone,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Technical Communication Association (TCA) at NC State University is excited to invite you to our annual event for technical communication industry professionals, students, faculty, and interested publics, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SpeedCon</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">! </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To comply with officials' recommendations against large gatherings, SpeedCon 2022 will be held in a hybrid format, utilizing both online and physical spaces, making it perfect for exploring the potential of technical communication in our increasingly digital world. We have updated logistics and adapted the format to suit the hybrid medium.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Details are as follows:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Theme</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: Communication Professionals – Past, Present, & Future</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Location</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: Hybrid – Virtual via Zoom or In-Person at Tompkins Hall on the NCSU Campus</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Date and time</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: Saturday, April 9, 2022 10am-4pm</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:disc;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Fees</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: None!</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are still accepting presentation proposals! If interested, please see the </span><a href="https://speedcon.net/call-for-presenters/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">call for presenters</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. In your presentations, please consider sharing any current research/projects or an exploration of any personal interests within tech comm. </span><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Register for SpeedCon using this </span><a href="https://forms.gle/rTYpRpME2qvnyaKU7" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Google Form</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your interest!</span></p><p style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best Regards,
Adrienne Nip</span></p></font></span></div></div></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#888888" style=""><p style="line-height:1.284;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></font><font color="#888888" style="">--<br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>Adrienne Nip</b> (she/her)</div><div>M.S. Technical Communication<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Student</span></div><div>Teaching Assistant, Professional Writing</div><div>President, <a href="https://ncsutechcomm.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Technical Communication Association (TCA)</a></div><div>North Carolina State University</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:agnip@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">agnip@ncsu.edu</a></div><div></div><div><br></div></div></div></font><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif">-- <br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Huiling Ding<br><br>Professor, Technical Communication and Rhetoric</font><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Director, MS in Technical Communication</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">University Faculty Scholar </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Department of English<br></font></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">NC State University<br></font></div></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://huilingding.wordpress.ncsu.edu/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/huilingding/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a> </font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Office: 919-515-4120</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Zoom: <a href="https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/3460113829" target="_blank">https://ncsu.zoom.us/j/3460113829</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Gender Pronouns: she/her/her</font></div></div></div></div>