ABC 73rd Annual Convention
October 30 – November 1, 2008
Lake Tahoe, NV

Convention Program

2008 Annual Convention Program Part 1 (pdf)
2008 Annual Convention Program Part 2 (pdf)
2008 Annual Convention Program Part 3 (pdf)
2008 Annual Convention Program Part 4 (pdf)

President’s Address

Roger Conaway

Roger is a Professor of Communication at the University of Texas at Tyler where he teaches courses in organizational communication. He holds bachelors and masters degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University and Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University. His current research interests include intercultural communication and organizational assessments. He  received the ABC Southwestern United States 2002 Irwin-McGraw Hill Distinguished Paper Award in business communication for an analysis of Latin American business letters. He has published in the Business Communication Quarterly and authored a textbook on interviewing.

ABC 2008 President’s Address (pdf)

Presidential Acceptance Speech

James Dubinsky

James M. Dubinsky is an associate professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Virginia Tech.  From 1998 until 2007, he was the founding director of the Professional Writing Program in the Department of English.  Under his leadership, the program grew to 11 courses with over 210 students.  In 2008 he became the founding director of the Center for Student Engagement and Community Partnerships (CSECP).  From 2008-2010, Jim served as chair of the board of directors for the YMCA at Virginia Tech and from 2008-2009 as president of the Association for Business Communication.  He has received college-level awards for both teaching and outreach and the first university award for the scholarship of teaching and learning. Jim is the author/editor of Teaching Technical Communication: Critical Issues for the Classroom and has contributed articles to journals ranging from Technical Communication Quarterly to the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.  His research focuses on the scholarship of teaching, combining historical, rhetorical, and qualitative methods to study the connections of experiential learning and reflective practice.  Jim is also the faculty advisor for the Sustainable Food Corps and for WUVT-FM (http://www.wuvt.vt.edu), the campus radio station.  He hosts a radio show—the New River Sampler every Friday morning between 7 and 9 a.m. featuring folk, folk-rock, bluegrass, and blues.   He and his wife Robyn live in Blacksburg and have five children, ages 18-27.

ABC 2008 Presidential Acceptance Address (pdf)