FRIDAY 9 JULY

6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.

Registration -McDonalds Room, State Library NSW

SATURDAY 10 JULY

9.00 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.

Registration

9.30 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.

11.15 a.m. - 12.45 p.m.

Keynote Address

Neil James, Executive Director, Plain English Foundation

INPUTS TO PUBLIC DISCOURSE

1. Attack & defence: public language across four centuries

Andrew Tink, MP

2. Don’t shoot the messenger: the raw material of ABC news

Heather Forbes, ABC News

3 . Lost in translation: academic writing and professional discourse

Susan Thomas, Sydney University

12.45p.m. – 2.00 p.m.

Lunch

2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.

3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.

PANEL DISCUSSION: The cutting edge of obscurity

Bruce Heilbuth (Businesswriters), Pamela Hewitt (NSW Society of Editors),

Bill Krebs ( Bond University )

AUTHORS, AUDIENCES AND PARTICIPANTS ONLINE

1. The medium and the message

Ann Long, Ross Blackwood, Office of the Board of Studies, NSW

2. Electronic selves: gender and anonymity as factors in e-learning

Donna Gibbs, Macquarie University

3. Adventures in publishing an internet novel

Matthew Reilly, Author

7.30 p.m.

Conference Dinner at Hellenic Club

with Guest Speaker, Cavan Hogue

SUNDAY 11 JULY

10.00 a.m. - 11.00 a.m.

11.30 a.m. - 12.45 p.m.

EDITING AND ETHICS: PhD Theses

1. Research students as editors

Ruth Trigg, Barry Jeromson and Nicole Markwick
University of South Australia

2. A joint national policy on the editing of research theses

Janet Mackenzie, Council of Australian Societies of Editors (CASE)

PRODUCING PLAIN ENGLISH

1. Working with PhD students: the editor as educator

Mandy Scott, Australian National University

2. Encourage writers to want to use plain English: a practical guide

Paul Bennett , Queensland Studies Authority

3. ECAB: e radicate corporate-speak and bureaucratese

Deb Doyle, Editorial Training Services

12.45 p.m. - 2.00 p.m.

Lunch in McDonalds Room

2.00 p.m. - 3.00 p.m.

3.30 p.m. - 5.00 p.m.

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION 1

1. Business Eco-Speak: a discourse of the converted, or just

corporate greenwash

Alan Jones, Macquarie University

2. Metaphor, management and marketing

Michael Lewis, Brandle Pty. Ltd.

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION 2

1. Language assessment by remote control

Peter Roger, Macquarie University

2. Diglossia in the courtroom

Roland Sussex, University of Queensland