Conferences on Composition and Communication

Brian N. Larson (Assistant professor of rhetoric and technical communication, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Personal site: www.Rhetoricked.com) just sent this amazing email with a list of conferences on teaching aspects of communication (not all legal).

I am posting it here with his permission: 

• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), http://www.ncte.org/cccc, March (usually) conference, heaviest focus is on first-year composition, but with some treatment of other topics in university writing.
• Association of Teachers of Technical Writing, http://attw.org/, March (usually) one-day conference at beginning of CCCC, heaviest focus on communication in technical fields, though there are pedagogical overlaps with legal writing (at least in my experience).
• American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), http://www.aaal.org/page/Conference2017, March or April conference (sometimes, as in 2017, held in same city at same time as CCCC), heaviest focus is on multi-lingual writers (ESL, ELL, EFL), but there is a rich thread on reading, writing, and literacy. You don’t need training in linguistics to understand what’s going on here.
• Writing Research Across Borders (WRAB), http://wrab2017.com/javeriana/, triennial conference in February, sprawling conference that runs the gamut of writing research.
• Council of Writing Program Administrators, http://cwpa2017.outreach.utk.edu/, annual conference (July next year). I’ve not attended this one, and can’t say for sure how it addresses your interests, but you might want to check the program for the 2016 conference to see: http://www.carolinaswpa.org/cwpa2016/about-the-conference/schedule/

Other conferences focus on narrower subsets of the topics you listed. Consider these conferences:

• International Writing Centers Association, http://writingcenters.org/, October conference, focus here is on writing centers, obviously, and so expect programs on training student tutors, etc.
• International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, https://iwac2016.org/, June conference, focus here is on WAC and WID (writing in the disciplines), teaching writing skills in classes that are not overtly writing-focused. This can include, for example, training grad and undergrad “writing fellows” who work with disciplinary (think “doctrinal” in law-school parlance) instructors to enrich disciplinary courses with writing content; and running workshops to help disciplinary instructors to incorporate writing-focused assignments into their classes.