Come out to the National Museum of Crime and Punishment to network with fellow technical communicators, learn about ghostwriting, and peek inside DC's newest museum and headquarters for FOX TV’s hit series, America’s Most Wanted.

Agenda

5PM: Tour the museum (Optional, no extra cost)

6PM: Eat and socialize in John Walsh's television studio

7PM: Lili Fox Velez, Ph.D., presents "Haunted Manuscripts: Current Issues in Ghostwriting"

Topic

Lili Fox Velez, Ph.D.'s presentation is entitled Haunted Manuscripts: Current Issues in Ghostwriting.

The big picture issue behind ghosting is really the whole idea of writing-for-hire.  Where do the names of writers belong on those documents? Do the medical (or engineering) team names go on the document, or the writer who hammered the raw ideas into sensible prose? Does it matter who is doing the actual writing, or does it matter more who wrote the check to pay for it?

Speaker

Lili Fox Vélez, Ph.D. (B.A., Arcadia University; M.A. and Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University) currently teaches medical communications, rhetoric, ethics, and environmental science writing at Towson University in Maryland. She has worked in industry and academia and founded the MS program in Biomedical Writing at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Whether she has ever been a 'ghost' is one of the questions she will discuss in her presentation.

Directions

• Metro: Take the Red, Yellow, or Green lines to Gallery Place/Chinatown (Arena exit). The National Museum of Crime & Punishment is located across from the Verizon Center at 575 7th St. NW between E and F Streets.
• Car: See these directions on the museum's site.

Food

We will be serving the following items from Camille's Sidewalk Cafe:

• Camille's House Salad
• Signature Wrap Tray
• Fresh Veggies Tray
• Fresh Baked Cookie Tray
• Soda
• Bottled Water

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