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The Conference on College Composition and Communication invites applications for a five-year appointment as Editor of the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) book series. SWR supports the mission of CCCC in its publication of monograph-length works from a variety of theoretical and research perspectives on current topics or concerns within composition studies.

Working with an editorial board appointed by the CCCC officers, the SWR editor solicits and reviews manuscripts, then works with authors to develop and prepare accepted projects into production-ready form for the publication staff. The current CCCC budget permits publishing three to four monographs a year. CCCC provides partial support for the office of editor; the amount of support will be negotiated with the finalist. In addition, the editor is a member of the CCCC Editors’ Team, which meets face-to-face at the CCCC Convention and, occasionally, online.

The CCCC officers request that a detailed application dossier be submitted as a PDF by April 18, 2022, to Kurt Austin, NCTE Senior Books Editor, at kaustin@ncte.org, including (1) a letter articulating the applicant’s vision for the SWR series, (2) a CV, (3) a statement of possible institutional support (including financial support, preferably), and (4) a sample of the applicant’s writing (article or chapter). Applicants must be CCCC members.

Based on those materials, the officers will interview a group of finalists via teleconference in May 2022.

Entire Convention Program

(Note: this is a large PDF file and may take several minutes to open)

Program by section

• Calendar
• Contents
• CCCC Officers
• Greetings from the Program Chair
• Information for Newcomers
• Local Arrangements
• General Information, Special Events, Award Winners, Sessions Presented by Two Year College Faculty, Committee Meetings, Topic Index to Sessions
• Preconvention Activities
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Past Chairs, Exhibitors, Maps

Entire Convention Program

(Note: this is a large PDF file and make take several minutes to open.)

Program by Section

• Calendar, Individual Program
• Table of Contents, CCCC Officers
• Greetings from the Program Chair, Acknowledgements
• Information for Newcomers
• Local Arrangements, About the Convention
• Computer Connection, Digital Pedagogy Posters
• General Information, Special Events
• Award Winners, Sessions Presented by Two Year College Faculty, Committee Meetings
• Index of Concurrent Sessions
• Wednesday
• Thursday
• Friday
• Saturday
• Past CCCC Chairs
• Exhibit Hall
• Maps
• Advertisers
• Index of Participants

 

 

    

Entire Convention Program

(Note: this is a large PDF file and may take several minutes to open)

Program by section

• Calendar 
• Individual CCCC Program 
• Contents 
• CCCC Officers, Greetings from the Program Chair, Information for Newcomers, About the CCCC Convention, Technology Center Presentations 
• Special Events, Award Winners, Sessions Presented by Two-Year College Faculty 
• General Information, Committee Meetings, Topic Index to Sessions 
• Preconvention Activities 
• Wednesday 
• Thursday 
• Friday 
• Saturday 
• Past Chairs, Exhibitors, Maps 
• Index

The Committee intends to continue its work with identifying OWI Principles and Effective Practices for OWI as a means of validating this document. Additionally, we will work to present example effective practices using various media for the Web that will be accessible to CCCC members, WPAs, writing teachers, and writing tutors nationwide.

Back to Main Page: A Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Practices for Online Writing Instruction (OWI)

Following are key definitions and how they are used in the specific context of OWI for the purposes of this document.

• Accessible: An information technology system that is accessible is one that can be operated in a variety of ways and does not rely on a user’s single sense or ability. For example, a system that provides output only in visual format may not be accessible to people with visual impairments, and a system that provides output only in audio format may not be accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. Some individuals with physical and/or learning disabilities may need accessibility-related software or peripheral devices in order to use systems that comply with Section 508 (Guide to Disability Rights Laws). For the purposes of this document, accessibility issues also include those that affect multilingual writers and writers with socioeconomic inequality for whom literal access to technology has or can be problematic.
• Assistive technology or devices: Assistive technology is “any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities” (29 U.S.C. Sec 2202[2]). Examples include screen reader software, screen magnifiers, adapted keyboard and alternative input/ output devices, mobility devices, assistive hearing devices, and can include learning software, among many other things.
• Asynchronous: Referring to a learning modality that permits participants to communicate over flexible time periods; typically, there is a significant time lag (non-real-time) between and among interactions. Most often, asynchronous interactions occur through text although one-way voice and video communications also can be asynchronous.
• Digital environment: A learning setting that is computer-based or that uses other integrated technologies that can be accessed anywhere and anytime.
• Disability: According to the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), “the term ‘disability’ means an individual has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of his/her major life activities or there is a record of such an impairment or an individual is regarded as having such an impairment.” Caused by injury, disease or medical condition, or neurological, chemical, or developmental factors, severe disabilities affect about 12% of the U.S. population.
• Distributed environment: A learning setting that is linked through a computer network while being geographically dispersed.
• Fully online: Any writing course that meets in a completely online-based setting through computer mediation with no scheduled face-to-face interactions among or between students and faculty.
• Hybrid: Sometimes called “blended,” any writing course that meets in both a distance-based or computer-mediated setting and in a traditional onsite classroom.
• Learning Management System (LMS): Also known as a “Course Management System” (CMS). Some of the most common examples are Blackboard, Moodle, Angel, and Sakai. These are online sites that house the course’s content and facilitate communication among teacher and students.
• Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): Also known as scalable online educational experience (SOE2). College classes that are (1) extremely large with as many as 50,000 or more participants, (2) open access to all who can pay when they are not free, (3) online with potential for both asynchronous and synchronous components, and (4) courses that enable various set-ups such as credit, noncredit, drop-in, or enrolled participants.
• Multimodal: Strategically using modes of communication beyond traditional alphabetic text, for example, still image, motion video, and sound.
• Online environment: A learning setting that is Internet-based (e.g., through the World Wide Web) or Intranet-based (e.g., through a common server).
• Online: Referring to any communication or activity, such as instruction, that is mediated by digital, Internet-connected technologies. In most contexts, the word online refers to text-based technologies (e.g., discussion boards, emails, blogs, chat), but it also can refer to other media, such as audio (e.g., podcasts) and video (e.g., video presentations, live video meetings).
• OWC: Online writing course.
• OWI: Online writing instruction.
• OWL: Online writing lab or online writing center
• Synchronous: Referring to a learning modality that permits participants to communicate in real time or nearly in real time. Many real-time synchronous interactions occur through two-way voice or voice and video. Many near-real-time synchronous interactions transpire using text in a chat-based scenario.

Back to Main Page: A Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Practices for Online Writing Instruction (OWI)

A position statement is a document that asserts the official position of an organization (in this case, CCCC) on a particular issue or set of issues. The position statement is itself a genre. However, effective position statements should make possible the creation of other genres intended for other audiences through their clear and cogent presentation of position, relevant evidence and/or data, and implications.

CCCC position statements should address issues associated with writing or literacy activities (including instruction, instructors, research, use, or other activities). These statements should be written with clear and explicit purposes and audiences in mind. They should synthesize positions or stances that reflect research/research-based best practices, and outline implications of this work for action.

Position Statement Guidelines

Position statements should:

• Be no longer than 4 pages (excluding appendices)
• Include an executive summary
• Clearly identify the purpose(s) of and audience(s) for the statement
• Include a clear statement of no more than 1–3 sentences of the goal or thesis of the statement
• Outline research-based actions associated with the position and implications
• Use language that is direct and accessible to an educated audience

Position statements may:

• Outline the exigency for the statement as part of the purpose
• Position the point(s) advanced in the statement as an alternative to the exigency
• Include a synthesis of research with citations or references to additional information
• Use concise, descriptive headings to help organize the statement

Position statements should avoid:

• Buried leads—putting the primary argument of the position statements deep in the document
• Becoming articles—documents that include levels of exploration of subjects appropriate for a group of researchers rather than other audiences (unless appropriate for the audience)
• Include resolutions or advocate for CCCC action outside of the established resolution process.

How Position Statements Come About

The genesis of CCCC position statements can come from a resolution or sense-of-the-house motion passed at an Annual Business Meeting; from a strategic governance motion; from a committee or task force; or from the CCCC Executive Committee or officers. (See /cccc/resources/positions/creation.) Position statements cannot, however, be generated by or from an individual.

The Executive Committee and/or Officers will authorize a group of people to create position statements. The authorization will include a charge, broad parameters for the statement (i.e., the broad issue/s it should address), and a timeline for submission of a draft statement. Statements will then be reviewed by a working group of the Executive Committee. Comments will be returned to the primary author/chair of the authoring task force by the CCCC liaison. Each statement will also have an Executive Committee liaison, who will work with the task force to coordinate recommended revisions and guide the statement through the EC approval process. Once the Executive Committee approves the statement, it will be posted on the CCCC web site.

Models:

http://legacy.ncte.org/positions/statements/contingent_faculty
/cccc/resources/positions/writingassessment
/cccc/resources/positions/promotionandtenure
/cccc/resources/positions/secondlangwriting

Resources:

Frameworks Institute materials on framing messages about education (P–16):
All education: http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/issues-education.html
Higher ed: http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/higher-education.html

SPIN Works! (Strategic Press Information Network guide to writing, frame changing, op-ed pieces, and more): http://spinacademy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SPIN-Works.pdf

The Op Ed Project (Resources on writing and pitching op eds): http://www.theopedproject.org/

A conversation with Steven Fraiberg, author of “Pretty Bullets: Tracing Transmedia/Translingual Literacies of an Israeli Soldier across Regimes of Practice” (17:15).

Steven Fraiberg is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures at Michigan State University. His research focuses on multilingual literacy practices in classrooms, communities, and workplaces. He has published in CCC, Kairos, Computers and Composition, Israel Studies Review, and Technical Communication Quarterly. His forthcoming book (coauthored with Xiaoye You and Xiqiao Wang) published by Utah State University Press is titled Inventing the World Grant University: Chinese International Students’ Mobilities, Literacies, and Identities.

 

 

 

This bibliography presents sources that composition researchers can use to supplement the “CCCC Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct of Research in Composition Studies.”

Read the full bibliography, CCCC Ethical Conduct of Research Involving Human Participants: A Bibliography (November 2003, revised March 2015)

Rhea Estelle Lathan is an assistant professor of English rhetoric and composition at Florida State University and author of the SWR Series book Freedom Writing: African American Civil Rights Literacy Activism, 1955-1967.

In this conversation with Telsha Curry, Lathan talks about different types of literacy and social activism, how the ideas of gospel consciousness manifest in Lathan’s pedagogy, as well as how they relate to current movements such as Black Lives Matter. (1:30:12)