Category: Uncategorized

Name: Mahli Xuan Mechenbier
Title: Associate Lecturer, English
Institution: Kent State University: Regional Academic Center
Location: Twinsburg, Ohio
Phone: 330-888-6330
Email: mmechenb@kent.edu

Committee Members

Sheryl Fontaine, Chair
Damian Baca
Shirley Wilson Logan
Jay Wootten

Committee Charge

This committee is charged with carrying out the recommendations of the CCCC Task Force on Position Statements in 2008, namely that

1. The first page of position statements should be categorized into four groups: professional issues, assessment and digital writing, language issues, and ethical issues.
2. To establish consistency, all the statements should reflect standardized titles and be framed by an introduction that sets the historical context, including the exigence. Included in the statement category should be a template for future statements. 
3. Once position statements have been reformatted, announcements of this accomplishment should appear in both College Composition and Communication and College English.
4. To ensure the currency of each statement, we should establish an annual process of review and revision (a few statements each year) handled by one of the original writers, others with related expertise, and/or EC members. Complements to this revision cycle should include a standard format for future statements and a guide for reviews and revisions of existing statements.
5. In particular, you requested that the bibliography for the 2003 “CCCC Guidelines for the Ethical Conduct of Research in Composition Studies” be updated and that the 2000 “Guidelines for the Ethical Treatment of Students and Student Writing in Composition Studies” be dropped.

We anticipate the first three recommendations be carried out by March 2010.  Also if the committee wished to carry forward with recommendation 5, we would appreciate a proposal to that effect with rationale be prepared to be considered by the March 2010 meeting of the CCCC Executive Committee.  In the ensuing years, the Committee will carry out the work of recommendation 4 in collaboration with “original writers, others with related expertise, and/or EC members” to be invited by the Committee.  This committee is charged for three years through March 2012.

Name: Kevin Eric DePew
Title: Graduate Program Director, English PhD Program
Institution: Old Dominion University
Location: Norfolk, VA 23529
Phone: 757.683.4019
Email: kdepew@odu.edu
Website: http://ww2.odu.edu/~kdepew/

  

Name: Leslie Olsen
Title: Adjunct Faculty, English and Professional Communications
Institution: Bellevue University
Location: Everett, Washington
Phone: 206-310-5015
Email: leslieolsen@gmail.com
Skype: leslieo310

Name: Lisa Meloncon
Title: Associate Professor of Technical and Professional Writing Institution:University of Cincinnati Location: Cincinnati, OH
Phone: 513-556-3034
Email: lisa.meloncon@uc.edu
Skype: lisameloncon
Website: www.tek-ritr.com
Twitter: @lmeloncon

  

Name: Debbie Minter
Title: Assoc. Prof.
Institution: University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Location: Lincoln, NE
Phone: 402-472-2891
Email: dminter1@unl.edu
Website: http://www.unl.edu/english/faculty/profs/dminter.html

   

Name: Heidi Skurat Harris
Title: Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing
Institution: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Phone: 501-569-8327
Email: haharris@ualr.edu
Skype: hasharris
Website: http://hasharris.com/

  

Name: Jason Snart
Title: Professor of English
Institution: College of DuPage
Location: Glen Ellyn, IL
Phone: 630 942 2033
Email: snartj@cod.edu
Skype: Professor.Jason.Snart
Website: http://www.cod.edu/academics/divisions/liberal_arts/faculty/snart.aspx

    

Name: Beth L. Hewett
Title: CCCC OWI Committee Co-chair; Associate Assistant Professor
Institution: University of Maryland University College
Location: Forest Hill, MD
Phone: 443-904-6424
Email: beth.hewett@gmail.com; beth@defendandpublish.com
Skype: beth.hewett1
Website: www.bethhewett.com

    

Committee Charge

This committee is charged to:

Charge 1: Continue to identify, examine, and research online writing instruction (OWI) principles and effective strategies in online writing centers and in blended, hybrid, and distance-based writing classrooms, specifically composition classrooms but also including other college-writing or writing-intensive courses.
 
Charge 2: Continue to identify, examine, and research effective practices for using OWI specifically for English language learners, individuals with physical and/or learning disabilities, and students with socioeconomic challenges in coordination with related CCCC committees.
 
Charge 3: Maintain and update the Position Statement on the OWI Principles and Effective Practices.
 
Charge 4: In consultation with the Assessment Committee and other relevant groups, review and update the 2004 Position Statement “Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Writing in Digital Environments.”
 
Charge 5: Identify and/or create instructional and professional development materials and strategies to be posted on the Committee’s Web-based OWI Open Resource Webpage.
 
Charge 6: Provide the writing instructional community with access to information about OWI-specific faculty and program development that can assist with legitimizing online teaching for professional development, remuneration, and advancement purposes.
 
Charge 7: Share effective practices in OWI with the CCCC membership in various formats, including instructional workshops at CCCC conferences and events as well as other professional venues.

• Join the discussion group dedicated to issues of OWI today! (You will need to use your NCTE login information to access the discussion.)

November 2015 Update

The CCCC Committee for Effective Practices in Online Writing Instruction (OWI) is focusing its efforts over the next year on research about student experiences and expectations in hybrid and fully online writing courses, particularly in regard to accessibility. This fall, the committee has launched a pilot version of a survey for OWI students. At the 2016 CCCC in Houston, the Committee will offer several opportunities for members of the writing instruction community to participate in its work, including a half-day pre-conference Wednesday workshop. The committee and its 35-member Expert Panel continue to explore faculty and administrative aspects of OWI as well. It maintains the OWI Open Resource (OR). Through the OR, writing teachers can share specific teaching practices to help each other teach writing online. This work follows from the committee’s publication of A Position Statement of Principles and Example Effective Practices for OWI in spring 2013 and the 2015 book Foundational Practices for OWI (Parlor Press), which was co-edited by committee members Beth Hewett and Kevin DePew.

The State-of-the-Art of OWI

Initial Report of the CCCC Committee for Best Practice in Online Writing Instruction (PDF), April 12, 2011

Fully Online Distance-Based Courses Survey Results

Hybrid/Blended Courses Survey Results

2009 CCCC Session Review

Read a review of the session we presented at the 2009 CCCC Convention titled “CCCC Committee Research into Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction (OWI).”

Annotated Bibliography

The CCCC Committee on Best Practices in Online Writing Instruction has gathered, reviewed, and annotated webtexts, articles, and books from 1980 through early 2008 that help us better understand those approaches and strategies that are most effective in OWI and compiled them into an annotated bibliography (pdf).