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We’re looking forward to CCCC 2019!

Performance-Composition, Performance-Rhetoric
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
March 13-16, 2019

The call for proposals for the 2019 CCCC Annual Convention is now closed.

Proposals will be sent to review soon and announcements will go out in late August 2018. 

Registration and housing information will be available in late summer.

Read the Call for Program Proposals from 2019 Program Chair Vershawn Ashanti Young.

CCCC 2018

“Languaging, Laboring, and Transforming” took place in Kansas City, Missouri, March 14-17,2018

2018 Program

• PDFs are available of the program book.
• You can also browse the online program from your computer, or download the app to view on a mobile device. Search for NCTE in your app store to download.

Looking for session materials? Presenters were asked to upload their materials and handouts to the online program (the desktop version of the mobile app). Materials, if uploaded, will be available through the online program and the mobile app. Simply look for a session to determine if materials are available.

Statements about CCCC 2018

• CCCC 2018 Statement on NAACP Missouri Travel Advisory
• Update from CCCC on Kansas City
• Decision on the 2018 CCCC Convention

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FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed publication concerning working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty in college composition and communication. It is published twice annually (alternately in the September issue of CCC and the March issue of TETYC) and is sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Faculty and scholars from all academic positions are welcome to contribute.

Editor: Amy Lynch-Biniek
Kutztown University

Contact: lynchbin@kutztown.edu

Read the latest issue: Fall 2017 (Volume 21, Number 1)

Call for Manuscripts: Contingency and Online Education (Deadline: October 1, 2018)

The CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) series, established in 1984, aims to influence how writing gets taught at the college level. The methods of studies vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work in the many various fields that inform composition—including rhetoric, communication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse, ranging from studies of individual writers and teachers, to work on classrooms and communities and curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching.

• Visit the SWR Submissions page for information on submitting a book proposal.
• For questions related to the SWR series, please email Steve Parks, SWR Editor.
• Learn more about and purchase SWR books.
• SWR Editor search procedures
• Listen to interviews with SWR authors.
• Listen to authors read from their books.
• View brief videos with tips for submitting a proposal for the series.
  

Newest SWR Books

• Collaborative Learning as Democratic Practice: A History
  Author: Mara Holt
  ISBN: 978-0-8141-0730-0
  Holt examines the rich historical and political contexts of collaborative learning, starting with John Dewey’s impact on progressive education in the early twentieth century.

• Reframing the Relational: A Pedagogical Ethic for Cross-Curricular Literacy Work
  Author: Sandra L. Tarabochia
  ISBN: 978-0-8141-3978-3
  Tarabochia argues that a pedagogical approach to faculty interactions in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID) contexts can enhance cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration and ultimately lead to more productive, sustainable initiatives.

• Inside the Subject: A Theory of Identity for the Study of Writing
  Author: Raul Sanchez
  ISBN: 978-0-8141-2345-4
  Sanchez develops a new theoretical approach to the study of writing by fusing key aspects of postmodern theory with the empirical sensibilities of composition studies and with that field’s long-standing investment in writerly agency.

• Genre of Power: Police Report Writers and Readers in the Justice System
  Author: Leslie Seawright
  ISBN: 978-0-8141-1842-9
  Seawright describes the journey of a police report as it travels through the criminal justice system, exposing the ways in which power, agency, and authority circulate and accrue between writers and readers.

Learn more about SWR Books and Continue the Conversation Online

Agents of Integration: Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Act
Author: Rebecca S. Nowacek
ISBN: 978-0-8093-3048-5
The question of how students transfer knowledge is an important one, as it addresses the larger issue of the educational experience. In Agents of Integration: Understanding Transfer as a Rhetorical Act, Rebecca S. Nowacek explores, through a series of case studies, the issue of transfer by asking what in an educational setting engages students to become “agents of integration”— individuals actively working to perceive, as well as to convey effectively to others, the connections they make. Learn more about this text and listen to a podcast interview with the author.

A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies
Author: James Ray Watkins Jr.
Everyday Genres: Writing Assignments across the Disciplines
Author: Mary Soliday
The Community College Writer: Exceeding Expectations
Authors: Howard Tinberg and Jean-Paul Nadeau
Before Shaughnessy: Basic Writing at Yale and Harvard, 1920-1960, 
Author: Kelly Ritter

About

The CCC Online Archive was designed by Collin Brooke, past CCC Online Archive editor, and Derek Mueller at Syracuse University primarily as a research tool, an online supplement to the journal College Composition and Communication. Among other things, the designers provided an additional point of access to the content of the journal, multiple search protocols for exploring that content, and means of surveying and generating metadata for the journal. Their guiding principles were access and visibility, in the context of making CCC both increasingly and variously available to the scholars in the field. This content was previously available through the Syracuse University website, however, in August of 2011 it was moved to this more permanent location within the CCCC/NCTE site to make it accessible to CCCC members. Finding Content There are two ways to find content in the CCC Online Archive:

1. Use the site search in the upper right corner of this page to find content with Key Words/Tags, author names, and/or article information.
2. We have compiled a master list (PDF) of all issues that are available in the Archive. The CCC Online Archive volume numbers in the links correspond to the volume numbers of the CCC issues that they refer to.

The debut, special issue of CCC Online is available NOW!

“The Turn to Performance”

guest editor: Jenn Fishman

photo by Mick Orlosky used with permission

Editor: Bump Halbritter Michigan State University Email: ccconlineeditor@gmail.com

 

About CCC Online

 

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College Composition and Communication Online publishes stand-alone webtexts comprised of digitally-mediated research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that supports college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching writing and that reflects the most current scholarship and theory in the field. The field of composition studies draws on research and theories from a broad range of humanistic disciplines—English studies, rhetoric, cultural studies, gay studies, gender studies, critical theory, education, technology studies, race studies, communication, philosophy of language, anthropology, sociology, and others—and from within composition and rhetoric studies, where a number of subfields have also developed, such as technical communication, computers and composition, writing across the curriculum, research practices, and the history of these fields.

Editor: Jonathan Alexander University of California, Irvine Email: ccceditors@gmail.com

February 2018 College Composition and Communication

Congratulations to Malea Powell (Michigan State University), who was recently selected as the next editor of College Composition and Communication. Her first issue will appear in February 2020.

Access back issues (Note: The “Extended CCC” articles published from December 2008 through December 2009 are available to both subscribers and nonsubscribers of CCC.)

Access CCC Online Subscribe to College Composition and Communication!   About CCC College Composition and Communication publishes research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition studies that support college teachers in reflecting on and improving their practices in teaching writing and that reflects the most current scholarship and theory in the field. The field of composition studies draws on research and theories from a broad range of humanistic disciplines—English studies, rhetoric, cultural studies, LGBT studies, gender studies, critical theory, education, technology studies, race studies, communication, philosophy of language, anthropology, sociology, and others—and from within composition and rhetoric studies, where a number of subfields have also developed, such as technical communication, computers and composition, writing across the curriculum, research practices, and the history of these fields.

CCCC offers numerous grants and awards for travel, research, publications, programs, and service, to name a few.  All CCCC awards are given annually and are presented at the CCCC Convention each year.  CCCC has a Protocol and Procedures for Establishing a CCCC Award. Please follow the links below for detailed information on each award, criteria, and submission deadlines.

Advancement of Knowledge Award
Presented annually for the empirical research publication that most advances writing studies.

Assistance Fund for Contingent Faculty
Presented annually to contingent faculty at two-year colleges and four-year colleges and universities to travel to the CCCC Annual Convention.

Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship
Scholarships of $750 each to help cover the costs of four graduate students who are presenting at the annual conference.

Disability in College Composition Travel Awards
Six travel awards designed to support scholarship dedicated to improving knowledge about the intersections of disability with composition and rhetoric, the value of disability as a source of diversity, inclusive practices and the promotion of access, and the value of disability as a critical lens.

Emergent Researcher Awards
These awards are intended to invest in our organization’s members by rewarding and supporting: early career researchers; writing faculty/instructors who have not had the opportunity to engage in funded research; and/or writing faculty/instructors who do not have support for research within their institutions. In addition to research funding (up to $10,000 per project), the Emergent Researcher Awards also provide research support.

Exemplar Award
Recognizes an individual who has served or serves as an exemplar for our organization.

Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award
Supports graduate students or first-time presenters whose work participates in the making of meaning out of sexual and gender minority experiences with up to three $750 awards for travel to the CCCC Convention.

James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award
Honors a graduate whose dissertation improves the educational process in composition studies, or adds to the field’s body of knowledge, through research or scholarly inquiry.

Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship
Presented annually to three works (one book, one article, and one dissertation) published within the past two years that best make queer interventions into the study of composition and rhetoric.

The Luiz Antonio Marcuschi Travel Awards
Two $1000 travel reimbursement awards are available to scholars living and working/studying in Mexico, Central, or South America who have papers accepted for presentation at the CCCC Convention.

Outstanding Book Award
Presented annually to the author(s) or editor(s) of a book published up to two years previously that makes an outstanding contribution to composition and rhetoric.

Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication
Given for an outstanding disseration in Technical Communication.

Professional Equity Project
$320 grants,offered for part-time or adjunct faculty to attend the CCCC annual convention.

Research Impact Award
Presented annually for the empirical research publication that most advances the mission of the organization or the needs of the profession.

Research Initiative
CCCC funds research proposals up to $10,000 each.

Richard Braddock Award
Presented to the author of the outstanding article on writing or the teaching of writing in the CCCC journal, College Composition and Communication, during the year ending December 31 before the annual CCCC Convention.

Scholars for the Dream Travel Award
Encourages scholarship by historically underrepresented groups, offering up to twenty $1,000 grants in two categories for travel to the CCCC conference.

Stonewall Service Award
Recognizes members of CCCC/NCTE who have consistently worked to improve the experiences of sexual and gender minorities within the organization and the profession.

Technical and Scientific Communication Awards 
Accepting nominations for outstanding books and articles in technical and scientific communication in six categories.

Tribal College Faculty Fellowship
CCCC offers two fellowships in the amount of $1,250 each to faculty members currently working at tribally controlled colleges to attend the CCCC conference.

Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
Awards up to 20 outstanding writing programs each year. 

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