The CCCC 2025 Workshops below will be held on Wednesday, April 9, and Saturday, April 12, 2025, at the following times:
Wednesday, April 9:
- All-Day Workshops: 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ($40)
- Morning Workshops: 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ($20)
- Afternoon Workshops: 1:30–5:00 p.m. ($20)
Saturday, April 12:
- Afternoon Workshops: 2:00-5:00 p.m. ($0)
You can add any of these workshops for CCCC 2025 during the registration process. Please note that workshops will be in person only.
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
All-Day Workshops, 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. ($40)
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
W.1 Creative-Critical Multimodal Play as Rhetorical Pedagogy and Practice
This day-long workshop explores the scholarly and pedagogical uses of creative-critical play with theatrical exercises and multimodal texts. Creative critical practice, the facilitators argue, offers many opportunities to the writing classroom. Purposefully designed exercises that harness creative-critical play towards rhetorical and linguistic analysis can expand literacy practices.
First-Year Writing
W.2 Empowering Diverse Voices with Generative AI in Multilingual Composition Classrooms
Generative AI as a writing tool empowers English language learner (ELL) voices and fosters equity in multilingual composition classrooms. Writers from diverse language backgrounds and cultural perspectives can use generative AI to enhance writing skills, spur creativity, and gain confidence while composing. Presenters will share experiences with generative AI in their composition curriculum.
Creative Writing and Publishing
W.3 Feminist Workshop: Can I Get a Beat? Or, Collaboration and Publication in the Field
Sponsored by the Feminist Caucus
The Feminist Workshop focuses on the equity work needed in publication and editing. We center reverb to imagine publication as a storytelling place with consequences, the place the discipline bears witness as a collective “we.” We invite folx to join expert panelists in experiential reflection, examination, making, and conversation rooted in wanting inclusive publication-oriented opportunities.
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
W.4 International Writing Research: Remixing Perspectives through Collaboration
Sponsored by the International Researchers Consortium
This annual workshop connects writing researchers whose work crosses national borders, bringing international perspectives to CCCC. Consistent with the 2025 theme, participants will gather to engage, listen, collaborate, and remix by playing and sampling research projects representing globally diverse questions, methodologies, modalities, and sites.
Inclusion and Access
W.5 Latinx Caucus Workshop
Sponsored by the CCCC Latinx Caucus
In this full-day workshop, members of the CCCC Latinx Caucus present on intersections of rhetoric and identity to then guide attendees in activities designed to help them teach about these issues in their courses.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
W.6 Mixing It Up: Composing Undergraduate Research Practices into a New Tune
The workshop explores strategies for integrating undergraduate research (UGR) initiatives within writing studies. Drawing on research and speakers’ experiences, practical tools and approaches for designing and implementing projects will be offered. Participants will leave with a concrete action plan for developing and sustaining undergraduate research initiatives in their writing programs.
Information Literacy and Technology
W.8 The Generative AI Advantage in Teaching Writing
This is the Age of AI, and AI has permanently changed everything in writing and humanities instruction. We can’t go back, but few professors know how to move forward. In this full-day interactive workshop, Michelle Kassorla and Eugenia Novokshanova will equip you with the tools you need to unlock the power of AI in the writing classroom.
Morning Workshops, 9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. ($20)
Inclusion and Access
MW.1 ACCESS n Action: Accessible and Inclusive Course Design Strategies
This workshop will meet attendees where they are, whether they are working on the first or fifteenth iteration of a course. Participants will come away from this workshop with a Google folder of models, heuristics, and selected readings that they can employ for iterative, accessible, course design.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
MW.2 Effective and Ethical Approaches to Sentence-Level Feedback on Student Writing
We will explore ethical and effective approaches to providing feedback on student writing, particularly at the sentence level, within the context of social justice concerns related to linguistic inclusion, racial equity, and Generative AI. Ample time will be allotted for critically and collaboratively refining our approaches to feedback, an opportunity we teachers of writing are rarely afforded.
Information Literacy and Technology
MW.3 Extended Play: Exploring Generative AI in Online Writing Instruction
Sponsored by the Online Writing Instruction Standing Group
During this hands-on workshop attendees will actively use generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT). Facilitators will guide us through instructional applications of GenAI especially in asynchronous teaching modalities. In addition to dedicated assignment (re)design time, attendees will develop broader guideline/policy statements around ethical use of GenAI tools tailored to their local contexts.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
MW.4 From Bad Ideas to Good Practices of AI and Writing in College
This workshop reframes problematic ideas around AI and writing. Attendees will explore research-informed best practices on AI for the college classroom. They will participate in a framing segment before selecting one of three tracks: assignments, instructional strategies, and policy. Each track will include guided activities to create teaching resources, before participants present in groups.
Information Literacy and Technology
MW.5 Generative AI and Writing Assessment
Sponsored by the Writing Assessment SIG and the MLA-CCCC AI Task Force
This workshop aims to support participants as they consider how shifts in writing assessment, alongside the rise of generative AI, have altered both their approaches to assessment and their own working/labor conditions and make informed choices about the use of Gen AI in classrooms and institutional assessment contexts.
Inclusion and Access
MW.6 Humanizing Basic Writers, Transforming Basic Writing Programs: Enacting Mike Rose’s Model of Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity
Sponsored by the Council on Basic Writing
This workshop will, first, review the humanizing principles and practices Mike Rose applied to basic writers and the programs that served them. Then the workshop will guide participants to enact those principles in the site-specific contexts of their own institutions and communities. Participants will emerge with active steps to remix, collaborate, and create community in their programs.
Information Literacy and Technology
MW.7 Playing OUR Songs: CCCC Edits Wikipedia
Sponsored by the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative
Join this workshop to edit Wikipedia for knowledge equity and improve articles on key topics in composition and rhetoric.
Information Literacy and Technology
MW.8 Remixing B-sides of AI in Writing Classrooms and Writing Programs
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing rapidly, and this half-day workshop aims to fill a need for faculty who struggle with understanding how or whether to work with or against AI in their writing assignments and programs. This intensive workshop focuses on understanding the nuances of working with AI, and the ethical implications of embracing AI.
Antiracism and Social Justice
MW.9 Remixing the Writing Classroom for Social-Global Justice
This workshop is an opportunity for concerned writing teachers to work towards more justice-driven practices, a praxis we argue must begin on Day 1 of every course. We ask: How do we want our teaching to function in the lived experiences of students and the communities with which we co-exist? How can the writing produced in classrooms translate outside the university and impact the world?
Writing Programs
MW.10 Writing Programmatic Self-Studies: Gathering Data and Advocating for Change
Attendees will learn strategies for collecting data from diverse campus units about their writing program(s) and using it to compose self-studies that emphasize strengths, identify current needs, and advocate for change. Members of the CWPA Consultant-Evaluator panel will share insights about writing effective self-studies and work individually with attendees to begin the process themselves.
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
MW.11 Writing Research Proposals Workshop
Sponsored by the CCCC Research Committee
In this half-day workshop, participants are invited to come together to think about and write successful research studies and proposals. Graduate students and scholars of all ranks are welcome.
Inclusion and Access
MW.12 Writing with Executive Dysfunction
This workshop is for neurodivergent writers and those who work with them, featuring a mix of activities including timed writing, small group discussion, and collaborative resource sharing.
Afternoon Workshops, 1:30–5:00 p.m. ($20)
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
AW.1 “Play at Your Own Risk”: Workshopping Risk and Failure Pedagogies
What makes a risk worth taking—in writing and teaching? Our workshop plays with this question through creative, collaborative exercises. Participants will play with classroom activities that can foster risk-taking in their students and themselves and collaborate with others to expand their sense of the stakes involved in risk and failure pedagogies.
Language, Literacy, and Culture
AW.2 Demystifying AI: How Large Language Models Call Us toward More Focused Attention to Language in Writing Classrooms
Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are becoming commonplace in our lives and classrooms, but understanding of how these models work is far less widespread. Our workshop offers a linguistically informed introduction to LLMs and presents classroom activities designed to help students see LLMs as a tool for exploring patterns in language, rather than a replacement for their own unique voices.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
AW.3 Generative AI and More: Wrestling with Controversial Issues in and around Multilingual Writing
Sponsored by the Second Language Writing Standing Group
The workshop explores a range of controversial issues related to multilingual writing. Our opening panel discusses ethical concerns and pedagogical opportunities for digital technologies like Generative AI. Several roundtables continue this discussion, while others consider related topics, like multimodality, intertextuality, interdisciplinarity, linguistic justice, and linguistic autobiography.
First-Year Writing
AW.5 Liberation through Writing: Remixing First-Year Composition through Unique Lenses
Through revising a single English 101 unit based on Writing about Writing by Elizabeth Wardle and Doug Downs, we intend to provide four unique frameworks or lenses (Creative Writing, Indigenous Rhetorics, Digital Environments, and Antiracism and Black Voices) to empower first-year writing instructors to remix or revise their English 101 course assignments while maintaining curriculum integrity.
Theory, Research Methodologies, and Praxis
AW.6 NNESWIs’ Remixing: Integrating Professional (A-Side) and Transnational, Cross-Cultural Knowledge (B-Side) of Teaching and Research
Sponsored by the Non-Native English-Speaking Writing Instructors (NNESWIs) Standing Group
This workshop shares NNESWIs’ teaching, learning, and research experiences, discusses their strengths and challenges, and demonstrates how they “remix” by integrating their professional strengths (A-side) and rich transnational and cross-cultural knowledge (B-side) in teaching and research to successfully establish themselves and maximize their students’ learning experiences.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
AW.7 Persuasive Games: Rhetorically Remixing Games and Writing Assignments
Sponsored by the Council for Play and Game Studies
This workshop will explore how writing teachers can remix existing games or assignments to recreate alternative ideological systems often aimed for social justice by rhetorically changing the game’s mechanics, rules, and/or narrative. Participants will explore rhetorically remixing games by discussing, playing, and designing their own social justice games that teach writing and rhetoric.
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
AW.9 Reclamation: A Handcrafted Rhetorics Approach to Remix
Sponsored by Handcrafted Rhetorics
Disconnections between ourselves and our world are seen in the mental health issues in our classrooms and communities and in the health of our environment. This workshop argues that this can be addressed through handcrafted rhetorics, namely those based in reclamation. Participants will collage, fibercraft, and upcycle, exploring how we might reclaim our attention, material, and making.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
AW.10 Remixing Peer Review: Playful and Liberatory Pedagogies to Maximize Student Engagement
This workshop previews playful and practical strategies for remixing peer review. Participants will bring a piece of their own writing to experience models of review from a student’s perspective. They will also evaluate each model for accessibility, cultural responsiveness, and student engagement potential. Participants will leave with several concrete strategies for their own writing classroom.
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
AW.11 Remixing Prison Literacies and Pedagogies
Sponsored by the Prison Literacies + Pedagogies Standing Group
This workshop samples the pedagogical work and access points born of system-impacted scholar-writers, themselves remixing the writing classroom.
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
AW.12 Remixing the Harmony: Intentional Balancing out the Triad of Self, Academia, and Family as Parents in the Academy
Designed for parents in the academy, the session utilizes mindful activities like restorative movement, reflective writing, and optional small-group discussion to unpack personal needs and opportunities for change. Reflecting on different tools, resources, and strategies, participants will create unique self-preservation approaches to help them survive rather than simply thrive in academia.
Saturday, April 12, 2025
Afternoon Workshops, 2:00–5:00 p.m. ($0)
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
SW.1 “You Are Entirely More Than the Job Market”: Crafting Prefigurative Counterstories on the Job Market
In this workshop, we address the need for hearing the B-side experiences of the job market. Through reflexive prefigurative counterstorytelling, we encourage participants to build together alternative ways of being and doing (on) the job market. We also advocate for forming and participating in communities of practice and adopting inclusive practices for professional growth.
Information Literacy and Technology
SW.2 An Afternoon of Community Building through Audio Storytelling
Sponsored by the Sound Studies and Writing Collective
Beginning and seasoned audio editors are invited to collaborate in creating and sharing audio storytelling projects. Participants will support each other and leave the workshop with a completed audio project, ideas for scholarly and/or pedagogical applications, and connections to others interested in soundwriting.
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
SW.3 Community Writing Mentorship Workshop
Sponsored by the Council on Community Writing Special Interest Group
This workshop offers peer-with-peer mentoring and feedback to attendees at any level of experience with research design, relevant scholarship, project evaluation, job and tenure evaluation strategies, ethics of community work, and more. This session is led by a diverse group of prominent, engaged scholars within the field of community writing.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
SW.4 Engaging in Computer Love: Navigating toward Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Multimodality in Composition
In this workshop, participants will explore the concept of creating a digitized Zine, a multimodal alternative to the traditional essay, grounded in Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. I will provide an overview of the scholarship that gives purpose and meaning to the development of this project and how to use the Canva platform.
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
SW.5 Exercises in Attunement: A Creative Work-in-Progress Workshop for Writing Teachers by CLJ’s Coda
By workshopping creative works-in-progress, we will experience community writing as a relational praxis sustained by creative writing and inclusive editorial practices. We will explore how community-based praxis can inform more attuned classroom practices to meet diverse student needs and how community writing’s focus on relationships can be employed in classroom settings.
Institutions: Labor Issues, Professional Lives, and Survival
SW.6 From Draft to Publication: A Hands-on, How-to Workshop on Publishing in Peer-Reviewed Journals
The editors of Teaching English in the Two-Year College, College English, and College Composition and Communication propose a Saturday afternoon writers’ workshop to include an overview of citation justice, five mini-lessons on writing for publication interleaved with workshops to apply those lessons to their scholarly projects, and guidance on forming writing groups for long-term success.
Creative Writing and Publishing
SW.7 Shared Dancing at the Silent Disco: A Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop
Sponsored by the Creative Nonfiction Writing Standing Group
Replacing bass-booming clubs, silent discos circumvent rules, celebrating creative expression. Attendees dance to music transmitted to headphones for an experience individual and communal. This interactive workshop parallels that space of active art and quiet focus. Through prompts from creative nonfiction writers, it provides dedicated writing time, small-group sharing, and pedagogical discussion.
Community, Civic, and Public Contexts of Writing
SW.8 Text Power Telling: Remixing Community and Technology to Create Safe Writing Spaces for Sexual Trauma Survivors
This workshop will introduce participants to “Text Power Telling,” a nonprofit that offers writing workshops and a digital creative arts magazine for sexual trauma survivors. Participants will have the opportunity to experience a TPT workshop, writing together in our anonymous online forum to protect privacy while also sharing a secure physical space with other survivors to cultivate community.
