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Quick Guide to Basic
Writing Sessions at
CCCC 2013
The Council on Basic Writing presents its annual quick guide to basic writing session
and workshops to help you connect with other basic writing faculty.
Pre-Conference Workshops:
MW.03: Expanding the Conversation: Graduate Students, Contingent Faculty, and the
Future of Basic Writing
W01: TYCA Presents: Developmental Education in the Two-Year College, a Place of
Possibility
W06: Council on Basic Writing 2013: Basic Writing and Race: A Symposium
CCCC 2013 Regular Sessions:
A.17: There’s Nothing Basic about Basic Writing
Location: Riviera Hotel, Royale Pavilion 6, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Join us for a face-to-face exploration of major issues facing Basic Writing faculty and
students. This roundtable discussion is the culmination of month-long asynchronous
dialogue highlighting issues in Basic Writing.
Chair: John McKinnis Buffalo State College
Co-Chair: Rochelle Rodrigo Old Dominion University
Speakers:
Debra Berry, College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas - Teacher Preparation
and Professional Development
J. Elizabeth Clark, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY - Teaching with
Technology
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Elaine Jolayemi, Ivy Tech College - Who Are Basic Writers?
Leigh Jonaitis, Bergen Community College - Who Are Basic Writers?
Marisa Klages, LaGuardia Community College - Teacher Preparation &
Professional Development
Carla Maroudas, Mt. San Jacinto Community College - Student Placement
Amy Edwards Patterson, Moraine Park Technical College - Day-to-Day Life
in the Classroom
Ilene Rubenstein, College of the Desert - Academic Skills/Writing Centers
A.33: What Works: New Approaches in the Basic Writing Classroom
Location: Riviera, Skybox 205, 2nd floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
21st century pathways into the basic writing classroom that includes innovative methods
to initiate as models for integrative learning.
Speakers:
Anita August - We Need to Talk about Student X: 'Situating' Visual Literacy in the Basic
Writing Curriculum
Heather Camp, Minnesota State University, Mankato - Revisiting Writing-about-Writing
in the Basic Writing Classroom
Susan Gebhardt, Burns Norwalk Community College - Using Invention Techniques with
Community College Basic Composition Students
C.03: Public Access, Public Work: A Case Study for Multiple Basic Writing Pilots
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 105, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Chair: Stacy Day Penn State University-Abington
Speakers:
Stacy Day, Penn State University-Abington - The English Enhancement Pilot: A Narrative
of Development, Implementation, and Assessment
Nicole McClure, Penn State University-Abington - Diverse Learners in Digital Spaces:
Developing Supplemental Online Instruction for Basic Writers
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Karen Weekes, Penn State University-Abington - One University, Demographically
Dispersed
C.26: Making the Personal Public: Storytelling as Academic Discourse
in College Composition
Location: Riviera Hotel, Skybox 207, Second Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
This panel examines narrative and storytelling from three perspectives: the basic writing
classroom, the first-year student, and theoretical frameworks.
Speakers:
Amanda Athon - Storytelling and Basic Writing
D1: The Go-To Place for Basic Writing--Two-Year Colleges
Location: Riviera Hotel, Royale Pavilion 5, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Chair: Patrick Sullivan
Manchester Community College, CT
Speakers:
Jennifer Swartout, Heartland Community College, Normal IL
Three Rivers - Merging
Scholarship on Community Colleges, Basic Writing and Developmental Education
Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt, Yakima Valley Community College, Yakima, WA
Basic Writing in the Two-Year College—Mission Possible
Lynn Quitman Troyka, Queensborough Community College, CUNY, New York, NY
CCCC’s Stance toward BW and Two-Year Colleges
D.07: Approximating the University:
Novices Practicing Knowledge in the Basic Writing Classroom
Location: Riviera Hotel, Royale Pavilion 7, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Chair: Karen Gocsik, Dartmouth College
Speakers:
Laura Braunstein, Dartmouth College - Entering the Conversation: How Sources
Support and Impede Learning
Karen Gocsik ,Dartmouth College - Assembling Knowledge: How Novice Writers
Practice Knowing
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Cynthia Tobery, Dartmouth College - Writing Together: How Collaboration Enhances
(and Limits) Knowledge Construction
D.28: Concurrent Literacies: Digital Literacy and Basic Writing
Location: Riviera Hotel, Grande Ballroom H, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Chair: Linda Howell, University of North Florida
Speakers:
Rachael Jordan, CSU Northridge - Engaging in Digital Public Space: Facebook & Basic
Writing Students
Pegeen Reichert Powell, Columbia College Chicago - Low Tech Means to High Tech Ends:
Teaching Digital Writing in the Basic Writing Classroom
Lauren Williams, CUNY Bronx Community College - Rethinking Basic Writing for a
Digital Future: Replacing Assimilation with an Agenda of Empowerment
E.02: The Thin and Imaginary Border between Remedial
and Degree-Credit Composition: Using Multiple Measures
to Assess Student Readiness for College Reading and Writing
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 103, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Chair: Holly Hassel, University of Wisconsin Marathon County
Speakers:
Joanne Giordano, University of Wisconsin Colleges - Ready or Not: The Inaccuracy of
Standardized Tests in Placing Students in Remedial Courses
Holly Hassel, University of Wisconsin Marathon County - Using Multiple Measures to
Assess Student Readiness
Cassandra Phillips, University of Wisconsin-Waukesha - Ready to Write: Multiple
Measures and Learning the Writing Process
E.07: Basic Writer as Lightening Rod, Rosetta Stone, and Crucible: Access,
Accountability, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Texas
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 104, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Chair: Susan Wolff Murphy, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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Speakers:
Chimene Burnett, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi - Institutional Identity and the
Basic Writer
Michelle Garza, San Antonio College - (Re)Evaluating the Public: An Examination of
Current Approaches to the Teaching of Writing and Argument
Chelsea Mikulencak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi - Evaluation of a Basic Writing
Program
Susan Wolff Murphy, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi - Evaluation of a Basic
Writing Program
E.13: Social Connectedness and Student Support:
Enhancing Success and Retention in the Transition to College-Ready
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 110, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Chair: Erin Lehman Ivy Tech Community College Columbus/Franklin
Speakers:
Hope Parisi, Kingsborough Community College/ CUNY - Competing and Converging
Rhetorics: A Writing Tutorial for Taking a Student Support Services and Basic
Writing Collaboration Public
Lynn Shelly, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Marginality and Mattering: Basic
Writing as Public Work
Zandree Stidham, University of New Mexico - Los Alamos - This Is Why We Leave. This Is
Why We Stay: Forces Impacting the Trajectory of Transitioning Developmental
Students
TSIG 04: The Council on Basic Writing
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 107, First Floor
Time: Thursday, 3/14 from 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
This meeting of the Council on Basic Writing (CBW) SIG will provide networking
opportunities for basic writing faculty. The CBW mission statement and charter will also be
discussed. The Innovations Award and the Travel Award recipients will also be honored.
F.01: Basic Writing, Rhetorical Education, and Civic Engagement
Location: Riviera Hotel, Skybox 201, Second Floor
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Time: Friday, 3/15 from 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Chair: Emily Walters University of Dayton
Speakers:
Jonathan Bush, Western Michigan University - Connecting to Community: Place-Based
Pedagogy and the Developmental Writing Classroom
Bridget Ann Fahey, St. Ambrose University - The Role of Rhetoric in Basic Writing
Derek Handley, Community College of Allegheny County - Basic Writing and
Conversations within the Community
F.25: Occupying the Language of Remediation:
From CSUSB to Deborah Brandt to The Hunger Games
Location: Riviera Hotel, Grande Ballroom H, First Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Chair: Esther Gutierrez, California State University, San Bernardino
Speakers:
Francesca Astiazaran, California State University, San Bernardino
Sonia Castaneda, California State University, San Bernardino
Robert Diaz, California State University, San Bernardino
Brisa Galindo, California State University, San Bernardino
Gina Hanson, California State University, San Bernardino
Carol Haviland, California State University, San Bernardino
Sara Scotten, California State University, San Bernardino
Arturo Tejada, Jr., California State University, San Bernardino
DeShonna Wallace, California State University, San Bernardino
F.28: The Work of Scholarship:
Hermeneutics in Public and Institutional Arguments on Basic Writing
Location: Riviera, Grand Ballroom B
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Public and institutional discourses on Basic Writing and basic writers often center on
policy initiatives addressing economics, efficiency, standardization, and testing. A cursory
glance at the scholarship of BW reveals vastly different foci within the field. This session
will explore that scholarship by revealing four different avenues of interpretation within
BW that researchers might use to rewrite the ways public and institutional policy affect the
practice of the BW classroom.
Chair: Hannah Ashley, West Chester University
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Speakers:
Karen Uehling, Boise State University, ID - Assessment, Placement, and Access: Framing
Arguments from Local and National Histories
William Lalicker, West Chester University - Agency through Assessment: Developing a
Basic Writing Program Strength Quotient
Michael Hill, Henry Ford Community College - The Work of Philosophical Argument in
an Age of Mechanical Assessment
Abby Nance, Gardner-Webb University - A Tale of Two Classrooms: Practicing TraumaSensitive Placement
G.01: The Accelerated Learning Program:
Deepening the Teaching of Writing to Basic Writers
Location: Riviera Hotel, Skybox 202, Second Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM
The Accelerated Learning Program at the Community College of Baltimore County as taken
the national spotlight as a model in acceleration for basic writers. In the ALP, students who
have placed into a non-credit bearing basic writing course are mainstreamed into a creditbearing English composition course with twelve other composition students. ALP students
are therefore concurrently enrolled in two English courses that meet consecutively and are
taught by the same faculty member. After attending the English composition course, ALP
students proceed as a cohort to another classroom where the basic writing section is
taught in a workshop format that supports the students’ work in English 101. The
presentation will also describe the program at Georgia Gwinnett College, how ALP is
tailored to fit their needs and results after 1 year.
Chair: Linda De La Ysla, Community College of Baltimore County
Speakers:
Linda De La Ysla, Community College of Baltimore County – ALP at CCBC
Christine W. Heilman, Georgia Gwinnett College – ALP at GGC
H.01: Perspectives on the History and Future of Basic Writing
Location: Riviera Hotel, Grande Ballroom A, First Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
This panel will offer perspectives on the history and possible futures of basic writing from
scholars whose work has focused on this field’s social, material, and institutional histories.
At this important juncture in our educational history—when access is threatened by
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economic conditions as well as misinformed perceptions of who and what basic writing is,
and can be—this panel aims to provide a long view of the important moments in basic
writing’s history, particularly those that portend for its future.
Chair: Kelly Ritter, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Speakers:
Andrea Abernathy Lunsford, Stanford University – What’s in a Name: The Development
of Basic Writing
George Otte, The City University of New York – Anything But Basic
Mary Soliday, San Francisco State University – Where We Were Is Where We Could Be
H.08: Digital Media and Basic Writing: Enhancing the Work of Composition
Location: Riviera Hotel, Top of the Riviera North, Monaco Tower, 24th Floor
Time: Friday, March 15 from 11:00 AM -12:15 PM
These speakers will argue that if we are to truly reinvigorate our commitment to assist all
writers, we must teach our basic writers not only how to write, but also how to do school.
One means by which we can accomplish this work is through a digital pedagogy which
teaches students the tools they will employ in their classes and their lives outside the
classroom. Digital media applications can help students learn to be more attentive to the
rhetorical situations of composing, gain authority over their own writing, better
understand the role of genre conventions, and transition from basic writing to first-year
writing.
Chair: Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne (IPFW)
Speakers:
Nancy Pine, Columbus State Community College – “But I'm Just Not Good With
Technology": From Resistance to Empowerment in Basic Writing Courses
Catherine Braun, The Ohio State University at Marion - Encouraging Inquiry/Challenging
Formalism: Remix Assignments in a Basic Writing Class
Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne (IPFW) - "A Narrative Can Be
Explored in More Ways than One": Digital Media and the Transition From Basic to
First-Year Writing
H.16: Toward Consensus: Basic Writing Pedagogy in Community Colleges, from
Faculty Development to Active Learning
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 109, First Floor
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Time: Friday, 3/15 from 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Are there any core pedagogical principles upon which teachers of basic writing in
community colleges can agree? Drawing from recent research in basic writing instruction
and our work as teacher-scholars, we suggest that principles based upon general
consensus in the field and the experiences of classroom teachers can ground the practice of
basic writing.
Speakers:
Jamey Gallagher, Community College of Baltimore County - Faculty Development as
Consensus Building
Peter Adams, Community College of Baltimore County - Thinking Our Way Toward a
Pedagogy for Basic Writing
Michelle Zollars, Patrick Henry Community College - Transforming Colleges and
Classrooms through Active Cooperative Learning
H.18: Politics, Basic Writing, and the CSU System
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 111, First Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Chair: KC Culver University of Miami
Speakers:
Mathew Gomes, Michigan State University - Foreign Investments: International Student
Recruitment and the Modern Utility of Remediation in the CSU System
Brenda Helmbrecht, California Polytechnic State University - Still on the Front Lines: The
Battle to Protect Students from a 'Remedial' Debate
Dan Melzer, CSU Sacramento - Ending Remediation: A Critical Discourse Analysis
I.07: Reacting, Rallying, Re-imagining:
Full-Fledged University Students, Basic Writers No More
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 103, First Floor
Time: Friday ,3/15 from 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM
Chair: Don Kraemer, California State Polytechnic University
Speakers:
John Edlund, California State Polytechnic University, Ponoma - Reacting, Rallying, Reimagining: On Stretching a First-Year Composition Program
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Kristy Hodson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Reacting, Rallying, Reimagining: On Teaching a Stretched First-Year Composition Course
Leonard Vandegrift, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona - Reacting, Rallying,
Re-imagining: On Supporting a Stretched First-Year Composition Program
J.04: Legitimizing Basic Writers: A Public Conversation
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 105, First Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Chair: Carolyn Ostrander Syracuse University
Speakers: Deborah Marrott, Utah Valley University - (More) Public Conversations about
Writing and Literacy: Renewing the Call for Student-Present Research in Basic
Writing
Dawn Terrick, Missouri Western State University - From Private to Public, from
Marginal to Mainstream: Legitimizing the Work of the Basic Writing Student
J. 16: Trends in Accelerated Learning Programs
Location: Riviera Hotel, Royale Pavilion 4, First Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 2:00 PM-3:15 PM
Chair: Robert Miller, The Community College of Baltimore County
Speakers:
Robert Miller, The Community College of Baltimore County - The Creation of the Website
and the Process of Gathering Information
Cheryl Scott, The Community College of Baltimore County - A General Overview of the
Accelerated Learning Program at CCBC and Nationally
Monica Walker, The Community College of Baltimore County - An Analysis of the Results
Gathered from the Collected Data
J. 34: Troubling Placement in Basic Writing
Location: Riviera Hotel, Royale Pavilion 5, First Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Chair: Sarah Kirk, University of Alaska Anchorage
Speakers:
Sarah Kirk, University of Alaska Anchorage - Tracking Student Success: Evaluating a
Local Writing Sample as an Additional Placement Tool for Basic Writing Students
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Ashley Ludewig, University of Louisville - (Re)Investigating Writing Apprehension as a
Placement Tool: A Qualitative Exploration of Writing Apprehension with First-Year,
At-Risk Writers
Sean Molloy, Hunter College, CUNY - 'Caught in the Net of Numbers': How Mina
Shaughnessy Validated High-Stakes Writing Course Exit Tests
Keith Rhodes, Grand Valley State University - Own Your Own Placement: Self-Efficacy
and the Public Face of Directed Self-Placement
J.37: Fostering Reading Identity for Students
in the Developmental Writing Classroom
Location: Riviera Hotel, Skybox 202, Second Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Description for my presentation: This presentation will discuss the results of classroom
experiments designed to help basic writing students become more proficient readers and
writers of difficult texts through guided experiences with metacognition and revision as
they engage in the reading process—reading their own writing and the writing of others.
Speakers:
Cheryl Hogue Smith, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY - Basic Writers as Basic
Readers: Addressing Obstacles to Academic Literacy
Meghan Sweeney, University of Nevada, Reno - Fostering Reading Identity for Students
in the Developmental Writing Classroom
Maureen McBride, University of Nevada, Reno - Fostering Reading Identity for Students
in the Developmental Writing Classroom
K.28: Navigating the Academic Lingo: Language and Difference in Basic Writing
Location: Riviera Hotel, Skybox 209, Second Floor
Time: Friday, 3/15 from 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM
Chair: Deborah Teague Florida State University
Speakers:
Mwangi Chege, University of Cincinnati--Blue Ash - Navigating the Terrain of Academic
Discourse as an African American Basic Writer: Teachers as Co-Laborers by Adapting
a Dialogic and Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Pedagogy Approach
Dhruba Neupane, University of Waterloo - Mainstreaming Basic Writing Today:
Possibilities and Challenges
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Meredith Singleton, University of Cincinnati - Exploring the Vernacular Literacy of
Community College Students
Sarah Stanley, UAF - Tejada's Whisper: Micro, Meso, and Macro Levels of a
Parenthetical Limit Situation
L.31: Grading and Assessing Basic Writers
Location: Riviera Hotel, Skybox 210, Second Floor
Time: Saturday, 3/16 from 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Speakers:
Kerry Lane, Joliet Junior College - Collect $521 and Pass
Wendy Swyt, Highline Community College - Transparency and Grading Contracts: The
Work of College Readiness
Chris Vassett, Mesa Community College - A Public Implementation of the Writing
Program Administrator's Outcomes Statement in a Developmental Writing Course
M Session Digital Pedagogy Posters
Location: Top of Riveria--South
Time: Saturday, 3/16 from 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Speakers:
Amy Edwards Patterson, Moraine Park Technical College - Encouraging Digital Dexterity
in Basic Writers
Lynn Reid, Farleigh Dickinson University - Encouraging Digital Dexterity in Basic
Writers
Nicole Hancock, Southwestern Illinois University - Encouraging Digital Dexterity in Basic
Writers
We will share two assignments designed to increase digital dexterity in basic writers—an
online journal, meant to familiarize students with electronic ways of thinking, and digital
literacy narratives to enhance rhetorical thinking. The team, representing a technical
college, a community college, and a private university, will share interviews and student
projects.
M.15: Class Confidence: Basic Writing, Early Start,
and the Future of Remediation at Public Universities
Location: Riviera Hotel, Royale Pavilion 8, First Floor
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Time: Saturday, 3/16 from 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Chair: Tom Wilcox, California State University, Fullerton
Speakers:
Sheryl Fontaine, California State University, Fullerton - Learning the Etiquette of
Academic Culture
Elizabeth Saur, California State University, Fullerton - Enforced Remediation and
Reinforced Fears
Patrick Vallee, California State University, Fullerton - Say What? Understanding and
Using Professor Feedback
Steve Westbrook, California State University, Fullerton - Remediation or Class
Discrimination
M.19: Going Public through Partnership:
Basic Writing as a Nexus for Transfer, Advocacy, and Activism
Location: Riviera Hotel, Capri 115, First Floor
Time: Saturday, 3/16 from 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Heeding calls from student affairs scholars for academic and student affairs to work
together, the speakers will describe their efforts to establish support networks for
marginalized students in basic writing courses and to share responsibilities for student
success with invested institutional partners. By focusing on student writing as a point of
connection, basic writing teachers and administrators can draw on such partnerships on
campus and beyond, as sources of support and as sites for students to invest in their
writing.
Chair: Nicole MacLaughlin University of Notre Dame
Speakers:
Nicole MacLaughlin, University of Notre Dame - Reaching towards the Whole Student:
Collaboration as an Essential Element of an Accelerated Approach to Basic Writing
Ann McNair, University of Southern Mississippi - Operation Advocacy: Partnerships for
Fostering Student-Veterans' Success and Activism in Writing
Paula Patch, Elon University - Better Together: Opportunities for Including Athletic
Academic Advisors as Partners in the Teaching and Learning of Writing
M.20: Radical Reform:
Changing Basic Writing through Basic Writing Teachers
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Location: Riviera Hotel, Skybox 206, Second Floor
Time: Saturday, 3/16 from 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Speakers:
Shiloh Peters, Missouri State University - Teaching Writing IS a Second Language: How
Second Language Acquisition Theory May Mitigate Instructor Bias
Jerry Stinnett, University of Oklahoma - Finding a New Flagpole: Print Literacy,
Teaching Practices, and the Instructional Counterpublics of Basic Writing
About this guide
This list was compiled by J. Elizabeth Clark (lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu) from submissions on
our CBW-L listserv using information and descriptions provided by the presenters.
Thanks to all of you for crowd-sourcing this guide. Happy CCCC 2013!
Want to connect with other Basic Writing Faculty? Join the CBW (it’s free!).
The Conference on Basic Writing (the CBW), founded in 1980 by
Charles Guilford and Karen Uehling, unites Basic Writing
educators from across the country. In 2010, CBW changed its
name to Council on Basic Writing (CBW). Today, the CBW
functions as a special interest group of the Conference on College
Communication and Composition. We meet annually at the CCCC
meeting, hosting workshops and interest group meetings. Our
current co-chairs are J. Elizabeth Clark and Sugie Goen-Salter.
CBW Mission Statement
The Council on Basic Writing (CBW) is an organization that advocates for students in Basic
Writing and supports the professional endeavors of teachers, scholars, administrators, and
students involved with Basic Writing.
CBW promotes appropriate support for Basic Writing that fosters college access and
success for students who might otherwise be denied admittance. It pursues these ends
through
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Supporting dissemination and application of, and advancing, best practices for the
teaching and learning of writing, language, and literacy across two- and four-year
post-secondary institutions;
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Promoting student success within a range of disciplinary, professional, and social
contexts;
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Fostering a network of teacher-scholars, especially through BWe: Basic Writing eJournal, our listserv, and an annual workshop at the Conference on College
Composition and Communication, which encourages the development of research
and collaborative strategies to enhance teaching excellence;
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Advocating for student diversity in all its many and complex forms, especially in
terms of language, race, ethnicity, class, background, and ability;
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Promoting collaborations with secondary education faculty to facilitate smooth
transitions from high school to college for students served by Basic Writing; adult
and community education programs to facilitate successful transitions to college for
non-traditional students served by Basic Writing; and
post-secondary ESL and
academic support services;
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Working to raise the visibility of Basic Writing within the academy and the larger
public;
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and
influencing policies, including public policy, private foundations, and corporate
sponsors in ways benefiting Basic
Writing and the students it supports.
Join CBW by getting involved in CBW activities, conversations,
and getting connected to Basic Writing resources
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A Facebook Discussion Group, “Council on Basic Writing”
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A listserv for electronic discussion. CBW-L is a listserv focused on basic writing and
related issues. We welcome anyone who wishes to participate in an ongoing
discussion of basic writing as it is studied and practiced in its historically rich and
varied contexts. To subscribe to this listserv, send an e-mail message to:
listserv@umn.edu. The content of the message should read subscribe CBW-L
firstname lastname. For example, write subscribe cbw-l jane doe. You should leave
the subject line blank and remove your signature for this message. In response, you
will receive e-mail confirmation of your subscription and instructions for sending
future mail.
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An annual pre-conference workshop at the Conference on College Composition and
Communication. Information about this session is sent to all CBW members through
the CBW listserv.
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An annual special interest group meeting at the Conference on College Composition
and Communication. This informal evening gathering provides a venue for
discussing organizational issues and socializing with others interested in Basic
Writing.
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The CBW blog, providing a forum for discussion and information about Basic
Writing policy, curriculum, news, issues, and classroom practice.
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(http://cbwblog.wordpress.com)
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An electronic journal for Basic Writing: BWe
(http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/BWE/)
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The Journal of Basic Writing
(http://wac.colostate.edu/jbw/)
A bibliography of research and best practices in Basic Writing, published by
Bedford/St. Martin’s.