Category: Calls to Action
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Call for Papers: BWe Special Issue
2014 BWe Special Issue: Call for Submissions Basic Writing, Community Engagement, and Interdisciplinarity Guest Editor: Tom Peele, Long Island University, Brooklyn Click here for the on-line version of the CFP: http://bwe.ccny.cuny.edu/cfp_bw_community_engagement.html Click here for the PDF of the CFP: CFP Basic Writing and Community Engagement
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Petition for Human Readers (Anti-Machine Scoring)
Hi Folks, This was already posted, but it got a lot of play at CCCC last week, so I wanted to repost it. This is a petition emphasizing the importance of human readers for student work, protesting a trend towards machine scoring. http://humanreaders.org/petition/
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Questions and Answer Session with Victor Villanueva
1. There have been questions and discussion about engaging faculty from other departments & disciplines. One issue that’s come up is what happens when students are kept out of the regular curriculum & faculty outside of basic writing do not engage with those students. How do we make those “introductions” and engage them in the…
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Sense of the House Motion, CCCC 2011
The Resolution: The Executive Board of the Council on Basic Writing put together a Sense of the House resolution, which was presented and passed at the 2011 CCCC business meeting on 9 April 2011. This resolution came out of a sense of the increasing invisibility of Basic Writing at CCCC. The Resolution: “Be it resolved…
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Mike Hill’s Summary of the Sense of the House Motion/CCCC Business Meeting
Hello All, The resolution we developed and passed in the CBW workshop and SIG of CCCC was entered into the CCCC business meeting as a sense-of-the-house motion this morning. That resolution is: “Be it resolved that Basic Writing, a vital field and its students and teacher scholars aproductive force within composition; is under attack by…
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Update on the Sense of the House Resolution
I know that many of you have been following the Sense of the House Resolution at CCCC over the past two days. We will send a full update later this weekend, but Peter Adams sent this word from the floor of the house. “The resolution just passed unanimously at business meeting and that Chris Anson,…
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Next Steps for CBW
Michael Hill’s presentation today challenged the Council on Basic Writing to move beyond a mission statement to focus on best practice statements, like WPA and NCTE and CCCC have. His call to action included: Clear & Strong Best Practice Statements on issues like: assessment grammar instruction placement procedures class size faculty training ESL programmatic support…
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Developing Ideas for the Mission Statement
Idea #1: Mission Statement The Council on Basic Writing is an organization that advocates for all basic writers across all institutions types and supports basic writing teacher-scholars in the professional endeavors. We pursue these ends by: · Working to raise the visibility of basic writings’ central role to the academic and civic enterprise across our…
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