Category: CBW 2013
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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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2013 Innovations Award
CBW was pleased to award the 2013 Award for Innovations in Basic Writing to the University of Arizona for its Adapted Studio Model. You’ll be able to hear more about this exciting work at next year’s 2014 CBW pre-conference workshop. Aimee Mapes of the University of Arizona, pictured here with CBW Executive Board Member, and…
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2013 Travel Award Winner
CBW was pleased to award the 2013 Travel Award to Susan Naomi Bernstein at last night’s Special Interest Group Meeting. Susan, pictured here in purple with CBW Travel Award Committee Member Lynn Reid.
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There’s Nothing Basic About Basic Writing
This panel has been discussed in great detail below. So let me just summarize a few key insights for me during this panel. The panel began with Elaine Jolayemi’s discussion of “what is a basic writer?” and “how do institutions designate basic writers?” The framing of this as two separate questions in itself is insightful…
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Publishing & Grant Writing Workshop
This afternoon’s session focused on publishing & grant writing with a particular emphasis on newer scholars preparing to enter the field. Jen Fishman and Joan Mullin presented about how basic writing scholars can get involved with REx: the Research Exchange Index. Susan Naomi Bernstein gave a beautiful talk about the process…
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Race, Language, and Access: Possible Futures of Basic Writing
This afternoon we delved into basic writing and whiteness; the role of basic writing in Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs); race-conscious basic writing pedagogies; and basic writing and “Generation 1.5” students with scholars Scott Lyons, Beatrice Mendez-Newman, Min-Zhan Lu, Shirley Faulkner-Springfield, Steve Lamos, and Wendy Olson. Steve Lamos started off the session framing it with the work…
Council on Basic Writing 