Category: CCCC 2012
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Live from CCCC 2012: Roundtable on Basic Writing, 3.24.12
This year at CCCC, we tried an experiment to bring together conference attendees interested in Basic Writing and Basic Writing faculty from around the country who couldn’t attend CCCC in a live conference event. The panel began asynchronously before CCCC on Facebook. There, each week, our moderators introduced the following topics: Session Organizer and Moderator:…
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Thanks to our bloggers!
Many thanks to the hard working Karin Evans, Marisa Klages, and Jeannie Waller for blogging and tweeting basic writing at CCCC! Thanks for all of your hard work in documenting CCCC!
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Basic Writing for a Transcultural Era
William Lalicker started off the discussion with the ways we underserve basic writers by limiting what students have access to in their written discourses. Lalicker compared a basic writing approach to teaching, “Get it neat, practical, and readable” with selected titles from last year’s 2011 conference program. Why, Lalicker asks, do we allow ourselves the…
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Live Discussion about Basic Writing, T-2 hours and 22 minutes
Reminder: today’s live presentation event! Conference in from wherever you are! The event begins at 12:30 CDT. Have you been enjoying the discussion, be sure to continue hanging out with us LIVE at CCCCs. The roundtable “There’s Nothing Basic about Basic Writing” will be TODAY! Saturday, March 24, 2012, from 12:30-1:45pm (CDT). If you are…
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CBW Sense of the House Resolution, 2012
If you were at this year’s CCCC, or if you followed along virtually, you know that the role of basic writing was greatly increased in the program. This trend continues with the 2013 Call for Papers. The CBW Executive Board wanted to publicly thank Chris Anson and Howard Tinberg, so we introduced this sense of…
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Annual Business Meeting and Town Meeting
The CCCC annual business meeting started off early this morning. Malea Powell mentioned that the executive committee is examining several interesting new measures such as fully funding the research initiative and the possibility of electronic voting. CCCC continues to lose membership, but at a lower rate than other years, at about 4%. Chris Anson announced…
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Join Us at CCCC Tomorrow, No Matter Where You Are! LIVE Teleconference.
Reminder: tomorrow’s live presentation event! Conference in from wherever you are! Have you been enjoying the discussion, be sure to continue hanging out with us LIVE at CCCCs. The roundtable “There’s Nothing Basic about Basic Writing” will be on Saturday, March 24, 2012, from 12:30-1:45pm (CDT). If you are at CCCCs, please join us in…
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Mike Rose, Exemplar Award
Mike Rose Winner of the 2012 Exemplar Award Mike Rose offered these words of advice to us as a community (paraphrased): 1. Develop what jazz musicians call “big ears” Read: read outside of the discipline, read and experiment with different kinds of inquiry 2. Connect your academic work to the world outside of the academy…
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Chair’s Address
Tweeting this morning. Follow along at #4C12
Council on Basic Writing 