Category: CCCC 2013

• 03/28/2013

  Resources from Session F.28

  Karen S. Uehling has generously provided this incredibly useful bibliography for her talk on “Assessment, Placement, and Access: Framing Arguments from Local and National Histories” as part of her CCCC presentation March 15, 2013. Assessment, Placement, and Access: Framing Arguments from Local and National Histories A Bibliography by Karen S. Uehling Adams, Peter, Sarah Gearhart, Robert Miller,…
• 03/18/2013

  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/
• 03/15/2013

  K.02: Revising the WPA Outcomes Statement for a Multimodal, Digitally Composed World

  Although this session is not explicitly about basic writing, I think it’s important to add to the conversation. As we think about basic writing, its many forms, and its many different curricular definitions & iterations across the country, the WPA Outcomes for First Year Writing have become a national touchstone for what first year comp…
• 03/15/2013

  Materials From A17, There’s Nothing Basic About Basic Writing:

  Hi Folks, Here’s the presentation for those of you who were asking. A17 Nothing Basic About Basic Writing 2013 It should be downloadable as a PDF file.
• 03/15/2013

  J.37 Fostering Reading Identity for Students in the Developmental Writing Classroom

  Again, excuse typos and autocorrect, folks! iPad typing is difficult. Cheryl Hogue Smith, Kingsborough CC: Basic Writers as Basic Readers: Addressing Obstacles to Academic Literacy Students act as “miners for gold”–looking for the correct answer the teacher wants them to find. But they miss the “gorillas” that appear in the text. They have “inattentional blindness”.…
• 03/15/2013

  Perspectives on the History and Future of Basic Writing

  With inconsistent internet and an overwhelming stream of panels (and textbook parties), I want to do a brief post on what’s freshest in my mind – the wonderful histories presented by Andrea Lunsford, Mary Soliday, Gregory Ott, and Kelly Ritter in “Perspectives on the History and Future of Basic Writing”  — and return later today…
• 03/15/2013

  On “We are Borg: Composing Processes and Identities”

  The session “We are Borg: Composing Processes and Identities” dealt with using multimodal composing to break students out of “genre knowledge” that might not be serving them in composition classrooms. The first talk was by Angela Laflen. Her talk was entitled “Charting the New World between Whiteboards and Slides: Composing Online with Prezi.” She demonstrated…
• 03/15/2013

  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…
• 03/15/2013

  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.
• 03/15/2013

  F.28: The Work of Scholarship: Hermeneutics in Public and Institutional Arguments on Basic Writing

  This session, chaired by Hannah Ashley, focused on public and institutional discourses about Basic Writing and Basic Writers. The emphasis was on rewriting the narrative of Basic Writing as part of shaping the public and institutional policies that affect Basic Writing programs, Basic Writers, and faculty and staff. Karen Uehling presented on “Assessment, Placement, and Access:…