Supporting a New Home for the Writing Studies Community
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Tereza Joy Kramer
5 days ago
Yes -- everything is always changing. I appreciate the energy and calls for this time of transition to evolve into a stronger, focused support movement/organization.
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Abraham Romney
5 days ago
It always felt wrong that the central organization of our field was called a conference. CCCC clearly grew beyond that and doesn't need NCTE. NCTE doesn't seem to want it either or know how to support it. Time for RCWS to go its own way.
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Krista Ratcliffe
6 days ago
We must regroup into an organization that both legitimizes our work in the eyes of the academy (and even better if that also includes the eyes of the public) and provides structural support for all the people in our field.
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Cheryl Ball
11 days ago
As a past Chair of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication (7Cs) and long-time digital rhetoric and publishing scholar, I stopped my membership with NCTE in 2012 when I saw repeated failures on NCTE’s part to support and preserve the disciplinary work of CCCC. While I’m sorry it came to an abrupt dechartering of CCCC, the severance from NCTE will proceed fruitful. The field of writing studies has ALWAYS been its own best support; power on!
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Wei Xu
12 days ago
I’m a writing studies scholar and I need a scholarly home for my work.
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Carole Papper
13 days ago
My entire time in education—both as student and faculty—was devoted to the teaching and learning of writing and reading. My CCCC membership was vital to my own learning and to passing that learning and experience on to my students. Losing CCCC would be a disaster for both teachers and students.
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Kathryn Gindlesparger
13 days ago
Looking forward to a more inclusive, international org focused on the teaching of writing!
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Debbie Oesch-Minor
20 days ago
College composition teachers benefit from professional development, spaces for dissemination, and conversations with peers. If NCTE is not willing to host us, let's build something new.
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Leigh Adams
22 days ago
As I end my career, CCCC and its conference were my lifeline for professional development. I'm heartbroken that other young faculty at smaller institutions will lose the opportunity to meet with some of the best scholars in the field and learn to be better writing instructors and scholars the way I was able to do over the last 32 years. The annual conference and the journal provided far better training than I got as a student for the work I'm so passionate about doing.
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Supporter
23 days ago
We in the writing studies community have an opportunity here to make our own house. While that doesn't make NCTE's move any more comprehensible, I am glad we here all have the chance to work at a place for what we do, together.
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Shyam Sharma
26 days ago
I have paid to be a member of NCTE because of the setup as such, but I only benefited from CCCC. I found CCCC to be one of the most welcoming, resourceful, and transformative community of discourse and practice. I am shocked and incredulous that anyone can do such a thing in a country like the United States in the 21st century. I will NOT engage in any way shape or form with NCTE unless the saboteurs apologize for the cynical, apparently prejudicial, authoritarian act and correct course.
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John Eliason
27 days ago
Writing professionals deserve better than the treatment NCTE provides.
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Supporter
28 days ago
I'm a grad student in rhetoric and composition at Auburn University. I was excited at the prospect of going to CCCC's for the first time this year, excited to be immersed in the field I'm just getting started in. I'm optimistic to see where this community continues to grow.
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David Russell
28 days ago
I've been a member for 39 years. It's been the anchor of my professional life and a source of great friendships. The next organization will be even beetter!
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Levi Key
1 month ago
For my dear. That he may find control again.
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Jacqueline Jones Royster
1 month ago
The research, scholarship, and pedagogical enterprises of members of CCCC deserve a professional home where this work can be actively, critically, and innovatively engaged; respectfully interrogated, understood, and shared; and meaningfully presented in the company of others in and outside of the academic world. If that organization needs to be a new one, then we must make sure that it is indeed a great one.
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Shirley Logan
1 month ago
As a longtime member of CCCCs and a former chair, I strongly support this petition! Finally a pushback that can make a difference.
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Kelli Custer
1 month ago
This community of teacher-scholars has guided me through a 35-year career, and I've needed it every step of the way. We need an independent organization to continue that community for those signing here and those just coming into the field. Stay strong!
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charles Coleman
1 month ago
4Cs has been an invaluable source of peer sharing/learning/researching and political action.
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Jeanne Fahnestock
1 month ago
4Cs has been the primary forum for teachers of college writing for decades. It was founded by people like Wilma Ebbitt, Richard Larson, and Wayne Booth. An organization like this must be available to this community.
Yes -- everything is always changing. I appreciate the energy and calls for this time of transition to evolve into a stronger, focused support movement/organization.
It always felt wrong that the central organization of our field was called a conference. CCCC clearly grew beyond that and doesn't need NCTE. NCTE doesn't seem to want it either or know how to support it. Time for RCWS to go its own way.
We must regroup into an organization that both legitimizes our work in the eyes of the academy (and even better if that also includes the eyes of the public) and provides structural support for all the people in our field.
As a past Chair of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication (7Cs) and long-time digital rhetoric and publishing scholar, I stopped my membership with NCTE in 2012 when I saw repeated failures on NCTE’s part to support and preserve the disciplinary work of CCCC. While I’m sorry it came to an abrupt dechartering of CCCC, the severance from NCTE will proceed fruitful. The field of writing studies has ALWAYS been its own best support; power on!
I’m a writing studies scholar and I need a scholarly home for my work.
My entire time in education—both as student and faculty—was devoted to the teaching and learning of writing and reading. My CCCC membership was vital to my own learning and to passing that learning and experience on to my students. Losing CCCC would be a disaster for both teachers and students.
Looking forward to a more inclusive, international org focused on the teaching of writing!
College composition teachers benefit from professional development, spaces for dissemination, and conversations with peers. If NCTE is not willing to host us, let's build something new.
As I end my career, CCCC and its conference were my lifeline for professional development. I'm heartbroken that other young faculty at smaller institutions will lose the opportunity to meet with some of the best scholars in the field and learn to be better writing instructors and scholars the way I was able to do over the last 32 years. The annual conference and the journal provided far better training than I got as a student for the work I'm so passionate about doing.
We in the writing studies community have an opportunity here to make our own house. While that doesn't make NCTE's move any more comprehensible, I am glad we here all have the chance to work at a place for what we do, together.
I have paid to be a member of NCTE because of the setup as such, but I only benefited from CCCC. I found CCCC to be one of the most welcoming, resourceful, and transformative community of discourse and practice. I am shocked and incredulous that anyone can do such a thing in a country like the United States in the 21st century. I will NOT engage in any way shape or form with NCTE unless the saboteurs apologize for the cynical, apparently prejudicial, authoritarian act and correct course.
Writing professionals deserve better than the treatment NCTE provides.
I'm a grad student in rhetoric and composition at Auburn University. I was excited at the prospect of going to CCCC's for the first time this year, excited to be immersed in the field I'm just getting started in. I'm optimistic to see where this community continues to grow.
I've been a member for 39 years. It's been the anchor of my professional life and a source of great friendships. The next organization will be even beetter!
For my dear. That he may find control again.
The research, scholarship, and pedagogical enterprises of members of CCCC deserve a professional home where this work can be actively, critically, and innovatively engaged; respectfully interrogated, understood, and shared; and meaningfully presented in the company of others in and outside of the academic world. If that organization needs to be a new one, then we must make sure that it is indeed a great one.
As a longtime member of CCCCs and a former chair, I strongly support this petition! Finally a pushback that can make a difference.
This community of teacher-scholars has guided me through a 35-year career, and I've needed it every step of the way. We need an independent organization to continue that community for those signing here and those just coming into the field. Stay strong!
4Cs has been an invaluable source of peer sharing/learning/researching and political action.
4Cs has been the primary forum for teachers of college writing for decades. It was founded by people like Wilma Ebbitt, Richard Larson, and Wayne Booth. An organization like this must be available to this community.