Supporting a New Home for the Writing Studies Community
215 Comments
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Carol Severino
2 months ago
I support a new community and resources for writing studies.
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Md Fahad Hossain
2 months ago
We want an independent writing studies conference that doesn't have a big brother breathing on the neck problem. Freedom in teaching, freedom in researching, freedom in presenting, and freedom in conferencing.....
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Supporter
2 months ago
I already ended my NCTE membership and have no intention of renewing. I fully support exploring independent alternative arrangements for the myriad scholarly roles that CCCCs performed.
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Mathew Gomes
2 months ago
Writing studies is an international discipline, that extends well beyond the “teaching of English.” NCTE’s communication and decision making processes that resulted in the de-chartering of CCCC and its post hoc (lip service?) efforts to explore alternatives for supporting writing studies further mark the organization as a poor fit for the discipline’s work and scholars.
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John Dunn
2 months ago
Keep fighting the good fight!
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Sarah Hirsch
2 months ago
The CCCC has given me so many professional opportunities over the years. From finding and joining a research group to the Research Network Forum. At the RNF I have shared my work and received feedback and now have been a Discussion Leader for many years. The RNF is the reason why my work, which started there, is now published.
This year I was looking forward to being part of the Executive Committee of the RNF and presenting with my book editors. All professional opportunities lost.
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June Johnson
2 months ago
Despite the pressures from AI, we who have taught writing for years know that writing is thinking, learning, listening, relating, reaching out, contributing knowledge, participating as citizens. A lively exchange of best practices in our discipline invigorates our teaching of the vital ways of being and the skills that grow from writing competence. Our discipline needs a forum, especially in this historical/cultural moment of when humanities and universities themselves are under attack.
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Amy Lueck
2 months ago
Having served in the EC twice in recent years and observed the tensions between Cs leadership and NCTE membership, I can’t say this move surprised me, though its abruptness certainly did. I look forward to identifying or creating a disciplinary home that is more than a “conference” of a broader parent org, now that our feet are firmly under us and we’re ready to do so, which I trust we are.
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Braydon Dungan
2 months ago
CCCC has been a monumental event shaping the early days of my academic and professional career. I, and many others, feel disrespected, undervalued, and betrayed by the very organization designed to support those in our discipline.
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Don Moore
2 months ago
The history of the CCCCs and the contributions the conference and journal have provided the writing studies community have been completely overlooked or disregarded by NCTE "leadership." I couldn't agree more with Mike's statement. Taking a sledgehammer to the CCCCs is not the way forward.
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Rae Ann Meriwether
2 months ago
After the NCTE’s actions, we really need this!
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Vincent Casaregola
2 months ago
CCCC has been a formative and supportive part of my professional teaching and research career for about 40 years. It has been profoundly important for me and for my students, both graduate and undergraduate. The actions of NCTE in this matter seem absurd to me. I agree that we must work together to find a new home for writing studies at the college level.
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Sara Humphreys
2 months ago
We depend the the 4Cs at many Canadian institutions for guidance and support!
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Libby Falk Jones
2 months ago
Cs has been a core of my professional life for more than 40 years. I support this effort to keep alive this community essential to writers, writing teachers, writing students, and the field of Writing Studies.
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Supporter
2 months ago
CCCC is why I joined NCTE. So I will look forward to a new, independent and continually growing CCCC created by its members.
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Liana Odrcic
2 months ago
As a 35-year veteran of teaching writing at the college level and as faculty at a technical college, I want to be a part of building our new disciplinary and pedagogical home.
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Omar Yacoub
2 months ago
We deserve a professional home that understands us, our field, and our values. This is a difficult moment, but it is also an opportunity to build something more independent and transparent.
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Katlynne Davis
2 months ago
CCCCs is central connecting point of Writing Studies, and I support (and much appreciate) the work needed to create a new home for the organization.
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Joyce Carter
2 months ago
I'm a former chair of CCCC, and over the years have served on scholarship committees, caucuses, SIGS, the EC. I have also served NCTE's EC in a number of roles. I think what NCTE has overlooked in its recent rash decision is that the C's is far more than a convention, a gathering of people that could be served in November as well as in March. No, the C's is a locus for research, new ideas, political action, scholarship, quite independent of the NCTE activities.
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Robert Marrs
2 months ago
For four decades CCCC has played an essential role in my professional career. We should do whatever necessary to insure its survival.
I support a new community and resources for writing studies.
We want an independent writing studies conference that doesn't have a big brother breathing on the neck problem. Freedom in teaching, freedom in researching, freedom in presenting, and freedom in conferencing.....
I already ended my NCTE membership and have no intention of renewing. I fully support exploring independent alternative arrangements for the myriad scholarly roles that CCCCs performed.
Writing studies is an international discipline, that extends well beyond the “teaching of English.” NCTE’s communication and decision making processes that resulted in the de-chartering of CCCC and its post hoc (lip service?) efforts to explore alternatives for supporting writing studies further mark the organization as a poor fit for the discipline’s work and scholars.
Keep fighting the good fight!
The CCCC has given me so many professional opportunities over the years. From finding and joining a research group to the Research Network Forum. At the RNF I have shared my work and received feedback and now have been a Discussion Leader for many years. The RNF is the reason why my work, which started there, is now published. This year I was looking forward to being part of the Executive Committee of the RNF and presenting with my book editors. All professional opportunities lost.
Despite the pressures from AI, we who have taught writing for years know that writing is thinking, learning, listening, relating, reaching out, contributing knowledge, participating as citizens. A lively exchange of best practices in our discipline invigorates our teaching of the vital ways of being and the skills that grow from writing competence. Our discipline needs a forum, especially in this historical/cultural moment of when humanities and universities themselves are under attack.
Having served in the EC twice in recent years and observed the tensions between Cs leadership and NCTE membership, I can’t say this move surprised me, though its abruptness certainly did. I look forward to identifying or creating a disciplinary home that is more than a “conference” of a broader parent org, now that our feet are firmly under us and we’re ready to do so, which I trust we are.
CCCC has been a monumental event shaping the early days of my academic and professional career. I, and many others, feel disrespected, undervalued, and betrayed by the very organization designed to support those in our discipline.
The history of the CCCCs and the contributions the conference and journal have provided the writing studies community have been completely overlooked or disregarded by NCTE "leadership." I couldn't agree more with Mike's statement. Taking a sledgehammer to the CCCCs is not the way forward.
After the NCTE’s actions, we really need this!
CCCC has been a formative and supportive part of my professional teaching and research career for about 40 years. It has been profoundly important for me and for my students, both graduate and undergraduate. The actions of NCTE in this matter seem absurd to me. I agree that we must work together to find a new home for writing studies at the college level.
We depend the the 4Cs at many Canadian institutions for guidance and support!
Cs has been a core of my professional life for more than 40 years. I support this effort to keep alive this community essential to writers, writing teachers, writing students, and the field of Writing Studies.
CCCC is why I joined NCTE. So I will look forward to a new, independent and continually growing CCCC created by its members.
As a 35-year veteran of teaching writing at the college level and as faculty at a technical college, I want to be a part of building our new disciplinary and pedagogical home.
We deserve a professional home that understands us, our field, and our values. This is a difficult moment, but it is also an opportunity to build something more independent and transparent.
CCCCs is central connecting point of Writing Studies, and I support (and much appreciate) the work needed to create a new home for the organization.
I'm a former chair of CCCC, and over the years have served on scholarship committees, caucuses, SIGS, the EC. I have also served NCTE's EC in a number of roles. I think what NCTE has overlooked in its recent rash decision is that the C's is far more than a convention, a gathering of people that could be served in November as well as in March. No, the C's is a locus for research, new ideas, political action, scholarship, quite independent of the NCTE activities.
For four decades CCCC has played an essential role in my professional career. We should do whatever necessary to insure its survival.