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Supporting a New Home for the Writing Studies Community

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Albert Rouzie Verified
1 month ago

It wasn’t broken, so don’t ‘fix’ it!

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Roxanne Mountford Verified
1 month ago

I am for sustainable futures for our organization and its members. NCTE has proven they are no longer trustworthy.

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Keith Miller Verified
1 month ago

NCTE's decision to de-charter CCCC is terrible.

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jiva Lamsal Verified
1 month ago

Conference on College Composition and Communication is an excellent forum to meet and discuss ideas that brings writing teachers, students, and all related and interested to it one forum and help create and disseminate knowledge. It must survive.

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Clifton Justice Verified
1 month ago

Wonderful development for the field!

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Tom miller Verified
1 month ago

NCTE's first president was a compositionist (Fred Newton Scott), but it was the broader progressive engagements of the times that gave rise to both NCTE and modern composition studies. Collaborations with local teachers, community leaders and activists are even more urgent today. I hope collaborations with these networks will be considered as folks consider next steps.

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Marilyn Cooper Verified
1 month ago

Writing teachers meed a strong organization separate from NCTE to support research and communication about writing. Join me in signing this petition.

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Supporter Verified
1 month ago

Quite some time ago, Writing Studies grew beyond NCTE. It's time to have a discipline-specific professional organization.

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Jeanne Gunner Verified
1 month ago

CCCC was so inclusive in scholarly and material ways, and this NCTE decision disperses us as a professional and intellectual community. As a former College English editor who valued NCTE’s role in democratizing the field, I’m deeply sorry to see its loss of commitment, especially at a time when higher ed needs to stand against demagoguery and for the rights and interests of writing and rhetoric scholars and teachers.

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Chris Geyer Verified
1 month ago

I teach college writing, and I would love for the writing studies community to have a new home.

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S.J. Williamson Verified
1 month ago

after swiftly voting and not informing CCCC members, NCTE cannot be trusted.

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Emad Hakim Verified
1 month ago

Yes for an independent home for a critical investigation of writing and rhetoric.

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Florence Davies Verified
1 month ago

Because composition studies deserves a voice supported by institutions that allegedly care about education.

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Colleen Bond Verified
1 month ago

No academic censorship

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Darsie Bowden Verified
1 month ago

I hope that as an organization independent of the current NCTE, we have the potential to more influential on how writing is understood, taught and studied at all levels (not just college).

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Julia U Verified
1 month ago

I just hope that we don’t have to deal with this kind of predatory relationship in the future

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Heather Bruce Verified
1 month ago

Writing Studies needs a respectful home.

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Ingrid Stassen Verified
1 month ago

Writing is thinking. Let the good, the very best, people do the job!

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Kathleen Klompien Verified
1 month ago

It is vital that we chart our own path.

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Rik Hunter Verified
1 month ago

“It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another…to assume… the separate and equal station…” — Declaration of Independence