Supporting a New Home for the Writing Studies Community

Marguerite Regan

CCCC has nurtured my teaching practice for 25 years. I can’t see professional life without it.

Stephen Fox

The time is right for this declaration of independence.

Supporter

Because I care about literacy.

James Romesburg

This move is long overdue. We have a strong, independent scholarly record to stand on--full of work that was never recognized by literature and modern languages to begin with. "So let us melt, and make no noise...."

Lee Bauknight

I've been teaching college writing for 25 years and am the WPA at Lehigh University. We need an organization by us and for us.

Supporter

I appreciate the leadership it took to start this petition and I look forward to building much better support for our field, our students, and each other.

Dawn Cunningham Luebke

This is important to me because I am writer.

Lan Wang-Hiles

Writing study is important. So is the community of writing instructors. We need an organization for writing instructors, rhetoric teachers, scholars, and teachers.

Cynthia Selfe

Past CCCC Chair.

Purna Chandra Bhusal

This is my academic home.

Chris Fosen

As a longtime and now former member of NCTE, I say we deserve an institutional home in which our work is respected and supported.

Drew Loewe

Writing studies focusing on the collegiate level needs a new home and NCTE is not going to serve us well.

Kenton Wilcox

As has been mentioned elsewhere, Cs and NCTE have different cultures. That’s fine. Cs should belong solely to those who respect composition and communication pedagogy as scholarly disciplines.

Sandra Jamieson

Mostly because of what was revealed by the way NCTE has handled separation.

Supporter

Rhetoric and writing studies matter, but NCTE has decided otherwise.

A B M shafiqul Islam

Since CCCC has long been practicing, advocating and upholding resistance discourses through writing in Writing Studies, we should show some form of resistance when CCCC needs it most. We will look for a new home but never now down under pressure of NCTE

Jagadish Paudel

NA

Joonna Trapp

I think trust has been broken. Now that Writing and Rhetoric studies is a solid field with its own research and pedagogical strategies, this seems the best course without too much friction.

Iswari Pandey

Now that NCTE has unceremoniously de-chartered CCCC, teachers and scholars of writing studies need a platform of our own.

Allen Brizee

Rhet-compers need a home run by people they can trust to foster professionalization.