Call and program
Each year CCCC publishes a call for proposals, and the program is what came back. This page sets the two side by side: for each call, the words most particular to it, and how often those words turn up in the titles of that year’s sessions and papers, against titles in other years.
The call text is NCTE’s, so it is not reproduced here; each call is linked at NCTE where it is still online. The reader found calls for 15 years: 2010–2012, 2014–2019 and 2022–2027 (the others are not online). A call’s particular words are words of five or more letters used at least three times in it and in few other calls, after dropping dates, host cities and submission vocabulary. The echo shows whether the program took up the call’s language. It is not a measure of influence, since a call and a program draw on the same field, and short calls (2014, 2026) leave few particular words. Read it as a hint, then open the titles.
| Year | Theme | Particular words in the call | Titles using one of them |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2027 NCTE’s call |
speculative trajectories preferable probable complexity chaos preposterous foresight collapse plausible invites fatalism | 9.2% (other years 0.3%) | |
| 2026 NCTE’s call |
conferences draft bishop | 0.9% (other years 0.2%) | |
| 2025 NCTE’s call |
’Computer Love’: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity | music extended sides sampling songs miller vinyl version turntables elkhwad distinguish collaborate | 8.5% (other years 0.4%) |
| 2024 NCTE’s call |
Writing Abundance: Celebrating 75 Years of Conversations about Rhetoric, Composition, Technical Communication, and Literacy | abundance abundant scarcity native settler hawaiian capitalist hawai kanaka maoli fujikane economies | 30.0% (other years 0.6%) |
| 2023 NCTE’s call |
Doing Hop in Desperate Times | truth narrative thread cornel despair energy counterstory power peoples method frankie condon | 7.4% (other years 4.1%) |
| 2022 NCTE’s call |
The Promises and Perils of Higher Education: Our Discipline’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Linguistic Justice | survival equity postsecondary coronavirus death really perils health grading declines decline pursuit | 11.2% (other years 1.5%) |
| 2019 NCTE’s call |
Performance-Rhetoric, Performance-Composition | performance performative thinks elicit brings | 24.7% (other years 0.5%) |
| 2018 NCTE’s call |
Languaging, Laboring, and Transforming | languaging laboring labors brother transforming socially transform bodies article structurally mouth inoue | 14.2% (other years 1.3%) |
| 2017 NCTE’s call |
Cultivating Capacity, Creating Change | cultivate capacity cultivation valley sustain organizational leaders collectively | 6.3% (other years 1.0%) |
| 2016 NCTE’s call (PDF) |
Writing Strategies for Action | strategic abilities success frameworks contributed assessed prompt subject postsecondary strategically sexual broad | 3.9% (other years 1.9%) |
| 2015 NCTE’s call (PDF) |
Risk and Reward | risks innovation reward trying rewards chances failure comfort sexual interaction applicants | 15.3% (other years 1.0%) |
| 2014 NCTE’s call (PDF) |
Open | Source(s), Access, Futures | interdisciplinary visions | 0.6% (other years 0.4%) |
| 2012 NCTE’s call (PDF) |
Writing Gateways | gateways gateway transitions behind ahead interdisciplinary | 13.8% (other years 0.7%) |
| 2011 NCTE’s call (PDF) |
All Our Relations: Contested Space, Contested Knowledge | contested relatives balance asking | 5.0% (other years 0.2%) |
| 2010 NCTE’s call (PDF) |
The Remix: Revisit, Rethink, Revise, Renew | revisit appeal rethink renew elements revise begin | 12.7% (other years 1.2%) |
Hover a word to see how often it appears in titles that year and in other years. Terms over time follows any word across all years.