Groups

The programs give special interest groups, caucuses, standing groups and consortia their own meeting slots. This is a register of the names that held them, from the first convention in the corpus to the latest, with the years each one met.

This lists sessions in the special-interest slots, grouped by the name in the title. It is not an official list of CCCC's groups. A name's kind follows its latest wording, since many SIGs later became standing groups. Some slots held one-off topical discussions, and those appear as single-year entries (hidden unless you ask). Groups that changed names appear under each name unless an alias joins them. No slots appear for 2000–2003 and 2021–2022, and 2018's program used a different layout, so some groups look like they skipped those years.

Group	Kind	Years	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	23	24	25	26
Black Caucus	caucus	18	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●		●
Latino Caucus	caucus	17	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			●		●	●	●
Medical Rhetoric	standing group	17	●	●	●	●		●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
American Indian Caucus	caucus	16	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			●			●	●
Queer Caucus	caucus	16	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			●		●	●	●
Asian/Asian American Caucus	caucus	15	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●			●		●	●	●
National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric	special interest group	15	●		●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●			●	●		●	●
Conference on Basic Writing	special interest group	13	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●								●	●
Transnational Composition	standing group	13					●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●			●	●	●
Disability Studies	standing group	12				●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●				●		●	●	●
International Network of Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs	interest-slot session	12	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●
Labor Caucus	caucus	12						●		●	●	●	●	●	●			●	●	●	●	●
The Role of Reading in Composition Studies	interest-slot session	12								●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●
Working-Class Culture and Pedagogy	standing group	12		●	●	●	●	●			●		●	●					●	●	●	●
English Education/Composition Connections	special interest group	11			●	●	●	●		●	●	●		●	●				●	●
Kenneth Burke Society at CCCC	special interest group	11			●	●				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Language, Linguistics, and Writing	standing group	11			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●					●
Independent Writing Units	interest-slot session	10	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Writing with Current, Former, and Future Members of the Military	standing group	10						●	●	●	●	●	●	●				●	●		●
Council for Play and Game Studies	standing group	9										●	●	●	●			●	●	●	●	●
International Writing Centers Association	interest-slot session	9			●								●	●	●		●	●		●	●	●
Rhetoric and Christian Tradition	interest-slot session	9	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Studio	special interest group	9			●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●					●
Teaching Adult Writers in Diverse Contexts	special interest group	9	●	●	●	●							●	●	●			●	●
Rhetoric and Religious Traditions	standing group	8										●	●	●	●			●	●	●	●
Studio PLUS	special interest group	8											●	●	●			●	●	●	●	●
Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research, and Literacies	special interest group	8									●	●	●	●	●		●	●		●
Dual Enrollment	standing group	7												●	●		●	●	●		●	●
Progressive Approaches to Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage	special interest group	7						●	●	●		●	●	●	●
Second Language Writing	standing group	7												●	●			●	●	●	●	●
Teaching for Transfer	standing group	7												●	●			●	●	●	●	●
Writing Assessment	special interest group	7														●	●	●	●	●	●	●
Writing and STEM	special interest group	7												●	●		●	●	●	●	●
Appalachian Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy	special interest group	6								●	●	●	●	●	●
CCCC Community Literacy, Service-Learning, and Public Rhetorics	special interest group	6							●	●	●	●	●	●
Community Writing and Public Rhetorics	special interest group	6															●	●	●	●	●	●
EngiComm: Writing Across the Engineering Curriculum	interest-slot session	6	●	●	●	●	●	●
Environmental Rhetoric and Advocacy	standing group	6														●		●	●	●	●	●
Film, Television, and Visual Rhetoric	special interest group	6	●	●	●	●	●	●
Legal Writing and Rhetoric	standing group	6													●		●	●	●	●	●
Rhetoric’s Histories: Traditions, Theories, Pedagogies, and Practices	special interest group	6									●	●	●					●	●	●
Science and Writing	interest-slot session	6						●	●	●	●	●	●
Teaching Adult Writers in Diverse Settings	special interest group	6					●	●	●	●	●						●
Writing about Writing	standing group	6												●	●				●	●	●	●
Creative Nonfiction	standing group	5			●	●													●	●	●
Creative Writing	standing group	5			●	●													●	●	●
Graduate Student	standing group	5								●	●	●								●	●
Handcrafted Rhetorics	special interest group	5																●	●	●	●	●
Internship	special interest group	5																●	●	●	●	●
Jewish Caucus	caucus	5																●	●	●	●	●
Mothers in Rhetoric and Composition	special interest group	5														●			●	●	●	●
Non-Western Rhetorical Traditions	interest-slot session	5			●	●		●	●				●
Undergraduate Consortium in Rhetoric and Writing	consortium	5					●	●	●				●	●
Undergraduate Research	standing group	5											●	●					●	●	●
Writing through the Lifespan	standing group	5																●	●	●	●	●
Canadian Caucus	caucus	4			●	●	●	●
Cognition and Writing	standing group	4																	●	●	●	●
Composition at the Small College/University	interest-slot session	4		●	●	●	●
Feminist Caucus	caucus	4																	●	●	●	●
High School/College Articulation	interest-slot session	4	●	●	●	●
Independent Scholars	special interest group	4																●	●	●	●
Martial Arts and Composition-Rhetoric	special interest group	4													●	●	●	●
Senior, Late-Career, and Retired Professionals	special interest group	4													●		●	●	●
Serious Games	special interest group	4				●	●	●	●
Sound	special interest group	4													●		●	●	●
Teachers of Writing for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing	interest-slot session	4	●	●	●			●
Teaching Writing in Interdisciplinary Classrooms and Learning Communities	interest-slot session	4				●		●	●	●
The Teaching and Mentoring of TAs and Instructors in Composition	special interest group	4	●	●	●	●
The ‘5th C’	special interest group	4		●	●	●	●
Untenured Writing Program Administrators	special interest group	4										●	●	●	●
Untenured and Alternative-Academic WPA	standing group	4																●		●	●	●
Women’s Network	special interest group	4									●	●	●				●
Writing about Writing: FYC as Introduction to Writing Studies	interest-slot session	4							●	●	●	●
1UP: Perspectives from Scholars/Practitioners of Video Games	interest-slot session	3		●	●	●
Appalachian Rhetorics and Literacies	standing group	3																●		●	●
Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction: CCCC	interest-slot session	3					●				●	●
CCCC Intellectual Property in Composition Studies	standing group	3																		●	●	●
Composition/English Education Connections	special interest group	3	●	●					●
Creative Writing SIG: Creating a Writing Space	special interest group	3											●	●	●
Emerging Social Software	special interest group	3				●	●	●
EngiComm: Communication in the Engineering Curriculum	interest-slot session	3							●	●		●
IWDPA	standing group	3												●			●					●
Independent Writing Departments and Programs	interest-slot session	3											●		●			●
International Researchers’	consortium	3																●	●	●
Linguistics, Language, and Writing	standing group	3													●					●		●
Literacy Studies	special interest group	3															●	●		●
MFA	special interest group	3		●	●	●
Non-Native English-Speaking Writing Instructors	special interest group	3													●			●	●
Non-Western/Global Rhetorics	special interest group	3												●	●			●
Open Source and Free Software Users Group	interest-slot session	3			●	●	●
Rhetoric’s Histories, Theories, Pedagogies Special	interest-slot session	3												●	●	●
Service-Learning and Community Literacy	special interest group	3				●	●	●
Sound Studies and Writing Collective	interest-slot session	3																		●	●	●
Standing Group for Disability Studies	standing group	3										●			●		●
TYCA Talks	interest-slot session	3	●	●	●
Workplace Writing	special interest group	3																●	●		●
Writing and Rhetorics of Code (SIG-WROC)	special interest group	3													●			●	●
ePortfolios and Multimodal Composition	special interest group	3																		●	●	●
Academic Mothering in Rhetoric and Composition	interest-slot session	2												●	●
Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition	interest-slot session	2	●	●
Arab/Muslim Caucus	caucus	2																			●	●
Association of Undergraduate Rhetoric and Writing	interest-slot session	2								●	●
CCCC Standing Group on Online Writing Instruction (OWI): 2025	standing group	2																			●	●
Calling All Bloggers: The CCCC Blogging	special interest group	2	●	●
Contemplative Writing Pedagogies Special Interest	special interest group	2												●	●
Council of Basic Writing SIG: Collaboration, Community, Caucusing	special interest group	2													●			●
Creative Writing Study and Artistic Practice	interest-slot session	2								●	●
ENGICOMM	special interest group	2									●		●
Effective Practices in Online	special interest group	2											●	●
FYC as an Introduction to Writing Studies	interest-slot session	2			●	●
Faculty Development and Composition	interest-slot session	2										●	●
Family Writing	special interest group	2				●	●
High School/College Writing Connections	special interest group	2																			●	●
Intercollegiate E-Democracy Project	interest-slot session	2	●	●
International Researchers Consortium SG	consortium	2																			●	●
Klal Rhetorica: Jewish Rhetoric and Composition	special interest group	2								●		●
LLW	standing group	2																●			●
National Archives of Rhetoric and Composition	interest-slot session	2		●		●
Network of Directed Self-Placement—Changing	interest-slot session	2													●	●
Online Writing Instruction	standing group	2																	●	●
Prison Literacies and Pedagogies	interest-slot session	2																	●			●
Retired Faculty in Rhetoric/Composition/Writing Studies	interest-slot session	2							●	●
Retired and Retiring Faculty in Rhetoric/	interest-slot session	2									●	●
Rhetoric and Composition Sound Archives	interest-slot session	2			●	●
Senior, Late-Career, and Retired Professionals in Rhet/Comp/Writing Studies	special interest group	2											●	●
Teaching of Writing to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing	interest-slot session	2				●	●
The Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning (AEPL)	interest-slot session	2																		●	●
The Subject is Writing: FYC as an Introduction to Writing Studies	interest-slot session	2		●			●
TheUnited States-Israel-Palestine	special interest group	2		●			●
Undergraduate Research in Rhetoric and Composition	special interest group	2									●	●
Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies	special interest group	2															●	●
WAC	standing group	2																			●	●
Wiki Rhetoricians	special interest group	2	●	●
Women’s Network: Gender and Professional Status in the Field	interest-slot session	2							●	●
Working-Class Culture and Pedagogy Special Interest	special interest group	2										●			●
Writing Analytics	special interest group	2																			●	●
Writing Fellows Programs	special interest group	2													●	●
Writing in Interdisciplinary Classrooms and Learning	interest-slot session	2			●		●
Writing-about-Writing Development Group—Standing	interest-slot session	2											●					●
Zen and the Art of English Teacher Maintenance	interest-slot session	2										●						●

Showing 140. Column headings are the last two digits of the convention year.

Groups meeting each year

2005: 47 · 2006: 52 · 2007: 54 · 2008: 49 · 2009: 52 · 2010: 46 · 2011: 43 · 2012: 40 · 2013: 41 · 2014: 46 · 2015: 51 · 2016: 52 · 2017: 55 · 2018: 11 · 2019: 30 · 2020: 67 · 2023: 48 · 2024: 57 · 2025: 61 · 2026: 53