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2020 · Milwaukee

The Functions of Composition Textbooks

Session J.17

Area: First-Year and Basic Composition · family: First-year composition

RoleName as printedAffiliation as printedPaper
Chair O. Brian Kaufman Quinebaug Valley Community College, CT → Quinebaug Valley Community College two-year
Speakers Maggie Christensen University of Nebraska, Omaha → University of Nebraska System What’s Wrong with Being Normal? Interrogating Normativity in the First-Year Writing Classroom
Speakers Debrah Huffman Purdue University Fort Wayne, IN → Purdue University Fort Wayne What’s Our Table of Contents? Reading and Writing the Composition Textbook as Disciplinary Commonplace
Speakers Sarah Bartlett Wilson Northern Virginia Community College → Northern Virginia Community College two-year Examining Our Research and Our Textbooks: The (Mis)Alignment of Our Scholarship and Practices

Source

NCTE's program, near page 104 of the file. Names link to a person page only for people listed at two or more conventions.

Cite as: Conference on College Composition and Communication. “The Functions of Composition Textbooks.” 2020 Convention Program, Milwaukee, session J.17. Via CCCC Program Reader, November 2, 2026.