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2004 · San Antonio

March 24-27, 2004 · San Antonio, TX · Program chair Douglas D. Hesse

Theme: Making Composition Matter: Students, Citizens, Institutions, Advocacy

439 of this year's 2,275 session and paper titles (19.3%) use a word from the theme (advocacy, citizens, institutions, making, matter). In other years the same words appear in 3.3% of titles. All themes.

587sessions
2,008people listed
65%first listed in this corpus
6.0%at two-year colleges
1.3%at institutions outside the US
13%of listings from ten institutions

Sessions (587)

CodeTitleFormatPeople
A.1Divisions, Intersections, and Collaborations In English Studies4
A.2Managing Composition Programs In Times Of Financial Stress4
A.3Designer’s Challenge: Making Teacher-Preparation Courses Matter To Graduate Students6
A.4Integrating Web And Document Design Into Teaching4
A.5Online Hybrid Courses Using University-Developed Software: Impetus For Cross-Curricular Collaboration4
A.6Disciplines Outside Themselves: Medical Discourse In Academic And Popular Contexts4
A.7Self-Reflection Matters: Becoming An Engineering Student, Becoming An Engineer5
A.8Conservative Public Discourse: Analysis And Intervention3
A.9Literacies And Matter: Real-World Relevance In The Classroom And The Field Of Literacy Studies4
A.10Toward An Epistemology Of Nonviolence6
A.11Matters Of Performativity: Whiteness, Age, And Class4
A.12Grading And Responding To Student Texts4
A.13Focus On Writing Teachers: Issues Of Authority, Identity, Motivation, And Burnout5
A.14Essays Read Differently: Conceptual And Rhetorical Differences In Both Time And Space5
A.15Conferencing, Community Building, And Constructing Student Subjects3
A.16Writing Across Borders: Teaching ESL And Comparing Writing Pedagogies3
A.17Transformed Into Practice: Wac, Toulmin, And Literacy Education4
A.19Writing Programs As Philosophical Journeys: From Lucretian Argument To Existential Consciousness4
A.20Bringing Composition Home: Multiple Constituencies, Multiple Publics4
A.21Yours, Mine, And Ours: Collaborating On Textbook Matters5
AW.1CREATIVE IS CRITICAL: DESIGNING AND EVALUATING HYBRID, MULTIMEDIA, “POETIC,” AND OTHER ALTERNATIVE WRITING8
AW.2VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE TEACHING OF COMPOSITION8
AW.3WORKING WITH ADULT WRITERS: CROSS-INSTITUTIONAL2
AW.4CULTURAL ARTIFACTS AND SOCIAL ACTIONS: EXPANDING THE ROLE OF RHETORICAL CRITICISM8
AW.5COMPOSITION IN CONTEXT: CHALLENGES OF CONTENT-BASED WRITING COURSES9
AW.6RHETORICIANS FOR PEACE23
AW.7MAPPING THE INSTITUTIONAL TERRAIN: A WORKSHOP FOR NEW, EXPERIENCED, AND PROSPECTIVE WPAS5
AW.8IMPLEMENTING DIRECTED SELF-PLACEMENT: OBSTACLES AND STRATEGIES3
AW.9EXPLORING MUTUAL EXPERIENCES TO CHANGE GLOBAL8
AW.10CLASSIN’ UP THE JOINT: CLASS AS A CRITICAL TOOL IN HIGH14
B.1Literacy Strategies that Promote or Constrain the Development of Latina/o Cultural Citizenship4
B.2Learning Our Lessons: Composition Matters in the History of Indian Residential Schools5
B.3The Matter Of Burke4
B.4Progressive Era Traditions of Literacy Possibilities5
B.5Rhetorical Risks: Cross-Cultural Research Methods5
B.6The ‘Edge Of Chaos’: Complexity and Emergence in Networked Composition4
B.7Teaching The Blog5
B.8Writing Program Administration in the Context of General Education Programs: Negotiating the Agenda of the Liberal Arts Institution4
B.9National Standards; Local Conditions: The Politics and Practicalities Of Britain’s National Literacy Strategy2
B.10Underfunded Universities and Unfunded Mandates: The Effect of State Politics on Writing Program Administration4
B.11Making Conference Ideas Matter beyond The Conference: Reviewing The CCCC In “Academic.Writing”5
B.12Compliance Matters: Defining and Articulating Writing (Programs) in Institutional Settings4
B.13Research in English as a Second Language3
B.14Styling for Freedom: Composition and Literacy Pedagogies, Policies, and Practices4
B.15This Is (Not) Just to Say: Public “Lore” and the Future of Creative Writing3
B.16Using Activity Theory to Articulate Connections between Classroom, Writing Center, and Workplace4
B.17Strategies for Promoting Intercultural Communication in Technical and Online Mediated Discourses6
B.18A Course In Orientation: Place-Based Composition at a Big State School7
B.19Making a Difference: Three Ways Service Learning Can Serve the Composition Classroom6
B.20Attaining Academic Citizenship: Composition for First-Generation Students5
B.21Making Composition Matter through the WPA Outcomes Statement: The OS as Transformative Policy6
B.22Emotion and Advocacy: How the Personal Helps Composition Matter4
B.23Style in the Diaspora of Composition: Theory And Practice3
B.24Averting The New Theory Wars4
B.25Moving Composition Into the Public4
B.26The Analysis of Influence: A New Generation of Compositionists Revisit Their Predecessors’ Paradigms4
B.27“But I Thought That Was OK”: Plagiarism and the Changing Rules of the Computer Composition Classroom4
B.28Comfort Food: Nourishing Student Writing5
B.29Genre as Rhetorical Action5
B.30Good Writing Is Good Writing Is Good Writing?4
B.31Advocating Multigenres for Writing, Teaching, Learning6
B.32New Approaches to Research Writing4
B.33Compelling Confessions: Advocacy and the Politics of Personal Disclosure in the Composition Classroom7
B.34Teaching Writing, Teaching Advocacy4
B.35Homosexuality and Christianity: Making Tolerance Matter in Composition and Rhetoric4
B.36The Reconstruction of Our Fast-Food Nation4
C.1Speaking and Writing/Communication and Composition3
C.2Communities, Place, and “Difference”: Advocacy And Service Learning6
C.3Picking up the Pieces: Doing WAC in the Ruins of a Formal WAC Program4
C.4Creating Student Citizens: Service Learning and Composition4
C.5Making Assessment Matter: Revising Curricula, Pedagogies, Programs4
C.6Making Writing Matter Across the Curriculum: Editing Double Negatives4
C.7Technical Writing Addressing Real-World Issues6
C.8Online Concerns in Teaching of Technical and Professional Writing4
C.9Writing in “Nonstandard” or Nonmainstream Varieties of English5
C.10Writing and Teaching the Literatures of Food: Processes, Contexts, and Products4
C.11All Together Now: Making High School and College Collaborations Work4
C.12Writing Across The Curriculum Effects on Professional Development: Programs, Individuals, and Concepts4
C.13Preparing to Teach in a Two-Year College4
C.14Spinning Composition: PR, Techno, and Business Matters in Composition Studies4
C.15Monster’s Ball: A New Generation’s Vision Of Composition’s Future4
C.16Cross-Institutional Standards and Best Practices for the Teaching of English Online4
C.17Greenlights or Gridlock? Mapping an Online Pedagogy5
C.18The Problematics of Research on Narratives of Religious Belief and Sexual Orientation4
C.19Communities Of Discourse from the Civic Center to the Jailhouse5
C.20Aspects Of 18th- and 19th-Century British Rhetoric3
C.21Nations, Bodies, And Blood: The Consequences of Literacy in Hawai’i4
C.22Rhetorics of Maternity: Fertility, Childbirth, Adoption4
C.23Making Disabilities Matter: The Rhetoric Of Learning Disabilities3
C.24Questioning Author(Ity)6
C.25Felt Sense: Body/Mind Knowing from Concept to Classroom5
C.26Matter = Energy: The Dynamics of Collaborative Epistemology7
C.27Repositioning Students: Accessing Alternate Identities4
C.28The National Writing Project At 30: New Challenges, New Approaches5
C.29Making Multimedia Matter: Layering Knowledge, Ethos, And Literacies In The Composition Classroom4
C.30In and Out of “Class”: Repositioning Ourselves and Our Discourses So That Literacy Matters4
C.31Helping Students Write from Where They Live: Pedagogies of Space and Place4
C.32Understanding and Conflict in the “Contact Zone”4
C.33All the World Is a Classroom: Online Partnering for Revision and Team Assignments at Community Colleges and Universities Here and Abroad3
C.34Revising Writing Instruction: Rhetorical Solutions4
C.35Deception In The Classroom4
C.36Expanding the Composition of Learning Communities: Our Changing Roles As Interpreters of Culture4
D.1Representations of Writing Across the Curriculum: Foreshadowing a New Era in Composition Instruction3
D.2How Does Composition Matter?4
D.3How Online Tutoring Matters: Benefits of Technology for Students and Tutors4
D.4Making Composition Matter: Authentic Assessment of Writing Across A Statewide System Of Higher Education5
D.5Making Composition Matter Again: Re-Inventing Writing Programs5
D.6Coming and Going: Pedagogies of Travel Writing4
D.7Poetry In Motion: Cultural Argument, Political Syntax, and Transformative Healing4
D.8Composition at the Crossroads: Teaching Teachers in an Urban-University Writing Center5
D.9Lessons for Learning Diversity With Writing At Home And Abroad4
D.10Community Matters: Their Citizenry and Boundaries4
D.11Writing Professionally for Wider Audiences5
D.12Service Learning Projects in Professional and Technical Writing4
D.13The Institution as Genre: Identity and the Politics of Affiliation6
D.14Identity Politics, Difference, And Literacies5
D.15Mainstream White Sponsorship Of African American Literacy: Representation, Reconfiguration, and Resistance4
D.16Place, Politics, And Pedagogy: Where Composition Matters5
D.17The Greeks And Their Techniques: Is Classical Rhetoric Relevant to Our Classes?4
D.18Redefining the “Academic” in “Academic Writing”3
D.19The Ethics of Practice4
D.20What’s the Matter of/with Composition?5
D.21Making Our Own History Matter: Landmark Statements—Thirty Years Later5
D.22Making Classroom Research on Writing Matter: Dialogic Report Forms, Discourse Communities, and Literacy Narratives5
D.23“Emily” Speaks, Composition Responds: Stereotyping Appalachian Students As (Ab)Normal4
D.24Mentoring Dissertations as Teaching Writing7
D.25Faithful Pedagogies: Negotiating Spirituality in Composition5
D.26Reviving Rhetoric In The Two-Year College5
D.27Technology Literacy Matters In Urban And Rural Environs3
D.28Making Texts Public: Students as Intellectual Citizens5
D.29Learning To Do Graduate School: Multicultural Perspectives On Writing, Academic Enculturation, And Identity6
D.30Techno-Texts And Electronic Environments: Matters of Digital Composition in Three San Antonio Classrooms4
D.31“If a Tree Falls…”: The Impact of Online Publications on Writing Scholarship4
D.32From Boardrooms to Classrooms: Ties That Bind Students and Faculty to Bottom Lines, to Corporate Ledgers, to Counting Beans4
D.33Confronting Realities: Student Attitudes, Public Spheres, And Vampire Slayers4
D.34Theory as Shared Practice: Interdisciplinary Models for Teaching Composition4
D.35Conjunctions and Disruptions: Institutional Crossroads4
D.36Writing Standards: Are They for Everyone?5
E.1How Composition Matters when Teaching Literature4
E.2Language Politics and Practices4
E.3Audience Matters: Rhetorical Considerations when Implementing Digital Portfolios in Classrooms and Institutions3
E.4Accounting, Assessment, and Improvement: Getting Past Good News to Benefit from the Bad5
E.5Teaching with Technology: Designing, Using, Assessing, and Revising Technological Literacy Modules to Enhance Student4
E.6Toward a Defensible Articulation of English Studies4
E.7Academic Place Writing: How Institutional Geographies Shape Professional Identity4
E.8Ain’t Misbehaving: Creating Writing Matters Too4
E.9Practical Ethics and Wise Argument: Promoting Leadership by Strengthening the “Professional” in Professional Writing5
E.10Making and Unmaking Organizational Order through Regulatory Texts5
E.11Does First-Year Composition Matter on the Eve of Graduation?4
E.12Whatever Happened to the Fourth C?: FYC, Speech Comm, And Programmatic Change5
E.13Ways of Knowing: Writing-Center Outcomes as Politics, Pedagogy, and Theory4
E.14How Electronic Assessment Programs Construct “Composition”4
E.15Inventing the Sentence: Sense and Style4
E.16Three Perspectives on Composition: How Composition Matters within and outside Academia4
E.17Some Days the Bear Gets You: Using Cautionary Tales to Make Teaching and Writing Matter4
E.19Inquiry And Argument: Tools for Individual Discovery, Analysis, and Growth4
E.20Writing for Evaluation: Reflexivity in Student Writing4
E.21Making Reading Matter: Engaging ESL and Developmental Students and Promoting Writing Proficiency6
E.22The Dark Matters of Composition: Experiencing Service, Research, Global Citizenry, and Identities as Routes into Mystery5
E.23Composition With the Community: writing for Advocacy3
E.24Bending the Rules: When Basic Writers Leave College4
E.25Reworlding Composition: Intersecting Indigenista, Indohispana/O, and Mexican American Literacies4
E.26What’s the Matter with Whiteness?: On Seeing the Interface5
E.27Making Rhetoric Matter: The Classroom as Site for Cultural Critique and Production5
E.28Making Bodies Matter: Disability, Experience, and Accessing the Writing Classroom4
E.29Composing New Literacies4
E.30Women’s Political Rhetoric3
E.31Composing Ancient Greek Rhetoric(s): Medicine, Sculpture, Romance, Comedy5
E.32Writing in/for Film and Media Studies4
E.33Online Classes: The Focus Is On Students6
E.34Surfers, Cyber-Fans, and Netizens: Lands of the Lost Literacies4
E.35No Student Left Unresearched: Facing Ethical, Methodological, and Theoretical Concerns When Researching K–12 Portfolio4
E.36Composition and English Education: Making Connections that Matter5
F.1Teaching and Writing the Nonfiction of Place4
F.2Taking It Personally: Identity Matters In Workplace Writing4
F.3Making Other Conversations Matter: Women’s Pragmatic Rhetoric On The Margins Of Power4
F.4Rhetorical Treatments: Languages of Disease and the Composition of Public Health4
F.5Cognition and Composition: Insights from Brain Research4
F.6“Can You Hear Me Now?”: The Effects of Proximity on Class Discussion4
F.7Composing Activism: Queer Pedagogies for Diverse Classrooms6
F.8Moving Beyond the Classroom: Innovative First-Year Writing Pedagogies5
F.9Returning to the Theme for English B: We Went Home and Wrote a Page5
F.10It Takes a University to Raise a Good Writer: Making Composition Matter Beyond the Composition Classroom4
F.11The Shifting Positions of Hermeneutics in Composition4
F.12Multigenre Theory: Some Applications and Interrogations4
F.13African American Interventions: Professional Development, Audience, and Social Class4
F.14Making Future Citizens through Service Learning4
F.15Academic English as a Foreign Language: Helping Students Crack the Code4
F.16Technologies of (Hyper)Textual Spaces5
F.17Computer-Mediated Writing Instruction: Tools and Media5
F.18WAC, WID, and Writing Instruction: Making Composition Matter in the Disciplines4
F.19Sustainable Studies: How Three Grant-Funded Collaborations Make Writing Matter in the Sciences5
F.20Working Conditions = Learning Conditions: Graduate Employee Unions, Advocacy, and Making Composition Matter4
F.21Economies of Composition3
F.23Second Language Writers in the Writing Center3
F.24Undergraduate Composition Matters4
F.25Students as Citizens: Developing and Assessing Models for Civic Engagement and College Writing5
F.26Why Subject Matter Matters: The Cases of Science, Civics, and Literature5
F.27“Facing History and Ourselves” in a Composition Course: The Transformative Possibilities of Connecting Holocaust4
F.28Teaching Research Writing: A Look Across Disciplines4
F.29Between Sympathy and Surveillance: The Ethics of Mentoring Writing Instructors4
F.30From Cultural Analysis to Critical Production: (Re)Writing Business Discourses Across the Curriculum3
F.31Multiple Assessments: Portfolios, Writing Studios, and Primary Traits Rubrics5
F.33(Re)Considering Disability4
F.34Women’s Literacies, Rhetorics, and Social Justice: Making Composition Matter in the Community4
F.35Composition and Its Publics3
F.36“Her Words and Ours: A Celebration of the Life of Wendy Bishop”1
FSI.1Articulating the Rhetorics of Teaching, Research, and the Profession: Asian/Asian American Caucus5
FSI.2LATINO/A CAUCUS BUSINESS MEETING2
FSI.3Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Advanced3
FSI.4American Indian Caucus Business Meeting1
FSI.5Black Caucus Business Meeting1
FSI.6Meeting of the National Network of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs10
FSI.7SIG On Working-Class and Pedagogy/Teaching1
FSI.8Environment, Advocacy, and the Teaching of Writing12
FSI.9Mentoring Women in the Profession: New Models and Metaphors (Part II)5
FSI.10Composition at the Small Liberal Arts College/University4
FSI.11The Teaching and Mentoring of TAs and Instructors in Composition8
FSI.12Teachers of Writing for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing3
FSI.13Engicomm: Writing Across the Engineering Curriculum6
FSI.14Teaching Writing In Canada8
FSI.15Intercollegiate E-Democracy Project10
FSI.16Calling All Bloggers: Academic Bloggers Sharing Strategies and Resources7
FSI.17Independent Writing Units4
FSI.18Special Interest Group: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Composition, and Rhetoric2
FSI.19Conference On Basic-Writing Special Interest Group12
FSI.20On Teaching Creative Nonfiction: Special Interest Group In Creative Nonfiction7
FSI.22Rhetoric And Christian Tradition12
FSI.23TYCA Talks1
FSI.24Poetry Forum: The Exultation of Larks3
FSI.25Graduate Rhetoric and Composition Matters: An Inaugural Meeting of the Graduate Research Network’s8
FSI.26The Fifth C: Computers (Sponsored By The CCCC Committee1
G.1Present Bodies, Absent Bodies, Perfect Bodies4
G.2Changing Documents, Changing Programs: Practicing Rhetorical Reform5
G.3Making Composition Matter in the Scholarship of Teaching6
G.4Closing The Teaching-Learning Loop: Making Writing Program Assessment Matter4
G.5Working Across the Curriculum: New Approaches and Communications4
G.6Shaping A New Generation of Teachers of Writing through International Collaboration4
G.7Where Does Invention Go after First-Year Composition?5
G.8The Student Writer as Critic and Consumer: Why Do We Get5
G.9Caught In The Crossfire: Advocating for Composition in a Military Institution5
G.10Scientific Research and Writing in the Composition Classroom5
G.11Making Composition Matter: Nontraditional Students And The Research Paper4
G.12Writing-Center Collaborations, Literature Reviews, and Building4
G.13The New Scene of Writing: Designing an Oral, Visual, and Textual Curriculum6
G.14Transforming Our Teaching: The Difference Online Writing Makes4
G.15Making Technology Matter: Extending Writing-Center Pedagogy to Uses Of Technology4
G.16Computer-Aided Rhetorical Analysis of Electronic Archives6
G.17Iconography: Lady Rhetoric and Images of the Suffragettes4
G.18It’s a Two-Way Street: Faculty Mentoring Graduate Students of Color in Composition and Rhetoric Programs5
G.19A Smattering of Technology: Technological Literacy of NNES Students and Teachers4
G.20The Wonders of Wandering: Alternative Pedagogies and The Teaching of Writing5
G.21Medical Matters: Rhetoric and Technology in the SARS Case, Nursing, and Website Design6
G.22Pedagogical Concerns in the Teaching of Professional and Technical Writing4
G.23Re-Seeing, Navigating, And Collaborating: Writing Centers Matter4
G.24A Cornerstone That Matters: Composition and Peer Tutoring5
G.25Making Technology Matter in Writing Centers5
G.26Mapping Rhetorical Boundaries: Kairos, Style, and Epistemology4
G.27Activist Rhetorics4
G.28Advocating The Writing Major within Three Different Institutional6
G.29Rhetoricians as Top Administrators: Negotiating the Politics of the New University7
H.1Composing a Community: The History Of WAC In Higher Education4
H.2Why Don’t We Just Study “English?”: Composition As Orientation to Higher Learning7
H.3Passing the Buck: Attitudes, Assumptions, and Policies Impeding WAC Efforts in Universities, Colleges, and High Schools5
H.4Community-Based Writing Collaborations That Matter: Critical Moments On and Off the Page4
H.5Writing Across The Curriculum In First-Year Composition: The Matter Of The First-Year Seminar4
H.6In The Classroom and Beyond: Re-Presenting Chinese “Bian”/ Rhetorical Experiences on Their Own Terms4
H.7Who’s Afraid of Argument?4
H.8Writing and Healing: Illness, Suffering, and Writing That Matters4
H.9Storytelling, Curriculum Development, and Change4
H.10Reading, Writing, and Rhetoric in Religious Traditions5
H.11Weblogs: Exploring Contexts, Community, Collaboration, and Practice5
H.12Engaging Technologies, Engaging Pedagogies5
H.13National Writing Project Sites and Community Advocacy4
H.14Making Composition Matter: One Independent Writing Program’s Journey to Independence and Respect4
H.15Making Composition Matter in Words, Maps, and Metaphors4
H.16Uneven Landscapes: Perceptions of Literacy, Class, and Diversity4
H.17Balancing Student Interest And Course Objectives: Toward a Tradition of Visual Technology in the Composition Classroom4
H.18Mothers, Mentors, And Invisible Teachers: Making Composition Teachers Matter, Or How Did Adjunct Become A Noun?7
H.19Bilingual Composition4
H.20Situating Creative Writing: The Art And Craft Of Creative-Writing Pedagogy3
H.21Teaching Scientific Writing: Beyond the Research Article5
H.22Discrepant Rhetoric: Uses Of Analogies in the Construction of Illness3
H.23Don’t Mess with Texas: Accounts of Early 20th-Century Literacy Sponsorship4
H.24Through the Looking Glass: 19th-Century Changes In Composition Theory and Praxis5
H.2519th-Century Women Rhetoricians and Rhetorical Advice4
H.26Papa Don’t Rap: Identity, Counterstories, and Hip-Hop Hermeneutics4
H.27Does CCCC Matter? A Critique and a Call for Change4
H.28Taking the Visual Further: Research and Theory4
H.29Making the Implicit, Explicit: Helping Students Take Control Of Their Success5
H.30Stories That Matter: Using Narrative to Stir Things Up in the Multicultural Classroom4
H.31Practices for Energizing Basic Writing4
H.32Disrupting Conventions: Making Originality Matter in Academic Writing4
H.33Composing Others/Composing Selves: The Ethnographic Essay4
H.34Active Engagement in Education and Writing: Theory and Practice, Teachers and Students4
H.35Making Students’ Views Of Composition Matter4
H.36Class, Cultures, and Learning Styles4
I.1Merging Ideals and Realities: Students, Accountability, and the Practice of Teaching Composition4
I.2High-Stakes Writing Assessment in Secondary Schools: Implications for College Composition5
I.3Writing and Cultural “Difference”4
I.4Women Writing Teachers Reading Creative Nonfiction4
I.5Theories and Varied Sites for Visual Rhetoric4
I.6Academic Medical Rhetoric Matters: Institutional Research4
I.7Ethos Matters: Composing Identities in the Professions4
I.8They Made Composition Matter: Writing Program Administrators Before 19764
I.9Mid-20th-Century Rhetorics of War and Citizenship4
I.10Critical Language Pedagogy3
I.11The Peer-Tutor Alumni Research Project: Former Tutors Assess The Experience of Writing-Center Work4
I.12Composition and Communication in An Age of Design: Theoretical Issues in Visual Rhetoric5
I.13Team Teaching, Owling, and the Evaluation of Online Composition Courses5
I.14They’re Here for the Duration: Exploring the Ways Contingent Faculty Shape Composition4
I.15Bridging the Gap: Elementary and High School English to College Writing4
I.16A Place Where Composition Matters: Non-Tenure-Track Transformations at One University4
I.17Time Has Come Today: Examining Learning-Center Practices4
I.18Tied To The Mast? The Alluring Sights and Sounds of Technology5
I.19Speak Up and Talk Back!: A Panel of College Students and Community Partners Reflect upon Their Written Collaboration2
I.20Literacy Matters: In the Hollers, in the Bush, and Across The Great Divide4
I.21Inventing Tradition: Revitalizing Institutional and Programmatic Histories5
I.22Making Composition Matter: Literacy, Privacy, and Community3
I.23Writing Peace: Beyond the Trope of Advocacy4
I.24Race/Gender Matters: Black Women, Rhetoric, Composition, And Pedagogy4
I.25The Roles of Memory, Space, and Representation in the Public Sphere4
I.26Taking the Boot out of Bootcamp?: Advocacy, Loyalty, and Authority in the Training of First-Year Teachers5
I.27The Rondo Project: Integrating Community-Based Learning through Oral Histories4
I.28Making Each Voice Matter: Teaching Strategies for the Speaking-Intensive Composition Course4
I.29There Is a Text in This Class4
I.30Rhetoric and the Teaching of Writing in 20045
I.31Resident Aliens: Teaching Students and Colleagues What “Composition” Means4
I.32Making Research Matter: Working toward Critical Research Writing through a New Composition Curriculum5
I.33If It Ain’t Broke, Fix It Up: Finding New Ways to Tweak Traditional Ideas in the Writing Center and Writing Classroom3
I.34Negotiating the Self in Academic Discourse4
I.35Style: Grammar and Imitation4
I.36(Re)Constructing Academic Spaces for Differently-Abled Students5
I.37A Reading by Jimmy Santiago Baca2
J.1The Legacies of Burke, Steiner, and Wittgenstein4
J.2You’re So Paranoid You Probably Think This Session’s about You: Rooting out Paranoia in the Profession5
J.3Academic Freedom and Writing Programs4
J.4What’s “New” about a New Public Grammar for Writing?4
J.6“Do This, Don’t Do That, Can’t You Read the Sign?” Or Perceptions of Visual Communications: Moving from Consumption to Production of Designed Texts3
J.7Rhetorics of the U.S./Mexico Border4
J.8Questioning Ecologies, Managing Locations4
J.9Three Provocations: Ignorance, Ridicule, and Laughter3
J.10Dialogic Debates: Investigating the Uses of Polyphony, Consensus, and Nonviolence3
J.11Toward Deprivatized Pedagogy: A Postmodern Teaching Strategy4
J.12From Grammar Police to Guardians of the Ivory Tower: Examining the Assumptions Behind “Policing The Academy”4
J.13Dancing in the Streets: Alternative Approaches to Composition Outside the Classroom4
J.14Students Becoming Citizens: How Composition Matters in Community Connections4
J.15Boredom5
J.16Wicked Wiki Rhetoric: How Fast, How Far5
J.17Writing the Word and the World: Critical Textual Production in a Critical Research Seminar4
J.18How To Read An Essay4
J.19Relocating The Composition Classroom: Demythologizing Notions Of The Thirteenth Grade4
J.20Write ’em Cowgirl: “Riding Herd” on the Rhetoric of Presidents And Place in the Classroom4
J.21Forming Connections: High School and College Collaborations4
J.22Because Composition Matters: Preparing Graduate Students in Rhetoric and Composition5
J.23More Than Basic Skills: Rhetorical Designs For Reading And Writing Pedagogy4
J.24Popcorn Meets Pedagogy: Movies, Literacy, and the Composition Classroom3
J.25Returning to the “Return of Rhetoric”: Why the 1960s and 1970s Matter Today4
J.26African American Women Rhetors3
J.27Compositions That Matter: Perspectives from Longitudinal Studies of Writing at Stanford, Laney College, and Berkeley Prep4
J.28From the Local to the Global: Technology, Literacy, and Civic Action4
J.29How Technology Affects Students’ Understandings of Authoring2
J.30Challenges in Scoring High-Stakes Writing Assessments: Coping with Contrasting Response Modes, Score Drift, and Test Prep4
J.31Public Perceptions about the Teaching of Writing and What to Do about Them5
J.32How Composition Matters In The Schools: A Dialogic Model for School–College Collaboration4
J.33Going Critical: Communication and Judgment in Instructor–Led Peer Conferences4
J.34Making Composition Matter in a Litcomp Course8
J.35Computing and Communicating Across Cultures and Generations: Global Considerations4
J.36Digging the Narrative Roots in the Composition Classroom4
K.1Scholarship in Practice and Historical Context4
K.2Science, Authority, and Public Persuasion: The Uses of Scientific Evidence in Discourses of Public Advocacy4
K.3“I Can’t Read,” Tina Whispered, Placing Her Gucci Bag on the Desk between Us: Defining the Categories of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender in the Composition Classroom4
K.4Composition Practices and Public Matters: Achieving and Assessing Public Awareness In and Out of the Classroom4
K.5Service with a Smile: The Heart of the Matter4
K.7Lessons Learned from Online Commenting: Providing Effective Feedback to Students4
K.8Writing on the Border4
K.9Sticking to the Storyline: Technology, Argument, and Identity4
K.10Asking Questions That Matter: Problem-Based Learning And Writing Instruction4
K.11What’s the Matter with Composition? Technology, Visual Rhetoric, and the Physical Arrangement of Texts4
K.12Information Technology: Cyberspace and Communities4
K.13The Temporary Nature of Composition Matters4
K.14The Subaltern Can Speak: Composition TAs in Mentoring Roles4
K.15The Future of Graduate Education in Rhetoric and Composition: Challenges and Opportunities8
K.16Networking For Change: Political and Cultural Contexts for the Teaching of Writing4
K.17Making Identity Work Matter: Strategies for Creating Change in Institutions6
K.18Teaching Generation 1.5 in the Classroom and the Center4
K.19Reimagining the Self: Reflections on Identity in Composition4
K.20Research Methodologies in the History of Professional and Technical Communication That Matter5
K.21Examining Linguistic, Cultural, and Rhetorical Identities5
K.22The Public Image of Two-Year Colleges: Hallmarks of Fame and Shame7
K.23Reinventing Composition: What Does Spellmeyer’s “Arts of Living” Mean for Writing Instructors?5
K.24Rhetorics of Advocacy: Asian Americans Composing Communal Memory5
K.25Basic Writing Far Afield: The History of At-Risk Instruction at a Regional Campus4
K.26Women’s Oppositional Rhetorics5
K.27Effacing Binaries: Blurring the Boundaries of Speaking, Reading, and Writing in the Writing Center and the Computer-Mediated Classroom3
K.28Writing Difference5
K.29Rethinking Plagiarism4
K.30Theoretically Centered?: Theorizing the Writing Center4
K.31Transferring Composition Knowledge Across Disciplines: Making Writing Instruction Matter4
K.32Is the Writing Classroom a “Level Playing Field?” Universal Design, Alternative Assistance Programs, and Metaphors5
K.33Writing “Outside”: Ecocomposition and the Production of Difference4
K.34A Habitable Space: The Future Of Composition Studies5
K.35Making Rural Literacy Matter4
K.36Queer Matters in Rhetoric and Composition—Articulating Pedagogical, Theoretical, and Disciplinary Definitions4
K.37Making Writing Assessment Matter16
L.1Matters Of Faith: Institutional Identity, Student Needs, and Composition At A Faith-Based University4
L.2Sustaining the Environment: Learning the Language of Nature4
L.3Different Dimensions in Technical Communication4
L.4Motivating Business and Technical Writers in the Classroom and Beyond5
L.5Alternative Authority and Authorship: New Research from Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Authors5
L.6A Century of Change: The Politics of First-Year Composition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1900–20007
L.7Composition in Historically Black Colleges and at the Penn School for Newly Freed Slaves4
L.8What Do We Fail To Ask?: Redefining Disabilities3
L.9Looking Beyond The Trinity: Audience, Purpose, And Context In Technologically Hypermediated Environments4
L.10Global and Local in Institutions and the World4
L.11Managerial Rhetorics and the Matter of Composition5
L.12Scenes of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration in the Composition Classroom and Beyond4
L.13First-Year Writing: Institutional Battleground, Professional Behemoth and Interdisciplinary Nexus4
L.14Valuing Assessment and Assessing Our Values3
L.15Making Reading Matter: Literature, Rhetoric, and What Students Value in the Composition Classroom5
L.16Assessment Matters: College Writing Assessments in and beyond the Writing Program4
L.17Whose Words Where? The Promises and Perils of Community Literacy Projects and Publications5
L.18History, Heresy, and Hip-Hop4
L.19Transforming Barriers, Creating Possibilities, Advancing What Matters3
L.20Women Rhetors And Scholars: Carving Out Identities For Women3
L.21Voices That Matter: Singing, Listening, and Silencing4
L.22(Re)Opening Doors to Liberating Spaces: Three Approaches to Feminist Reading and Writing4
L.23Shifting Perspectives: Empowering Composition Teachers, Tutors, and Students4
L.24Composition and Rhetoric in the Age of Empire4
L.25Developing a Nomenclature of Style: Implications for First-Year Composition4
L.26Coming To Matter: Rethinking Production and Process in Media-Rich Composition Classrooms4
L.27Evaluator as Advocate: Grading Matters in Composition4
L.28“I’m Nobody! Who Are You?”: an Activist Approach to Teaching Audience4
L.29Two Students Speak for Themselves3
L.30Group Writing Assignments in Online Classes3
L.31“Welcome to the Academy: May I Take Your Order?” Driving through from One Corporation to Another5
L.32Theories of Collaboration, Interactive Authorship, and Reader-Reader Writer Intersubjectivity6
L.33Composition Curriculum: Designing, Implementing, and Sustaining What Matters4
L.34Recycling Hegemony through Popular Culture, Body Narratives, and ESL4
L.35Unmaking and Remaking the World: the Pedagogy of Identity4
L.36Being a Writing-Program Administrator: Stories from the Field4
L.37Marilyn Sternglass: A Memorial2
M.1What Makes WAC Work: Reflections On Writing Across The Curriculum8
M.2Complicating Discursive Values In Cross-Disciplinary Work6
M.3New Directions In ESL/EFL Research3
M.4The Proustian Thematic: Compositional Catharsis, Fiction, and Poetry4
M.5New Ways Of Making Service-Learning Matter in Technical and Professional Communication4
M.6Preparing Professional Writing Students to Critically Engage5
M.7Studying Ancient Eastern/Near Eastern Rhetoric: Why/How and What Does It Tell Us?5
M.8Curricular Histories and Disputes: Why Readings and Writings Matter4
M.9Research on Student Revision Revisited5
M.10Research On Assessment: Matters of Difficulty, Perceptions of “Threat,” and Definitions of Development4
M.11Complicating Designs: Materiality, Multimodality, and (Re)Mediating Practices5
M.12(Re)Imagined Worlds: Global Landscapes and the Adult Learner4
M.13Framing Matters: Visual Media and the Teaching of Writing4
M.14Beyond Traditional Arguments: Communitarianism versus4
M.15Visible and Invisible Diversity: Activism, Advocacy, and Allies4
M.16Rank Matters: Composition, Institutional Imagination, and Non-Tenure-Line Faculty Affairs6
M.17Identity Politics: Developing a Writing Major and Rethinking “English”5
M.18Making Composition Matter to Students and Institutions: The Role Of First-Year Writing In Creating Academic Citizens4
M.19From Margin to Center: Gaining Citizenship in Academia through (and for) Writing-Center Studies5
M.20Matters of Academic Discourse: Forging Change in Familiar Spaces5
M.21Rhetorics of Concerned Citizenship4
M.22Making Theory Matter: Practices of Citizenship3
M.23Rhetoric/Race/Nation4
M.24Genre and Transferability: Beyond the First-Year Composition Course4
M.25Worldly Selves: Theorizing the Promise–and Limits–of Memoir5
M.26Bridging Cultural Divides with Writing over War and Other4
M.27Issues and Innovations with Graduate Student Teachers and Teaching5
M.28Developmental Writers: Online, Across The Curriculum, in Transformation4
M.29Problematizing Computers and Composition4
M.30Using Concepts from Classical Rhetoric in the Postmodern4
M.31Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, and The Writing Classroom4
M.32New Pedagogies for First-Year Writing4
M.33Best Practices for Countering Procrastination, Apathy, and Possibility4
M.34Dealing With Dissent, Anger, and Trauma in the Writing Classroom3
M.35Music, Creative Juxtapositions, and Performance Art In Composition Classes5
MW.1U. BLOG: A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO USING WEBLOGS FOR THE CLASSROOM AND RESEARCH12
MW.2MENTORING MATTERS: A “BEST PRACTICES” WORKSHOP FOR MENTORS OF COMPOSITION INSTRUCTORS AND TEACHING ASSISTANTS12
MW.3PIXELS, PAINTS, AND OPERATING TABLES: EXPERIMENTAL WRITING WORKSHOPS AND THE FIRST-YEAR WRITING PROGRAM9
MW.4THE PEACEABLE CLASSROOM REVISITED7
MW.5DESIGNING AND DEVELOPING PREPARING FUTURE FACULTY PROGRAMS10
MW.6WORKING WITH SECOND LANGUAGE WRITERS: DEMOGRAPHICS, ASSESSMENT, PLACEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION4
N.1Pick It Up! Creatively Challenging Institutionalized Writing3
N.3Creating Communities of Inquiry2
N.4Taking Basic Writing Seriously4
N.5Road Trip! Collaborative “Roadshows” Defy Budget Ax, Take Comp to the Streets4
N.6Composing Cultures: ESL Students in the Center and the Classroom4
N.7Learning Communities, Writing Centers, and Real-World Composition4
N.8Community Matters: Composing Lives within the City, School, and Environment4
N.9Roundtable Discussion: Beyond Our Walls: Writing Centers Working Across Disciplines4
N.10Writing-Center Intersections with ESL Writing, Writers, and Programs4
N.11Art and Artifact: Writing About Art, Visual Text, and Cultural Artifacts4
N.13Occasions of Urgency: And Permission to Write as if It Matters4
N.14South Texas Matters: Re-Envisioning Ourselves as Writers, Teachers, and Community Citizens3
N.15A Woman’s Place in a Mixed-Gendered Technical Writing Team4
N.16Making Metaphors Matter in Rhetoric and Professional Communication4
N.17Whiteness in Radical Pedagogy: Narratives of Co-Optation, Resistance, and Possibility5
N.18History Matters: Writing in/an Institution from Normal School To University5
N.19Using Quantitative Research to Understand What Matters to Faculty And Students4
N.20Questions of Audience: From Universal to Particular4
N.21Using Images to Stimulate Critical Thinking and Writing 0.111
N.22Interrogating Textual Constructions of Femininity4
N.23Extending Human Relations across Virtual And National Boundaries: Case Studies of Two Technological Systems4
N.24At the Crossroads: The Wpa as Bridge Builder5
N.25Linking Courses/Projects/Service Learning in Technical Writing, Human Ecology, Biological Engineering3
N.26Eye-Ing Visual Representations: Liberation, Consubstantiality, and Identifications4
N.27(Re)Locating Disciplinary Discourses: Complications, Transfer, and Desire4
N.28How Autobiography Makes Composition Matter: Reconceiving Author-Ity in Writing Pedagogy4
N.29Approaches To Critical Thinking And Invention4
N.30Service Learning: Methods And Impact3
N.31Alternative Approaches to Literacies: Cultivating Community4
N.32Medical Matters: Narratives of Emergency First-Responders, Healing, and Disability4
N.33Ken Macrorie: Exploring His Long-Running and Long-Lasting Contribution7
O.1Using Narrative Strategies to Teach Writing4
O.2Preparing Citizens by Developing Rhetorical Awareness5
O.3Fleeing the Ivory Tower: Alternative Sites for Teaching Writing3
O.4Civic Writing and Citizenship through Composition4
O.5Transitions from High School to College4
O.6Civic Action and Literacy in Writing on War and Peace4
O.7Computer-Mediated Composition: Online Writing Instruction and Students’ Critical Thinking5
O.8Natural and Scientific Issues Concerning the Place of Writing6
O.9Returning Students and the Matter of Composition5
O.10Making the First Year Matter: Content Connections, Power(Lessness), and Service Learning5
O.11Is Class Dead?4
O.12Why “Where” Matters: Composition and The Public Sphere4
O.14Theorizing Virtual Performances through the History of Rhetoric4
O.15Composing the Critical Self: Students Writing, Resisting, and Reinventing Identity6
O.16Raising the Stakes and Unfastening the Stays: Encouraging Structural Reshaping in Nonfiction Writing4
O.17Making Personal Narratives Matter4
O.18Race and Difference, Globally and Locally4
O.19The Challenges of Making Composition (with a Capital “C”)4
O.20Composing Intellectual Property: The Politics of Ownership and Attribution in Contemporary Academia4
O.21A Field Matures: Federal-Grant Funding as a Marker of Legitimacy4
O.22Literacy, Distance Learning, and EFL: Breaking Down Barriers5
O.23Basic Writing as We Know It: How Institutional Settings Affect Our Teaching5
O.24ESL and EFL in the Writing Center1
O.25Making the Disciplinary Landscape Matter: The Social/Critical Evolution of Professional Communication2
O.26Disrupting Professional Writing3
O.27WAC-Ed Out: Documenting What Works and Why8
O.28Assessing Writing Centers: From Pacman to Silence Sites4
PSI.1Bushwacked: Queering Borders and Boundaries in the Lone Star5
SW.1Sharing Your Ideas with the Profession: Drafting NCTE/CCCC5
SW.2Saturday Afternoon Exultation of Larks: Poet-to-Poet Workshop4
SW.3Making Pop Culture Matter: Advocating for Digital Literacies as Student Literacies6
SW.4Building a Community of Truth with Ideas from Parker Palmer: An Alternative to Traditional Peer Review of Teaching4
SW.5Qualitative Research Network5
SW.6Best Assessment Practices in a Time of Budget Cuts7
SW.7Archive (V.): Composing a Writing Program History beyond5
SW.8Instructor-Led Peer Conferences: An Alternate Approach to Peer-Response Groups and Collaborative Learning4
SW.9Problematizing Portfolios: Assessing the Assessment7
SW.10Where Do We Begin: Providing Constructive Evaluation and Comments for Writers Facing Multiple Challenges7
SW.11Topics and Issues in Improving Instruction for Second Language10
TSI.1CCCC-Caucus of Gay and Lesbian Professionals2
TSI.2How to Get Your Article Published in CCC2
TSI.3Spoken Word: Performing Writing in the Center3
TSI.4Special Interest Group on Language, Linguistics, and Writing: Sociolinguistics, Home Language, and Composition6
TSI.5Rhetoric, Writing, and the Transcendent3
TSI.6The CCCC Chapter of the Kenneth Burke Society: Kenneth Burke: New Scene, Emerging Acts6
TSI.7Non-Tenure-Track (NTT) Faculty Special Interest Group2
TSI.8Preparing Future Faculty: Past, Present, And Future4
TSI.9Does L2 Writer Mean Basic Writer?: Placement and Pedagogy for ESL Students6
TSI.10M.F.A. Special Interest Group5
TSI.11National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric4
TSI.12Teaching Adult Student Writers in Diverse Contexts11
TSI.13Basics and Beyond in Teaching Technical Communication8
TSI.14High School/College Articulation5
TSI.15Medical Rhetoricians3
TSI.16Service Learning and Community Literacy SIG10
TSI.17Education Caucus for Composition and Literacy at the University2
TSI.18Directed Self-Placement and the Marginalized Student: Future Composition Matters2
TSI.19Taking a Walk That Matters: Writing Down the Body7
TSI.20Junior Writing Program Administrators: Who Matters and Why?8
TSI.21Mentoring Women in the Profession: New Models and Metaphors (Part I)5
TSI.22Film and Television in the Writing Class9
TSI.23National Writing Project Network7
TSI.24Working-Class Culture And Pedagogy5
TSI.25Special Interest Group: English Education/Composition Connections18
TSI.26James Sledd: A Memorial Tribute4
TSI.27Keeping Up Hope and Vision in Regressive, Repressive Times3
W.1THEORY TO EXEMPLARY PRACTICE AND PROGRAMS FROM THE TWO-YEAR COLLEGE (TYCA-SPONSORED)10
W.2LINEAGE AND LEGACY: TO KNOW OUR TEACHING SELVES— ANNUAL WORKSHOP OF THE ASSEMBLY FOR EXPANDED12
W.3COMPOSITION AT/OF THE CENTER2
W.4MAKING BASIC WRITING MATTER: METHODOLOGIES FOR US ALL14
W.5BECOMING AN ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATOR: MATTERS THAT MATTER6
W.6MAKING ASSESSMENT WORK: A CONSULTATION AND WORKSHOP10
W.7FEMINISM? WOMANISM? GENDER STUDIES? WHERE ARE WE NOW AND HOW DO WE MATTER?37