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2005 · San Francisco

March 16-19, 2005 · San Francisco, CA · Program chair Judith Wootten

Theme: Opening the Golden Gates: Access, Affirmative Action, and Student Success

409 of this year's 2,177 session and paper titles (18.8%) use a word from the theme (access, action, affirmative, gates, golden, opening, success). In other years the same words appear in 4.3% of titles. All themes.

536sessions
1,999people listed
48%first listed in this corpus
10.3%at two-year colleges
0.9%at institutions outside the US
13%of listings from ten institutions

Sessions (536)

CodeTitleFormatPeople
A.1Accessing Success: Assignments that Promote Student5
A.2Places, Spaces, and Selves: Writing as Local Action3
A.3Just Grading, Just Writing: Exploring Student Perceptions About Fairness4
A.4Social Scenarios: Motivating Students to Perform at a Higher Level5
A.5Internationalizing the Classroom: Contrastive Rhetoric in Composition Instruction4
A.6Gateways to Success for Basic Writers: Alternatives to Basic Courses at the Small College4
A.7Opening Gates between Disciplines: Composition, Communications, and Information4
A.8Communities of Practice: An Inter-Institutional Model for Writing Assessment4
A.9Providing Access in the Writing Center: Specialized Tutor Training and Software5
A.10Epistemologies of the Visual3
A.11Fields of Vision: Imagery within Discourses of Gender4
A.12Women’s Voices Across Cultures: Creating a Contact Zone of Feminist Rhetoric5
A.13Academic Vernaculars: Rearticulating Vernacularity and Rethinking Pedagogy and Student “Success”4
A.14Mending Gates: Reconfigurations of Access and Redrawn Paths to Student Success6
A.15Public, Private, Political: Social Theories and Blogging Practices4
A.16Access and Opportunity: Contrasting Perceptions of Distance Learning Faculty2
A.17Preparing Students and Faculty for Success in the Multi-modal World4
A.18A Question of Quality: Standards and Access5
AW.1Changing the Process of Institutional Review Board4
AW.2Every Composition Professional a De Facto ESL14
AW.3Practicing What We Teach: Applying the Golden Rule to Help Marginalized7
AW.4Working with the Media to Shape Public Policy10
AW.5Latino/as In/On Composition: Teacher and Scholar Preparation7
AW.6War Is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery, Ignorance Is Strength: Rhetoricians for Peace in Orwellian Times20
B.1Working Hard for the Money: An Historical Examination4
B.2Testing the Waters of Mainstreaming: Why We Did It and What We Found5
B.3From Here to There: Using Contrastive Linguistics to Teach ESL Writing3
B.4(Re)composing Access: Reading War, Technology, and Difference at a Military School4
B.5International Blogging: Research on Cross-Cultural Tutor Training4
B.6Alternative Rhetorics for the Non-Elite: Thinking Outside Aristotle’s Box6
B.7Clash Between Correctness and Error: Access Denied5
B.8A Debate about Choosing Representational Texts3
B.9International Insights on Teaching Composition3
B.10Integrating the Writing/Learning Center: A Synergy that4
B.11Move Over—We’ll Drive: Through the Golden (Flood) Gate of Assessment5
B.12Designing Tutor Education to Address Issues of Access5
B.14Philosophies, Surveys, and Curriculum Workshops for WAC4
B.15Opening and Closing the Gate4
B.16Accessing Bishop: A Reflection on Wendy Bishop’s5
B.17Enriching Ourselves with Personal, Visual, and Historical4
B.18Starting Points: Ignorance and Ethics4
B.19Affirming Access or Securing the Gates?: UNESCO, The World Bank, The IMF, and the Globalization of Literacy6
B.20Thinking through Practice: Reconsidering5
B.21The Viability of ‘The Rhetorical Tradition’5
B.22Age, Sexuality, and Orientation: Idealogies of Composition Studies4
B.23Research-based Recommendations for Evaluating and Citing Electronic Sources5
B.24LGBT Discourse Communities and Digital Technologies4
B.25Media Rhetoric and the Analysis of Texts: A Case Study Using Written, Auditory, and Kinetic4
B.26Evaluating Academic Weblogs: Using Empirical Data to Assess Pedagogy and Student Achievement5
B.27Access through Rural Community College: Unique Concerns for Faculty (TYCA Strand)5
B.28The History and Future of Composition: Reflections of Past CCCC Chairs8
B.29Why College Composition Teachers Need to Know about Secondary Writing Assessments4
B.31Journals and Diaries: Accessing Our Own Language and Finding a Voice4
B.32Visual Rhetoric in the History of Professional7
C.2New Research from Studies in Writing and Rhetoric3
C.3Equal Access for Diverse Learners: Ensuring the Success of Marginally Prepared Students in the Standard Freshman Composition Sequence4
C.4Emotional Access: Resistance and Control and Teaching for Critical Literacy5
C.5NCTE/NCA Collaboration6
C.6Multiliterate Students, Multimodal Lifeworlds5
C.7More, Give Us More Adjunct Teachers: Some Divergent Views4
C.8The Ins and Outs of Online Writing Instruction5
C.9Reconciling the Two Sides in the Grammar War4
C.10How Do We Know when Writing Courses Have4
C.11Portfolio Assessment and Beyond: Crossroads, Possibilities and Limitations for the Next Generation of Writing Assessment5
C.12Adapting Curricula to Promote Student and Instructor4
C.13‘Barbarians at the Gates’: Negotiating Student Placement7
C.14What Research Tells Us About Writing Center Directors `4
C.15Activating Access: Social Movement Theory for the Composition Classroom4
C.16Defining Terms of Work in U.S. College Composition4
C.17Emotional Economies in Literacy Sponsorship3
C.18Kairos and the Rhetoric of Timely Interventions3
C.19Coming in the Front Door: The Rhetorics of Institutional4
C.20Political Pedagogies and Public Citizens: Writing5
C.21Holding the Pen: Writings Produced by Internees in Japanese-American3
C.22Access to Public Speech: Defenses of Women’s Preaching by Women4
C.23Writing Technologies in Early Modern England4
C.24Using Hip-Hop Language and Literacy Practices to Help4
C.25Sustainable Technological Change: Teaching, Professional Development, and Institution Engagement4
C.26(Inter)face to Face: Technology and Tutorials4
C.27The New Collegiality: Circulating Ideas about Writing and Teaching on Weblogs4
C.28The New SAT Writing Section: Perils and Possibilities6
C.29Composition as Gated Community?: Assessment and Gatekeeping in the Twenty-First4
C.30Is the Sky Falling? (TYCA Strand)4
C.31From Gatekeepers to Gate-Openers: Teacher Education and Language Diversity5
C.32The Art of Teaching the Art of the Personal Essay3
C.33A Multimedia Look at How Students Gain Access to Careers in Professional Writing5
C.34Connecting Access to Student Success: The Community College as the Golden Gate5
D.2Drawing Relationships: Teaching the Visual; Teaching Writing3
D.3Critically Engaging Other(s): Pedagogical Encounters with Disability5
D.4To Change or Not to Change: Pedagogies of Resistance, Peer Tutoring, and Service-Learning in Basic Writing4
D.5Global Access: Teaching, Writing, and Playing in a Shrinking World4
D.6Challenging the College Game: The Role of Respect and Responsibility in Liberatory Education3
D.7Access and Ownership for Deaf Students and Those with Visual Spatial Disorders and Aphasia4
D.8Reassessing Writing Assessment: Imaginative Course Design, Active Learning, and Alternative Technologies4
D.9Affirmative Action and the Challenge of Diversity5
D.10Accessing Reading: Creativity and Risk in the Reading Process5
D.11Pedagogy and Writing Assessment in California Universities: The Social Construction of a Great Divide4
D.12Concerning Diversity: The Role of the ESL Individual in the Writing Center5
D.13Taking Research/Writing beyond the Campus: Community, Service, Ethnography4
D.14Case Study: Creating a Collaboratively Written Custom Textbook for First-Year Writing Courses8
D.15Writing Center Tutor Training: Observing Facial Expressions, Understanding Diversity, Maintaining3
D.16Cultivating Success Through Reflection: Sites for Learning and Resistance6
D.17Engaging the Disengaged: Backlash Discourse in the Writing Classroom4
D.18Constructing Literacies: Fortune Cookies, Markets, and the Denial of Context4
D.19Interrogating and Interrupting Systems of Belief4
D.20Peer Review and Conferencing: Three Retrospectives4
D.21The Limits of Literacy: Reading Histories of “Transcendent” Literacy5
D.22Research and Identity3
D.23Why Napster Matters: File Sharing, Ownership, and New Digital Ethics6
D.24The Aftermath of Access: From Critical to Creative Computer Literacies5
D.25Accessing Heuristics for Multi-modal Web Compositions: Rethinking Invention, Sound, and Interactivity4
D.26Opening the Golden Gates through Digital Innovation: Expanding Access for Students with Disabilities4
D.27Talkin ’bout My Generation: First Ph.D.’s in Composition and Access to the Discipline4
D.28(Dis)placed by Technology: Access-orizing Our Institutions and Pedagogies5
D.29New Directions for Mentoring Graduate Students4
D.30Planning and Hosting Small Conferences Without Going Broke (TYCA Strand)4
D.31Negotiating Academic Literacies: The Experiences of Linguistically Diverse Writers across the Curriculum6
D.32Re-writing Discoursal Identities4
D.33Travelers and Trespassers: Articulating Race, Family, and Illness in Nonfiction Narratives4
D.34Information Architecture as Description, Design, and Process: A Critical Methodology for Techno-cultural4
D.35Improving Success in English as a Second Language through Puppetry, Poetry, and Contrastive Rhetoric3
D.36Class and Privilege: Miami of Ohio’s Portfolios, Thinking, and Honors Composition4
E.2Teaching Argumentation in Online and Hybrid4
E.3Simulation Games in the Composition Classroom: Helping All Levels of Students Connect Reading and Writing5
E.4Personal Writing: Laying the Groundwork for Access3
E.5Tutoring Basic Writing: When to Raise the Lower Order Concerns4
E.6Empathy in the Contact Zone: Producing Polydiscursive Writing in a First-Year Humanities Course4
E.7Predictable Patterns of Wartime Rhetoric: Composition as Rhetorical Democracy3
E.8Teaching Writing in Technological Contact Zones: Negotiating Access and Relationships4
E.10The Rhetoric of Instructors’ End Comments to Student Writing3
E.11Academic Communities for Excellence: Ensuring Success for Under-prepared Students4
E.12Serving “Generation 1.5” Immigrant ESL Students in College Composition Programs4
E.13Cognitive Access to Student Success: Motivating the Transfer of Composition Knowledge4
E.14Bridging the Writing Center to Disability Service Providers: Opening the Gates to Academic Access at the University of Hartford4
E.15How Students Develop as Writers: New Roles for Success5
E.16Bridging Contexts and Disciplines: ‘Engineering’ an Engineering School’s Writing Manual5
E.17Rhetorical Power and Public Personalities4
E.18Elements of Narrative: Coherence, Psychology, and Ethical Leadership4
E.19Teaching Intersections: Reading and Writing, Language and Literacy3
E.20Community, Complexity, Deliberation, and Mavericks: How Rhetoric Works (or Doesn’t) in “Real World”5
E.21Rhetoric of Three Political Movements4
E.22Recovering Rhetorics of African American Political Agency5
E.23Error-focused Instruction and Its Discontents5
E.24Access and Success: Adopting and Adapting Content Managements Systems for Use in Writing Programs4
E.25Cyborgs on Blackboard: Materialist Feminist4
E.26Bois, Bears, and Blogs: Accessing and Mainstreaming Gay Male Literacies4
E.27The Many Dimensions of Access in a Digital World4
E.28Issues in Proprietary and for-Profit Writing Programs4
E.29Myths of Access: Exploring Documented and Undocumented Identity in the Classroom4
E.30The Untold Story: How Race Affects the Relationships between Supervisors, Teachers, and Students4
E.31Getting from There to Here: Addressing the Needs of a Diverse Student Population4
E.32Preparing to Teach in a Two-Year College (TYCA STRAND)4
E.33Inviting Language Diversity in Writing: Getting It Done in the Classroom, in the Writing4
E.34The Role of Second Language Writing Specialists in the Composition Program6
E.35Writer’s Roundtables: Making Composition5
E.36Breaking Down the Law: Bringing Legal Writing into the Composition Class4
E.37Spirituality and Civic Engagement: Intersections of Public and Private Rhetorics6
E.38Writers All around Us2
F.2Bridging Rhetorical Gaps Where Religions Matter2
F.3Queer/Transgendered Pedagogy and Creating Safe Spaces for Students4
F.4Learning from Our Students and Each Other: Ways to Teach Writing across the Disciplines5
F.5(Mis)Perceptions of Plagiarism3
F.6Narratives in the Composition Class: Problems and Solutions4
F.7Responding to Student Writing in Open, Nonviolent, and Constructive Ways4
F.8With a Little Help from My Friends: Effective Uses of Peer Revising4
F.9Opening the Gates of Grammar and Usage: The History of the Grammar Controversy and Teaching Usage5
F.10Teaching Transferable Writing Skills in First-Year Composition4
F.11Re-defining Success in Argumentative Writing: Helping Students Find Their Voice in Open-access Universities4
F.12Accessing the Ruins: Questions of Value, Promise, and Epistemology in a Post-cultural University4
F.13Writing Assessment for Design: Using Writing to Teach and Learn Engineering Design4
F.14Portfolio Assessment at an Open Admission Institution: Bridge or Barrier to Success? (TYCA Strand)6
F.15With the Rebirth of WAC, Who Teaches Writing?: A Survey and Three Case Studies5
F.16History and Methods of Writing Assessment4
F.17The Power of Unexpected Series: Linking Courses, Composition Theories, and Institutions to Create6
F.18Rhetorics of Affirmative Action: Three Cases4
F.19Literacies of the Moment: From the Radical to the Reactionary4
F.20Translation Situations in Medicine and Among Deaf People4
F.21Since Style Is a Woman...3
F.22Mainstream for Sale: The Appearance of Margins in Visual Media4
F.23John Monro at Harvard, Miles, and Tougaloo: Three Careers or One Vision?4
F.24New Research from SWR Authors: Rhetoric, Archives, and Access6
F.25Rethinking the Barriers to “Access” in High School and Beyond: Moving Past Debates about Race as a Factor5
F.26Information Literacy: Instruction, Assessment, and Concerns4
F.27Moving Beyond Voice-as-Metaphor: New Technologies in Literacy and Composition Studies4
F.28Digital Controversies4
F.29The Prospects and Politics of Book Publishing in Rhetoric and Composition6
F.30Turning, Returning, and Interning with CCC: Insights on the Discourse of Our Field4
F.31Present Curricular Practices and Future Directions for the Ph.D. in Rhetoric/Composition4
F.32Composition and Distance Learning: The Most Successful Failure of Two-Year Colleges?9
F.33Enlisting Speech for Writing in the Diverse Classroom4
F.34Literate Practices/Language Practices: What Do We Really Know about Our Students?4
F.35Accessing the “I” in Creative Writing: Three Perspectives on Constructing Identity in the Workshop4
F.36Personal Statements for Med School: A Site for Opening Professional Access4
F.37A Tribute to Steve Witte7
FSIG.1American Indian Caucus Business Meeting2
FSIG.2Asian/Asian American Caucus Business Meeting2
FSIG.3Black Caucus Meeting1
FSIG.4Latino Caucus Business Meeting2
FSIG.5Interest Group: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Composition, and Rhetoric4
FSIG.6Busting Chops and Bar Talk: Working-class Discourses from the Inside7
FSIG.7Creative Nonfiction Assignments: Special Interest Group in Creative Nonfiction10
FSIG.8TYCA Talks1
FSIG.9Oral Histories, Interviews, and the Voices in Between: Establishing the Rhetoric and Composition Sound13
FSIG.10Composition at the Small Liberal Arts College/ University3
FSIG.11Independent Writing Units6
FSIG.13Calling All Bloggers: The CCCC Blogging Special Interest Group16
FSIG.14National Network of Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs9
FSIG.15Accessing the Profession: The CCCC Graduate Student SIG11
FSIG.17Conference on Basic Writing Special Interest Group9
FSIG.18SIG for the Teaching and Mentoring of TAs and Instructors in Composition18
FSIG.19The Future of Eco-Composition17
FSIG.20Teachers of Writing for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing12
FSIG.21Intercollegiate E-Democracy Project7
FSIG.22Annual Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition2
G.1Engaging Composition Students through Deep Learning5
G.2Visual Rhetoric/Visual Literacies: Accessing the Image in Writing Curricula (TYCA Strand)4
G.3E-Learning Spaces Where No One is Excluded and No3
G.4“Welcome to the Ivory Tower”: New TAs, First Generation6
G.5Disconnect between Student and Teacher Perceptions4
G.6Learning Disabilities: Subjects of and for Writing5
G.7Teaching Analysis and Argumentation through Accessible Assignments5
G.8New Problems from a New Generation of Students4
G.9It’s All About Our Students’ Success: Coming Full Circle with FYW Assessment5
G.11Student Access, Student Choice, Student Success in First-Year Composition: A History, Description, and Evaluation of Guided Self-Placement at The University4
G.12In Pursuit of Portfolios5
G.13(Re)Placing Students’ Writing: Assessing our Gates of Access4
G.14Desire, Disruption, Discipline: Writing Program Administration as Spectacle4
G.15(Re) Affirmative (Pro) Action: Breaking Models of Composition4
G.16Adult Learners at the Threshold: Turning Access into Agency3
G.17Models of Writing: 3-D Cube, Rhizomatics, and Multiple Intelligences4
G.18Theory Wars, Post Theory or Theory in the Diaspora: Exiling Theory outside the Walls of Composition and Rhetoric4
G.19Street Talk: Rhetorics of Advocacy and Action in Public Writing5
G.20Technology, Literacy, Citizenship: The Rhetoric of Access in Contemporary Social4
G.21Oral Histories: Theory/Practice/Publishing5
G.22Year One at ‘City’ High: An Ethnography of Place-based3
G.23Rapping Down the Gate: Black Women and Hip-Hop4
G.24Multimedia Online Cases to Connect FYC and Courses in the Disciplines: Role-Playing in Multiple Perspectives4
G.25Blogging4
G.26Teaching Across the Curriculum: Faculty Liaisons in a Tutoring Center3
G.27Increasing Access and Success in the Physical and Biological Sciences: What’s Writing Got to Do with It?3
G.28Crises in English Education: The Importance of Context4
G.29Outsourcing and Offshoring Writing Instruction: Strategies for Critical Intervention Co-sponsored by the CCCC Public Policy Committee and by the Academic Quality Committee4
G.30Standardization in English Studies: Resisting the Normalizing Gaze4
G.31Second Language Identity Construction in Multiple4
G.32Creative Writing: Its Place in the Curriculum4
G.33Building Bridges: Facilitating Student Access to the Business Community through Analysis of Audience4
G.34New Competencies in Technical Communication5
H.2Adjusting Our Concept of Service Learning: From Basic Writing Classes to Advanced Composition4
H.3Strategies for Advanced Writing Courses2
H.4Student Self-Assessment: Constructing Their Own Rubrics4
H.5Finding a Nexus Between Access and Grammar4
H.6Addressing Affirmative Action in Diverse and Non-ethnically Diverse Classrooms4
H.7Writing for Action: Resistance, Power, and Activism3
H.8You, Me, Them: Risking Difference and Accessing Academia5
H.9Embodied Power Dynamics in Critical Composition Work4
H.10The Golden Rule—A Golden Gate or Brick Wall in the Composition Classroom?—Exploring the Intersect of Religion/Spirituality in Discourse Theory and Pedagogy4
H.11Ten Years after the Lindemann/Tate Debate: Literature, Composition, and Cultural Studies6
H.12Writing from and for Reading: The Challenge of Difficult Texts4
H.13Access Granted to the Contact Zone: Theorizing Pedagogical Methods for Diverse Student4
H.14It’s Not Just Academic: Developing Successful Peer Review Practices Across4
H.15First-Year Seminars: One Small College Examines the Effectiveness of Theme-Based Writing Courses5
H.16Figuring It Out as We Go: Finding a Place for the Writing4
H.17Walking the City: Rhetorically Situated Learning and the Syntax of Service4
H.18Writing Opportunity: Administrative, Historical, and Pedagogical Aspects of Teaching EOP Students5
H.19Enacting Social Justice: Discursive Spaces where Disabilities are Named, Accommodations Constructed, and Alliances Forged5
H.20Words and Images: Experience and Literacy4
H.21Embracing Diversity, Enlarging Community3
H.22Managerial Logic, Access, and Student Performance: The Political Economy of Pedagogy4
H.23Openings for Praxis: New Sites for Freirian Research4
H.24Troping Across the Curriculum: Resisting Strategies of Access in WAC and Writing Centers5
H.25Rhetoric and Social Change: Scottish and Irish Origins and Influences4
H.26Alternative Ancient Rhetorics: Looking Outside the Paradigm of Ancient Rhetorics5
H.27Mending Walls, Unlocking Gates: Research and Reflection on the Shifting Roles of the Two-Year College (TYCA Strand)7
H.28Diverse Perspectives on Access and Success: Reflections on Three Longitudinal Writing Studies5
H.29OWLS, MOOS, and the Social Order4
H.30Owning Knowledge: New Intersections of Intellectual4
H.31Pedagogy, Politics, and Promise: The Conference on Basic Writing at 256
H.32What Goes When Something’s Gotta Give?: How Material Conditions (Ought to) Change Teaching5
H.33Evaluating Teachers: The Public and the Private4
H.34Trained in Composition: Teaching Literature, Film, and Culture4
H.35Readin’, Writin’, and Measurin’: What’s Grammar Got to Do with It?4
H.36Creative Writing: Ads, Travel Writing, and Poetry Slams4
H.37Access to Professional Literacies and Technologies as Civic Discourse4
H.38Texts and Contexts in Technical Communication4
H.39The Portraits of Composition Research Study: Design, Findings, and Implications6
I.1Tricksters, Fishermen, and Others: The Changing Faces of Tutoring4
I.2Privileging The Old or The New?: The Impact of Choosing Reading Texts3
I.3When is Basic Writing not Basic Writing?: Untangling Pedagogy and Assessment in the Small4
I.4Toward a Nomenclature of Style: Modal Use in Freshman Writing3
I.5Rhetoric, Media, and Politics: Classrooms as Contact Zones4
I.6Empowering ESL Students through Argument, Cultural Criticism, and Peer Response3
I.7Expecting Errors: Language and Stereotyping5
I.8Questioning Mainstream Approaches to Teaching Composition5
I.9Improving Access: Exchanging instead of Responding4
I.10Anglo Teachers/Non-Anglo Students: Negotiating Cultural Literacies in the Composition Classroom4
I.11Writing Studio Practice: Opening Places for “At-risk” Students4
I.12Transforming the Lives of the Disadvantaged: Finding Their Own Voice (TYCA Strand)4
I.13Multi-sensory and Hip-Hop Pedagogies: Access to Engagement5
I.14Opening the Golden Gates?4
I.15Talking in the Center/Teaching in the Classroom4
I.16Questioning What We Do: Assessing the Effectiveness of Teacher-Researcher3
I.17Arts of Language: Ways to Use and Understand4
I.18Giving Voice to African American Males and to the Elderly5
I.19Seeing Writing Programs as Sites of Inquiry4
I.20Rereadings of Vir Bonus, Lady Rhetoric/Autochthony, and Lacan’s Subject-Supposed-to-Know4
I.21Epistemological Models: Three Critiques4
I.22Normie Hegemony: Culture, Rhetoric, and True Life Adventures in the Land of the Neuro-typicals4
I.23Re-appropriating the Mirror: A Cross-Race Dialogue on Gender, Authority, and Reflexivity1
I.24Transnational Feminism: Rhetorical and Pedagogical Practices3
I.25Creating a Profession: The Evolution of the Two-Year College English Teacher8
I.26Accessing Identities: Women’s Life-writings in the Progressive Period5
I.27Feminists Researching across Differences: Talking, Talking Back, and Listening to Whiteness5
I.28Preparing for a “Society of the Spectacle”: Gaming and Literacies4
I.29Refiguring Emergent Media: Student Rhetorical Agency, Digital Composing, and Multimedia Production4
I.30Location, Location, Location: Writing Programs and Institutional Space5
I.31Interdisciplinary Issues, Interdisciplinary Writing5
I.32“Servial of the Fittus”: Assessment, Placement, and Student Success in the Academic Jungle4
I.33Addressing the Public, Assessing Ourselves: A New Disciplinary Framework for Rhetoric and Composition7
I.34Writing Black: Engaging African American Oral Language Style in the Language of Writing3
I.35New Voices in Creative Nonfiction and Memoir3
I.36The Rhetoric of Scientific Accommodations Revisited4
I.37Outcomes in Technical Writing4
I.38CCCC Research Initiative Part I1
J.1Accessing Asian American Rhetoric(s): Locations, Movements, Actions5
J.2Making Research Matter4
J.3Analog Asynchronicity: Competing Philosophies of Composition5
J.4Class Matters3
J.5Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Knowledge Transfer across the Curriculum6
J.6At Play in the Fields of the Word: Creating Spaces for Radical Play in Writing Classrooms and Centers6
J.7Access, Success, and Recess: Re-playing the College Game4
J.8Student Access to University Discourse: Writing in the Disciplines, Dialogic Metalanguage, and Hybrid5
J.9The Ethics and Integration of Service-learning: Resistance, Empowerment, and Responsibility5
J.10What about Writing in the English Methods Course?4
J.11Writing Teachers Writing New Media4
J.12Advanced Composition Toolbox to Access: Integrating Genre, Discourse Analysis, and Ethnography3
J.13There’s Something about the Personal4
J.14The Writing Center as Space4
J.15Rhetoric as Nonviolent Action: Designs for the Writing Program5
J.16Familiar Problems in New Contexts: Sharing and Maintaining Literacy, Access, and Community4
J.18Rhetoric and Literacy in Political Reform4
J.19Cultural and Religious Conflict in the Contact Zone: Handling Multiple Viewpoints4
J.20The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth: Testimony and the Construction of Political Truths3
J.21Racial Representations in Urban Communities, Spoken Word Venues, and Popular Culture: Toward a Redefinition of Public4
J.22Politics and Palimpsests: Higher Education, Race and Class, and Histories of Writing Instruction in the Deep South5
J.24Best Practices: Three Perspectives3
J.25Access and Collaboration in the Digital Classroom4
J.26Gender, Ethics, and Liability: Access and Autonomous Software Agents on the Internet4
J.27Department Leadership: The Gateway for Faculty and Student Success at Two-Year Institutions4
J.28Professional Development: Three Contexts5
J.29Feminist Writing Program Administration: Why Bother?3
J.30Affirming Our Unity in Writing: Composition, Creative Writing, Journalism, and Professional Writing in a Holistic Writing6
J.31Consultation Session on Issues Related to Writing Assessment14
J.32English Studies as Contexts for ESL-II4
J.33Writing, Reading, and Teaching Place-based Nonfiction5
J.34Enacting Values: Genre, Plagiarism, Decorum5
J.35Access to Health Care through Writing5
K.2Access and Excess: When Composition Theory and Composition Load Collide (TYCA Strand)6
K.3Applying Ethnography, Irony, and Sophistic Rhetoric to Popular Culture4
K.4Situated Writing: The University as Place4
K.5Integrating and Expanding Home Language to Empower4
K.6Re-imagining the Community: Service-Learning as Access in the Writing Classroom5
K.7Composing in the ‘Techno-Meritocracy’5
K.8Piecing Together the Puzzle of Access in the Developmental English Class: Selecting Texts, Reading Texts, Writing about Text4
K.9Educating Successful Writers/Rhetors: Project-, Problem-, and Client-Based Pedagogies in the Writing Classroom4
K.10Reconsidering Collaborative Learning5
K.11Tools for Revising Our Own Teaching Practices: How Approaches to Universal Design in Teaching can4
K.12Access beyond the Gates: Establishing Contact Zones Using Native American and African American Rhetorics in the Classroom4
K.13Gateway to Writing, the Academy, and Beyond for Non-traditional Adult Learners: Student Access and Success4
K.14Defining Success in WAC: Assessing a WI Course3
K.15Opening the Doors: Building a Mobile Writing Center for an Open-access Online University5
K.16“‘I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours’”: How Integrating Curriculum Promotes Student Success5
K.17Putting a Face on AIDS in Africa: Creating a Rhetoric of Hope2
K.18Arguing the End of Composition Studies4
K.19Enactment: The Student as Agent of Destiny4
K.20Rethinking Competencies in Linguistically Diverse5
K.21Terms of Contact Redefined: Comparative Rhetoric5
K.22Ecologies of Rhetorical Appeals4
K.23‘Seeing’ Visual Rhetoric through Studies of Practice4
K.24Open Wide the Gates: Accessing College Composition5
K.25Researching Rhetorically: Conceptualizing and Teaching Research4
K.26Hybridity and Information Technologies4
K.27Expanding the ‘Contact Zone’ to Cyberspace: Three Pedagogical Applications for Weblogs4
K.28Organizing Tenured and Non-Tenure-Track Faculty on Contingent Faculty Issues5
K.29“We would NEVER do that in my discipline!”: Accessing Contact Zones through an Interdisciplinary8
K.30“My Student Has Self-Identified, Now What Do I Do?”: Opening Gates to Ability4
K.31Affirmative Acts: Ethical Consensus on the Common Good4
K.32English Studies as Contexts for ESL-I4
K.33Writing Teachers as Consultants in Business and Government: How to Prepare for, Identify, and Successfully Apply for Positions4
K.34Moving Away from Text: Improving Students’ Access to Meaning5
K.35CCCC Research Initiative Part II1
K.36The Literary Influence of The Maltese Falcon: Writers Discuss Hammett’s Impact4
L.1Keeping the Gate Open: Using Home Language, Ebonics, and Basic Writer’s4
L.2Online Instruction and Minority Students: Strategies for Success in Writing3
L.3Addressing Gender Issues: Whose Theory Should We Use?4
L.4Software and Its Problems and Benefits in Writing Classrooms4
L.5The Trials and Triumphs of Textbook Publishing: The View from Authors, Publishers, and Reviewers6
L.6A Collection of Collaborators: Four Views of Collaboration from Inside and Outside the Academy5
L.7Ethnography of the University4
L.8In Defense of Difficulty: Fostering Student Engagement with Complicated Texts4
L.9Intersections and Impact of Incorporating Speaking in the Composition Classroom4
L.10Panning for Gold: Access Doesn’t Always Equal Success4
L.11ESL and Second Language Students: Addressing Plagiarism, Using Tutoring Strategies, and Researching in the Writing Center4
L.12Faceless, Placeless Success: Questioning the Move toward Nationally Normed6
L.13Service Learning Problematized4
L.14From the Golden Gate to the Pearly Gate: Teaching Writing in Religious/Conservative Environments4
L.15The Ecology of Literacy: An “Environmentally Sound” Relationship between Theory and Practice in the Composition Classroom4
L.16Re-reading Bakhtin for Democratic Possibility4
L.17New Rhetorics of Working-class Consciousness5
L.18The Cost of Good Intentions: Educational Interventions4
L.19Defining Access and Success: The Discourse of Medical Research in Everyday Texts and Contexts4
L.20Exploring Online Communities4
L.21WPAs Build Bridges Too: The Rhetorical Value of Data, Reports, and Assessments4
L.22Lost Ethics in the English Classroom4
L.23Institutional Authority, Leadership, and Power4
L.24Dialect Dilemmas4
L.25Controversies in Business Writing4
L.26New CCCC Position Paper on Writing Assessment6
L.27Access in the New University: Building Coalitions in a Writing Program4
L.28‘Hughes’ Dream Harlem’ and the African American Literary Tradition: A Film Screening2
L.29The Public Image of Two-Year Colleges: Hallmarks of Fame and Shame6
L.30How Are We Teaching Teachers to Be Teachers?5
M.2Bridging the Divide between Basic Writers and the Academy: Golden Gate or Wobbly Log (TYCA Strand)5
M.3Recharge the Remote: Channeling Student Literacies4
M.4Can We Teach Voice?4
M.5Circumscribing the Limits of Academic and Professional4
M.6Study Abroad: Students Opening Doors for Students5
M.7The Heart of the Mattering: Writing that Merges Personal4
M.8Taking the Low Road: Popular Culture and the Writing Classroom4
M.9Environmental Affirmation: (Re)Writing Agency and Access through Ecocomposition6
M.10Feminist Ethics: Reframing Risk and Trust in the Writing Classroom4
M.11As We Shape Space, So Space Shapes Us: Critical8
M.12Nurturing Nascent Naysayers in a Yes-man’s Land: Encouraging Risk in Homogenous Cultures4
M.13Public Writing at the Point of Need: A Senior-level General Education Composition Course4
M.14Technology’s Role in Student Success: What Happens8
M.15Let’s Hear it from Them: First-Generation and Under-represented Students Discuss Factors of Their Succes6
M.16Diversity in Kansas?: The Challenges of Implementing a Diversity/Writing4
M.17Gender, Cognition, Tactility: Hands-on Theories of Rhetoric3
M.18Escribiendo Expresiones de Liberación: Theorizing Community-based Writing Programs as Access to Higher Education for Latina/o Youth4
M.19Adaptive Rhetorics: Moving Figures across Lyric, Film, and Video Art4
M.20Indigenous Rhetoric: Speaking to Power without Saying a Word4
M.21Educational Extremes: Pedagogical Hope and Educational Violence4
M.2219th Century Northern Women’s Rhetorics of Gender, Class, and Work3
M.23Community-based Writing: Directions for Research4
M.24Composing Images, Creating Texts: A Conversation about Incorporating Multimodality into the Composition Classroom5
M.25Implications for the First Year4
M.26Portfolios as Assessment and Learning Tools5
M.27Moving Beyond Contact: Conversation as Inquiry, Invention, and Initiative in WAC and Beyond3
M.28Issues of Language Rights4
M.29Life Histories, Case Studies; ESL4
M.30Does Science Matter?4
MW.1Disability and Access: Enabling the People, Technologies, and Spaces of Composition15
MW.2Blog On!: Accessing Public Audiences through Weblogs12
MW.3Working With Generation 1.5 in College Composition2
MW.4Every Composition Professional a De Facto ESL8
N.1Multimedia Approaches to Teaching and Using3
N.3Home Words: City Writing4
N.4“Now that there is not much racism in our society . . .” : Reading and Writing Race in the Composition4
N.5Mainstreaming Re-imagined: An Ensemble Performance6
N.6Access to Authority (Rhetorical and Otherwise) in the Composition Classroom6
N.7Creative Access for All and Academic Malice towards6
N.8Forging a Community/University Literacy Center: Whose Interests? Whose Needs?4
N.9Teachers against the Ropes: Wrestling the New Media Nerve Hold4
N.10Redefining Success via/and Affirming the Discipline: FYC as Intro to Writing Studies6
N.11Race and the Rhetorics of Access4
N.12Theorizing Audience: Making Decisions, Laughing Out Loud3
N.13The “Nature” of Environmental Arguments: Waterways, Subsistence, and the Value of a Good Map3
N.14Inspiration from Gerda Lerner for Composition and Rhetoric: Rhetorical History, Pragmatism, Writing as Activism, and Pedagogy5
N.15Rhetorical Provocations: From Jim Crow to Affirmative Action4
N.16Race Qualified and Quantified4
N.17Images of Resistance: Multimodal Rhetoric as Civic Intervention4
N.18Beyond Our Gates: Writing beyond the Writing Program2
N.19The Economics of Plagiarism and Authorship4
N.20Portfolios and Program Goals: Cans of Worms that Catch Big Fish5
N.21Visual Rhetorics4
O.1Confronting Others as a Rhetorical Heuristic to Build an Appreciation of Difference in Ourselves2
O.2Negotiating Identities in the 21st Century Classroom4
O.3Helping Non-Traditional Students Claim Their Education5
O.4Opening the Gates of Academia: Approaches to Promoting Student Success at the Community College5
O.5Access, Privilege, Place, and Confessional Culture in the Composition Classroom4
O.6Stanford’s “How I Write” Project: Creating a Writing Community4
O.7Ensuring Student Success: A Roundtable on Instructional Innovations at an HBCU in Transition4
O.8Making Access Real: Learning Communities, Basic4
O.9Calls to Work, Occupational Inquiry, and Discipline-specific Writing in the New Vocationalism2
O.10Assessing Success: A Holistic Approach to Writing4
O.11Silence, Power, and the Limits of Literacy4
O.12Theorizing What Genre Can Do4
O.13Theories of Teaching and Mentoring: Faculty and Students of Color Doing the Cultural Bump5
O.14Hearing Voices: Historical Reclamations of Feminist, Rhetorical Agency5
O.15Reconsidering Three Moments in Rhetorical History3
O.16Multi-modal and Hyper-realistic: Diverse Forms of Representation3
O.17Interfacing and Composition Pedagogy: From Surfing to Hacking4
O.18Reconstructing Professional Identities within Institutional3
O.19WAC, WID, and Writing Instruction: Creating Cross-disciplinary Opportunities in FYC, WI, and Beyond4
O.20“The Gilded Six Bits”: Validating and Invalidating African6
O.21Rhetoric and Corporate Production2
P.1The Parlor: A Role-playing, Interactive, Carnivalesque, Multimedia Extravaganza6
PSIG.1Affirming Action: A Roundtable by the Progressive SIG/9
SW.1Promoting Student Success with Digital Tools: Remediating Access7
SW.2Saturday Afternoon Exultation of Larks: Poet-to-Poet Workshop3
SW.3Sharing Your Ideas with the Profession: Drafting NCTE/CCCC Proposals, Turning7
SW.4Qualitative Research Network6
SW.5Beyond Clarity and Grace: Grammar and Style for Writers and Teachers6
SW.6Putting Your Writing Course Online7
SW.7Intellectual Property in Composition Studies14
TSIG.1Should Graduate Programs in Rhetoric/Composition Include Training in Second Language Writing?4
TSIG.2Wiki Rhetoricians SIG5
TSIG.3Special Interest Group: Composition/English Education Connections18
TSIG.4American Society for the History of Rhetoric2
TSIG.5Opening the Gates of Academe through Mentoring: How to Help Students and Colleagues Enter and Succeed13
TSIG.6Film, Television, and Visual Rhetoric6
TSIG.7Non-Tenure-Track (NTT) Faculty Special Interest Group6
TSIG.8Affirming Authority/Affirming Actions: Junior Writing Program Administrator Contact8
TSIG.9M.F.A. Special Interest Group7
TSIG.10Kenneth Burke Society Triennial Conference Preview1
TSIG.11How To Get Published in CCC: Meet the Editor and Editorial Board12
TSIG.12High School/College Articulation5
TSIG.13National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric4
TSIG.14Service-learning Special Interest Group16
TSIG.15Language, Linguistics, and Writing: Understanding Language, Teaching Writing5
TSIG.16Methods Roundtables: Basics and Beyond in Technical Communication11
TSIG.17Fun in the Writing Center: An Interactive Exploration6
TSIG.18EngiComm: Writing across the Engineering Curriculum5
TSIG.19Creative Writing: Opening the Golden Body, Using the Mind/Body8
TSIG.20Teaching Adult Writers in Diverse Contexts9
TSIG.21Rhetoric, Writing, and the Transcendent3
TSIG.22Helping Students through the Gates: College and University Writing Assessment in the 21st Century8
TSIG.23Medical Rhetoricians6
TSIG.24Queer Caucus1
TSIG.25Keeping the Flame Alive: Celebrating the Life, and Continuing the Work, of James Moffett3
TSIG.27Rhetoric and Christian Tradition14
W.1Theory to Exemplary Practice and Programs from the Two-Year College (TYCA Sponsored)10
W.2Language Diversity in the Composition Classroom (Sponsored by Language Policy Committee; American Indian, Asian/Asian American, Black, and Latina/Latino Caucuses; Second Language Writing Committee; SIG on Language, Linguistics and Writing)22
W.3Models for Student Success: Learning from Award-WinninG Basic Writing Programs25
W.4Starting/Restarting/Continuing WAC/WID: Program Models, Strategies, and Innovations14
W.5The Writing Center: Gateway to Diversity2
W.6Assessing the Ineffable13