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2008 · New Orleans

April 2-5, 2008 · New Orleans, LA · Program chair Charles Bazerman

Theme: Writing Realities, Changing Realities

340 of this year's 2,229 session and paper titles (15.3%) use a word from the theme (changing, realities). In other years the same words appear in 0.6% of titles. All themes.

About this year's source. Read from NCTE's complete program (321 pages). An earlier build used the day files, which lacked Saturday.
591sessions
2,080people listed
37%first listed in this corpus
8.4%at two-year colleges
1.9%at institutions outside the US
13%of listings from ten institutions

Sessions (591)

CodeTitleFormatPeople
A.1Scientific Evidence in the Public Realm: Understanding4
A.2Community Literacy in Pre- and Post-Katrina New Orleans: Redefining Literacy as Hope5
A.3TYCA National Interview Project Uncovers Strategies for Righting the Realities of Full-Time/Part-Time Ratio, High3
A.4Challenge and Change: A Roundtable Discussion on Historically Black Colleges and Universities7
A.5Faculty WAC Portfolios: Documenting Literacy Change, Generating Institutional Critique4
A.6Writing beyond the Discipline: Alternative Strategies for “Making It” in Rhetoric and Composition4
A.7Presentations or Representations of Chinese Rhetoric?: Past and Present5
A.8New Perspectives on Revision: Discourse and Practice5
A.9How to Get from Here to There: Research on Student Writ-ers’ Self-Assessment, Reflection, and Goal-Setting4
A.10Studies in Historiography5
A.11Revisionist Views on the History of Rhetoric4
A.12Construction Cites: Building a Field4
A.13Bodies, Water, and Money: Epideictic Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Images in Science5
A.14It Is Written: Inscribing Realities in Local Sites of Genera-tive Conflict5
A.15Cognitive Science and Scientific Research for Composi-tion Studies5
A.16Disrupting the New Order: Resistance to Evolving Web Standards4
A.17Writer’s Space: Utilizing Heuristics, Multimodality, and Blogging to Illustrate Circulation of Writing Realities4
A.18Language Realities: Language Acquisition and Language4
A.19Communicating to Help the Public: Technical Communication as a Catalyst for Change in National Weather Advisories, Environmental Regulation, and Health Care Information4
A.20Teaching Adults by Writing about Work and Families3
A.21Trustworthy Readers: Appropriate Responses to Creative Writing4
A.22Overcoming Institutional Constraints in WAC Assessment4
A.23Technological Transformations: Distance Education and Writing Centers6
A.242007 Survey of Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Com-position4
A.25Reading and Writing Virtual Realities: Computer Games and Writing Instruction7
A.26Writing Realities and the Intercultural Classroom: Embracing the Identities of African American Women, Alaskan Natives, and Chinese Students to Change Reali-ties in the Composition Classroom4
A.27Gettin’ Schooled in the Groove: Songwriters in the Classroom and Center5
A.28Designing Relevant and Responsible Writing Instruction4
A.29Exposing Some Basic Realities: A Conversation about BW Strategy from Portfolios and Stretch Courses to Studios and Mainstreaming2
A.30Inscribing Reflective, Organizational, and Public Realities: Problems and Solutions4
A.31Ecocomposing in the FYC Classroom: Writing in the Service of Advocacy and Sustainability4
A.32Writing in Spanish and English4
A.33Articulating High School to College Writing Instruction5
A.34What Writing Teachers Do and Are5
A.35Genre for Social Action14
A.36Changing Realities: Visual and Written Rhetorics of Girls4
A.37Writing (Visually) Across the Curriculum: Disciplinary Realities and Rhetorics4
A.38If He Could See Us Now: The Changing of Aristotelian4
A.39Writing Across the Community: Changing Writing Realities in a University-Run Summer5
A.40Rebuilding Pedagogy for Realities in Composition Classes: Working with Students at HSIs and other Non-Traditional5
A.41Reflective Portfolios as Program Assessment4
AW.1Proceed with Caution: Working With and Working On Inter-trans-cross-national-institutional-global-cultural9
AW.2Writing Dreams into Realities: The Two-Year College WPA8
AW.3Changing Realities of Multilingual Students: Special Issues10
AW.4Enhancing Marketing and Public Relations to Support4
AW.5Creating and Revamping Majors in Writing and Rhetoric5
AW.6WPA-NMA Workshop: Developing a Toolkit for a Culture of Assessment7
AW.7Developing a Usable Framework for Teaching Technical7
AW.8Reality Check: Toward a Pedagogy of Ebonics for Composition Classrooms9
AW.9Latino/a Teachers, Researchers, Mentors, and Collaborators10
AW.10Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorical Texts6
AW.11Queer Composition Strategies: Accounting for the Complex Realities of LGBT Writers5
AW.12Because I Said So: Negotiating Power, Coercion, and Silence in a Writing Program6
AW.13Revealing and Preserving Our Local Histories: Archiving as a Tool for Access8
AW.14What Is Cultural Rhetorics?: A Collaborative Definition of an Emerging Field7
AW.15Writing Is a Serious Game: Improvisation as Exploration and Performance3
B.1Tracing New Fronts: Realities of the Middle East5
B.2Creating Active (Not Reactive) Writing Program Policy3
B.3Paradigms, Patients, and Policy: Literacy and Language in Public Discourse4
B.4Senior Citizens Writing6
B.5Writing Programs beyond the Border: Canadian and South African Perspectives4
B.6Whither English?4
B.7Articulating Realities and Working for Change: From Articulation Matrix to Teaching Commons4
B.8Changing the Realities of a Writing Program through Men-toring: Texts, Histories, and Collaborations4
B.9Publishing in “CCC”: Meet the Editor1
B.10Changing Writing, Alternate Realities: Games and Game Theory in the Writing Classroom4
B.11Creating an Interdisciplinary Model for Collaboration: Literacy Studies @ OSU5
B.12Ethics from Praxis in Medical and Pharmaceutical Discourse5
B.13Research(ing) Spaces: Consequences for Historiography5
B.14Handbooks and the Shaping of Writing History4
B.15Rhetorical Memory and Delivery 2.0: Changing Realities of the Future through Writing Realities of the Past5
B.16States of the Unions: Experienced Academic Co-Authors6
B.17Changing Landscapes: The Rhetorical Terrain of Sustainable Agriculture5
B.18Questioning Reality: Reconsidering Writing and Technology4
B.19Computing across Cultures: Learning Intercultural Com-petencies through International Exchanges5
B.20The Experience of Teaching Professional and Technical3
B.21Reporting the Realities of War3
B.23Beyond Words: Visual and Quantitative Literacies6
B.24(Spoken) Words and Actions, Documentary and Performance4
B.25Changing Realities: Adapting Writing Center Pedagogy to Fit the Needs of Second Language Writers4
B.26Sustaining Learning: New Ways of Designing Curriculum4
B.27Critical Issues in Writing Assessment3
B.28Shifting Realities: Third Space Ecocomposition and Sus-tainability Pedagogy5
B.29Black Women Represent: Critical Reflections of Students’5
B.30Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Tracing Our Students’ Paths from Mexico to FYC4
B.31Perspectives on Collaboration and Peer Review5
B.32Writing at the Threshold of the Disciplines: How Methodological Assumptions Shape Student Writing4
B.33What Composition Can Learn from TESOL: What TESOL Can Learn from Composition3
B.34An Audience of Peers: How a Peer Writing Group Transformed the Way We Write4
B.35Facing Cultures and Communities4
B.36Constraining and Producing Discourse: Re-writing the Identities of Marginalized Histories in the Rhetorical Tradition4
B.37Going Public: Can Teachers Find a Public Voice?5
B.38Writing and the Unconscious: Investigating the Borders of the Real4
B.39Patient Advocacy, Online Pathography, and Autism: Inquiries in Medical Rhetoric4
B.40The Freire Project: A Collaboration between Drexel Univer-sity Peer Writing Tutors in Training and Freire Charter High3
B.41Trading Realities: You Wear My Hat and I’ll Wear Yours— Developing a WID Program in a Technical College5
B.42Academic Honesty: Multiple Disciplines, Multiple Realities4
C.1After the Deluge: Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellows Moving5
C.2Whose Change? Realities of Public Communication5
C.3When Assessment Breaks Your Heart: Ethics and Empathy after Katrina4
C.4Changing Writing Assessment: Building Active Collabora-tion among High Schools and 2-Year and 4-Year Colleges7
C.5Doing The Right Thing: The Realities of the Untenured Professor4
C.6Shaping WPA Work I: Diachronic and Synchronic Percep-tions of Writing Program Administration7
C.7Aristotle Meets Generation Y: Solving the High School/Col-lege Disconnect6
C.8Exploring the Chasm between Words and Meaning: The Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence by Second4
C.9The Realities of Teacher Research in Dangerous Times: Why Is It So Hard to Do When It Feels So Right?5
C.10Researching Literacy in Global Contexts5
C.11Sophie Newcomb College of New Orleans: Hidden Collections, Research Centers, Women’s Writing2
C.12Neglected Figures in Modern American Rhetoric4
C.13Institutions and the Writing In and Writing Out of Voice3
C.14Classical Rhetorics for Modern Media and Agents5
C.15Where is the “Rhetoric” in Rhetoric and Composition?4
C.16Latinos/Latinas and the New Rhetorics of Racism4
C.17Digital Re-Placements and Posthuman Pedagogies5
C.18Creating Our Own Truths, Creating Our Own Identities: The Online Manufacture of Knowledge4
C.19Complicating Our Understanding of Academic Writing4
C.20Diversity and Disorder: Mental Health Realities Demand a New Pedagogy . . . Is Creative Nonfiction an Answer?5
C.21Researching Transformations, Transforming Research: Genres and Methodologies4
C.22Yeah! We Speak English! The Impact of Language Attitudes5
C.23Rhetoricizing Online Writing Centers: A Roundtable Discussion on Using Language to Construct4
C.24Departmental WID in International Perspective: Changing Realities for Writing Across the Curriculum4
C.25Achieving Educational Equity in Writing Centers5
C.26Rethinking Invention and Delivery for Digital Spaces4
C.27Appropriating Technologies in Writing Instruction6
C.29The Ethics of Writing Realities4
C.30Expanding Notions of Argument4
C.31The Current Reality of the Small Group Workshop: Is it6
C.32Helping Teachers Respond to Student Writing5
C.33Rewriting the Pathway to Graduation4
C.34The “Delaware Experiment”: Creating a Teaching Track at a Research University4
C.35Exploring Identity, Narrative, and Personal Writing5
C.36Composing Engagement: Constructing Civic Identities4
C.37Derrida’s Gift: Writing Real(ities)4
C.38Teaching Writing through the Lens of the Body: Disability in the Composition Classroom4
C.39The Changing Reality of the Academic Job Search: Negotiating Media, Locations, and Committees3
C.40Rhetoric Matters: The Realities of Public Policy Writing4
C.41The Realities of Teaching the Research Process in First-Year Composition4
C.42Establishing a Secondary Writing Center: A Collaborative6
D.1Plotting Native Historiography: The Ethics and Responsi-bility of Assembling and Reading Native Archival Material10
D.2Service Courses, Service Workers: The Reality of Changing Reality5
D.3Writing Realities, Writing Cities: From the Motor City to the Big Easy4
D.4Picturing Democracy: Multimodal Rhetoric in the Public Sphere6
D.5Federal Policies, Local Realities: Three Explorations of the Federal Role in Inscribing Writing Practices4
D.6Validity Evidence in Writing Assessment6
D.7WPA Work II: Ambiguity and Agentic Efforts7
D.8Exploring Race in Student Writing: Toward an Anti-racist, Critical Pedagogy for Pre-Service Teachers4
D.9Material Realities and Institutional Constraints: WPAs Thinking Theoretically and Working Locally7
D.10Rhetorical Inquiry to Change Realities: Why Feminist Methods Matter5
D.11National TYCA Interview Project: Righting the Realities of Persistent Challenges in Teaching5
D.12What Really Counts: New Applications of Quantitative6
D.13Researchers Studying Language4
D.14What Kind of Indian Are You—Mascot, Disney Character, Hiawatha?: Changing Realities of Indian Representations4
D.15Branding WAC: Realities Across the Curriculum4
D.16Literacy, Material Culture and the State4
D.17Theories of Metaphor: Aristotle, Burke, Pragmatics4
D.18The Realities of Genre in Multiple Contexts: What about Form?5
D.19“Writing Information Literacy:”4
D.20Dissonant Convergence: Myron Tuman’s Theories of Literacy and All that Rhetorical Jazz4
D.21Evaluating Digital Scholarship: A “More Capacious Conception”5
D.22Interrogating Writing Technologies6
D.23Virtual Bridges to Real Community: Searching for Community Online4
D.24Refocusing the Real: Creative Nonfiction in the Composition Classroom5
D.25Deconstructing Familiar Labels and Rhetorics4
D.26Writing the Holocaust: Challenging Assumptions in the Contact Zone5
D.27Making the Transition from Student to Professional Writer4
D.28Student Learning Outcomes as a Roadmap to Writing in the Disciplines4
D.29Resisting Neoliberal Reality in the Writing Center: Durable, Democratic Networks in Long-Term Tutoring5
D.30Coming to Agency through Directed Self-placement6
D.31Speech Acts: Rap, Hip-Hop, and Critical Agency in the First-Year Writing Classroom3
D.32Adaptation IS Reality: The Search for Truth in Student Writ-ing through Adaptation and Antilogy4
D.33Not Just “Waiting on the World to Change”: Research that Matters in Required Writing Courses4
D.34Why Didn’t I Think of That? Writing Instruction at the Graduate Level6
D.35Teaching Composition in New Spaces and with New Strat-egies5
D.36Writing the Katrina Exodus: Displaced Students and Composition3
D.37Designing Teacher Preparation to Acknowledge Student4
D.38Rewriting the Institutional Reality through a Common5
D.39University as Text : Helping Non-Native Speakers “Read” the Culture3
D.40Plotting Native Historiography: The Ethics and Responsi-bility of Assembling and Reading Native Archival Material4
D.41Addressing and Expanding Language Diversity in Writing5
D.42Rhetorics and Realities of Change: Reflections on Theory5
E.1Institutional, Community, and Classroom Conflict: A Campus Visit by President George W. Bush4
E.2Writing in Prison: Peer Tutors, Newspapers, and Literature5
E.3Writing in the Aftermath: Displacement, Grief, Loss, and Katrina5
E.4Internationalizing Composition: A Reality Check6
E.5Why I’ve Stayed, Why I’ve Strayed: Dealing with Mid-career5
E.6Patterns, Methods, and Contexts: Case Results from a Longitudinal Study of Writing5
E.7Changing Disciplinary Perspectives, Pedagogies, and Research Ethics3
E.8Perceptions of the Profession: New Members, “Contin-gent” Members, Outside Observers4
E.9Writing Realities among Future Elementary School Teachers7
E.10Tracing Discursive Resources: How Students Use Prior8
E.11Research Opportunities in the History of Technical and Business Writing5
E.12Rewriting Histories: Considering the Role of Legacy, Men-torship, and Local Context in Archival Research4
E.13Literacy as Resistance for Portuguese Americans, African4
E.14“Thinking Through” and “Acting Out”5
E.15Picturing Realities, Embodying Change: Photography as Rhetoric3
E.16Reasoning in These Times5
E.17Shaping Future Realities: Scientific and Technological6
E.18Digital Liberalism, Material Realities4
E.19Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age4
E.20Ownership, Authorship, and Representation in Digital4
E.21The Reality of Writing: Alternative Perspectives of Turnitin.com4
E.22Understanding Multilingualism in Student Writing4
E.23Writing Selves: The Academy, Ethics, and Recovery4
E.24Writing Academic Realities: Three Studies of Unexpected Genres5
E.25Academic Gateways vs. Academic Gatekeepers: The Reali-ties of Academic Literacy Issues in the Two-Year College4
E.26Two Assessments of Writing Assessments4
E.27Celluloid WAC: Documenting the Realities of WAC through Film4
E.29Convergence Composition: Bridging the Digital Divide4
E.30Grading Writing: International and Institutional Ideals and Realities4
E.31Imagining Realities: Teaching Composition Theory to Undergraduates4
E.32The Reality of Place: Region, Identity, and Why Memoir Matters5
E.33Transitions to College Writing and Reading: Cultivating4
E.34Writing Pictures, Changing Writing4
E.35Reconciling Disparate Cultural Realities through Serving2
E.36Representin’ Colored Realities: Writing Policy and Commitment to Speakers of Ebonics4
E.37Re-visioning the Writing Classroom as a Site for Other(ed)6
E.38Changing Our Writing Realities through Rhetorical Gram-mar Instruction5
E.39“Will My Story Bring Change . . . ?” Reflections by Non-native Student-writers Help Reinvent the U.S. Academy4
E.40Writing Resistance: Assessment, Accountability and Subversion5
E.41Daybooks as the Center of Reading, Writing, and Thinking5
E.42From Soap Boxing to MySpacing: Critical Pedagogy and Multimodal Composition3
F.1Sites of Civic Literacy: Designing and Sustaining College-Community Partnerships5
F.2Neutralizing Social, Political, and Institutional Realities4
F.3(Re)Charting the (Dis)Courses of Faith and Politics: Kenneth Burke’s Pentad, Sharon Crowley’s Toward a Civil4
F.4Changing Collaborative Realities: Dissensus and Dialogue4
F.5Administrating Realities: A Day in the Life of a Lead In-structor in the Two-Year College Setting4
F.6Researching Fully Online Instruction: Assessment, Pedagogy, and a New Theory of Hybrid6
F.7Exploring Student Diversity, Gender, Religion, and ELL3
F.8When the Subject Is Human: Writing the Realities of Human Participant Research5
F.9Learning from the Past for the Realities of the Present: Writing Reform in Comenius, De Quincey, Lewes4
F.10“You Inhabit Reality”: The Embodied Authority of Jane Addams4
F.11Visual Rhetoric of Comics, ‘Spectacle’, and Mail Art5
F.12Constructing Racial Identities4
F.13Biomedical Meltdown: Sites of Change in Healthcare4
F.14Emerging Technologies, Cyborg Futures? Human Rights, Literacy, and Disability4
F.15Constructing Identities/Constructed Identities: Game Work in College Writing Courses4
F.16Rethinking Assumptions: Second Language English Users as Competent Rhetors5
F.17“That shit is plagiarism by any definition”: Conceptualiz-ing Cheating in an Academic Context4
F.18Bodily (Un)Realities: Ethics and Medical Discourse(s)4
F.19Three WPAs’ Perspectives on Changing the Material Pro-duction and Material Outcomes of First-Year Composition4
F.20Assessment, Placement, and Institutional Change: Strategies for Creating New Writing Realities8
F.21Writing Realities vs. Images that Conceal: The Visual Rhetoric of Self-Representation4
F.22Mardi Gras: Made in China, from Filming Realities to Writing Realities3
F.23Composition Assessment without Rubrics: An Experiment4
F.24Writing our World in the Pop Culture Zone5
F.25Who Cares?: A Care-full Examination of First-Year Writing3
F.26Mapping the Past, Creating a Future4
F.27Encouraging Student Learning and Motivation4
F.28Reality Check: Anticipating, Acknowledging, and Attend-ing to the Developing Identities of Student Writers5
F.29Feedback and Response in the Writing Classroom3
F.30Writing Realities in “Paradise”: Real Students, Real Teachers4
F.31Universal Design for Learning: Pedagogy, Not Technology4
F.32The Balancing Act: Compositionists on Writing the Dissertation6
F.33Constructing News and Neuroses: Genre Analysis of Daily News Articles, Writers’ Self-Help Books, and Parent-ing Books4
F.34Changing Discourses: The Writing Center as Forum for Cross-disciplinary Collaboration4
F.35Social Activism, Service Learning, and Facebook: Finding Connection, Investigating Cultural Reality, (re)Defining Community4
F.36How Writing and Writers Develop in High School and College4
FSIG.1Black Caucus1
FSIG.2Latino/a Caucus Business Meeting2
FSIG.3Asian/Asian American Caucus: Conversations about “Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric”2
FSIG.4American Indian Caucus3
FSIG.5Queer Caucus1
FSIG.6Working-Class Culture and Pedagogy SIG2
FSIG.7jWPA SIG: Reality Check: Re-imagining the Portland1
FSIG.8Rhetoric and Christian Tradition1
FSIG.9Meeting of the International Network of Writing-across-the-Curriculum Programs1
FSIG.10High School/College Articulation1
FSIG.11Writing Center Realities1
FSIG.12The Teaching and Mentoring of TAs and Instructors in Composition1
FSIG.13Teaching Writing in Interdisciplinary Classrooms and Learning Communities1
FSIG.14Independent Writing Units1
FSIG.15Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction: CCCC Issues and Questions1
FSIG.16Teaching Adult Writers in Diverse Contexts1
FSIG.17Special Interest Group on Progressive Approaches to Grammar, Error, and Effective Writing1
FSIG.18Emerging Social Software SIG2
FSIG.19Writing Studios SIG1
FSIG.21Medical Rhetoricians1
FSIG.22Serious Games SIG2
FSIG.23Creative Writing Special Interest Group2
FSIG.245th C: Computers2
FSIG.25Teaching of Writing to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing1
G.1Neighborhood Story Project7
G.2Not Just a Bullet on an Outcomes Statement: Taking Civic Literacy Seriously5
G.3Working for Peace: Realities of Fearless Speech in an Antidemocratic Age4
G.4How Three Compositionists Are Changing the Cultural4
G.5Gatekeepers and Revolving Doors: Arguments about Ac-cess and the Realities of Retention5
G.6(Un)changing Realities: Grounding Our Narratives of the Profession in the Realities of Women’s Lives at the Margins5
G.7Research, Theory, and the Uses of Rhetoric3
G.8Multimodal Composing: Attending to the Realities of Our Students5
G.9Negotiating Teacher Preparation and Teaching Identities5
G.10Hybrid Genres and Rhetorical Agency in Historical Work4
G.11Changing Realities: Constructions of Gender by 19th-Cen-tury Women in the Professions4
G.12City Limits: On Refuge, Reversibility, and Rendition4
G.13Real Talk: Black Women Transforming Realities through Rhetoric and Literacy4
G.14Old Rhetorics for New(ish) Media: From Gutenberg to Web 2.04
G.15Responding to New Media Challenges: Designers and As-sessors (Re)Imagine Today’s Writing Realities4
G.16African American Vernacular in Classrooms, in the Acad-emy, and in the World6
G.17Frames of Reference: Approaches to Teaching Academic Writing5
G.18Preparing Writers for the Realities of Review in the Work-place4
G.19How Strong Programs with National (Canadian) Identities4
G.20The Multiple Realities of Tutor Training: Power, Identity, and Peer Tutoring5
G.21Why Are We Reading This Stuff Anyway?: Using Keystone Essays to Integrate Reading and Writing6
G.22Writing Centers, Information Literacy, and the Teaching of Writing4
G.23Adjusting the Lens: Reading L2 Students and their Texts4
G.24Global Issues, Local Teaching: Teaching Globalization in First-Year Composition5
G.25Graphic Novel as Textbook: Alternative Realities for Composition Instruction4
G.26The Performance of Self in the Writing Classroom3
G.27Creative Composition to Cross Boundaries and Change5
G.28Piercing Parlors, Portuguese Immigrants and the Pente-costal Church: Complicating Realities in First-Year4
G.29Attending to Language: Grammar and Style4
G.30Material Realities: Negotiating Change in an Increasingly3
G.31The One-Room School House: The Realities of Composition at a Community College3
G.32Writing Realities: The History and Reality of Zionism3
G.33Our Top Twenty: A Study of Error at an Appalachian University4
G.34Aliens, (Ex)Gays, and Lesbians: An Examination of Coming Out, Assimilating, and Label-ing the Norm in Public/Private Discourses4
G.35Call(ing) and Response(ding) to Changing Realities: The Language of Power, Class, Race, Restoration, and Reconciliation in a Post-Katrina Society (Classroom)4
G.36Assessment of Tutoring Best Practices: Theoretical Possibilities and Pedagogical Realities5
G.37Designing New Media Systems of First-Year Composition5
H.1Nine Times Social and Pleasure Club7
H.2Transformative Literacy Pedagogies: Civics, Activism, and Writing5
H.3Activist Spaces for Civic Engagement5
H.4Perspectives on Assessment5
H.5Composing Rhetoric and Composition4
H.6The 1986 “Wyoming Resolution”: A Twenty-Year-Plus Retrospective3
H.7What Counts? The Changing Realities of Scholarship4
H.8Putting Handbooks to the Test: Bringing Students into the Development Process through Usability Testing4
H.9A New Era of Teacher Research: Revising Methodologies in Critical Classrooms5
H.10Writing to Contest: Texts as Social Action5
H.11Constructing Visions: Literacies that Matter5
H.12Visual Thinking4
H.13Functions of Theory: Burke, Girard, Sanchez4
H.14Defensiveness, Alienation, and the Politics of the Personal: Problems in Composition Theory4
H.15Virtual Environments, Augmented Realities: Practices Inscribed by Interfaces4
H.16Digital Research Ecologies: How Journal Web Sites Are6
H.17Blue Collar Reality: Working Class Students and Their Writing4
H.18Redefining the Graduate Writing Experience in a Creole4
H.19The Scientific Construction of Political Reality4
H.20Listening Rhetorically, Changing Realities: From Isolation into Dialogue6
H.21Inside-out Assessment: Compositionists’ “Burden to Act”4
H.22International Collaborations and Changing Realities5
H.23Rethinking Realities of Authorship and Ownership4
H.24Apathy to Activism at the Catholic University5
H.25Issues in Teaching Multilingual Writers5
H.26Virtual Spaces, Places and People: Exploring Second Life and First-Year Composition6
H.28Student Diversity and the Contact Zone of the Classroom4
H.29Writing with a Mission: The Calderwood Study of Writing4
H.30Writing Communities Re-conceptualized: Designing and Implementing a Stretch Program to Replace Basic Writing4
I.1Propaganda: Persuasion in the Age of Unreason5
I.2Writing Off-campus Realities: Four Service Learning Courses6
I.3Creating Spaces for Scholarship and Activism3
I.4(Re)presenting Hidden Realities: (Re)claiming the Literacy Agenda7
I.5Exploring the Impact of Composition Pedagogy on the Learning Outcomes of Literature Graduate Students7
I.6A Conversation for and with Graduate Students: How to Get a Job at a Small College5
I.7The Changing Realities Facing the Two-Year College: Implementing a Mentoring Program4
I.8Tying It All Together: Mapping Functional Systems of Literate Activity5
I.9Realizing the Archives: Doing and Teaching Archival Re-search in Composition and Rhetoric5
I.10Discussion on Strengthening the Research Culture within9
I.11Contesting Historical Realities: Rethinking Gender and the Public Sphere in the Rhetorical Tradition4
I.12Writing Women, (Re)Building Reality (1830–1965): Three Historical Models4
I.13Race, Racism, and Writing Assessment4
I.14Understanding and Changing Realities: Rhetorical Ap-proaches to Anxiety and Culture in Public Health Writing5
I.15Rhetorical Classrooms: The Realities of Negotiated Voices, Identities, and Pedagogies4
I.16A Convergence of Terms: Defining New/Digital/Multi/Modal Media4
I.17Our Avatars, Ourselves: The Rhetoric of Identity in Role-playing Games4
I.18Multilingual Students Constructing Themselves and Aca-demic Literacies4
I.19Rhetorical Grammar and the Realities of Academic Writing4
I.20Beyond the Lab Report: Science Writing and the Composition Classroom5
I.21Myspace.com, Hip-Hop Emcees, and Other Student Identi-ties in the Academic Classroom2
I.22Reflection and Rhetorical Facility: Exploring the Realities of Assessing the Portfolio Preface4
I.23Writing Center Realities: Reclaiming the (Con)Textual Product5
I.24Revision Blues: What Non-traditional Students Really Do3
I.25The Real and the Imagined: Identity Work, Basic Writers, and Peer Tutors4
I.26Textual Features of Multilingual Student Writing6
I.27Establishing Reality: Role-playing Democracy through College Rhetoric4
I.28Reading, Writing, and Plagiarism5
I.29In Transit: Practices, Pedagogies, and Realities of Enabling6
I.30Critical Reflective Writing in Composition Courses: Examining Collaborative Strategies5
J.1Walking with Sharon Crowley “Toward a Civil Discourse”5
J.2“The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting”: Using and Generating Archives in Freshman Composition5
J.3Just Common Space: Pedagogical Strategies for Enacting Social Justice5
J.4The New Civics: Community Engagement and Rhetorical Activism6
J.5On Becoming a Teacher of Writing: Perspectives on Professional Development7
J.6Practicing Scholarship through Publication: Faculty Devel-opment and “Teaching English in the Two-Year College”3
J.7Changing Realities through the Creation of an Independent5
J.8Researching Researcher Preparation2
J.9Researching the Personal: Writing after Trauma, Birth Nar-ratives, and Voice in Research4
J.10Spaces and Realities: Rhetoric and Identity within the Space Program, the Per-sonal Computer, and Social Networking3
J.11Imperial and Religious Rhetorics in Renaissance England4
J.12Rhetorics, Cultural Logics, and Agency5
J.13Rewriting the Reality of Autism4
J.14Writing Research, Changing the Subject4
J.15Community, Controversy, and Connection: The Impact of the Web on Community Formation5
J.16New Media: Exploring Tools, Materiality and Space4
J.17Re-Mapping Technological Territories4
J.18Genres in Creative Writing: Journalism, Nonfiction, and Fan Fiction4
J.19Academic Work as Work: Treating Reading and Writing as Material Practice5
J.20Gender, Diversity, and Professional Communication: Who We Are, What We Will Become5
J.21A Range of Realities: Addressing Composition II Students’ Needs5
J.22Mind the Gap: Teacher and Tutor Accountability in the De-sign and Interpretation of WAC/WID Writing Assignments4
J.23Changing Our Reality: Toward a Rhetoric of Undergraduate Degree Programs5
J.24Words in Action: The Art of Poetry Slam and Social Justice4
J.25Writing Realities and the Realities of Writing Instruction6
J.26“This I Believe”: Recovering “Delivery” and the Reality of Self4
J.27Post-Katrina Rhetorics in the Freshman Composition4
J.28Perspectives on Service Learning and Community Service4
J.29Framing Reality: Race, Hegemony, and Visual Rhetoric4
J.30Leaving Reality Behind: Fantasy, Virtual Space, and Literacy5
K.1Scholarship Of Engagement: A Changing Reality For Composition and Rhetoric?4
K.2“Writing Realities, Changing Realities”: The Rhetorical Response to Hurricane Katrina3
K.3Rewriting Realities: Negotiating Perceptions of Images and Text4
K.4Global AIDS: What Can an English Teacher Do?5
K.5Rhetorical Numeracy: Using WAC Pedagogy and Faculty Development to Estab-lish Quantitative Reasoning across the Curriculum4
K.6Why Aren’t You Listening to Us?: Revising the Academic Conference4
K.7It’s Rhetoric! Integrating Writing, Speaking, and Image into the “Writing” Center4
K.8Archival and Rhetorical Approaches to Research in Com-position Studies4
K.9Surveying the Field: Literacy since 1977: Composition6
K.10Literacy in the Workplace: Three Case Studies4
K.11Rhetoric of Change: Writing, Image, Nation, and Political Voices4
K.12Encyclopedias, Yearbooks, and Shakespeare Societies: Extracurricular Pedagogies in Composition and Critical4
K.13Voicing Reality: Witnessing Trauma, Recovering the Real4
K.14Constructing Cultural Identities3
K.15Putting Theory to Work in the Writing Classroom: Changing Contexts for Self-authorship5
K.16Where Everyone Knows Your Username: The Realities of Cyberspace as Third Space5
K.17Online Activism, Critical Thinking, and Identity Construction4
K.18Researching and Articulating Best Practices for Online4
K.19Trading Places, Changing Minds: Using Second Life Virtual Reality to Promote Emancipatory3
K.20Student Expertise and Knowledge Transfer: Teaching Re-search Writing in the First-Year Academic Writing Class5
K.21Writing out of School: Composition Practices in the Hos-pital, the Prison, and the Psychiatrist’s Office4
K.22Taking Responsibility for Recreating, Renewing, and Sus-taining WAC and Writing Centers: Findings of the T YCA6
K.24Reality Check: The Challenges and Rewards of Peer Men-toring and Program Assessment6
K.25The Changing Reality of How Composition Courses Are5
K.26Reconsidering Basic Writing4
K.27Negotiating Teacher-Student Realities in the Cross-cultural4
K.28Rhetorics of Authenticity4
K.29Past Influences, Present Realities: Multi-generational Literacy Practices3
L.1Writing Voices that Change Realities: Tracing the Unheard Rhetorics and Discourses of the American Alternative Agrifood Movement5
L.2Transforming Public Discourse in Composition Studies4
L.3Writing One’s Own Neighborhood: Urban Space, African-American Identity, and Rap4
L.4Think-Tank for Newcomers Developing Papers and Ses-sions for CCCC 20091
L.5Assessing a Developmental Writing Program: How Semantics, Non-Sequiturs, and a History of Appease-ment Led to Civil War at a Provincial Maryland College3
L.6Someone to Watch over Me: Changing Realities of Mentoring Teachers of Freshman4
L.7Appropriation and Fair Use in the Academy: What Every4
L.8Telling Stories of Change: Researching Rhetorical Action5
L.9Revising Our Historical Realities: Investigating Neglected4
L.10Writing Katrina: Breaching Discourse, Inscribing New Realities5
L.11Commercialization, Commodification, and Privatization: The World Bank’s Co-opting of Literacy Education3
L.12Anything New Under the Palimpsest Sun? History, Litera-cy, Genre, and Technologies5
L.13Sound, Word, and World: The Intersection of Audio and Writing Studies4
L.14Multi-modal Communication: Experts’ Advice on Visual Rhetoric9
L.15Writing to Change the World: The Role of Creative Nonfiction in Writing Programs4
L.16Accessing OWLs: Writing Center Usability Testing with Blind and Low-vision Users4
L.17Inscribing Disciplinary Realities: WAC / WID Research and Pedagogy4
L.18At Home and/in the World: Negotiating Global Perspectives in the Writing Classroom5
L.19Reclaiming the Classroom: Two-Year Colleges and Innovative Self-assessment4
L.20Teaching Writing/Teaching Adolescents after Katrina4
L.21The Relevance of Rhetoric for Composition Instruction4
L.22Seeing and Being: The Impacts of Visual Rhetoric inside5
M.1Why We Do It: Negotiating Responsibilities and Authorities5
M.2New Context, New Text: Reenvisioning the Familiar4
M.3Changing Realities and Creating WAC Synergies through Film: A Case Study of Institutional Embeddedness in Mul-tiple Media5
M.4The Making of a Writing Teacher: How Writing Center4
M.5The Other Has a Passport, Too: Resisting Hegemonic Travel Discourse5
M.6Sixty Minutes: Three Documentaries about Student Writers3
M.7Historical Texts, Current “Realities”: Lasting Representations of Truth from Twentieth-century4
M.8Composing Spiritualities4
M.9The Generative Theories of Donald Murray4
M.10Myths, Metaphors, and Realities: Reading New Orleans as Rhetorical Space4
M.11Electronic Portfolio Learning in Layers: Insights for Rhetoric and Composition about Reflective5
M.12What and Who do ePortfolios Represent? The Changing5
M.13Genre in Context: Professional and Technical Documents in the Community5
M.14Facing Challenges for Writing Center Tutors and Graduate4
M.15Digital Delivery, Learning Communities, and Service4
M.16Blending Realities: Creating a Reality of Success for Students of Color5
M.17Writing Classrooms Address Trauma3
M.18Pedagogy of Change: Transforming Composition Instruc-tion and Assessment in the Caribbean and the Diaspora6
M.19Teaching Writing to Basic Writing Students with Visual4
M.20Three Theme-based Writing Courses4
M.21TYCA National Interview Project: Tapping Exemplary Two-Year College Assessment Prac-tices to Rewrite Realities of Imposed Standards and Inadequate Program Support4
MW.1CONNECT-ing Realities: From Initial Conversations on Common Outcomes for First-Year English to an Annual Composition Conference6
MW.2Building a Communal Infrastructure for Undergraduate13
MW.3Changing Realities of Multilingual Students (Part I)9
MW.4Using Grounded Theory in Composition Studies5
MW.5Out of the Classroom into the Streets: Community-based Ethnographic Research in Composi-tion and Basic Skills Courses6
MW.6Changing Writing Realities: Toward a Sustainable Approach6
MW.7Dynamic Classrooms for Dynamic Learners: Guiding the Potential of Students with ADHD2
MW.8The New Writing Classroom: Current Pedagogies and Practices of On-Line/Hybrid Learning3
MW.9Professional Identity and Development: Realities of Digital Composing11
MW.10Writing Across the Curriculum: Linking Programs and Assessment6
MW.11Making It “Real”: New Developments in Peer Review and Collaborative3
MW.12Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?: Reinventing Realities in Creative Writing Pedagogy6
MW.13What’s Queer Got to Do With It?5
MW.14Collaboration and the Writing Workshop9
MW.15Rubrics as Localized Realities: Strategies for Identifying and Strengthening Relationships8
MW.16Team Grading: Changing Classroom Realities5
N.1Mobile Topographies: Remapping the Landscape of Public5
N.2Defining Communities: Millenial, Feminist, and Amish Uses of Discourse Forums4
N.3The Rhetorics of Administrating Reality: How Writing Pro-gram Identities Emerge through Resistance5
N.4“Retrofitting” the Faculty: Helping Mainstream Composition4
N.5Research on Writing Assessment4
N.8Eyes beyond the Prize: Reinterpreting and (Re)inscribing Race, Gender, Class, Ethos and Space in Civil Rights Movement Histories4
N.9(Re)Writing Political Landscapes5
N.10Stability and Instability in Genre Systems: Meta-Genres and ‘Atmospheres of Wording’5
N.11The Compleat Hybrid Experience7
N.12Writing the Social and Material Spaces of Technology4
N.13What We Really Value in Contemporary Poetry3
N.14Science Writing: Ethics, Modalities, and Leadership5
N.15Conversations and Collaborations in Writing Centers5
N.16Building and Sustaining an Independent Writing Major: Insights from a Decade of Departmental Experience6
N.17Composed in the Wake of Disaster: (Re)Writing the Realities of New Orleans6
N.18Changing Realities: Expanding the Audience While Deepening the Writing Re-alities of Common Outcomes for First-Year English6
N.19Institutional Myopia: An Exploration of Writing Conventions and Assessment5
N.20New Tools for Writing Instruction5
O.1Community in the Classroom: Civil Discourse and Writing Pedagogy5
O.2Bending Bars: Exploring Art, Literature, and Writing4
O.3Locating Writing Program2
O.4Academic Freedom in the 21st Century: Teaching Writing4
O.5The Changing Realities of Scholarly Publication and the State of Our Knowledge6
O.6Changing Plagiarism’s Reality: Writing as Academic Growth5
O.7Inscribing Realities: Studies in Ancient Rhetorical History4
O.8Writing Economies: Toward a New Lexicon for Composition5
O.9Who Are You?: Discursive Practices and Iterations of Identity5
O.10Roundtable on Cultural Rhetorics6
O.11The Online Writing Center at a Two-Year College: Accommodating New “Writing Realities”1
O.12YouTube U.: Home Video Goes to College4
O.13Global Considerations: Intercultural Rhetoric and Technical Communication4
O.14Simulation, Collaboration, and Communication: Pedagogy and Professional Writing4
O.15Changing Realities of Assessment: Listening to Student Voices5
O.16What If?: Writing Center Lore and Reality4
O.17Learning from Peer Review: New Research5
O.18New Visions for the Classroom: Using Visual Rhetoric to Transition into Academic Discourse5
O.19Ethical Challenges in Reading, Writing, Teaching Creative5
O.20Three Assignments for First-Year Writing3
O.21Field Tripping: Interdisciplinarity Inside (and Outside) the Composition Classroom3
P.1Writing through the Mountains: Appalachian Female Literacies and Epistemology4
P.2Trauma and Resistance4
P.3Town and Gown Collaborations—Three Cases14
P.4“The Ecstasy of Influence”: (Four Plagiarisms)5
P.6Assessing Realities: How Students Construct the Timed-writing Task through Genre, Resistance, and Marginalia6
P.7Valuing the Local in a Global Age: Writing Culture through Memory and Preservation Practices5
P.8Conflict and Change: Rhetorical Theory versus Rhetorical4
P.9Composing Reality: Composing Virtual Pleasure4
P.10Contesting Women’s Voices4
P.11Thinking and Writing Tropologically4
P.12Digitize This!: Self-constructions in Blogs, ToolArmy, MySpace, and Hybrid Pop Culture Courses4
P.13Digital Diversity in the Composition Classroom: Technol-ogy Experiences of Nontraditional and Minority Students6
P.14Documenting the Future: The Role of Technical Communi-cators in Constructing Critical Technologies4
P.15Rebuilding the Foundations of ENGL 1015
P.16What’s y/our Story?: Personalizing Research, Researching the Personal5
P.17The Reality Challenge: Complex Reading, Good Writing, and Satisfied Students?4
P.18The Rhetoric of Environmental Sustainability in the Writ-ing Classroom: Genuine Practice, Bandwagon Response, or Co-opted Discourse?4
P.19Advanced Writing Development5
P.20Ripping Up My Syllabus9
P.21What Do Peer-tutors Really Help First-Year Composition4
TSIG.1Service-Learning and Community Literacy1
TSIG.2SIG for WPAs and Writing Center Administrators Who1
TSIG.3Part-Timers SIG1
TSIG.4Conference on Basic Writing Special Interest Group2
TSIG.5FYC as an Introduction to Writing Studies1
TSIG.6Second-Language Writing SIG: Applying the CCCC2
TSIG.7English Education/Composition Connections2
TSIG.8Reclaiming the Wisdom Traditions for Education: A Preview of the 2008 Summer Conference of the NCTE3
TSIG.9EngiComm: Writing Across the Engineering Curriculum1
TSIG.10The Grad Student SIG2
TSIG.11Open Source and Free Software Users Group2
TSIG.12Disability Studies SIG1
TSIG.13Composition at the Small College/University1
TSIG.141 UP: Perspectives from Scholars/Practitioners of Video Games2
TSIG.15Canadian Caucus1
TSIG.16Film, Television, and Visual Rhetoric1
TSIG.17Language, Linguistics, and Writing1
TSIG.18U.S.-Israel-Palestine Special Interest Group1
TSIG.19Family Writing Special Interest Group4
TSIG.20Non-Western Rhetorical Traditions1
TSIG.21Kenneth Burke Society1
TSIG.22Rhetoric and Composition Sound Archives2
TSIG.23National Archives of Rhetoric and Composition1
TSIG.24MFA SIG1
TSIG.25Teaching Creative Nonfiction Special Interest Group2
W.1Using the CCCC Position Statement on Writing Assess-ment to Guide Assessment Practices: An Individualized16
W.2What Are the Realities of College-Level Writing in Two-Year Colleges–and Why Should We Even Ask?12
W.3First-Year Composition as Writing Studies: Implementing a Writing-about-Writing Pedagogy8
W.4Basic Writing after the Storm: Changing Reality in the Classroom and Beyond13
W.5Writing Center Realities14
W.6Rhetoricians for Peace: Reading and Writing about Violence11
W.7Writing the Changing Realities of Earth: Practices and Issues for Teachers of Nature Writing7
W.8Course Management Systems: A Viable Reality in the Composition Classroom7
W.9Facing Reality: Progressive Approaches to Grammar, Error, and Effective Writing6
W.10Reflection as Rhetorical Art and Practice9
W.11The Invention of Reality11
W.12Student Voices and Sites of Production for Electronic12
W.13(Post) Institutionalized Feminism: Defining the “F-word”14