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2009 · San Francisco

March 11-14, 2009 · San Francisco, CA · Program chair Marilyn Valentino

Theme: Making Waves

192 of this year's 2,340 session and paper titles (8.2%) use a word from the theme (making, waves). In other years the same words appear in 2.0% of titles. All themes.

662sessions
2,232people listed
37%first listed in this corpus
9.0%at two-year colleges
1.7%at institutions outside the US
14%of listings from ten institutions

Sessions (662)

CodeTitleFormatPeople
A.1Un/Documented Literacies: Rewriting Cultural Citizenships in the United States4
A.2Responding to Student Writing7
A.3Beyond the CompRhet Doctorate: Writing History and Theory4
A.4Avatars and Representation in Second Life (tm): Sexuality, Literacy, and Fashion3
A.5Learning Communities in Context Collaboration and Across the Disciplines4
A.6Social Class and the Teaching of Writing: The New Wave4
A.7Strategies for Teaching Original, Ethical, and Scholarly3
A.8Ecocomposition in Practice: Space, Service, and Subjectivity in the First-Year Writing Classroom4
A.9Assessment Initiatives for Writing Centers4
A.10Thinking Big and Making It Happen: Stories, Strategies, and Lessons Learned from Several4
A.11Technical Writing Made Public5
A.12Peer Review Reviewed: Empirically Examining the New5
A.13Knowing, Doing, and Making Comics in Rhetoric and Composition4
A.14Emerging Technologies, Cyborg Futures?: Human Rights, Literacy, and Disability2
A.15Enticing Rhetoric: The Mutual Attraction of Composition4
A.16Transnational English(es) and U.S. Composition: From Global to Glocal7
A.1721st-Century Writing Lives: Redefining Development, Per-formance, and Intellectual Property in College Writing5
A.18ALP: A New Model for Mainstreaming Basic Writers4
A.19Re-invigorating Traditional Research Assignments in First-Year Writing3
A.20Questioning Timed Writing and Portfolio Assessment4
A.21From Textile Mills to the Entrepreneurial University: Confronting the Political Economics of Writing4
A.22Research Redux: Rethinking Assumptions about Literacy2
A.23When Writers Teach the Teaching of Writing4
A.24Out to Sea and Back Again?: Considering the Future of Rhetoric and Composition by Looking at the Past4
A.25Writing and Complexity: Experiencing, Knowing, and Representing Reality4
A.26Writing for Multiple Purposes: Place and Genre4
A.27Beyond Plagiarism4
A.28Using Radical and Activist Traditions to Teach Writing4
A.29Upside Down, Inside Out: Making (Assessment ) Waves to Launch a WAC Enterprise from the Inside Out6
A.30Sea Change: Turbulence, Resistance, and Composition at a Military School4
A.31Streaming New Media4
A.32Critical Approaches to Technological Environments4
A.33Four Voices from the Contact Zone of Composition Theory6
A.34Mapping the Fault Lines of Evangelical Identity and Com-position Studies4
A.35Moving beyond the Privatized Writing Classroom: Community Engagement, Public Writing, and Philanthropy4
A.36Making Waves to Make a Difference: Finding a Statewide Voice in a Textbook Initiative6
A.37Assessment in the Context of the Learning Community4
A.38Reading, Writing, and Rock Stars: Audio Literacies and the Millennial Classroom7
AW.1Making Cross-Cultural Connections: Global Learning in Composition Classes and Writing Centers6
AW.2Keeping Multilingual Writers in Mind: How Universal6
AW.3“Here We Are”: Making Waves in the Teaching of American Indian Texts5
AW.4Digital Writing Assessment: Designing and Evaluating11
AW.5Changing Stories through Public Assessment, Research, and Teaching: The WPA-NMA Workshop7
AW.6Charting Historical Waters: Articulating Strategies for Archival Research14
AW.7“Tear down the Wall”: Bridging Institutional Differences8
AW.8Latina/o Pedagogy, Research, and Service: A Workshop Sponsored by the NCTE Latino/a Caucus8
AW.9Diversity, Community, and Technology: A Workshop for New and Veteran Teachers of Technical and Professional4
AW.10Research outside R1: Designing Workable Projects and Drafting Book Proposals6
AW.11International Writing Scholarship and Collaborative8
AW.12Disabling the Master’s Tools: Advocating Language7
AW.13Innovate, Assess, Sustain: Writing pedagogy and Web 2.07
AW.14The Pleasures of Teaching Composition: Reading and Responding to Student Writing6
B.1We Have Been Here Forever: Towards a History of Composition(ist)s of Color Rewriting Rhetoric within and beyond NCTE/CCCC8
B.2Diving In, Diving Farther, Diving Deeper: The Future of Basic Writing6
B.3TYCA Research Initiative, The Third Wave: Rethinking, Re-vising, and Transforming Our Classrooms with Technology4
B.4Players, Preachers, and Politicians: Historical Rhetoricians5
B.5Effective Practices for Teaching Students with Disabilities4
B.6Writing our Bodies/Writing our Space: Web-based Dia-logue between ESL and LGBTQ Students3
B.7Further Thoughts on Bullshit: Perspectives and Proposals5
B.8Teaching Graduate Student Writers4
B.9Two (or More) Heads Are Better than One: Promoting8
B.10Laughing, Lying, Arguing with Feminist Film Theory, Sta-tistics, and Satire4
B.11Riding the Web 2.0 Wave with Tried and True Rhet/Comp4
B.12Up the River without a Paddle on the High Seas while4
B.13Black Faces in White Spaces: African American Identity on a Predominately White Campus3
B.14Preparing the New Wave of Teachers of Composition4
B.15‘But They Can’t Write!’: The Changing Nature of Writing4
B.16Alternative Literacy Narratives: Identities, Stories, Communities2
B.17Plagiarism Detection Technology: From the Roundtable to the Grail—Deconstructing Turnitin and Safe Assignment5
B.18Beyond the WAC Workshop: The Possibilities and Pitfalls4
B.19“Shit-plus,” “AWK,” “Frag,” and “Huh?”: An Empirical Look8
B.20Three Perspectives on the 4th ‘C’: Integrating Composition4
B.21(Re)mediating Social Technologies4
B.22Panning for Gold: Analyzing Assignment Design as a Foundation for WAC/WID Initiatives4
B.23Social Networking and First-Year Composition: Facebook,4
B.24Attending to Professional Literacies4
B.25Making Waves in the Mind/Body Split: Renegotiating Em-bodied Writing Pedagogy4
B.26Media and Rhetoric from Britney Spears to Barack Obama5
B.27Crashing the Wave of Exclusion in the Field of Composi-tion Studies: Pedagogical Uses of Alter-native Genres in Composition Classes4
B.28Play’s the Thing: Diversity, Difference, and the Destabiliz-ing Game(s) of Rhetoric5
B.29Research on Student Attitudes4
B.30Mapping Religious Rhetorics in the Academy, the Media, and the Nineteenth-Century Pulpit3
B.31Disturbing Writing: Examining the Stories, Roles, and Re-sponses of University Writing Tutors and Teachers5
B.32Waves of Transnational Composition, Ways of Doing Inter-cultural Rhetoric5
B.33Bodies that Matter: Immigration, Class, and Other “Distur-bances” in the Writing Classroom4
B.34The Problem of Multimodal Assessment: Criteria and Standards, Waves or Particles?4
B.35The Kamp Katrina Project: A Civic Collaboration between (Graduate Student) Scholars and Community Members3
B.36Pushing Pedagogies, Challenging Curricula: Creating5
B.37Rhetorical Analysis: Prison, Pro-life and Maternity4
B.38Community Literacies and Deliberative Democracy In and Beyond the University5
B.39Methods, Ethics, Labor, and Imperatives: Making Material6
C.1Making Asian American Rhetoric5
C.2Sex and Sensibility: The Queer Challenge to Composition Studies4
C.3Making Waves by Using Chicana/o Rhetorics of Difference4
C.4Contested Writing: Following the Waves of Historical Rhetorical Performance4
C.5Wartime Rhetorics: Military Recruitment, Soldiers Stories3
C.6Seismic Waves: What Open Access Initiatives Mean for Composition Studies4
C.7Next Generation OWLs: Customized Solutions and the Move toward Open-sourcing3
C.8Composition and Popular Culture: Comics, Graphic Novels, and Other Visual Rhetorics3
C.9Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking or Repackaging5
C.10Re-envisioning the Creative Writing Workshop5
C.11Exploring Student, Teacher, and Tutor Limitations in the Linguistic Development of Multilingual Students in Mainstream Composition Classes5
C.12Coming in Waves: Feminist Theory in Composition and Rhetoric4
C.13Community Literacy: Beyond Service Learning4
C.14The Movement’s Moving On: The Rhetorical Construction3
C.15Riding Writing Assessment’s Fourth Wave: Examining the Efficacy of FYC as Writing Studies Pedagogy5
C.16The Question of Identity: Critical Issues for Composition Teachers and Students3
C.17ESL Practices: Community, Voice, and Identity3
C.18Surfing International Waves: Issues for Chinese Teachers and Writers4
C.19“Diving into the Wreck”: A Feminist Inquiry of the Dissertation in Composition4
C.20Leaders of the New School: The Future of Hip-hop Pedagogy in Composition4
C.21Faith, Spirituality and Belief: Implications for Composition and Rhetoric4
C.22Particles, Waves, and a Unified Field(s) Theory: Oral Communication(s) and/in the First-Year Writing3
C.23Hip-hop Literacies, Adolescent Identities, and Urban6
C.24Lessons from the Masters: Rethinking the role of the MA in Graduate Education4
C.25Blogs, Wikis, and Web Portfolios in the Workplace3
C.26Undergraduate Research and the Writing Major/Minor5
C.27Visualizing the New Writing Center: Integrating Verbal and Visual Rhetorics4
C.28Pedagogical Identity: Making Waves Ripple in the Classroom5
C.29The Writing Environment: Space and Service4
C.30Exploring Gender and Class in WWI and Cold War Rhetoric4
C.31“But You Can’t Talk to Believers”: Dialogue and Dissent in Three Graduate Classrooms5
C.32A Question of Feeling: Addressing Emotional Issues in the Teaching of Writing4
C.33Making Waves in First-Year Composition: Virginia Woolf and Beginning Writers4
C.34Colonial Mexico, the Contemporary Jicarilla Apache5
C.35Teaching English Abroad: The Wave of the Future3
C.36Language Matters: Reframing Writing Assessment6
C.37Theorizing Ways of Reading: Mediating the Personal and the Academic in the Composition Classroom4
C.38The Good, the Bad, and the Online: Learning from One4
C.39New (Old) Waves in Genre Studies: Form without Formalism4
C.40The Library as House of Argument: Teaching Critical “Information Literacy” in First-Year Writing4
C.41Toward a Civic Discourse on the Israel-Palestine Conflict11
D.1The Calderwood Study of First-Semester Community Col-lege Writers: What their Writing Told Us about Themselves, their Faculty, and their College3
D.2Six Decades / Six Ways7
D.3Universal Design and Writing Programs: Constructing a Student-centered Universe(ity)5
D.4Approaches to Teaching Argument3
D.5Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing: On the Road, in the Gym, behind Bars4
D.6Helping Workers Learn Writing: Understanding, Designing, and Using Text Ecologies to Foster Development in Writing at Work4
D.7Making Waves and “Making It” in Spite of the Waves: The Two-Year College’s Past, Present, and Future4
D.8Calm Seas or Tidal Waves: The Role of Writing Fellows6
D.9From Validity to Validation: How to Use Validation for Better Writing Assessment8
D.10Proof of Performance: Making Waves with Career Portfolios4
D.11Landscaping the Political Contexts of Americas’ Narratives4
D.12(Dis)Connects: Writing Centers, Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants4
D.13Revealing Ourselves, Transforming Our Students: The Role of Personal Revelation in the Writing Class4
D.14The Ethnographic Impetus in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies4
D.15Composition across Media: A Collaboration across Disciplines4
D.16Approaches to Teaching Basic Writing3
D.17At the Shoreline: Diving In, Following the Currents, Catching the Waves4
D.18Standing Up as Professionals in the Era of Reform: Lessons from Our Public Schools4
D.19Disabling Rhetorical Advocacy: Professional, Legal, and Pedagogical Intersections5
D.20Troubling Community Writing & Publishing: The Politics of Print and Online Circulation4
D.21Building Bridges: Family Writing in the Composition5
D.22Labor Rhetoric and Academic Organizing: Possibilities and Predicaments7
D.23Moving beyond the Breakwater: Thinking “Vertically” about the Advanced Writing Course4
D.24Riding a New Wave: Innovative Approaches to Pedagogy3
D.25Alternative Theories of Literacy: Making Waves through Narratives of the Classroom6
D.26Teaching in the Archive: Finding New Sites for Undergraduate Rhetorical Education4
D.27ESL, Feedback, and Assessment6
D.28Determining Where to Start: Directed Self -placement and SAT Validity3
D.29Life Waves: Helping Students Negotiate Transition to College4
D.30You’ve Been Served: Practice and Development of Service Learning for ESL and Writing-intensive Courses and for Teacher Development3
D.31Digital Currents: “Best Practices” in Composition during the First Two Years4
D.32Research in FYC: Reading, Reflection, Resistance, and the Postcolonial5
D.33From Rhetoric of Science to Rhetoric of Technoscience3
D.34Genre Pedagogy for Social Change: Case Studies of Professional Writing Pedagogy at Work4
D.35Empowering Youth Voices: What Universities Can Learn4
D.36Breaking Boundaries and Writing Stories: Magazine Writing in the Composition Classroom4
D.37Theorizing Theme Sections of Freshman Composition4
D.38Misconception, Apprehension and Course Design in WAC4
D.39Rippling throughout the Year: Four Views of the Stretch Model4
D.40Back to the Future: Historical Currents of Composition5
E.1The Rhetoric of Environmentalism: Local Practices and Global Strategies5
E.2The Digital Now: The Cyberspace Transformation in Composition8
E.3Sovereignty and Dialect: Non-standard English Patterns in the Writing of Navajo Students9
E.4Multilingual Graduate Students and Composition Studies: Issues and Concerns for our Field5
E.5Wikis: Space, Authenticity and Critical Thinking4
E.6Fluidity, Reflexivity, and Pet Squirrels: Rethinking Research and Writing in the Disciplines4
E.7Is WAC Still Part of the Wave of the Future?5
E.8Genres and Social/Medical Realities4
E.9Choragraphies of Composition: Revisiting Five Key6
E.10Representation of the Oppressed: Visual Rhetoric in Advertisements, Short Stories, and Documentaries4
E.11“Can I Use First Person?” Personal Writing and the Academy4
E.12Making Waves through Writing: Food Memoirs, Argument, and Recipes as Protest5
E.13Takin’ It to the Streets4
E.14Social Riptides in Composition Studies: Praxis as Civic Activism2
E.15Blogs: Understanding the Potential and Challenges4
E.16Peer Review in Three Settings4
E.17Charting the Ebb and Flow: Reconsidering Debates about the First-Year Requirement4
E.18Wiping Out or Getting Stoked? The Fate of Rhetoric in Basic Writing4
E.19Scholarship @ the CC: Making Waves in the Discipline4
E.20Cross-cultural Perspectives on Technology-enabled5
E.21Shouting, Slugfests, and Religious Debates: Early 20th-Century Rhetorics4
E.22Save Points: Gaming as Writing, Production, and Play in the Contact Zone4
E.23Researching Underrepresented Populations in Higher3
E.24Rhetorical Situatedness and the Web: Kairos, Genre, and Pedagogy4
E.25Risking the Waves of Interdisciplinary Collaboration: What Happens When Another Department Wants to Change Your Course?6
E.26Writing-about-Writing Pedagogies: First-Year Composition as Student Intellectual Work5
E.27Sailing for Shore: Sustainability in the Composition Classroom4
E.28Bridging the Gaps: Reaching Our Students Across Racial, Regional, and Class Divisions4
E.29Doggie Paddling in the Digital Age?: Exploration, Access, and Expression in the Multimodal Classroom4
E.30Amber Waves and the Kludge: Valuing Agrarian Rhetorics and Literacies in the Classroom4
E.31Waves of the Future: Teacher Training Techniques4
E.32Powers of Amplification: Locating Rhetorical Force in Turn5
E.33The Classroom as Public?3
E.34Reaching across the Street: A Collaborative Effort4
E.35Digital Textual Analysis: Potential for Research and Practice4
E.36Grammar, Writing, and Communication4
E.37Ripple Effects: Sponsoring Secondary Teachers as Spon-sors of Student Writers4
E.38Strategies for Staying Afloat in the Multi-lingual Classroom5
E.39Can Process Writing Instruction Survive the Outcomes/4
E.40Disciplinary Wars, Turf Wars, Lies and Compromise: Teaching Business Writing at a Fashion College with Rhetoric, Process, and Creativity4
E.41Revisiting a Major Wave in Composition: The Bartholomae/Elbow “Debate”4
F.1Tenure Literacies, Womanist Genealogies: The Academic4
F.2Reflective Practices in Writing Instruction: What New Research Tells Us5
F.3Share This: Digital Videos, Pedagogy, and Social Responsibility5
F.4Film as Visual Rhetorical Texts4
F.5The Philosophy of Numbers: Bridging the Gap between Rhetoric and Science4
F.6Bridging the Language Gap: Genre Theory and Linguis-tics-Based Writing Theory and Instruction4
F.7Pox on a Bender: Narrative Medicine and Writing Genres5
F.8A Following Sea: Integrating Basic Writing and Reading5
F.9This is Your Brain on Writing5
F.10Making Waves, Managing Waves, and Becoming Active/ists: Recasting Campus Crisis into Written Reflection4
F.11Navigating Empathy: Making Waves across Rhetorical and Affective Dimensions of Composition5
F.12The Gray Aesthetic: Harmonizing Cultural Responsibility and Artistic Freedom4
F.13Building a Bridge over Troubled Waters: Graduate Writing Workshops5
F.14Conflicts in Teaching and Teaching the Conflicts4
F.15Contemplation and Composition: Going Slow in the Classroom3
F.16First-Year Composition and the Learning Community: A Framework for Student Engagement4
F.17Identity Politics and Embodied Rhetorics in the Writing6
F.18Letting the Assessed in on (Nontraditional) Assessment: Writing Centers and Weblogs—Expanding a Thirdspace4
F.19Resisting Basic Writers/Resisting Institutions: Resistance Theory and Community College Writing4
F.20Discipline-Inflected Ethos: Rhetorical Theory in the Discipline-specific First-Year Writing Course5
F.21Writing Centers: Questions and Innovations4
F.22A Perfect Storm: The Impact of Value-Added Assessment Requirements4
F.23Web 2.0 Technologies and Classroom Practices4
F.24Historicizing the Work of Writing Instruction: Documenting Labor Histories in the Field4
F.25Digital Gaming: MMORPGS and Player Identity4
F.26The Ripple, the Curl, and the Tsunami: Three Perspectives4
F.27Revising Race, Remixing the Rainbow: Queer of Color6
F.28Writing on Different Wavelengths: Competing Perceptions of Teaching and the Academy4
F.29Collaboration across the Grades: Teaching, Research, and Administration4
F.30Empty Rhetoric and Academic Bullshit: Strategies for Composition’s Self-representation in National Arenas5
F.31Cultural Expectations in Cross-cultural Classrooms: ESL and International Issues5
F.32Performing Hybrid Identities and the Claiming of Public4
F.33Three Waves of Theorizing, Historicizing, & Rhetoricizing4
F.34How Teachers Rise: An Archival and Person-based Study4
F.35Composition, Teacher Education, and Curriculum Reform: Toward an Enhanced Alignment of Secondary and Post-Secondary Writing4
F.36Yes, We Really Want You to Write during This Session!: A Panel on the Pedagogy of Cultural Rhetoric(s)3
F.37Power and Identity in the Writing Classroom4
F.38Making Waves with Writing Center Peer Tutors3
F.39Going Global by Going Local: Connecting Study Abroad and International Students with the Writing Support They Need4
FSIG.1Black Caucus Business Meeting1
FSIG.2Latino Caucus Business Meeting2
FSIG.3Asian/Asian American Caucus Business Meeting2
FSIG.4American Indian Caucus Business Meeting3
FSIG.5Queer Caucus1
FSIG.6Working-Class Culture and Pedagogy2
FSIG.7English Education-Composition Connections2
FSIG.8Symposium on Rhetoric and Christian Tradition1
FSIG.9International Network of Writing-across-the-Curriculum1
FSIG.10Using and Generating Student Archives1
FSIG.11The Artful Union of Music and Writing1
FSIG.12Writing in Interdisciplinary Classrooms and Learning1
FSIG.13Meeting of the Association of Teachers of Advanced1
FSIG.14Independent Writing Units1
FSIG.15Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction: CCCC1
FSIG.16Teaching Adult Writers in Diverse Settings1
FSIG.17Progressive Approaches to Grammar1
FSIG.18Emerging Social Software SIG2
FSIG.19Studio Special Interest Group1
FSIG.20Science and Writing, Programs and Pedagogies: A SIG on Composition and the Discourses of Science2
FSIG.21Teaching of Writing to the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing1
FSIG.22Serious Games1
FSIG.23In the Lineup: Creative Writing and Critical Thinking in College Composition3
FSIG.24Transnational Composition1
FSIG.25Writing Centers: Preparing for the Next Wave1
FSIG.26Undergraduate Consortium in Rhetoric and Writing3
G.1Taking the Stage: Performance and the Writing Classroom9
G.2Teaching Global Issues in Local Contexts: Practicing the Rhetoric of Social Activism4
G.3Charting New Routes: GLBTQQ Discourses in Professional Spaces4
G.5Sex, Lies and Theft: Writing about Controversies4
G.6Educating the Third Wave of Writing Program/Center4
G.7“Phenomenal Women” Making Waves: African American Women Using Literacy to Engage in Community and Civic Activism5
G.8Real Service, Real Students: Reflecting on Service Learning at the Two-Year College5
G.9New Media Literacies and the Sociable Web: Interrogating3
G.10Feminism’s First Wave: Women Making Spaces to Speak4
G.11Strategies for Teaching Argument3
G.12Information Design in Medical Fields4
G.13Written To Be Spoken: Playwrighting, Screen Writing and the Performative Space4
G.14In Memoriam: A Performance Piece on Haunted Pasts5
G.15Making Waves with Ethical Language: Argumentation, Neutrality, and the Law5
G.16The Use of Contemplative Practices in the Teaching of Writing and Communications4
G.17Comic, Hip-hop and the Rhetoric of Identity: Youth Identity and the Teaching of Writing4
G.18Revisioning the First-Year Composition Course4
G.19Performing the Presidency: Visual and Verbal Rhetoric in Speeches and Websites4
G.20Research on Gender and Place in FYC3
G.21Listening and Silence4
G.22Defining, Identifying, and Addressing Contrapower (Sexual)4
G.23“Lean [ing] in” towards Cross-Disciplinarity— A Collaborative Examination of Teaching Practices in Information Literacy, Research Writing, and the Writing3
G.24Poetics and Radical Pedagogy: Floating on a Discourse of Writing-based Literacy3
G.25Video: Applications Online and in the Classroom4
G.26Others Mentoring Others: Mapping and Problem-posing the Intellectual Labor, Costs, and Rewards of Mentoring Marginalized Students5
G.27Sea Change, Transformation, and Adaptation: Pedagogy and Praxis Gleaned from the Community3
G.28Burke and Beyond: Theories of Identification, Agency, and Literacies4
G.29Ex-centric Practices of Inventing and Composing in FYC4
G.30Information Literacies, Libraries and Learning3
G.31Assessing the Role of Writing in Student Engagement: A Collaboration with the National Survey of Student3
G.32Shades of Gray: Affects, Aesthetics, and Subversion in Composition5
G.33Welcome to the Machine: Corporate Interests and Freshman Readers4
G.34On Making Waves without Falling Out of the Boat: The Experience of Composing an Electronic Dissertation4
G.35Disrupting Current Notions of Cognition in Composition3
G.36Civic Pedagogies in Uncivil Times: Community Activism within Institutional Restraints4
G.37Ecocomposition as a Tool in the Writing Classroom4
G.38Wright’s Jeremiad and the Rhetorical Construction of Barack Obama: The Politics of Racial Literacy3
G.39Cultural Rhetorics: Making Difference Matter in Composition Pedagogies7
H.1CCCC Studies in Writing and Rhetoric: The Next 25 Years6
H.2The Future of Composition and the Composition of the Future5
H.3New Modals in the Fight against Bullshit3
H.4Studying Academic Honesty4
H.5Performance Practices in the Writing Classroom4
H.6Other Rhetorical Traditions: Reconsidering Classical Rhetorics4
H.7The Research Plan is Sinking—Locate the Lifevest!: Navigating Research Methodologies and Realities4
H.8Reclaiming Ann E. Berthoff for the Twenty-First Century4
H.9Language Diversity: History, Practice, Policy4
H.10“TYCA Research Initiative, The Third Wave: Serving Multimission, Diverse Skills Students: Creating and Sustaining Two-Year College Learning4
H.11Developing a Pedagogy of International Technical4
H.12New Media and Writing Program Administration: Reconfiguring Administrative Discourses and Practices4
H.13Approaches to Teaching Writing to L2 Learners and ESL4
H.14In the Waves’ Wake: A Second Look at Some Touchstones of the Workshop5
H.15Hybrid Academic Discourse and the Empowerment of Student Voice4
H.16Researching Digital Literacy Acquisition4
H.17Why That Record Keep on Skippin’: Moving SRTOL be-yond the Same Song, Different Verse 35—Years Later6
H.18When Marginal Literacies Go Public: Resisting Tendencies to Pathologize and Exoticize Stu-dents’ Reading and Writing Practices4
H.19Critical Thinking about the Workplace in Technical Writing4
H.20The Basketball Diaries, or Making Waves in a Gorilla Suit2
H.21Complexifying Gendered Space4
H.22Service and Engagement in Composition Studies4
H.23Crashing Waves: Rhetorical Agency, Social Justice, and the Violence of Democratic Education4
H.24Navigating the Sea Change: Charting a Course for Success on the Job Market4
H.25Multicultural/Multilingual4
H.26Contesting and Changing the Cultural Rhetorics of Breast6
H.27The Shifting Concept of Other: The Power of Writing to Transform Self5
H.28Linking Adult and Basic Literacy Education with a State4
H.29Strategies for Effective Peer Response5
H.31Rhetoric and Cross-Culturalism: Deliberative Interactivity5
H.32Changing Tides, Changing Curriculum: Instituting a Cross-disciplinary Mid-career Composition Course5
H.33Speaking the Unspeakable: Writing about Race in the Chocolate City5
H.34Rhetoricians without Borders: Strategies for Collaborating4
H.35Place, Texts, and Satire as Invention and Prewriting4
H.36Questioning Traditions of Academic Discourse: Local Efforts to Democratize Representations of Student-Writers and Student-Researchers in the U.S. Academy5
H.37Writing Studies, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, and Film4
H.38Testing and Transgressing Borders: Defining Citizenship in Acts of Literacy and Rhetoric4
H.39Sustaining the Wave of Critical (E-) Literacy: Multimodal Rhetorics and the Question of Content5
I.1Gathering Force: A Discussion on Preparing Researchers9
I.2The Report of the ADE Ad Hoc Committee on Staffing: A Discussion3
I.3Writing Ourselves in a Global World4
I.4The New Wave of Grammars: Functional, Cognitive, Rhetorical. The Grammar/Genre Connection4
I.5Ripeness Is All: A Multigenerational Conversation On Retiring Gracefully and Living Well in Retirement9
I.6Pledging, Hooting, and Saluting: Extra(ordinary) Women’s Rhetoric6
I.7Making Waves, Making Change: African Diaspora Women’s Discourse4
I.8Revising Revision: New Currents in Creative Writing Pedagogy5
I.9From Radical to Rhetorical: Current Research on Reflection in Composition6
I.10Digital Interventions in Composition8
I.11New Waves for Writing Centers4
I.12CAMPing Out in First-Year Writing: Migrating Xicano Research in Composition Studies6
I.13Plagiarism and Fair Use in Perspective: History, Perceptions, and Policy4
I.14Rocking the Boat: Literacy and the Legacies of Activism3
I.15Digital Learning and the Fair Use of Web 2.0 Texts and Technologies5
I.16Making Waves of Change: Creating a BA Degree in Writing and Rhetoric5
I.17“Strangers in Strange Lands”: Composition Learning4
I.18Rethinking Rhetoric and the Environment4
I.19Theory and Digital Media4
I.20Engaged at 8 a.m.?: Assignments that Invite FYC Students6
I.21Evolution of Style in the History of Technical Communication5
I.22The Jesuit Tradition and Rhetorical Studies: Writing Programs at American Jesuit Colleges and Beyond6
I.23WAC Research in Three Keys: Exploring Contexts, Charting Trends, Challenging Assumptions4
I.24The Next Wave in Undergraduate Research: Digital4
I.25Investigating Students’ Narratives of Their Life Histories4
I.26Making Waves by Analyzing the Rhetoric of War5
I.27Making (New Media) Waves: Challenging the Circulation Limitations of Community5
I.28Writing in the Margins: New Waves in Composition for Civic Engagement and Social Justice6
I.29Turning the Tides: Sites of 19th-Century Women’s Transformative Rhetoric4
I.30Mapping a New Academic Landscape: |Towards Rhetorical Pluralism in WAC/WID, Writing4
I.31Using Your Voice in the Writing Classroom4
I.32Using and Teaching Genre Theory4
I.33Grammar, Language, and Student’s Rights4
I.34Ripples in the Research Center: Reorganizing a Departmental Space for Collaboration and Research in the Public Interest6
I.35Entitled Waves: Globalization, Empire, and “Transglobal” Resistance5
I.36A Loose Canon No More: Style’s Relevance to Writing Instruction5
I.37Shaping Campus and Community Ideas about Writing5
I.38Waves of Compassion: Exploring an Ethic of Love and Care in Composition and Rhetoric4
I.39On the Same Wavelength: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the IRB5
I.40Narrative Research in Language and Literacy: Current4
J.1Riding a New Wave: Towards the Writing/Composition/Rhetoric Major and Minor4
J.2Dissenting for Peace: Speaking (Fearlessly) to Discourses of Power5
J.3CCCC Committee Research into Best Practices for Online5
J.4Forming the Profession: W. Ross Winterowd and the History of Composition Studies4
J.5Racism in Writing Assessments and the Construction of “Minority” Literacies7
J.6Queer Presences in the Composition Classroom4
J.7Seeing Themselves as Writers: Basic Writers’ Journey4
J.8Chicana/o Rhetorical Strategies: Decolonizing Cultural, Pedagogical, and Technological Spaces5
J.9Basic Writing Waves of Change: A Call for Graduate4
J.10Let’s Have Class Outside Today:4
J.11Building WAC/WID for the 2010s4
J.12Technical Writing in Cross-cultural Contexts4
J.13Troubling Diversity: Making Class Matter in Socially Responsive Writing Courses4
J.14Two-Year College English Assessment: Surfing a Möbius Strip4
J.15Visual Rhetoric and Visual Texts4
J.16“These people don’t belong together”: Methodological Makings across Disciplinary Fields5
J.17Assuming the Position: Reflections on Becoming WPAs4
J.18“Invisible Classrooms” Revealed: Digital Technologies as Hidden Teachers4
J.19“The Writer/Teacher in Composition Studies: Wendy Bishop’s Legacy”5
J.20Starting a Wave: Nineteenth-Century Classroom4
J.21Sailing through the Storm, Negotiating Its Wake, Staring4
J.22Writing Our Way In4
J.23Raising their Voices, Raising Awareness: The Published Writing of Girls across the Twentieth Century4
J.24Wiping-Out: A Celebration of Research Failures and the Lessons They Teach4
J.25Mapping Programmatic Composition Waters: Does Having a Teaching Vision Matter?7
J.26Historical Perspectives on Technical Communication4
J.27Web 2.0 and a New Wave Writing Pedagogy?: Three Empirical Studies of Computer-Supported Writing3
J.28Approaches to Literacy Narratives4
J.29Turning the Academy Inside/Out: Rethinking Community and the Classroom3
J.30Writing as Social Performance: Examining Teacher Student Negotiations in Three Different4
J.31Taking It to the Web: Digital Writing in Composition Classrooms4
J.32Battling Undercurrents: Textbooks, Technical Writing, and Pejorative Pedagogy5
J.33Modern Day Sophistic5
J.34Shared Voices: Writing Circles, Student Profiles, and Student-Led Conferences as Paths to Student Success4
J.35Using Web Technology to Teach Writing4
J.36Brave New World: Teaching Students Who Make Waves2
J.37Beyond “Kitchen Tables”: How the Extra-curriculum of New Technologies Enables Waves of Emerging Literacies4
J.38Revisiting the Ready-made4
J.39Government, Funding, and the Role of Outcomes3
J.40Wii Wave: Riding the Waves Shaping our Digital Communicative Acts6
J.41Meet the Editor of CCC5
K.1Academic Literacy as Participation: Inducting Students into an Intellectual Community4
K.2Writing Centers, CAC, and First-Year Seminar3
K.3Risk and the jWPA: Rocking the Boat on the Voyage toward Tenure4
K.4Beyond Joseph Williams: Rethinking Cohesion for Today’s Composition Class4
K.5CCCC Is Not the Right Home for Rhetoric and Writing4
K.6Modalities of Professional Communication5
K.7We Got Game: Effective Strategies for Using New Media4
K.8Diasporic Asian Rhetorics: Investigating Strategies, Identity, and Representation in Classroom and Online Environments5
K.9Personal Narrative in the Composition Classroom5
K.10Tracing the Stream and Filling the Well: Afrafeminist (Re)Definitions of African Diasporic Women’s5
K.11Composing the New Civics: Globalization, Social Change, and Student Agency4
K.12Converging Currents in Learning Communities: Interdisciplinary Composition, Pedagogical Transparency, and Student-centeredness4
K.13Redefining Intellectual Property in the Digital Copyright4
K.14Research Methods across Writing Studies: Corpus, Survey, Meta-analysis, Grounded Theory5
K.15A Ripple into a Tsunami: Understanding Departmental5
K.16Unique Approaches to Writing Assignments: Food, Self-publishing, and Ethnography4
K.17The Waves Not Taken: Deconstruction, Historiography, Community, and Play5
K.18Performing Site-specific Learning outside the Classroom4
K.19Prose Style and the Counterpublic: Toward a New Politics for the Classroom and the Discipline5
K.20Making Waves in Composition Program Assessment at the Two-Year College (TYCA Strand)3
K.21Research on Writing in Digital Environments6
K.22Reviving Composition Programs: It Takes a Village to “Make Waves”4
K.23Making Space for Writing: Local, Global and “Third” Spaces of Composition2
K.24Visual Rhetoric: Themes, Tools, and Tattoos3
K.25Strategies for Effective Collaboration in the Writing4
K.26Creating Waves in the Text: Student/Faculty Views of Cre-ativity4
K.27“I know how you feel”: The Empathy Challenge in Service4
K.28Developing and Training Peer Tutors4
K.29Catching the Wave of Information Literacy in First-Year4
K.30Retro Revision: Re-visioning and Re-reading Student4
K.31Reframing Resistance: “Critical Thirding,” Student Identity, and Alternative Spaces4
K.32Waves of Potential: Composition for the Forgotten Student4
K.33Making Waves in the Archives: Considering Our Own Historiography5
K.34Composing Spaces: Re-examining the Spaces Where Students Write4
K.35Spatial Solutions: Postmodern Mappings of Online Writing Environments4
K.36Reading, Writing, and Cyber Discussions: Bringing the Book Group Format to an Online Learning Community4
K.37Critical Reading Practices that Improve Student Writing2
K.38Posthuman Desire and Breaking Disciplinarity4
L.1Think-Tank for Newcomers Developing Papers and Sessions for CCCC–20101
L.2Passing: Mixed-bloods, Invisible Indians, and Perception4
L.3Reconciling Different Approaches, Audiences, and Sites of Production in Multimodal Assessment3
L.4Qualitative Research Methods: Ethnography and Beyond4
L.5Public (Ex)Change: Problematic Potentials of Cyber-Civic Discourse5
L.6Effective Tools for Teaching Writing4
L.7Needlework to Comics: Surfing the History of Multimodal Instruction5
L.8New Media Strategies for Writing Classrooms4
L.9Managing Conflict and Resistance in the Composition4
L.10Our Electronic Odyssey: A Reflection on Literacy, Writing4
L.11A Ripple or a Tsunami?: Offering College Writing Credits to High School Students3
L.12Rhetorical Situations, Research Writing, and Genre: Cross-institutional Research on Curriculum Design in Two8
L.13Designing Engagement: FYC Assignments as “Contact Zones”2
L.14Unmasking the Teacher: Letting Students Get to Know (all about?) You5
L.15Audience and Genre in Professional Writing4
L.16Narrating Telepresence: Rearticulating the Voice of the (Dis) Abled4
L.17Redefining the Present State of Scholarship in the History4
L.18Service Learning in Writing Courses4
L.19Deciding, Creating, and Maintaining “Face”: An Analysis4
L.20Making Virtual Waves: Integrating Multimodal Writing5
L.21Alignity: The Next Wave in Writing in the Disciplines4
L.22SIN(x), Where X Equals Identity: A Grounded Theory Investigation of “Development” in a Tutor Development Program6
L.23Assessment of Student Writing3
L.24Literate Translations: Historical Encounters with Literacy4
L.25TYCA Research Initiative, The Third Wave: 2008–2009 Data on Two-Year College Comp Load and Part-time Teaching Conditions and Pedagogical Implications”4
L.26Cooking, Culture, and Composition: How Reading and Writing Transform our Appetites4
L.27Let’s Talk about It: Discussing Identity and Writing Strategies4
L.28Collaborative Crosscurrents in First-Year Composition4
L.29Fifteen Years after the Writing Requirements Went Away: In the Wake of the New Abolitionist Wave5
L.30ELL Practice: Work, Pedagogy and Literacy4
L.31Beyond Reason: Publics, Intellectuals, and Literacy3
L.32Riding Rough Waters: Rhetorics of Race and Miseducation8
M.1Writing Programs . . . The Final Frontier: Where We’re Going, Where We’ve Been3
M.2Assessing Meaningfully: Statistics, Politics, and Local Contexts4
M.3Digital Literacies: Making Waves in Wide Wide Web4
M.4Making Wiki Waves: Composing with Multiple Modalities3
M.5Exploring Our Values: A Two-Year College English4
M.6Investigating Civic Rhetorics in Composition Classrooms4
M.7Charting our Courses in Choppy Waters: Balancing University Teaching and other Professional6
M.8Early Career Leaders of Color: Individual Plans for Leadership Projects from the Summer Institute1
M.9Orchestrating Change: Harmonizing the Personal and the Digital in a “Community of Learning”4
M.10Research on Motivation in Writing Contexts: Transfer, Peer Response, and Administration2
M.11The Value of an Autobiographical and Visual “Common4
M.12Outcomes Assessment and the Intellectual Work of Composition: Engaging the Contradictions4
M.13Digital Media: Audio 3 Plus Video and Text4
M.14Authorizing Multiculturalism at the Center: Tales of Trials and Triumphs4
M.15Ripples of Reading: Moving First-Year Students toward College-level Reading5
M.16Tutor Development and Tutoring’s Influence3
M.17Coming to Terms: Discovering our Rhetorical Values4
M.18What’s This Course About? Unique Approaches to First-Year Composition4
M.19Ethnography, Democracy, and the New Civic Rhetoric4
M.20Riding the Textbook Wave: How the Textbook Publishing Industry Affects Writing5
M.21On Whiteness, Race and Language4
M.22Preparing TAs: Stasis, Squalls, or Sea Change?4
M.23The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting, Part II; Or, Stemming the Tide of Cultural Amnesia6
M.24Challenging the Boundaries of First-Year Composition: Reflections and Strategies for Invention, Arrangement, and Revision5
M.25Getting a Job at a Two-Year College4
M.26World Englishes: Possibilities/Limitations of Code Meshing4
M.27What Are Students Really Learning from Textbooks?: Cre-ating Effective Pedagogy through User-experience Design4
M.28Catching a New Wave: Developing a Business Writing4
M.29On Race, Privilege, and Agency4
M.30The Rhetorical Persistence of Old Capitalist Mindsets in a New Capitalist World4
M.31Sea Changes in Composition Theory and Pedagogy4
M.32Against the Wave: Re-inventing Pedagogical Practices in the Creative Writing Classroom5
MW.1Academic Service-Learning and First-Year Writing4
MW.2Keeping Multilingual Writers in Mind: How Universal Design Can Lead to Inclusive Pedagogies9
MW.3Troubling Boundaries: Social Action and Composition4
MW.4Assigning and Assessing: Multimodal Composition and Classroom Practice7
MW.5Play/Write: Connecting Games Research to Composition4
MW.6Clarification, Collaboration, Commitment: Preparing2
MW.7Making Digital Waves in the Two-Year College: Promoting7
MW.8Defining and Writing about Racism in the Composition2
MW.9Multigenre Writing: A New Wave of Hybrid, Cross-Genre, and Multimodal Assignments11
MW.10Access, Relevance, and Diversity as Goals for Organi-zational Change: The Project Outreach Initiative of the National Writing Project5
MW.11International Writing Scholarship and Collaborative10
MW.12Biff! Bam! Zoom! Popular Culture Hits the Composition5
MW.13This Textbook Doesn’t Fit: The Why and How of Custom3
N.1Collaborative Wave-Making with Communication4
N.2In Search of Common Language: Strategies for Creating4
N.3Plagiarism: Politics and Accountability4
N.4Writing the Waves of Technology on MySpace, Facebook, and with Instant Messaging4
N.5Autism, Rhetoric, and Writing: Continuing the Conversation4
N.6Waves of Contemporary Change: Charting the Twenty-First Century4
N.7Write for Your Life: The Intersections of Rhetoric and Well-Being3
N.8Polymodal Perversity and Rhetorical Power: (Not) Confronting Gender Issues in First-Year Composition10
N.9Techno-Waves: Theorizing the Uses of Multimedia4
N.10Literacy Program: Practices Outside of Academia4
N.11Forget the Waves–We Aren’t Even in the Same Rowboat: Disrupting Grand/Master Writing Center Narratives4
N.12Technology Change: Institutional Change Online Courses, Distance Education, and Dissertation Writing5
N.13Web 2.0 Wavelengths: Examing Spaces Created Within5
N.14Back to Basics: Refiguring Basic Writing Instruction3
N.15Beyond First-Year Composition: Approaches for Teaching3
N.16Perceptions and Pedagogy: Remediation in the CSU4
N.17Searching for “Teachable” Texts4
N.18On the Ground: Alternatives for Understanding the Role of Faculty in Rhetoric and Composition4
N.19Motivating WID Students: Creating, Using, and Evaluating4
N.20Writing in the Disciplines as a Disciplinary Apprenticeship: Does the Metaphor Work?4
N.21Navigating Difference in Writing Center Tutoring Sessions4
N.22Rocking the Boat: Using Blogs to Challenge Traditional4
N.23The Opposite of Assessment Is?4
N.24Multimodal Composition: Making .WAVs with Non-traditional Writers5
N.25Moving Ahead: Advanced Placement, Summer Clinics, and High School/Community College Collaboration4
N.26Writing in the Technical and Scientific Disciplines3
N.27Digital Research: Centers, IRBs, and Multi-Tasking3
N.28Creating Institutional Unity at the New “Community”5
N.29Theories of Learning: From Performance to Multiple Intelligences4
N.30Collaboration in Composition3
O.1Riding the Wave: The Impact of Emerging Digital Genres on Academic Writing4
O.2Plagiarism: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly4
O.3Using New Media: Effective Strategies for First-Year Writing3
O.4Making Waves on a Rising Tide: Three Writing Centers Churn Things Up4
O.5Studies of Transfer: Secondary to FYC to the Disciplines4
O.6“Not Waving but Drowning”: Strategies for Supporting3
O.7Global Issues: Closing the Divide between Locals and Transnationals in Freshman Composition1
O.8Writing Center Research: Qualitative and Quantitative4
O.9Web 2.0: Social, Political, and Cognitive Effects4
O.10Collaborative Learning and Peer Tutor Training: Breaking Waves and Confused Seas7
O.11Making Waves within Webs: Rhetorical Agency in a Complex World5
O.12Student Voices, Student Views, Student Videos2
O.13Digital Mobility, Viral Media, and Creative Ems4
O.14Plagiarism and Intellectual Property4
O.15Innovative Approaches to Assessment and Standards5
O.16Less Is More: Teaching Composition With–Not From–Textbooks4
O.17The Ripple Effect: Using Institutional Roles outside the Department to Effect Writing Program Change4
O.18Criminal Composers? Where Copyright Meets Composi-tion Studies1
O.19“One Size Fits All” or “All Cultures Must Shrink to Fit”?5
O.20“But I thought . . .” Managing Student and Teacher4
O.21Computers in Composition Courses and Programs4
O.22First Year Composition: Texts, Texting, and Mobile Phone Networks4
O.23From Baghdad to South Texas4
O.24Making Waves, Making Trouble: Teaching Writing in a Post 9/11 World2
O.25Where Are We?: Locating the Personal in Composition at a Time of Emergent Social Technologies4
P.1Making Waves in Graduate School: Challenging “Business4
P.2Prison Writing Partnerships: Triggering Change from the Inside4
P.3Dissonance in Messages and Metamessages in Language4
P.4Women, History, and Procedural Writing: Writing Instructions, Writing Ourselves4
P.5Navigating Life’s Stormy Seas: Teaching Memoir Writing4
P.6Terra Incognita: Methods and Strategies for Creating a Global Writing Curriculm8
P.7Bridges and Troubled Waters: Recognizing, Complicating, and Redefining Composition’s Use of Contingent Labor3
P.8Navigating Historical Traditions of Rhetoric5
P.9A Sustainable Coastline: Returning Questions in/to the Post-pedagogy Era4
P.10Delivery as. . . Repositioning the Fifth Canon in the Writing5
P.11Sound Waves: New Faces of Deaf Students in the Writing Classroom4
P.12The Double Helix: WPA Theory and Practice in Four Local Contexts5
P.13Defining (the) Class: Social Learning Theory and Pedagogy4
P.14Teachers, Texts, and Contexts: Tracking Traditions in Composition Studies4
P.15Limited Liability: Genres of Ethical Compromise4
P.16Full Speed Ahead: Navigating Composition’s Rough Waters5
P.17One Size Fits All?: State Universities Respond to Legislative Initiatives Impacting First-Year Composition6
P.18Rhetorical Epistemologies in Ancient Cultures: Language, Knowledge, Writing, and Reality in Ancient4
P.19WAC’s a Beach5
P.20Intergenerational Feminist Compositions: Re-imagining the Wave Metaphor6
P.21The Ripple Effect of Service-Learning: Approaches to Creating (Air) Waves of Awareness13
TSIG.1Service-Learning and Community Literacy1
TSIG.2Women’s Network Special Interest Group: Gender and Professional Status in the Field1
TSIG.3Part-Timer SIG: Best Practices for Non-Tenured faculty1
TSIG.4Conference on Basic Writing Special Interest Group2
TSIG.5The Subject is Writing: FYC as an Introduction to Writing Studies2
TSIG.6Second-Language Writing SIG: Discussing the Revised CCCC Statement on Second-Language Writing and Writers2
TSIG.7Special Interest Group: Writing at the Military Service Academies2
TSIG.8EngiComm: Writing Across the Engineering Curriculum1
TSIG.9The Graduate Teaching Experience: Multiple Respon-sibilities and Challenges1
TSIG.10Open Source and Free Software Users Group2
TSIG.11Disability Studies Special Interest Group1
TSIG.12Composition at the Small College/University3
TSIG.13Nature Writing, Ecocomposition, and Environmental1
TSIG.14Canadian Caucus1
TSIG.15Film, Television and Visual Rhetoric1
TSIG.16SIG: Language, Linguistics, and Writing1
TSIG.17United States-Israel-Palestine Special Interest Group1
TSIG.18Family Writing Special Interest Group1
TSIG.19Non-Western Rhetorical Traditions: Rhetoric Around/1
TSIG.20Live Wires: Creative Nonfiction and Technology–Cre-ative Nonfiction SIG2
TSIG.21Contingent Faculty Caucus1
TSIG.22National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric2
TSIG.235th C Computers1
TSIG.24Consortium for the Study of Writing in College: A Collaboration of WPA and the National Survey of Student Engagement1
TSIG.25SIG: Association of Teachers of Technical Writing1
TSIG.26In Memory of Rene Betz1
W.1Transnationalizing/Globalizing Rhetoric and Composition11
W.2“Basic” Writers In and Out of School: A Conversation in Multiple Literacies11
W.3Feminist Workshop17
W.4Developing Long-Term, Reciprocal Relationships with Community Partners10
W.6Teaching for Change: Strategies, Obstacles, and Possibilities7
W.7Encountering Propaganda in Teaching, Scholarship, and Activism11
W.8Writing Teachers Writing7
W.9Rhetorical Grammar and Genre Studies5
W.10Adjuncts and Allies9
W.11Research in Genre7