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2016 · Houston

April 6-9, 2016 · Houston, TX · Program chair Linda Adler-Kassner

Theme: Writing Strategies for Action

338 of this year's 1,903 session and paper titles (17.8%) use a word from the theme (action, strategies). In other years the same words appear in 1.9% of titles. All themes.

570sessions
2,105people listed
30%first listed in this corpus
6.2%at two-year colleges
3.1%at institutions outside the US
13%of listings from ten institutions

Sessions (570)

CodeTitleFormatPeople
A.1Learning Re-abled Twenty Years Later: Re-Strategizing6
A.2Transforming Writing Programs to Support Underprepared5
A.3(Dis)appearing Collaborative Bodies: Re-Perceiving the Writing Center/Classroom Divide to Engage Third-Space4
A.4Reconsidering Professional Credentials of Writing7
A.5Studying Action in Medicine through Surrogates, Simulations, and Other Shadow Work5
A.6Digital Identity and Community5
A.7Developing Scholarly Momentum: Action Plans for Faculty, Graduate Students, and Their Mentors5
A.8How to Hold a Slippery Fish: Methodological Challenges4
A.9Writing Our Way to Access: L2 Writers Engage with Revision, Strategies, and Genre Awareness3
A.10Ethics in Action: Place-Based Ethics and Experience5
A.11Approaching FYC from a Research Perspective: Using6
A.12Creating Comunidad Situated Writing Curriculum at Hispanic Serving Institutions: Writing beyond Theoretical4
A.13Defining the “Cross”-Cultural: Re-thinking Rhetorical5
A.14Writing Experts and Technology Experts: Institutional7
A.15Feeling Things in Writing: Material Culture, Emotion4
A.16Being Teachers: The Praxis of Ethos in Instructor Training7
A.17Beyond Common Ground: Listening Rhetorically as a Framework for Action in a Digital Story Project4
A.18Information Literacy and Foundational Writing: Transforming Curricula and Programs through Collaborative Outcomes4
A.19Don’t Just Talk about It, Be about It: Moving beyond6
A.20Assessment, Pedagogy, and Curriculum in Basic Writing4
A.21Activist Pedagogies: Service-Learning and Civic5
A.22The Transfer of Transfer Project: Researching the Efficacy of Teaching for Transfer (TFT) in Four Courses6
A.23Conversations with the Past: Historiography in Research5
A.24Authors and Their Devices: Digital Composing Strategies5
A.25Development of Writing Transfer via Research, Assessment, and Faculty Training6
A.26Taking Action on Intellectual Property with Open9
A.27Teaching Writing as Rhetorical Action in Schools and Colleges4
A.28Enacting (Digital) Citizenship in (University of) Houston4
A.29Bringing the Office to the Class: How Computer4
A.30The Extracurriculum within Our Walls7
A.31Resources for Teaching Writing to Support4
A.32“It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Right”: An Experiment3
A.33Professionalizing Graduate Teaching Assistants: How5
A.34College Writing in High School: Writing Our Way Out of Test Culture4
A.36Literacy Development and Rhetorical Invention in the Multilingual Classroom4
A.37Faculty Developer as Activist: Strategies for Writing4
A.38Healing the Split between Language and Writing: Practical Advice for the Composition Classroom4
A.39Taking Action Workshop: Naming and Narrowing1
A.40Taking Action Workshop: Building Alliances1
AW.1Strategic Action in Teaching against Plagiarism: Using5
AW.2Generating WAC/WID/WIC/WEC Action Plans: Strategies9
AW.3Undergraduate Students as Researchers: Maximizing the Mutual Benefits7
AW.4Writing Democracy 2016 | Documenting Our Place in History: The Political Turn, Part II11
AW.5Coming Together for Action: Multi-Level Institutional4
AW.6Taking Action to Support Graduate Writers across the Curriculum6
AW.7Corpus-Based Approaches to Writing7
AW.8Developing Practical Pedagogical Approaches for International L2 Writers in the Classroom and Beyond8
AW.9Working with Military-Affiliated Writers: Research and Practice for Composition Teachers, Scholars, and WPAs11
AW.10UDL 101: Accessibility, Pedagogy, and Praxis3
AW.11Telling Stories, Writing Cultures: Using Indigenous7
AW.12Teaching Writing Abroad: Identifying Challenges and Opportunities6
AW.13First-Year Writing Assessment Strategies for General9
AW.14Language and Lived Experience as Strategies for Writing and Coalition Building within a New Rhetoric4
B.1The National Census of Writing Database and Diversity in Writing Programs (CWPA-Sponsored Session)5
B.2Queer Action in the Extracurriculum4
B.3Writing Sustainability in the College Class: Reimagining3
B.4Whose Writing? For What Purpose?: Taking Action with Writing about (Multilingual) Writing4
B.5Histories of Action: Revisiting Composition’s Past to Understand Composition’s Present5
B.6A Digital Alphabet Soup: MOOCs, DLNs, and GNLEs7
B.7Rethinking Teaching and Learning Practices for Diverse8
B.8Stories That Matter: Student Documentaries as Impactful4
B.9“The Accent’s on Me”: Agency, Personal Narrative, and the L2 Writer2
B.10Labeling, Naming, and Visualizing Health and Illness: How Food Labels, FDA Reports, and Ebola Charts Can4
B.11Time to Take Stock: What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from Current CHAT Methodology in Writing Studies Research8
B.12Citation Practice, Documentation Style, and Scholarly4
B.13Theorizing Responsive Action: Sensate Engagement, Critical Expressivism, and Rhetorical Gaslighting4
B.14Detect, Elect, Connect: Instructional Perspectives and Activities for Enabling Transfer2
B.15Partnering with Institutional Archivists: Exploring the Archives as Potential Sites for Undergraduate Research3
B.16Reform in Writing Center Practices Based on Comprehensive Studies5
B.17Basic Writing at Community Colleges: Redesigning3
B.18Local Transformations, Local Publics: Actualizing through Activism5
B.19Writing Black Lives to Matter: Civic and Digital4
B.20Perspectives on Preparation and Performance: A Qualitative Study of College Students’ Approaches4
B.21I See What You Mean: Using Infographics to Inspire3
B.22Potentially Moving from Margin to Center: A Report on Arizona State University Writing Programs’ ProMod4
B.23Rhetorical Practices and Language Tensions3
B.24Medical Rhetoric and Scientific Communication5
B.25Research as Social Action: Situating Critical Discourse5
B.26Storying as Action: Using Narrative to Co-Create Identity4
B.27Storytelling as a New Pathway to Social Justice5
B.28Building Bases for Action: Re/Mapping a Mandated4
B.29Interrogating (Cross)Disciplinarity: Personal and Professional Identities at Work6
B.30Addressing the “Practical and Critical” in Translingual4
B.31Inspiring Action by Enabling Agency in Interdisciplinary3
B.32Making Meaning: The Maker Movement and Writing5
B.33The Promises and Perils of DIY Activism in Networked2
B.34Writing Transfer in Three STEM Contexts: Teacher5
B.35Remembering Kent: Taking Action on Literacy Policies4
B.36The Complexity of Agency in the Composition Classroom4
B.37Enacting Career Diversity in Rhetoric and Composition: Different Pathways for a Professional Life with a PhD in Rhetoric and Composition5
B.38Response in Action: Negotiating the Intentions of Students, Teachers, and Peer Reviewers3
B.39Taking Action Workshop: Framing Messages1
B.40Taking Action Workshop: Influencing Policy12
C.1Taking Action to Build and Improve Writing Programs6
C.2If You Teach It, They Will Learn: Effects of Explicit Style4
C.3Nothing Basic about It: Taking Action for Student5
C.4Connecting Students to Community in First-Year5
C.5Action MFAs: Strategies for Incorporating Creative5
C.6Recovering Writing Center Histories and Discourses4
C.7Women’s Ways of Practicing Digital Communities5
C.8Acting Out: The Legacy of Hephzibah Roskelly and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater6
C.9Translation, Linguistic Memory, and the Impact of (English-Only) Language Policy4
C.10Multimodal Composition as a Strategic Approach to First-Year Writing4
C.11Peer Perceptions: Conferencing and Feedback4
C.12Morals, Values, Emotions, and Cultures: Investigating5
C.13Making Meaningful Writing Happen: Action Plans for Writing Advocacy3
C.14Representing Authorship: Plagiarism, Inclusion, and (Academic) Citizenship5
C.15Faster, Bigger, Cheaper: Ideologies of Efficiency in the College Writing Classroom5
C.17The Writing Center’s Online Presence4
C.18The Best of Three Worlds: Integrating Writing, Civic5
C.19Students, Faculty, and Curriculum: Responding to Public5
C.20Action Movies: Filmmaking, Multimodality, and Critical5
C.21Enacting Information Literacy: Strategies for Library–Classroom Collaboration4
C.22From Code-Switching to Code-Meshing: Validating the Brown/Black Voice4
C.23Designing for Usability and Accessibility5
C.24Negotiating Disability Disclosures in Qualitative Writing4
C.25Issues in Contemplative Writing Pedagogy4
C.26The Legacy of Textual Carnivals5
C.27Reaffirming Praxis: Teaching First-Year Composition as Our Profession’s Highest Calling4
C.28Standardization and Democratization in and of Writing5
C.29Negotiating Space and Identity: Non-Native English-Speaking Writing Instructors’ Strategies for Action4
C.30Taking Action to Foster Student Responsibility in the Twenty-First-Century Composition Classroom4
C.31Difficulty as Possibility in Composing and Teaching with Digital Media5
C.32Strategies for Building and Sustaining5
C.33WAC in the Long Run: Strategies for Sustained Action in the Face of New and Old Challenges5
C.34Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Writing Programs, Advocacy, and NTT in the Bureaucratized Academy3
C.35Research Writing Studies: Issues of Subjectivity, Neurology, Intellectual Property, and Disciplinarity6
C.36Histories on the Move: Activating Institutional Histories in Writing Centers, Writing Programs, and Beyond4
C.37Marginalized Literacies: Let’s Hear Them5
C.38More Than the Sum: Faculty Collaboration in Designing6
C.39More Than Words: Using Comics Responsibly in the Composition Classroom4
C.40Taking Action Workshop: Building Alliances1
C.41Taking Action Workshop: Making Action Plans1
D.1Deweyan Lineages: Writing, Action, and the Public4
D.2Writing against Racism and Stereotypes5
D.3Antiracist Classroom Practices: Enacting Socially Just5
D.4Writing Time, Writing Spaces6
D.5Students Are Not Data Points: Empowering Individuals in Basic Writing Classes5
D.6Beyond the Helping or Hurting Binary: Examining4
D.7New Directions in Transnational Asian/Asian American8
D.8Pedagogical Threshold Concepts Derived from Online5
D.9Scare Tactics: Working Theory into Action through Multimodal Praxis4
D.10Working Hard with Few Rewards: Life as a “Part-Time”3
D.11Retention and Student Success: Taking Action in Writing4
D.12Disability Studies in Action: Cross-Locational5
D.13A New Look at Old Traditions4
D.14Writing, Reading, Seeing, Doing: Contextualization in Basic Writing Courses4
D.15The Critical Place of Affect and Culture in Transnationalism: Case Studies from the Local5
D.16Bridging Cultures, Languages, and Lands: An Illustration4
D.17Micro Histories of Access at Open Admissions Institutions4
D.18State of Play: Gaming, Writing, Teaching, and Research6
D.19Preparing Teachers of College Writing: A Report on the New 4Cs Position Statement and Suggestions for Putting5
D.20Slow and Lasting Change: Microshifts and the Development of Activist Writing Centers and Writing5
D.21What’s the Story: How Writing for Action Brought Our5
D.22Making Inequities Matter: Student Success as Action in Dual Enrollment Composition and Alternatives3
D.23Writing for Industry and Workplaces6
D.24Researching Threshold Concepts and Transfer5
D.25Metacognition Recognition, or I Know It When I See It6
D.26Acting Strategically with Multilingual Writers: Results4
D.27Empathy, Atheism, and Religion in the Writing Classroom4
D.28African American Male Students Taking Actions to Embrace Their Literacies4
D.29Other Englishes: The Need to Acknowledge and Support5
D.30Equity in the Writing Center: Questioning Assumptions4
D.31CCCC Committee for Effective Practices in Online7
D.32Taking Rhetorical Action to Church: Advocating Doubtful6
D.33Writing Hidden Histories Inside and Outside the Classroom5
D.34Locating the “Learner” in Learning Transfer: (How) Does4
D.35Stories in Shale: Reconstructing the Fractured World3
D.36Tagging Texts, Archives, and Walls: Innovation and Invention in Research Method Design2
D.37Action for Whom, for How Long, and with What Impact?6
D.38(Inter)Disciplinary Literacies: Strategies for Taking Action4
D.39Taking Action Workshop: Naming and Narrowing1
D.40Taking Action Workshop: Influencing Policy10
E.1Acting toward Inclusivity: Closing the Achievement Gap4
E.3Calling You In: Queer Worldmaking and Rhetorical Action5
E.4Negotiating Competing Curricular, Institutional, and Disciplinary Interests in Advanced Composition6
E.5Action over Reaction: Strengthening Veteran Identity5
E.6Shaping the Field, Shaping the Community, Shaping the Class: The Council on Basic Writing at 35 (Sponsored by the Council on Basic Writing)8
E.7Praise, Blame, Educate: Epideictic Possibilities3
E.8Write Where You Live: Creating a Culture of Writing in Student Housing9
E.9Facebook Identities: Public and Private5
E.10Objects and Agency in the Writing Classroom4
E.11Interfacing Cultural Rhetorics: A History and a Call6
E.12Taking Local Action, Writing Activist Networks through 4C4Equality4
E.13Researching Trans- and Multi-Lingual Landscapes4
E.14Language Theory into Action: Translingual and L26
E.15Language Ideologies and Second Language Writing5
E.17Game Design as . . . : The Rhetorics of Designing Games7
E.18Writing: Dissertation, Thesis, and FYC5
E.19Curating Transdisciplinary Research on Place-Based5
E.20Curricular Overseeing vs. Curricular Liberties: Designing7
E.21Assessment and Representation: Reconsidering5
E.22Pathways of Support in Basic Writing Programs6
E.23In Search of the Genuine A: Challenges in Evaluating4
E.24Classroom Materials as Microcosm: Pushing against the Dominant Academic Discourse5
E.25Action, Advocacy, and Appalachia: Cultural-Rhetorical6
E.26Negotiating Academic Communities: Best Practices for Students and Faculty5
E.27(Re)Defining Values for Writing6
E.28Readers, Reading, and Metacognition in Action4
E.29Material Histories of Nineteenth-Century Writing and Rhetoric4
E.30ELI Review as Strategic Action4
E.31Non-Native English-Speaking Faculty and Faculty4
E.32Queer (Inter)Actions: Remediating Research and Embodying Methodology as Composition4
E.33Inter-Institutional Writing Strategies: Community College/8
E.34Writing across Margins and Borders4
E.35Race Forever: Adventures in Writing Program Start-ups4
E.36Remembering Kent: CCCC Chairs’ Tribute10
E.37Keeping Writing Relevant and Essential in Changing3
E.38Taking Action Workshop: Framing Messages1
E.39Taking Action Workshop: Making Action Plans5
E.40Does It Matter: Assessing Our Role as Agents of Social5
F.1Writing Feminism: Negotiating for Action across Public Spheres5
F.2Rhetorics of Health and Medicine: A Roundtable Examining the Breadth and future actions of an Emerging Sub-Field8
F.3Beyond Fundamentalism: Pedagogical Implications from Three Empirical Studies of Overlooked Christian5
F.4Supporting the Future of the Field: A Roundtable on Graduate Digital Pedagogy6
F.5Race and Writing Methods: Investigating Racism through Autoethnography, History, and Technology4
F.6Beyond the Workshop: Experiments in Big Comp7
F.7Taking Action to Connect the Classroom and the Community5
F.8Activating Access: Disability in Campus, Classroom, and Online Spaces6
F.9Imagining Literate Lives: Drawing Lessons from Narrative, Memory, and Mobility4
F.10Changing Demographics: No Longer a Monolingual Nation3
F.11Asking Students to Do and to Be5
F.12We Know Where the Action Is: It’s in Writing Fellows (and We Got the Data to Prove It)6
F.13New/Now Cognitivism: Strategies for Theory and “Literate Action”6
F.14Truth or Consequences: When Project-based Pedagogy Pushes Back on Process5
F.15Re-Actions: A Closer Look at Student Invention across Different Sites4
F.16Everyday Authors and Acts of Writing4
F.17Student Voices: Learning Styles and Transitional Rhetorics4
F.18Taking Action through the News Media3
F.19Don’t Get Emotional: Teaching Writing and the Study of Emotional States4
F.20Women and the Development of Composition Studies6
F.21Taking Action in WAC Work: The Student Anthology on Race5
F.22Critical Praxis in Action: Discovering New Modes of Resistance in Digital Publics4
F.23Writing for Action, Writing for Change4
F.24Glitches as (Re)Action: Creating, Learning from, and Responding to Moments of Rhetorical Failure5
F.25Writing Program Administration in an Age of Reform4
F.26Environmental and Scientific Rhetoric in Action4
F.27We Are Not Color Blind: Empowering Spanglish and Other Types of Code Switching4
F.28Results of a Study on the Status of the Multi-major Professional Writing Course in U.S. Institutions of Higher Education4
F.29Research in Multimodal Composition, Literacies, and Assessment6
F.30Teaching Reading for Writing: Action-Oriented Approaches4
F.31Challenging the Rhetoric of Non-Neurotypicality: Documents, Stories, Memories5
F.32Creative Nonfiction: Exploring the History and Imagining the Future of an Active Genre3
F.33Networking the Discipline: Theorizing Assumptions, Offering Change4
F.34“Listen!” The Legend of the Social Justice Warrior, or Games and Social Advocacy6
F.35From Analysis to Action: The NCTE Policy Analysis Initiative’s Role in Promoting Policy Change7
F.36Taking Action Workshop: Naming and Narrowing13
FSIG.1American Indian Caucus Business Meeting3
FSIG.3Black Caucus2
FSIG.4Labor Caucus SIG Business Meeting10
FSIG.5Latin@ Caucus Business Meeting3
FSIG.6Writing with Current, Former, and Future Members of the Military2
FSIG.7Progressive Approaches to Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage SIG1
FSIG.8Creative Nonfiction in Action: The Difference a Postcard Makes3
FSIG.9Undergraduate Consortium in Rhetoric and Writing2
FSIG.10SIG on Arab, Arab American, and Muslim Identity and Issues2
FSIG.11Transnational Composition Standing Group1
FSIG.12Special Interest Group on Undergraduate Research2
FSIG.13IWDPA Business Meeting2
FSIG.14Contemplative Writing Pedagogies Special Interest3
FSIG.15Play and Game Studies Special Interest Group9
FSIG.16Adult Writers in Diverse Contexts SIG2
FSIG.17Rhetoric and Religious Traditions Standing Group1
FSIG.18Special Interest Group for Effective Practices in Online2
FSIG.19Community Literacy, Service-Learning, and Public2
FSIG.20Creative Writing SIG: Creating a Writing Space2
FSIG.21Studio PLUS Special Interest Group1
FSIG.22Working-Class Culture and Pedagogy2
FSIG.23Graduate Student Special Interest Group: Graduate6
FSIG.24Academic Mothering in Rhetoric and Composition1
FSIG.25Queer Caucus2
FSIG.26Caucus after the Caucus3
FSIG.27English Education/Composition Connections3
FSIG.28Writing-about-Writing Standing Group1
G.1The Purposes of Required Writing?5
G.2Theory, Research, and Action: New Strategies for Students’ Right to Their Own Language2
G.3Taking Action, Building Community, and Sponsoring4
G.4Listening Strategies for Feminist and Queer Action: Encountering an Erotic Ethics4
G.5Better Learning Technologies: Taking Action to Reframe4
G.6Long-Term Research Collaborations: Strategy, Identity, Failure, and Moves toward Future Action8
G.7Action Research, Active Reflection: Interrogating the Threshold Concepts of Teaching First-Year Writing6
G.8Negotiating Perception/Deception: Strategies toward4
G.9The ContAct Zone: Lived Experience as Pedagogy5
G.10Advocacy through Tutor Cultural Awareness and Action5
G.11Taking Activist Action: Identity, Community, Pedagogy6
G.12Writing’s Wreckage: What Happens When Writing Fails5
G.13Archiving Actions: Recasting Women’s Rhetorical Spaces5
G.14A New Prescription for Dialogic Action: Reframing the Writing Conference as a Contact Zone4
G.15Using Research as a Writing Strategy to Promote Literacy5
G.16After the Essay: Multimodal Revisions to FYC4
G.17The Archival Turn in Rhetoric and Composition: Avenues4
G.18Student Identities in Classroom Contexts: Negotiating5
G.19Uncovering the Hidden: Composition Scholarship as Language Activism4
G.20Resistance to Standardization: Taking Action in Curriculum and Assessment4
G.21Studies in Public Writing & Entrepreneurship: Shared4
G.22Build-Up, Movement, and Surprise in Cross-Border6
G.23Decolonizing Retention: Indigenous Methodologies, SRTOL, and Contrastive Rhetoric in Composition4
G.24Disrupting Composition: Rhetorical and Activist5
G.25Assessing Learning in Scenes of Discovery: Projection, Reflection, and (Social) Action4
G.26Developing Institution-Wide Strategies for Graduate4
G.27Multilingualism: The New Power Language4
G.28Technical Communication and Professionalization6
G.29Uncovering Students’ Dispositions toward Writing: Taking4
G.30Respecting Rhetorical Choices: Coding as a Way of Reading L2 Writing5
G.32Alumni in Action: Showing the Value of Degree Programs4
G.33Composing Activist Historiographies4
G.34Rhetorics of Disruption4
G.35Re-Imagining the Student-Subject of Composition5
G.36Taking Action Workshop: Building Alliances4
H.1Articulation and Transfer from High School through College3
H.2#Activism: Literacies, Resistance, and Transhumanism3
H.3Revisiting, Recovering, and Revising Literacy5
H.4Multimodal Literacy in Academic Discourse: The Question of Teaching Technology in Online Composition4
H.5Teaching through Strategic Troubling: Fostering Flexible5
H.6Writing in the Global: Case Studies from WID and WAC5
H.7The Translingual Writing Center5
H.8No Longer “Experimental”: Collage as Normative6
H.9Neuroqueer Rhetorics, Neuroqueering Rhetoric6
H.10Theorizing Rhetoric and Language in Digital Gaming5
H.11Strategies of New Writing Faculty: A Discussion on the Construction of Professional Identity5
H.12Queering Rhetorics: Rethinking Archival History and Multimodality4
H.13Writing and (Re)Action: RTTP and Composition4
H.14Getting around What Gets in the Way: Strategies for Success in FYC3
H.15Bringing Tacit Writing Knowledge to Light: On The Possibilities and Limitations of Fostering Explicit4
H.16Digital Research2
H.17What New Second Language Writing Professionals Are5
H.18New Thoughts on Writing and First-Language Teaching7
H.19The Genre Project: An Interim Report on Collaborations5
H.20Civil Discourse and the Writing Center: Code-Meshing, Euphemizing, and Troubling Correctness5
H.21WAW, Reconsidered7
H.22Hostile Writing: A Need to Explore These Forbidden4
H.23Roles for Writing Studies in Graduate Writing Support: Three Sites for Action4
H.24Troublesome Contexts for Writing Transfer4
H.25Risky Business: Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and Higher Education6
H.26Breathe, Move, and Write: Embodied Thinking Creates4
H.27Embrace the Funk: Rhetorically Repositioning Two-Year4
H.28Transnational Ethnography in Action: An Updated4
H.29Redefining Behaviors and Quality: Course Contracts and the Negotiation of “Good Writing” in a First-year Basic5
H.30GED to College Degree: Nontraditional Students &4
H.31“Stories That Change You”: Birth Stories as Rhetorical4
H.32Multimodal Literacies: Sonic Pedagogies and Robot3
H.33Conundra of Tracing Learning Transfer: Methodological4
H.34Basic Writing at the Edges of Feasibility: A Cross-Institutional Comparison of Shifting Demographics, Assessment as Praxis, and Curricular Reform5
H.35Writing as Making; Making as Writing5
H.36Taking Action Workshop: Framing Messages1
H.37Taking Action Workshop: Influencing Policy12
I.1The Company We Keep: Taking Action with Partners in the Study of Religion and Rhetoric5
I.2Between the Lines: Exploring Difference in Students’ Response to Feedback6
I.3By the Tutors, For the Tutors: Undergraduate Research in the Writing Center4
I.4Resocializing Writing Assessment: Articulating Social Justice Perspectives in Writing Assessment Practice5
I.5Renegotiating the Public Imagination of American War: Masculinist Tropes of Veterans, War, and Trauma4
I.6Ready, Set . . . Action? Stories as a Means of Going Public4
I.7Acting by Design: Multimodal Activism on the Streets, in the Classroom, and through the Writing Center4
I.8Global Contexts of Scientific Literacies7
I.9Do the Right Thing: Ethics as Classroom Action4
I.10Collaborative Teaching and Integration—Where Writing Positions Itself between STEM Education and Professional Accreditation4
I.11Re-Reading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance4
I.12Decolonizing Writing, Writing as Decolonization4
I.13Disability Studies and Transformative Access4
I.14Transfer: Strategies for Action, Strategies for Trouble?5
I.15Queering Composition: Pedagogy for Activism, Identity, and Change4
I.16Challenges of Large-Scale Writing Assessment: Portfolios, Through-Course Assessments, and Other Emerging Innovations8
I.17Redefining Narrative Writing as a Strategy for Action4
I.18Partnering with the Status Quo: Theories, Histories, and Cases of Problematic Partnerships for Action-Oriented5
I.19Localized Sites of Assessment, Action, and Transformation4
I.20Tasting the Golden Waters: Exploring Different Writing Rhetorics4
I.21Instructor Feedback as an Interactive Process: Using Qualitative Data to Develop Effective Feedback4
I.22Initiatives for Non-Traditional Students4
I.24L2 Writing Practices5
I.25Identifying and Eliciting Students’ Metacognitive Development5
I.26Acting as If: The De-centered Writing Program as a Framework for Success in Community College Writing4
I.27Negotiating Interactions around Difference: Identity and Responsibility in Communities, Workplaces, and Classrooms5
I.28Academic Integrity and the International Student: Supporting Multilingual Writers5
I.29Research with/from/about Underrepresented5
I.30WPAs in Action: Navigating Institutional Infrastructures, Cultivating Relevant Textual Practices3
I.31From Posturing to Positioning: Encouraging Rhetorical Sophistication through Multimodal Pedagogies5
I.32Feminist Action for Women Writing Program7
I.33Demystifying the Job Market: Taking Action toward Transparency through Data and Narrative7
I.34Fostering Academic Collaborations: Co-Mentoring as Strategic Action in Rhetoric and Composition5
I.35Applying for a CCCC Research Grant: A Mentoring Session5
I.36Taking Action Workshop: Naming and Narrowing1
I.37Taking Action Workshop: Making Action Plans1
J.1Methods, Models, and Means of Undergraduate6
J.2Uncovering and Recovering Actors in Rhetorical5
J.3Digital Activism toward Social Justice5
J.4Flipped Professional Development for Hybrid Courses: Preparing Graduate Student Instructors to Teach in a Contemporary First-Year Writing Program4
J.5The Value of Presence: Strategic Uses of Contemplative2
J.6Assembling Composition5
J.7Translation as Action: Finding the Words for Cross-Language Community Action4
J.8Transnational Composition: (Geo)Political Considerations8
J.9Four Strategies for Writing In/Action5
J.10Independent Writing Departments and Programs: The Dynamics of Independence4
J.11Practices of Rhetorical Invention4
J.12Practicing Writing as Social Act: Writing Group Pedagogy4
J.13Challenges and Opportunities of Technological3
J.14Second Generation ABET: Bridging the Gap between Engineering Communication Curricula and Professional3
J.15Translating Data into Action: Coordinating University and Program-Specific Writing Assessment4
J.16If You Build It, Will They Come? Extending the Writing4
J.17Power, Politics, and Accreditation: Effecting Culture5
J.18Understanding Our Habits of Mind: Clarifying4
J.19WPA Work as Strategic Action4
J.20Enacting New Theories of Revision4
J.21Albert E. Krahn Debates Peter Elbow at the 2016 CCCC3
J.22Mobilizing Tenure-Track Faculty for Adjunct Equity5
J.23Martin, Ministers, and Music: Listening to African4
J.24Visual Rhetoric for Social Change in the Writing4
J.25Just Going to Leave This Here: Empirical Study of Social6
J.26The Pleasures of Writing for New Audiences: A Tribute to Sondra Perl4
J.27Digital Technologies as Agents for Change6
J.28Threshold Concepts and the Two-Year College: Reshaping Writing Courses, Writing Programs, and Writing Centers5
J.29Research as Action: Studying Metacognition in the Writing Classroom5
J.30Ohio Farm Narratives: A Feminist Approach to Collaboration, Conversation, and Action2
J.31Writing for Cross-National Engagement: Research, Pedagogy, Advocacy4
J.32Hispanic-Serving Institutions: Strategies for Big Data, Intellectual Ferment, and Emotional Communities3
J.33Influencing Public Policy5
J.34Acting on Data: Corpus-Based, Computer-Aided Analysis5
J.35Taking Action Workshop: Framing Messages1
J.36Taking Action Workshop: Building Alliances8
K.1Helping the Academically Underserved: Reinvesting in Basic Writing at a Four-Year University4
K.2Visual, Online, and Geographic Spaces: Places for Social1
K.3Writing for Real This Time: Authenticity through WID in FYC Sequence Design5
K.4Teaching While Black: Academic Profiling in Action3
K.5Strategies for (Ambiguous) Writing Situations: Using4
K.6Publishing in CCCC’s Studies in Writing and Rhetoric5
K.7Mass Education and Unbundled Access: MOOCs and the New BA4
K.8Actions against Stereotype Threat: Reflection, Tutoring, and Service-Learning5
K.9Recontextualizing Writing Pedagogies4
K.10Strategies for Campus-Wide Change5
K.11Up for Negotiation: Politics and Pedagogy in Advanced5
K.12Pathways to Success: Finding Your Academic Voice4
K.13Agency and Action in Microhistories of Composition4
K.14Assessment in Disability Studies Research: Improving6
K.15Writing-toward-Action in Epic Open Learning: A Praxis-Oriented Approach to MOOC Design5
K.16Taking Action at the Border: Acknowledging and Addressing Differences among the Diverse6
K.17Assessing Institutions, Programs, Centers, and Spaces4
K.18Research on Materiality and Embodiment6
K.19Can You Hear Me Now?: Using Audio to Teach Writing4
K.20Rhetorical Listening: Difference, Materiality, and the Classroom5
K.21Reclaiming Rhetorics of Resistance in the 21st Century4
K.22Getting Involved: Civil and Legal Literacy4
K.23Build It and They Won’t Come: Action Plan for the Stealth4
K.24Visualizing the Labor of Writing Center through RAD5
K.25Innovations in Big Data Research5
K.26Exploring the Rhetoric of New Media and Identity4
K.27Advocating for First-Year Writing and Library Partnerships3
K.28Threshold Concepts, Affective Dispositions, Writing4
K.29Investigating “Consequences” of a Community Literacy4
K.30Transaction, Inaction, and Reaction: The Many “Actions”5
K.31Composing Disability Memoir as Transformative Action5
K.32Resilience and Agency: Taking Action on Labor, Curriculum, and the Work of Writing Program5
K.33Taking Action and Taking Responsibility: A Roundtable8
K.34Finding Meaning in the Midst of Academe’s Identity Crisis5
K.35Enacting Knowledge Transfer at the Community College: Three Case Studies of Writing Transfer across Disciplines4
K.36Taking Action Workshop: Influencing Policy2
K.37Taking Action Workshop: Making Action Plans1
L.1Historiographic Participatory Action Research: Reciprocity and Benefits in “Sweet Home Alabama”4
L.2Facilitating Transfer from FYC to Other Courses: Two6
L.3Curricular Crossroads: Teaching Professional Writing for Civic Purposes4
L.4Whispers in the Corner: The Rhetoricity of Gossip4
L.5Activism and Action: Rhetorical Histories of Labor4
L.6Redefining and Reimagining the Religious within and beyond the Writing Classroom5
L.7Develop, Design, Deliver: Teaching Graduate Students to Teach Writing Online5
L.8Action-Based Pedagogies and Multimodal Writing5
L.9Crossing the Threshold: Identifying Threshold Concepts4
L.10Writing and Illness3
L.11Pedagogy and Ideas: The First-Year Composition Class4
L.12Graduate Students: Key to a University’s Success4
L.13Remixing Collaboration: (In)Visible Practice and Pedagogy4
L.14Collaboration in Action: Using Quantitative Data-Driven6
L.15Negotiating Otherness: An Exploration of Intersections5
L.16Preparing for a Changing Professional Landscape: Junior6
L.17Searching the Disciplines: Improving Student Writing5
L.18Activist Literacies within and beyond the Classroom5
L.19Taking Action: Personal Writing, Ethnography, and Reflection5
L.20Assessment, Accountability, and Strategies of Collaboration6
L.21Rap and Hip-Hop in the Writing Classroom4
L.22Political Rhetoric: Ethos, Agency, and Courage4
L.23Political Literacy in Composition: Critical Pedagogy, Multiple Voices, or Activism?4
L.24Interrogating Digitized Whiteness: Renderings of Whiteness in Mediated Writing Spaces5
L.25Exploring Strange New Worlds: Launching a First-Year4
L.26Researching with and through the Personal5
L.27Institutional Whiteness and the Uneven Work of “Diversity”6
L.28Growing #digital Communities: The Tools, the Prison, and the Writing Classroom5
L.30Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity: Coming to Terms with Our Past and Taking Action for the Future9
M.1Fostering “Rhetorical Researchers” and Developing5
M.2Global, Social, and Digital: Digital Tools and Strategies in the Writing Classroom5
M.3Framing Visual Composition and Multimedia Writing4
M.4What Does It Mean for Prison Research and Teaching to Go Public?7
M.5Big, Lean, Open, and Howling: Proposals for Digital5
M.6Reworking Boundaries of Language and Discipline: Translingual Theory, Second Language Writing, Comparative Rhetorics, and Transnational Research5
M.7Wanting Students to Succeed: Peer Conferences and Feedback4
M.8Preachin’, Laughin’, Theorizin’: Black Women on Rhetoric, Language Policies, and Intimate Spaces4
M.9New Frames for Transfer: Remix, Kairos, and Noticing4
M.10Framing Circulation for Action: Frameworks for Enabling1
M.11Queering Assessment: Engaging Alternative Validity6
M.12Advocating for Our Missions: Writing (Our) Programs with Integrity in Hostile Environments5
M.13Writing for Advocacy and Agency5
M.14Think-Tank for Newcomers: Developing Papers and Sessions for CCCC 20171
M.15Writing (Center) Strategies for Action for Underrepresented Populations3
M.16Creating Conditions for Action: Designing Composition5
M.17Lights, Camera, Action: Setting the Stage for Understanding the Diverse Learning Needs of Teachers and Students in Writing Classrooms5
M.19Writers on the Verge: Researching Summer Transition4
M.20Local/Regional Practices: Recovering, Translating, and Strategic Practices from Spaces and Contexts7
M.21Sound and Listening as Embodied Acts for Writing1
M.22Rhetoric and Feminist Activism5
M.24Getting to the Core: When FYC Moves out of the English5
M.25Periodicals and Activism in the 19th Century4
M.26From Inquiry to Informed Action: “RAD” Research4
M.27Hearing the Forgotten Voice4
M.28Theory, Practice…Talk and Snacks: How One Faculty4
M.29Storytelling and Identity5
M.30Required Writing Center Visits: Adding Numbers—and Nuance–to the Conversation5
M.31(Transfer) Student-Centered Assessment6
M.32Using the Assessment Story Project to Advocate for Students and Teachers4
MW.1Plagiarism as an Educational Opportunity: Research-Based Responding to Student Plagiarizing5
MW.2Voices of Undergraduate Research: Frameworks for Learning through Action4
MW.3Multimodal Research in the Writing Class3
MW.4Repurposing Assessment: Valuing Student Actions via11
MW.5Composing Comics: Theory and Practice for Writing8
MW.6Consulting for Writing Programs: Developing Effective11
MW.7Taking Action with Student Retention and Success: An OWI “Student Matters” Workshop11
MW.8Active Support for Radical Pedagogies: The Postpedagogical Movement, Project-Based, Multigenre, and Multimodal Approaches12
MW.9But I Don’t Know What to Say: Peer Review as a Tool to Help Students Effectively Join the Conversation4
MW.10Basics of Coding: Analyzing Data and Reporting Findings3
MW.12Reading Workshop: Pedagogies, Processes, Purposes, Practices4
MW.13Disrupting the Cycle of Mass Incarceration: What Can12
MW.14Critical Soundplay: An Audio Composing Workshop4
MW.15Archives as Sites for Community Collaborations, Classroom Explorations, and Activism11
MW.16Engaging the Global in the Teaching of Writing: Critical19
MW.17Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar in the 21st Century2
MW.18Tools, Not Rules: A Workshop in Progressive Grammar7
N.1Taking Action Plenary: Next Steps8
TSIG.1Appalachian Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy SIG2
TSIG.2Council of Basic Writing SIG: Contemplating Action in the Classroom, Institution, State, Nation5
TSIG.3Meeting of the International Network of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Programs6
TSIG.4Race and Technology Special Interest Group1
TSIG.5TSIG for the Women’s Network: A Landscape for Change: Our Spaces, Our Selves1
TSIG.6Writing and STEM5
TSIG.7Language, Linguistics, and Writing Standing Group18
TSIG.8Special Interest Group for Non-Native4
TSIG.9SIG: Senior, Late-Career, and Retired Professionals in Rhet/Comp/Writing Studies2
TSIG.10Teaching in Prison: Pedagogy, Research, and Literacies2
TSIG.11The 2016 Council on Basic Writing Business Meeting2
TSIG.12Dual Enrollment Studies SIG2
TSIG.13SIG for Untenured Writing Program Administrators2
TSIG.14National Archives of Composition and Rhetoric2
TSIG.15The Role of Reading in Composition Studies2
TSIG.16Zen and the Art of English Teacher Maintenance: Finding Wiser Ways of Being, Teaching, and Inhabiting3
TSIG.17Kenneth Burke Society at CCCC1
TSIG.19Medical Rhetoric Standing Group Business Meeting2
TSIG.20Publishing Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition3
TSIG.21SIG Non-Western/Global Rhetorics4
TSIG.22Rhetoric’s Histories, Theories, Pedagogies Special7
TSIG.23International Writing Centers Association: Acting upon5
TSIG.24Disability Studies Standing Group1
TSIG.25Teaching for Transfer5
TSIG.26Second Language Writing Standing Group Meeting2
TSIG.27Academic Mothering in Rhetoric and Composition1
W.1Mindful Writing: Taking Action toward a More Balanced8
W.2Leadership in Action: A Workshop for Heads, Directors, WPAs, and Future Faculty Leaders7
W.3Responsible Action: International Higher Education29
W.4Play as Activism: Using Game-Based Pedagogy to Build13
W.5The Transformative Action of Basic Writing: The 20167
W.6Supporting Innovation and Effecting Change at Two-Year12
W.7More Than Warm Bodies Needed: Who Is Qualified to Teach Writing and How Do We Know?9
W.8A Workshop Sponsored by the Latin@ Caucus: Latin@s11
W.9Writing Teachers Writing: Words in/as Action12
W.10Working Wikipedia: An Interdisciplinary Path to Taking6
W.11Moving from Pro Forma to Performa: Music and Performance in the Writing Classroom9
W.12Feminist Workshop: Action through Care14