Since 1949, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) has been the world's largest professional organization for researching and teaching composition, from writing to new media. Welcome to our community. You'll find the field's leading resources and, more important, expert scholars and teachers eager for you to join us.
CCCC Annual Convention
Louisville, March 17-20, 2010
"The Remix: Revisit, Rethink, Revise, Renew"
Call for Proposals: September 2011 CCC Special Issue
Incoming CCC Editor Kathleen Blake Yancey requests proposals for the second of five annual special issues of CCC, the September 2011 issue of College Composition and Communication, which will focus on indigenous rhetorics. Visit the call for proposals for additional information on making a submission. The proposal deadline is January 1, 2010.
Web Resources for CCCC Members
CCCC has created a page that gives you links to our communities around the web and also provides you graphics and banners to use on your sites.
You can also follow CCCC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NCTE_CCCC
National Day on Writing
Join CCCC and NCTE as we celebrate the National Day on Writing scheduled for October 20, 2009.
On Thursday, October 8, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution declaring October 20 as the National Day on Writing!
Get Involved: Learn what you can do and see what others are doing. Consider ways to showcase your writing-–great and small, whether text, audio, or video-–in the NCTE National Gallery of Writing.
Submit your Writing: Make your contribution(s) to the National Gallery of Writing which will open to the world on October 20.
Start a Local Gallery: A local gallery can be any group, including a family, a few good friends, a club or church group, a class, a school, a workplace group, or an entire city who wants to see their work collected together inside the National Gallery.
Connect with Us: Share your ideas and connect with others online at the NCTE NING Group, become a fan on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter.
Find out what the CCCC Committees are working on...
Visit the CCCC committee website for recent updates on the work of the committees. Two committees have recently published resources for the CCCC membership:
- Committee on Best Practices for Online Writing Instruction: The committee gathered, reviewed, and annotated webtexts, articles, and books from 1980 through early 2008 that help us better understand those approaches and strategies that are most effective in OWI and compiled them into an annotated bibliography (pdf). In addition, the committee has created a listserv open to all faculty members and administrators interested in online writing instruction. To subscribe to the listserv, email cccc@ncte.org.
- Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication (7Cs): Visit the Call to Host the Computers and Writing Conference for information on hosting this conference with application procedures and criteria.
- Conversations on Diversity: This CCCC-sponsored blogging series dedicated to the Committee on Diversity, launched part fourth of the series on Thursday, August 27, 2009. Over the next several months, this committee will host a forum where all CCCC members can post questions, short essays, and responses aimed at broadening our ability to think, talk, and write about diversity. In addition, this diversity-dedicated blog will feature posts by some of the best thinkers and writers in our field. Join the conversation today!
- Committee on Intellectual Property: This Committee publishes monthly reports on a variety of intellectual property issues.
- Committee on the Major in Rhetoric and Composition: The Committee compiled and published their most up-to-date listing of writing majors (pdf) including the institution, department/program, and core classes and required electives.
- Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession: Check out their new listing of resources including a history of this long-standing committee, web resources, bibliographies, and more.
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