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"
National Day on Writing
Join CCCC and NCTE as we celebrate the National Day on Writing scheduled for October 20, 2009.
The House of Representatives will be considering a resolution declaring October 20, 2009, the National Day on Writing. Please urge your Representative to vote affirmatively for H.Res.524!
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.
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.
Two Web Editor Positions for CCC Online and CCCC MemberWeb
CCCC is searching for two important new editors to support member communication and professional publication. The CCC Online Journal Editor will be responsible for developing and editing an online counterpart to the print journal and will work with the CCC print editor. The MemberWeb Editor will provide vision and oversight of the communicative Web 2.0 potential of the CCCC website. The application deadline for both positions is July 1, 2009. Visit the call for applications for further details.
2009 CCCC Election Candidates
The 2009 CCCC Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the slate of candidates for this year's election. All CCCC members will receive an official election ballot via USPS mail. Ballots must be postmarked no later than August 1, 2009. Visit the CCCC election website for information on the candidates and the election process.
Call for Proposals: 2009-2010 CCCC Research Initiative
CCCC is pleased to announce the sixth year of its Research Initiative. This year we invite proposals for analysis of the data collected in the CCCC Professional database in conjunction with other publicly available, established national datasets. CCCC invites proposals for grants up to $10,000 for such analysis. Proposals are to be submitted no later than Oct 1, 2009. Visit the call for proposals for further details.
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.
- Conversations on Diversity: This CCCC-sponsored blogging series dedicated to the Committee on Diversity, launched part three of the series on Thursday, June 4, 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: The Committee has published the Top Intellectual Property Developments for 2008. In addition, the 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 commtitee, web resources, bibliographies, and more.
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