College Composition and Communication, Vol. 57, No. 3, February 2006

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• From the Editor

  Deborah Holdstein

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• George Pierce Baker's Principles of Argumentation: "Completely Logical"?

  Suzanne Bordelon

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  Abstract: The article contends that previous scholars have misread George Pierce Baker’s efforts by focusing primarily on The Principles of Argumentation and the role of logic. Baker’s view of logic was more complex than scholars have claimed. He challenged traditional concepts of formal logic, highlighting only those aspects that would help students learn argument.

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• Pedagogies of the "Students' Right" Era: The Language Curriculum Research Group's Project for Linguistic Diversity

  Scott Wible

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  Abstract: This essay examines a Brooklyn College–based research collective that placed African American languages and cultures at the center of the composition curriculum. Recovering such pedagogies challenges the perception of the CCCC’s 1974 “Students’ Right to Their Own Language” resolution as a progressive theory divorced from the everyday practices and politics of the composition classroom.

  Keywords: College, Diversity, Pedagogy

• Literacy, Voting Rights, and the Citizenship Schools in the South, 1957-70

  Susan Kates

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  Abstract: This essay examines the history of a massive literacy campaign called the Citizenship School Program that began as a response to the racist literacy tests that disenfranchised countless African American voters throughout the Southern United States between 1945 and 1965. The Citizenship Schools prepared thousands of African Americans to pass the literacy test by using materials that critiqued white supremacism and emphasized the twentieth-century struggle for civil rights.

  Keywords: College, Literacy

• Diversity Writing: Natural Languages, Authentic Voices

  Phillip P. Marzluf

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  Abstract: Though diversity serves as a valuable source for rhetorical inquiry, expressivist instructors who privilege diversity writing may also overemphasize the essential authenticity of their students’ vernaculars. This romantic and salvationist impulse reveals the troubling implications of eighteenth-century Natural Language Theory and may, consequently, lead to exoticizing and stereotyping students’ linguistic performances.

  Keywords: College, Diversity, Writing

• RE-VISIONS: Rethinking Hairston's "Breaking Our Bonds"

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  Abstract: Maxine Hairston’s 1985 Chair’s Address is the first in an occasional series prompting us to reread and “re-vision” pivotal articles that have appeared in CCC. The full texts of those pieces will be available at CCC Online (http://inventio.us/ccc), and I invite you to reread those important texts online along with these new commentaries in print.

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• RE-VISIONS: "Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections," Twenty Years Later

  Susan H. McLeod

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  Abstract: Maxine Hairston’s 1985 Chair’s Address is the first in an occasional series prompting us to reread and “re-vision” pivotal articles that have appeared in CCC. The full texts of those pieces will be available at CCC Online (http://inventio.us/ccc), and I invite you to reread those important texts online along with these new commentaries in print. For this inaugural appearance of “Re-Visions,” Joseph Harris and Susan McLeod comment on “Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections,” excerpts of which appear below (originally published in the October 1985 issue of CCC [Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 272–282]).

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• Re-Visions: Déjà Vu All Over Again

  Joseph Harris

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  Abstract: Maxine Hairston’s 1985 Chair’s Address is the first in an occasional series prompting us to reread and “re-vision” pivotal articles that have appeared in CCC. The full texts of those pieces will be available at CCC Online (http://inventio.us/ccc), and I invite you to reread those important texts online along with these new commentaries in print. For this inaugural appearance of “Re-Visions,” Joseph Harris and Susan McLeod comment on “Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections,” excerpts of which appear below (originally published in the October 1985 issue of CCC [Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 272–282]).

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• Feminisms and Composition

  C. Jan Swearingen

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• CCC Guidelines for Writers

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• CCCC News

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• Announcements and Calls

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