College Composition and Communication, Vol. 59, No. 2, December 2007

Table of Contents

• From the Editor

  Deborah H. Holdstein

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• Marveling at The Man Called Nova:Comics as Sponsors of Multimodal Literacy

  Dale Jacobs

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  Abstract: This essay theorizes the ways in which comics, and Marvel Comics in particular, acted as sponsors of multimodal literacy for the author. In doing so, the essay demonstrates the possibilities that exist in examining comics more closely and in thinking about how literacy sponsorship happens in multimodal texts.

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• Portfolio Partnerships between Faculty and WAC: Lessons from Disciplinary Practice, Reflection, and Transformation

  Brad Peters and Julie Fisher Robertson

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  Abstract: In portfolio assessment, WAC helps other disciplines increase programmatic integrity and accountability. This analysis of a portfolio partnership also shows composition faculty how a dynamic culture of assessment helps us protect what we do well, improve what we need to do better, and solve problems as writing instruction keeps pace with programmatic change.

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• Writing and Teaching behind Barbed Wire: An Exiled Composition Class in a Japanese-American Internment Camp

  Hui Wu

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  Abstract: By reflecting on Japanese internment camps executed by the U.S. government in World War II, this article examines camp schools’ curricula and writing assignments and an English teacher’s response to student essays to show how racially profiled students and their Caucasian teacher negotiated the political meanings of civil rights and freedom.

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• Chair’s Address: Voices of the Company We Keep

  Akua Duku Anokye

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  Abstract: This is a written version of the address Akua Duku Anokye gave at the CCCC meeting in New York on March 24, 2007.

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• Interchanges

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  Abstract: Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle’s “Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions: (Re)Envisioning ‘First-Year Composition’ as ‘Introduction to Writing Studies’” in the June 2007 issue of CCC (volume 58.4, 552–84) has raised a good deal of debate, and I welcome more contributions from readers as we discuss the Downs-Wardle article in these pages. Joshua Kutney’s written response came in time for publication in this issue. In addition to the print copies of the journal, the original article is featured on the CCC Online Archive (www.inventio.us/ccc).

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• Re-Visions: Rethinking Joseph Janangelo’s “Joseph Cornell and the Artistry of Composing Persuasive Hypertexts”

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  Abstract: The next entry into our “Re-Visions” feature—a series that offers reconsiderations of particularly significant work in CCC—is a reappraisal of Joseph Janangelo’s “Joseph Cornell and the Artistry of Composing Persuasive Hypertexts,” which originally appeared in February of 1998 (volume 49.1, 24–44). In addition to commentaries by Anne Frances Wysocki, Collin Gifford Brooke, and Jeff Rice is a “comment on the comments” by Joseph Janangelo. The subject of these commentaries is readily available for reference at the CCC Online Archive (www.inventio.us/ccc). I welcome your feedback on this feature and suggestions for subjects of future “Re-Visions.”

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• Review Essay: Affecting Rhetoric

  Cory Holding

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• CCCC Secretary’s Report, 2006–2007

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  Abstract: CCCC Executive Committee Meeting Nashville, Tennessee, November 21, 2006

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• Guidelines for Writers

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• CCCC News

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• Announcements and Calls

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