College Composition and Communication, Vol. 60, No. 3, February 2009

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• From the Editor

  Deborah H. Holdstein

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  Abstract: Abstract for this article is currently not available.

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• Modernity and Empire: A Modest Analysis of Early Colonial Writing Practices

  Joseph Jeyaraj

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  Abstract: During colonial times, various British Indian educational institutions and practices, including writing pedagogies at these institutions, introduced modernity to British India. This essay explains the manner in which some students internalized modernity and in their writings used modernist beliefs and premises to critique some precolonial Indian discourses.

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• Why Is Being Interdisciplinary So Very Hard to Do? Thoughts on the Perils and Promise of Interdisciplinary Pedagogy

  Rebecca S. Nowacek

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  Abstract: This essay explores the challenges facing students and teachers in the interdisciplinary classroom. Based on observations of a team-taught interdisciplinary class and drawing on cultural historical activity theory, I argue that the psychological double binds that result from the clash of different disciplinary activity systems constitute both the greatest challenge and richest potential of interdisciplinary classrooms.

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• Online Placement in First-Year Writing

  Irvin Peckham

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  Abstract: This essay describes Louisiana State University’s search for an alternative to available placement protocols. Under the leadership of Les Perelman at MIT, LSU collaborated with four universities to develop iMOAT, a program for administering online assessments of student writing. This essay focuses on LSU’s On-line Challenge, which developed from the iMOAT project. The On-line Challenge combines direct and indirect writing assessments with student choice while freeing students from the constraints of time and place to invite new possibilities for assessing writing.

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• From Journals to Journalism: Tracing Trajectories of Literate Development

  Kevin Roozen

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  Abstract: Drawn from a longitudinal ethnographic study, this article elaborates the trajectories linking one undergraduate’s extracurricular journaling to her school writing and her emerging identity as a journalist. This portrait of literate development highlights how our sense of ourselves as literate persons is forged in the interplay of multiple encounters with literacy, private as well as public, and how authoring a literate life means engaging in the ongoing work of reconciling the conflicts and synergies among them.

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• Heritage Literacy: Adoption, Adaptation, and Alienation of Multimodal Literacy Tools

  Suzanne Kesler Rumsey

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  Abstract: This article presents the concept of heritage literacy, a decision-making process by which people adopt, adapt, or alienate themselves from tools and literacies passed on between generations of people. In an auto-ethnographic study, four generations of a single family and Amish participants from the surrounding community were interviewed to explore the concept.

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• 2008 Exemplar Award Remarks

  Patricia Bizzell

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  Abstract: Following are the remarks presented by Patricia Bizzell at the 2008 CCCC on having received the Exemplar Award.

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• Interchanges: “Read As If for Life”: What Happens When Students Encounter the Literature of the Shoah

  Howard Tinberg

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  Abstract: In any course about the Holocaust, students become engaged, or rather entangled, in ways that I had never dreamed possible in a school setting. The reader becomes the subject of the course as much as Eli Wiesel or Nelly Sachs or Primo Levi. And difficulty becomes the operating principle. Research into readers’ response to Holocaust literature, therefore, becomes imperative, as does research into faculty expectations when assigning the literature of trauma.

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• RESPONSES: Response to “‘Mistakes Are a Fact of Life’: A National Comparative Study”

  by Andrea A. Lunsford and Karen J. Lunsford

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  Abstract: Tracy Santa and Harvey Wiener have each written a commentary on Andrea A. Lunsford and Karen J. Lunsford’s article “‘Mistakes Are a Fact of Life’: A National Comparative Study,” which appeared in the June 2008 issue of CCC.

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• RESPONSES: Responses to Responses: Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle’s “Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions”

  David H. Slomp and M. Elizabeth Sargent

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  Abstract: David H. Slomp and M. Elizabeth Sargent have written a commentary on the responses by Joseph P. Kutney (December 2007) and by Libby Miles et al. (February 2008) to Douglas Downs and Elizabeth Wardle’s article “Teaching about Writing, Righting Misconceptions”: (Re)Envisioning ‘First-Year Composition’ as ‘Introduction to Writing Studies’” which appeared in the June 2007 issue of CCC.

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• REVIEW ESSAY: Rhetorics of Critical Writing: Implications for Graduate Writing Instruction

  Laura R. Micciche

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  Abstract: Writing the Successful Thesis and Dissertation: Entering the Conversation by Irene L. Clark; Rewriting: How to Do Things with Texts by Joseph Harris; The Work of Writing: Insights and Strategies for Academics and Professionals by Elizabeth Rankin

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• REVIEW ESSAY: The Power of One: Truth amid Triumph in Women’s Literacy

  Mary Lou Odom

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  Abstract: Our Sisters’ Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women edited by Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi; From the Garden Club: Rural Women Writing Community by Charlotte Hogg; Whistlin’ and Crowin’ Women of Appalachia: Literacy Practices Since College by Katherine Kelleher Sohn

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• 2008 CCCC Chair’s Letter

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  Abstract: An annual review of CCCC's accomplishments and works in progress by Chair Cheryl Glenn.

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• Guidelines for Writers

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  Abstract: Information for CCC Authors

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• CCCC News

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• Announcements and Calls

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