College Composition and Communication, Vol. 62, No. 4, June 2011

Table of Contents

• From the Editor: On Confrontations

  Kathleen Blake Yancey

• Resisting Age Bias in Digital Literacy Research

  Lauren Marshall Bowen

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  Abstract: Through an eighty-one-year-old woman’s literacy narrative, I argue that literacy researchers should pay greater attention to elder writers, readers, and learners. Particularly asnotions of literacy shift in digital times, the perspective of a lifespan can reveal otherwise hidden complexities of literacy, including the motivational impact of affective histories and embodied practices over time.

• Successes, Victims, and Prodigies: “Master” and “Little” Cultural Narratives in the Literacy Narrative Genre

  Kara Poe Alexander

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  Abstract: This article examines the “master” and “little” cultural narratives students perform in literacy narratives. Results show that students incorporate the literacy-equals-successmaster narrative most often, yet they also include in little narratives figures such as the hero, victim, and child prodigy. I consider how these findings can improve instructionon this topic and conclude with pedagogical recommendations.

• Enacting and Transforming Local Language Policies

  Christine M. Tardy

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  Abstract: Exploring language practices, beliefs, and management in a first-year writing program, this article considers the obstacles to and opportunities for transforming languagepolicy and enacting a new multilingual norm in U.S. postsecondary writing instruction. It argues that the articulation of statements regarding language diversity, co-developedby teachers and program administrators, is a valuable step in viewing and constructing the classroom as a multilingual space.

• Special Symposium Commemorating the NCTE/CCCC Relationship

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  Review of A Long Way Together and Reading the Past, Writing the Future ,Barbara L’Eplattenier

  Seeking Connections, Articulating Commonalities: English Education, Composition Studies, and Writing Teacher Education, Janet Alsup, Elizabeth Brockman, Jonathan Bush, and Mark Letcher

  Preparing Writing Teachers: A Case Study in Constructing a More Connected Future for CCCC and NCTE., Shelley Reid

  Contesting the Space between High School and College in the Era of Dual-Enrollment, Howard Tinberg and Jean-Paul Nadeau

• Review Essay: Reflections on Style and the Love of Language

  Victor Villanueva

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  Learning from Language: Symmetry, Asymmetry, and Literary Humanism, Walter H. Beale

  Out of Style: Reanimating Stylistic Study in Composition and Rhetoric, Paul Butler

  Performing Prose: The Study and Practice of Style in Composition, Chris Holcomb and M. Jimmie Killingsworth

  Academic Writing in a Global Context: The Politics and Practices of Publishing in English, Theresa Lillis and Mary Jane Curry

  A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies, James Ray Watkins Jr.

• Interchanges

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  Response to Paul Lynch’s “Composition as a Thermostatic Activity”, Matthew Abraham

  Response to Matthew Abraham, Paul Lynch

• CCCC Secretary’s Report, 2009–2010

• CCC Poster Page 6: Audience [FREE ACCESS]

• CCCC News

• Announcements and Calls

• CCC Reviewers for 2010–2011

• Index to Volume 62

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