College Composition and Communication, Vol. 64, No. 2, December 2012

Table of Contents

• From the Editor: A 21st-Century Dappled Discipline [FREE ACCESS]

  Kathleen Blake Yancey

• Training in the Archives: Archival Research as Professional Development

  Jonathan Buehl, Tamar Chute, and Anne Fields

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  Abstract: This article describes the rationale and efficacy of a graduate-level teaching module providing loosely structured practice with real archives. Introducing early career scholarsto archival methods changed their beliefs about knowledge, research, teaching, and their discipline(s). This case study suggests that archives can be productive training spacesfor all writing studies researchers.

• College Writing in China and America: A Modest and Humble Conversation, with Writing Samples

  Patrick Sullivan, Yufeng Zhang, and Fenglan Zheng

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  Abstract: This article is a pragmatic, classroom-focused conversation about the teaching of writing among three teachers living in the United States and China, separated by manythousands of miles and many centuries of tradition and culture. Our focus here is on classroom concerns: actual student writing, assignment design, and assessment. Weseek to understand more clearly through this conversation how culture and rhetorical tradition help shape the way we teach writing.

• Muted Rhetors and the Mundane: The Case of Ruth Mary Weeks, Rewey Belle Inglis, and W. Wilbur Hatfield

  Suzanne Bordelon

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  Abstract: This essay reveals the importance of investigating mundane internal documents, particularly when considering muted rhetors, who may use such texts strategicallyin an attempt to subvert the status quo. It does so by examining the first and second women presidents of NCTE and their efforts to professionalize the organization andto strengthen the voice of the president.

• A Taxonomy of Writing Across the Curriculum Programs: Evolving to Serve Broader Agendas [FREE ACCESS]

  William Condon and Carol Rutz

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  Abstract: Early status reports on WAC call for engagement with the disciplines, robust research about writing, and a transformation from missionary work to a more wide-ranging model. A Taxonomy of WAC describes common characteristics of WAC programs as well as organizing those characteristics into a progression from initiation to change agency.

• 2012 CCCC Chair’s Address: Stories Take Place: A Performance in One Act [FREE ACCESS]

  Malea Powell

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  Abstract: This is a written version of the address that Malea Powell gave at the CCCC Convention in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday, March 22, 2012.

• Review Essay: Writing Inside and Outside the Margins [FREE ACCESS]

  Linda Adler-Kassner

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  Abstract: Reviewed are:
  
  Adam J. Banks, Digital Griots: African American Rhetoric in a Multimedia Age
  Margaret Price, Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
  Mary Soliday, Everyday Genres: Writing Assignments across the Disciplines
  Myra M. Goldschmidt and Debbie Lamb Ousey, Teaching Developmental Immigrant Students in Undergraduate Programs: A Practical Guide
  Greg A. Giberson and Thomas A. Moriarty, editors, What We Are Becoming: Developments in Undergraduate Writing Majors
  

• 2012 CCCC Chair’s Letter

  Malea Powell

• CCCC Secretary’s Report, 2011–2012

  Dominic DelliCarpini

• CCC Poster Page 12: Error

• CCCC News

• Announcements and Calls [FREE ACCESS]

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