College Composition and Communication, Vol. 64, No. 3, February 2013

Table of Contents

• From the Editor: The (Continuing) Wisdom of Students [FREE ACCESS]

  Kathleen Blake Yancey

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  Abstract: Editor Kathleen Yancey introduces articles for this issue.

• African American Language, Rhetoric, and Students’ Writing: New Directions for SRTOL [FREE ACCESS]

  Staci M. Perryman-Clark

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  Abstract: This article offers a case study of how three African American students enrolled in a first-year writing course employ Ebonics-based phonological and syntactical patterns across writing assignments, including those that also require students to compose multigenre essays.

• Motivation and Connection: Teaching Reading (and Writing) in the Composition Classroom

  Michael Bunn

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  Abstract: Drawing on qualitative research conducted at the University of Michigan, this article examines the extent to which composition instructors theorize and teach reading-writing connections and argues that explicitly teaching reading-writing connections may increase student motivation to complete assigned reading. The article also discusses using model texts as an effective means of teaching those connections.

• Beyond Standards: Disciplinary and National Perspectives on Habits of Mind

  Kristine Johnson

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  Abstract: This article situates the Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing in current educational policy and in the discipline of rhetoric and composition. It argues the Framework positions the discipline to address gaps in American education by reinvigorating historical and traditional frames for writing instruction—ancient rhetoric and the liberal arts tradition. Although this realignment challenges technocratic assumptions about education, it raises pragmatic and ethical questions about assessing habits of mind that rhetoric and composition must consider.

• 2012 CCCC Exemplar Award Acceptance Speech

  Mike Rose

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  Abstract: This is a written version of the acceptance speech the Mike Rose gave at the CCCC Convention in St. Louis on March 22, 2012.

• Reviews [FREE ACCESS]

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  Abstract: Three scholars review the following:
  College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco and We’re Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education by Richard P. Keeling and Richard H. Hersh
  
  Rhetoric Matters: Why Denial May Not Work This Time Dominic DelliCarpini
  
  Jeremiad and Insularity Rita Malenczyk
  
  Asking the Right Questions Marlene R. Miner

• Review Essay: Diversity, Language, and Possibility: Four New Studies of What Might Be

  Asao B. Inoue

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  Abstract: The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People’s Perseverance Ellen Cushman
  
  Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric Vorris L. Nunley
  
  Diverse by Design: Literacy Education within Multicultural Institutions Christopher Schroeder
  
  Code-Meshing as World English: Pedagogy, Policy, Performance Vershawn Ashanti Young and Aja Y. Martinez, editors

• CCC Poster Page 13: Writing across the Curriculum/Writing in the Disciplines

• CCCC News

• Announcements and Calls [FREE ACCESS]

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