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Conference on College Composition and Communication

The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC, often referred to as "Four Cs" or "Cs") is a national professional association of college and university writing instructors in the United States. The CCCC formed in 1949 as an organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).[1][2] CCCC is the largest organization dedicated to writing research, theory, and teaching worldwide.

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC)
Founded1949
FocusTeaching, composition, rhetoric, writing
Location
Key people
Staci M. Perryman-Clark, 2023 Chair; Frankie Condon, Program Chair 2023
Websitecccc.ncte.org

Publications

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The CCCC currently publishes the following journals: College Composition and Communication, College Composition and Communication Online, the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric Series, and FORUM: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty. Previously, the CCCC also published Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, from 1984 to 1999.[3]

College Composition and Communication (CCC) is a quarterly journal that seeks to promote scholarship, research, and the teaching of writing at the collegiate level. Back issues can be accessed through the CCCC website.[4] The CCCC also publishes the College Composition and Communication Online (CCC Online) journal, which focuses on Web-based text and digital research,[5] and their website offers the CCC Online Archive, a tool that can be used to search the CCC.[6]

The CCCC co-publishes the Studies in Writing and Rhetoric (SWR) book series with WAC Clearinghouse, which focuses on researching the history of teaching and studying writing and rhetoric, as well as highlighting the diversity of the members involved in these communities.[7]

FORUM: Issues About Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is published twice a year and can be found in CCC and Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC).[8] Publishing about the realities and perspectives of professionals involved in the field of college composition is the journal's focus.

From 1984 to 1999, the CCCC published Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric. An archive to its content is linked to by the CCCC website and hosted on ibiblio.[9]

Conferences

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Annual convention

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CCCC holds an annual convention, which usually has over 3000 members in attendance.[10] The location of the convention and convention chair changes from year to year. The convention is primarily made up of scholarly panels, featured speakers, committee meetings, special interest group meetings, and workshops. An additional part of the convention is the Research Network Forum (RNF) -- a round-table venue where novice and experienced researchers gather to present works-in-progress, discuss methodologies, and share possible future projects—which has been called the "unofficial mentoring arm of CCCC"[11] as well as the Qualitative Research Network (QRN).[12] In addition, the opening meeting of the convention usually features the CCCC Chair's Address, during which the convention chair addresses the entire assembly of participants, often articulating a vision of the field of rhetoric and composition.[13]

Awards

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The convention is also the time when CCCC presents several yearly awards, including the Exemplar Award (which recognizes an individual who has served as an exemplar for the organization), Outstanding Book Award, Outstanding Teaching Award, Richard Braddock Award (for the most outstanding article in CCC), the Stonewall Service Award (which recognizes those who have consistently worked to improve the experiences of sexual and gender minorities within the organization and the profession), the James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award, Chair's Memorial Scholarship (for graduate students presenting at the convention), Writing Program Certificate of Excellence, in addition to several others, including a variety of awards supporting travel to the conference.[14]

Prior conventions

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Date[15][16] Location Theme Program Chair
April 3-6, 2024 Spokane, WA "Writing Abundance: Celebrating 75 Years of Conversations about Rhetoric, Composition, Technical Communication, and Literacy" Jennifer Sano-Franchini
February 15–18, 2023 Chicago, IL ”Doing Hope in Desperate Times” Frankie Condon
March 9–12, 2022 Scheduled for Chicago, IL but moved online due to Coronavirus "The Promises and Perils of Higher Education: Our Discipline’s Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Linguistic Justice" Staci M. Perryman-Clark
April 7–10, 2021 Scheduled for Spokane, WA but moved online due to Coronavirus "We Are All Writing Teachers*: Returning to a Common Place" Holly Hassel
March 25–28, 2020 (Cancelled due to Coronavirus) Milwaukee, WI "Considering Our Commonplaces" Julie Lindquist
March 13–16, 2019 Pittsburgh, PA "Performance-Rhetoric, Performance-Composition" Vershawn Ashanti Young
March 14–17, 2018 Kansas City, MO "Languaging, Laboring, and Transforming" Asao B. Inoue
March 15–18, 2017 Portland, OR "Cultivating Capacity, Creating Change" Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt
April 6–9, 2016 Houston, TX "Writing Strategies for Action" Linda Adler-Kassner
March 18–21, 2015 Tampa, FL "Risk and Reward" Joyce Locke Carter
March 19–22, 2014 Indianapolis, IN "Open | Source(s), Access, Futures” Adam Banks
March 13–16, 2013 Las Vegas, NV "The Public Work of Composition" Howard Tinberg
March 21–24, 2012 St. Louis, MO "Writing Gateways" Chris Anson
April 6–9, 2011 Atlanta, GA "All Our Relations: Contested Spaces, Contested Knowledge" Malea Powell
March 17–20, 2010 Louisville, KY "The Remix: Revisit, Rethink, Revise, Renew" Gwendolyn D. Pough
March 11–14, 2009 San Francisco, CA "Making Waves" Marilyn Valentino
April 2–5, 2008 New Orleans, LA "Writing Realities, Changing Realities" Charles Bazerman
March 21–24, 2007 New York, NY "Representing Identities" Cheryl Glenn
March 22–25, 2006 Chicago, IL "Composition in the Center Spaces: Building Community, Culture, Coalitions" Akua Duku Anokye
March 16–19, 2005 San Francisco, CA “Opening the Golden Gates: Access, Affirmative Action, and Student Success” Judith Wootten
March 24–27, 2004 San Antonio, TX “Making Composition Matter: Students, Citizens, Institutions, Advocacy” Douglas D. Hesse
March 19–22, 2003 New York, NY "Rewriting 'Theme for English B': Transforming Possibilities" Kathleen Blake Yancey
March 20–23, 2002 Chicago, IL “Connecting the Text and the Street” Shirley Wilson Logan
March 14–17, 2001 Denver, CO “Composing Community” John Lovas
April 12–15, 2000 Minneapolis, MN “Educating the Imagination: Reimagining Education” Wendy Bishop
March 24–27, 1999 Atlanta, GA “Visible Students, Visible Teachers” Keith Gilyard
April 1–4, 1998 Chicago, IL “Ideas, Historias y Cuentos: Breaking with Precedent” Victor Villanueva
March 12–15, 1997 Phoenix, AZ “Just Teaching, Just Writing: Reflection and Responsibility” Cynthia Selfe
March 27–30, 1996 Milwaukee, WI “Transcending Boundaries” Nell Ann Pickett
March 22–25, 1995 Washington, D.C. “Literacies, Technologies, Responsibilities” Lester Faigley
March 16–19, 1994 Nashville, TN “Common Concerns, Uncommon realities: Teaching, Research, and Scholarship in a Complex World” Jacqueline Jones Royster
April 1–3, 1993 San Diego, CA “Twentieth Century Problems, Twenty-First Century Solutions: Issues, Answers, Actions” Lillian Bridwell-Bowles
March 19–21, 1992 Cincinnati, OH “Contexts, Communities, and Constraints: Sites of Composing and Communicating” Anne Ruggles Gere
March 21–23, 1991 Boston, MA “Times of Trial, Reorientation, Reconstruction: A Fin de Siecle Review/Prophecy” William W. Cook
March 22–24, 1990 Chicago, IL “Strengthening Community Through Diversity” Donald McQuade
March 16–18, 1989 Seattle, WA “Empowering Students and Ourselves in an Interdependent World” Jane E. Peterson
March 17–19, 1988 St. Louis, MO “Language, Self, and Society” Andrea A. Lunsford
March 19–21, 1987 Atlanta, GA "The Uses of Literacy: A Writer’s Work In and Out of the Academy” David Bartholomae
March 13–15, 1986 New Orleans, LA “Using the Power of Language to Make the Impossible Possible” Miriam T. Chaplin
March 21–23, 1985 Minneapolis, MN “Making Connections” Lee Odell
March 29–31, 1984 New York, NY “Making Writing the Cornerstone of an Education for Freedom” Maxine Hairston
March 17–19, 1983 Detroit, MI “The Writer’s World(s): Achieving Insight and Impact” Rosentene B. Purnell
March 18–20, 1982 San Francisco, CA “Serving Our Students, Our Public, and Our Profession” Donald C. Stewart
March 26–28, 1981 Dallas, TX “Our Profession: Achieving Perspectives for the 1980s” James Lee Hill
March 13–15, 1980 Washington, D.C. “Writing: The Person and the Process” Lynn Quitman Troyka
April 5–7, 1979 Minneapolis, MN “Writing: A Cross-Disciplinary Enterprise” Frank D’Angelo
March 30 – April 1, 1978 Denver, CO “Excellence in What We Do: Our Attitude Toward Teaching Composition” William F. Irmscher
March 31 – April 2, 1977 Kansas City, KS “Two Hundred Plus One: Communicating in the Third American Century” Vivian I. Davis
March 25–27, 1976 Philadelphia, PA “What’s Really Basic? A Bicentennial Review of the Basic Issues of English” Richard Lloyd-Jones
March 13–15, 1975 St. Louis, MO “Untapped Resources” Marianna W. Davis
April 4–6, 1974 Anaheim, CA “Hidden Agendas: What Are We Doing When We Do What We Do?” Lionel R. Sharp
April 5–7, 1973 New Orleans, LA “Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities” Richard L. Larson
March 23–25, 1972 Boston, MA “Reconsidering Roles: What Are We About?” James D. Barry
March 25–27, 1971 Cincinnati, OH “Coming Together—SOS from the Darkling Plain”
March 19–21, 1970 Seattle, WA
April 17–19, 1969 Miami, FL
April 4–6, 1968 Minneapolis, MN
April 6–8, 1967 Louisville, KY
March 24–26, 1966 Denver, CO
April 8–10, 1965 St. Louis, MO
March 25–28, 1964 New York, NY “Freshman English: Return to Composition”
March 21–24, 1963 Los Angeles, CA “The Content of the English Course”
April 5–7, 1962 Chicago, IL "What Is English?"
April 6–8, 1961 Washington, D.C.
March 31 – April 2, 1960 Cincinnati, OH
April 2–4, 1959 San Francisco, CA "Tenth Annual Meeting"[17]
March 27–29, 1958 Philadelphia, PA
March 21–23, 1957 Chicago, IL
March 22–24, 1956 New York, NY
March 24–26, 1955 Chicago, IL
March 4–6, 1954 St. Louis, MO
March 13–14, 1953 Chicago, IL
March 28–29, 1952 Cleveland, OH
March 30–31, 1951 Chicago, IL
March 24–25, 1950 Chicago, IL
1949

Future conventions

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2025 conference

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To be held April 9–12, 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland. The Conference theme shall be "Computer Love: Extended Play, B-sides, Remix, Collaboration, and Creativity," and the Program Chair is Kofi J. Adisa.[18]

Mission

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The CCCC aims to promote inclusivity and diverse perspectives within the field of writing studies.

The organization has the four following aims:

  1. sponsoring meetings and publishing scholarly materials for the exchange of knowledge about composition, composition pedagogy, and rhetoric
  2. supporting a wide range of research on composition, communication, and rhetoric by individuals of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds[1]
  3. working to enhance the conditions for learning and teaching college composition and to promote professional development
  4. acting as an advocate for the advancement of a holistic understanding of language and literacy education[19]

Position statements

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CCCC has published a number of position statements on writing, teaching of writing, and related issues.[20] Emerging from committees within CCCC, the position statements seek to promote the CCCC goals and encourage best practices in writing pedagogy, language practices, research, literacy, professional development, and working conditions.[21] Recent statements include:

  • CCCC Statement on Recent Violent Crimes against Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders (March 2021)[22]
  • CCCC Statement on Violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 (January 2021)[23]
  • CCCC Black Technical and Professional Communication Position Statement with Resource Guide (September 2020)[24]
  • This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice! (July 2020)[25]
  • Position Statement on CCCC Standards for Ethical Conduct Regarding Sexual Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Workplace Bullying (November 2016, revised March 2020)[26]

Committees

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The permanent CCCC executive committee oversees a number of temporarily constituted special interest committees. These committees are constituted for a 3-year period, after which the executive committee can reconstitute the committee for another term.

Initiatives

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The organization sponsors the CCCC Research Initiative, which provides funds to researchers working on datasets collected by the organization and its affiliates. Begun in 2004, the grant has provided means for various research projects, including the "Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy—What We Know, What We Need to Know" project that ran from 2004 to 2007. In addition to providing grant support to individual and collective projects and promoting inter-institutional collaboration, the project is designed to "create a sustained research initiative to advance scholarship in composition and rhetoric".[27]

CCCC, along with its parent organization, the National Council of Teachers of English, sponsors a number of initiatives on writing, including the National Day on Writing held annually on October 20,[28] as well as the CCCC Wikipedia Initiative, which focuses on expanding Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to writing research and pedagogy, verifying that article content is based on reliable secondary sources, and revising and editing writing studies to improve their overall quality.[29]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Newcomers-learn more!". Conference on College Composition and Communication. June 6, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  2. ^ "Secretary's Report". College Composition and Communication. 1 (3): 19–21. 1950. ISSN 0010-096X.
  3. ^ "Welcome to the CCCC website!". Conference on College Composition and Communication. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  4. ^ "College Composition and Communication". Conference on College Composition and Communication. June 6, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  5. ^ "College Composition and Communication Online". Conference on College Composition and Communication. June 6, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  6. ^ "CCC Online Archive". Conference on College Composition and Communication. May 27, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  7. ^ "Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) Series". Conference on College Composition and Communication. June 6, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  8. ^ "FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty". Conference on College Composition and Communication. June 6, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  9. ^ "CCC Online Database". www.ibiblio.org. Retrieved February 24, 2023.
  10. ^ Chen, Chen. Enacting a Networked Disciplinarity of Rhetoric and Composition Across Disciplinary Social Spaces. 2018. North Carolina State University, PhD Dissertation. https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/bitstream/handle/1840.20/35240/etd.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
  11. ^ Gorelick, Risa. (2017). “The Missing Piece: Where is the Labor-Related Research at the Research Network Forum?” In Randall McClure, Dayna V. Goldstein and Michael A. Pemberton (eds.) The State(ment) and Future of Work in Composition. Parlor Press. pp. 115-125.
  12. ^ "Home". 4Cs Qualitative Research Network. Retrieved February 28, 2022.
  13. ^ Duane Roen's collection Views From the Center: The CCCC Chair's Addresses 1977-2005, Bedford-St. Martin's 2006
  14. ^ "CCCC Grants and Awards". www.ncte.org.
  15. ^ "Dates, Sites, and Themes for Past CCCC Conventions". cccc.ncte.org. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  16. ^ Cultivating Capacity, Creating Change (Conference Program). CCCC Convention. 2017. p. 383.
  17. ^ "Vol. 10, No. 3, Oct., 1959 of College Composition and Communication on JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved November 1, 2024.
  18. ^ "CCCC Conventions and Meetings". Conference on College Composition and Communication. Archived from the original on November 8, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2022.
  19. ^ admin (June 6, 2018). "Newcomers-learn more!". Conference on College Composition and Communication. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
  20. ^ Conference on College Composition and Communication (June 6, 2018). "CCCC Position Statements". cccc.ncte.org. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  21. ^ "A Non-Revolutionary Way to Improve Teaching Quality | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  22. ^ Conference on College Composition and Communication (March 22, 2021). "CCCC Statement on Recent Violent Crimes against Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders". cccc.ncte.org. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  23. ^ Conference on College Composition and Communication (January 19, 2021). "CCCC Statement on Violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021". cccc.ncte.org. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  24. ^ Conference on College Composition and Communication (October 5, 2020). "CCCC Black Technical and Professional Communication Position Statement with Resource Guide". cccc.ncte.org. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  25. ^ Conference on College Composition and Communication (August 3, 2020). "This Ain't Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!". cccc.ncte.org. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  26. ^ Conference on College Composition and Communication (June 6, 2018). "Position Statement on CCCC Standards for Ethical Conduct Regarding Sexual Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Workplace Bullying". cccc.ncte.org. Retrieved March 24, 2021.
  27. ^ "CCCC Research Initiative". www.ncte.org.
  28. ^ "Home - National Day on Writing". National Day on Writing. Archived from the original on May 9, 2021. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
  29. ^ "CCCC Wikipedia Initiative". Conference on College Composition and Communication. Retrieved January 28, 2022.
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