Faculty and graduate students from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, along with their colleagues at the Writing Program, will take part in 21 events, panels, and workshops at the 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Portland, Oregon from March 15-18. The scholars, researchers, and teachers will discuss the latest findings on topics such as writing assessment, writing and civic engagement, and the creative capacities of writing studies.
Since 1949, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) has been the world’s largest professional organization for researching and teaching composition, from writing to new media. The CCCC supports and promotes the teaching and study of college composition and communication by 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; 3) working to enhance the conditions for learning and teaching college composition and to promote professional development; and 4) acting as an advocate for language and literacy education nationally and internationally.
A list of events with UC Santa Barbara participants includes:
Wednesday, March 15
9 am – 12 pm
Nicole Warwick
Assessing Multimodal Writing: Cultivating Course Contract Pedagogies for Emerging Composition Medias
Thursday, March 16
8:30am – 10am
Michelle Grue
Scholars for the Dream—2017 Recipients
10:30am – 11:45am
Karen Lunsford
Precarious Positions: Research Praxis and Knowledge Making across Contexts
Norman Douglas “Doug” Bradley, chair
Civic Discourse and Activist Rhetorics from the Perspective of Underrepresented Groups
Madeleine Sorapure
“Designed to Explore”
The Rhetorical Potential of Visual Confusion
Patricia Francher
“Building Alliances in Webspaces”
Designing while Feminist: Composing an Inclusive Practice of Digital Design
Bob Samuels
“Contingent Labor, Writing Studies, and Writing about Writing”
What Is Writing Studies Made of?
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Susan McLeod, Chair
Charles Bazerman, Respondent
Cultivating Capacity in Open-Access Publishing: The Next 20 Years of the WAC Clearinghouse
3:15pm – 4:30pm
Kevin Moore, Chair
“Creativity and Ethics in the Engineering Writing Classroom”
The Creative Capacities of Writing Studies
Kenny Smith
“How to Write with Statistics: Cultivating a Better Understanding of Science in the FYC Classroom”
Implications of WAC: Sites of Writing Education for and in Scientific Majors and Programs
4:45pm – 6pm
Christopher Dean, “Blogging to Cultivate Expert-Novices”
Kathleen Patterson, “Blogging to Cultivate Expert-Novices”
Researching Multimodal Writing Assignments
Jennifer K. Johnson, Chair
Rhetoric and Disability: Neurodiversity, Communication Practices, and Self-Advocacy
Friday, March 17
8am – 9:15am
Linda Adler-Kassner, co-facilitator
Taking Action: Everyday Advocacy
9:30am – 10:45am
Charles Donelan
“Peer Review as Digital Writing: Expanding the Discursive Range of Online Comments”
James Donelan, “The Intrusive Instructor and the Nosy Neighbor: Online Peer Review, Process, and Student Resistance”
Finding Leverage Points to Cultivate More Engagement in Online Feedback and Revision
11am – 12:15pm
Ti Wu, “International Students’ Perceptions about Their Writing Experience in an American University”
Language, Learning, and Literacy in the Classroom and the Community
Erika I-Tremblay
“Development of Writing Centers in Japan”
Writing Centers across the Globe
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Charlyne Sarmiento
“Tracing Writing Development in the Lab: Understanding the Role of Writing in Undergraduate Students’ Enculturation into the Sciences”
Tracking and Tracing Effective Pedagogies in Technical Communication
Michelle Grue
“Cultivating Empowerment by Changing the Narrative of Black Women in Academia”
Doing What It Takes: Toward Meaningful Cultivation of Learning Spaces
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Sarah Hirsch
“Decoding the ‘X’: The Intersection of Visual Rhetoric and Materiality in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
Visual Spaces, Physical Places, and Social Action
Saturday, March 18
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Kara Mae Brown, Chair
Jennifer K. Johnson
Nicole Warwick
Researching Meaningful Feedback in Assessment Ecologies
Kathryn Baillargeon
“‘So, I’m Not the Only One?’: Writing, Reflection, and Peer Socialization in Dissertation Boot Camps”
The Stakes Are High: Cultivating Identity via Graduate Student Writing