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CCCC News

Call for Submissions: The CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication calls for submissions for its 2010 doctoral dissertation award in technical communication. Dissertations will be evaluated by the following five criteria: originality of research, contribution the research makes to the field, methodological soundness of the approach used, awareness of the existing research in the area studied, and overall quality of the writing. Dissertations completed during the previous two years are eligible for the award. The 2010 Award is open to dissertations completed during 2009 or 2008. A dissertation may be nominated only once during its two-year period of eligibility. Applicants must submit the following materials: (1) letter of nomination from a disserta-tion committee member, preferably the chair, emphasizing the significance of the research for technical communication studies; (2) an extended abstract (approximately 250 words); and (3) an unbound copy of the dissertation. Send materials by October 15, 2009, to CCCC Outstanding Dissertation Award in Technical Communication Selection Committee, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Rd., Urbana, IL 61801-1096 or cccc@ncte.org.

The CCCC Tribal College Faculty Fellowship offers financial aid to selected faculty members currently working at tribally controlled colleges to attend the annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication

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(CCCC) March 17–20, 2010, in Louisville. We are offering two Tribal College Faculty Fellowships in the amount of $750 each.

Featuring over 500 sessions focusing on teaching practices, writing and literacy programs, language research, history, theory, information technologies, and professional and technical communication, the annual CCCC meeting provides a forum for thinking, learning, networking, and presenting research on the teaching and learning of writing.

With this fellowship, CCCC hopes to create new opportunities for Tribal College Faculty members to become involved in CCCC and for CCCC to carry out its mission of serving as a truly representative national advocate for lan-guage and literacy education.

How to Apply: By November 16, 2009, please submit an application letter (on institutional letterhead) describing:

• Whoyouareasateacherandwhatyouteachatyourtribalcollege • Whatyourresearchinterestsare • WhatyouhopetogainfromtheexperienceofattendingCCCC(how

it could help you in your teaching or research)

Send your application letter to: CCCC Administrative Liaison, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096; or cccc@ncte.org.

Selection Criteria: A selection committee will review applications for the Tribal College Faculty Fellowship and award the fellowships based on overall quality of the application letter. You do not need to be a presenter at CCCC in order to qualify for this award.

Call for Nominations: The CCCC Executive Committee announces a call for nominations for its Exemplar Award. This award will be presented, as occasion demands, to a person whose years of service as an exemplar for our organization represents the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching, and service to the entire profession. The Exemplar Award seeks to recognize individuals whose record is national and international in scope, and who set the best examples for the CCCC membership. Nominations should include a letter of nomination; four letters of support; and a full curriculum vita. The nominating material should be sent to the CCCC Exemplar Award Committee, NCTE, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096; or cccc@ncte.org. Nominations must be received by November 1, 2009.

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CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric: The aim of the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) series, edited by Joseph Harris, Duke University, is to influence how writing gets taught at the college level. The methods of studies vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work in various fields that inform composition—including rhetoric, com-munication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse—ranging from individual writers and teachers, to classrooms and communities and curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching. Still, all SWR volumes try in some way to inform the practice of writing students, teachers, or administrators. Their approach is synthetic, their style concise and pointed. Complete manuscripts run from 25,000 to 40,000 words, or about 125–200 pages. Authors should imagine their work in the hands of writing teachers as well as on library shelves.

SWR was one of the first scholarly book series to focus on the teaching of writing. It was established in 1980 by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) to promote research in the emerging field of writ-ing studies. Since its inception, the series has been copublished by Southern Illinois University Press. As the field has grown, the research sponsored by SWR has continued to articulate the commitment of CCCC to supporting the work of writing teachers as reflective practitioners and intellectuals.

We are eager to identify influential work in writing and rhetoric as it emerges. We thus ask authors to send us project proposals that clearly situate their work in the field and show how they aim to redirect our ongoing conver-sations about writing and its teaching. Proposals should include an overview of the project, a brief annotated table of contents, and a sample chapter. They should not exceed 10,000 words. To submit a proposal or to contact the series editor, please go to http://uwp.duke.edu/cccc/swr/.

Call for Submissions: The editor of Forum, an NCTE/CCCC publication that highlights issues related to contingent labor, welcomes articles related to non-tenure-track faculty in college English or composition. We are particularly interested in essays that complicate and extend our understanding of how contingency affects disciplinarity, pedagogy, the material lives of instructors, institutions, and the quality of instruction. Forum is published twice annually, in September CCC and March TETYC. For further information, go to http://

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www.ncte.org/cccc/forum; to submit, please contact Brad Hammer at 919-621-1000 or bhammer@unc.edu.

The 2008 Donald Murray Prize Winner: The Special Interest Group on Creative Nonfiction (a subsidiary group of the National Council of Teachers of English’s Conference on College Composition and Communication) is happy to announce the winner of the 2008 Donald Murray Prize (which included $500 provided by Wadsworth Cengage Learning) for best published essay on writing and/or teaching in 2008: Jennifer Sinor (of Logan, Utah) for her essay “Confluences,” published in The American Scholar. The judges were Melissa Goldthwaite and Jenny Spinner.

The Donald Murray Prize 2009: The Special Interest Group on Creative Nonfic-tion (a subsidiary group of the Conference on College Composition and Com-munication) solicits nominations for the Donald Murray Prize. This prize will go to the author of the best essay/work of creative nonfiction on the subjects of teaching and/or writing published in the year.

Authors, editors, and readers are asked to nominate essays/creative nonfiction on writing and/or teaching that were published between January 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. Send two copies of each work to The Donald Murray Prize, University Writing Program, One Shields Avenue, UC Davis, Davis CA 95616. Also provide publication information, including the date of publication. The Donald Murray Prize is generously sponsored by Wadsworth Cengage Learning, who will provide an honorarium of $500.00 to the winner. The judge this year will be Michael Steinberg.

The deadline for submissions to be received is January 15, 2010. For addi-tional information, contact John Boe (jdboe@ucdavis.edu or 530-752-4170). The winner will be announced in March 2010, at the CCCC convention in Louisville.

CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric: The aim of the CCCC Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) series, edited by Joseph Harris, Duke University, is to influence how writing gets taught at the college level. The methods of studies vary from the critical to historical to linguistic to ethnographic, and their authors draw on work in various fields that inform composition—including rhetoric, com-munication, education, discourse analysis, psychology, cultural studies, and literature. Their focuses are similarly diverse—ranging from individual writers

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and teachers, to classrooms and communities and curricula, to analyses of the social, political, and material contexts of writing and its teaching. Still, all SWR volumes try in some way to inform the practice of writing students, teachers, or administrators. Their approach is synthetic, their style concise and pointed. Complete manuscripts run from 25,000 to 40,000 words, or about 125–200 pages. Authors should imagine their work in the hands of writing teachers as well as on library shelves.

SWR was one of the first scholarly book series to focus on the teaching of writing. It was established in 1980 by the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) to promote research in the emerging field of writ-ing studies. Since its inception, the series has been copublished by Southern Illinois University Press. As the field has grown, the research sponsored by SWR has continued to articulate the commitment of CCCC to supporting the work of writing teachers as reflective practitioners and intellectuals.

We are eager to identify influential work in writing and rhetoric as it emerges. We thus ask authors to send us project proposals that clearly situate their work in the field and show how they aim to redirect our ongoing conver-sations about writing and its teaching. Proposals should include an overview of the project, a brief annotated table of contents, and a sample chapter. They should not exceed 10,000 words. To submit a proposal or to contact the series editor, please go to http://uwp.duke.edu/cccc/swr/.

Call for Proposals: 23rd Annual Research Network Forum at CCCC: The Research Network Forum was founded in 1987 as a pre-convention workshop at CCCC. The RNF is an opportunity for published researchers, new researchers, and graduate students to discuss their current research projects and receive re-sponses from new and senior researchers. The forum is free to CCCC convention participants. You need not be a work-in-progress presenter to attend. This year, the RNF will be Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at the Kentucky International Convention Center and Marriott, Louisville, Kentucky.

As it did last year, the 2010 RNF will feature one plenary session in the morning featuring Muriel Harris, Professor Emerita of English, former Writing Center Director, Purdue University, Writing Lab Newsletter Editor, on “Rethink-ing What Writing Centers Say and Do,” and Michelle Hall Kells, Associate Professor, Interim Director of Rhetoric & Writing, University of New Mexico, on “That’s So WAC: ‘Speaking Life as a Second Language.’”

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At the subsequent roundtable discussions, work-in-progress presenters discuss their current projects (in an eight-minute presentation) and get re-sponses from other researchers, including the discussion leaders.

Work-in-progress presenters are grouped by thematic clusters with other researchers and a discussion leader who is a senior researcher. Participants also include editors of printed and electronic journals of composition/rhetoric who will discuss publishing opportunities for completed works. Work-in-progress presenters should bring three typed questions, which they should copy and distribute to participants at their table (15 copies for the two sessions will do).

We encourage participants to bring a copy of the journals they edit/publish, any other publications, and announcements, which will be displayed at the RNF meeting and highlighted at the Editors’ Roundtable.

Please join us to present a work-in-progress presentation or serve as a discussion leader (for those who are seasoned, established researchers) and/or editor (for those who edit journals/presses). Electronic proposal forms will be available at www.rnfonline.com/blog.

Deadline: October 31, 2009. You may appear on the RNF Program in addition to having a speaking role at the annual convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Questions? Contact chairs@rnfonline.com.

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