Title: Writing for College Composition and Communication
1Writing for College Composition and Communication
- The fields flagship journal
2CCC is
- The journal for CCCC (http//www.ncte.org/cccc/)
- Which is a division of NCTE (http//www.ncte.org/)
3Mission
- To present the best work in composition,
addressing a significant scholarly issue related
to the teaching of college level writing.
4Scope
- CCC publishes critical work on the study and
teaching of reading and writing at the college
level.
5Submission Guidelines
- Article submissions should be
- 4,000 7,000 words long
- MLA style
- In triplicate
- Without identifying information
- (Blind Submissions ok)
6Submission Guidelines
- Articles are
- Peer Reviewed
- Not often accepted
- 20/220 last year (a bit less than 9.091)
7Between the Covers
- Scholarly Articles (4-5 per issue)
- Interchanges, Symposia, In Brief
- Book Reviews (solicited only)
- Calls for Papers
- Letter from the Editor (submission clues)
- Advertisements (tasteful, relevant, grayscale)
8Article Topics (broadly construed)
- Composition
- Linguistics
- Rhetoric
- Pedagogy (Theory Application)
9Some article foci
- Teaching practices
- Locating teaching practices in their historical
and institutional contexts - Connecting current work in composition studies to
work going on elsewhere in English and related
fields.
10For example
- English Studies (including literary studies)
- Cultural Studies
- Critical Theory
- Literacy Studies
- Race Studies
- Philosophy
- Assessment
- Writing Program Administration
- Technologies
- Gender and Race Studies
11Scholarly article conventions
12Nearly every article has
- An abstract
- of sorts
- Explanatory endnotes
- 0-16
- Citations
- 6-101
- Primarily secondary sources
- 21 (low)
- 151 (high)
13And
- Section Headers
- Average of 4-8 section headers and a similar
number of pullouts - Nearly all articles end with a short author
biography - Articles do not have key word categorization
14Some articles also have
- Epigraphs
- Acknowledgements
- Bullets and/or numbered lists
- Photographs and/or illustrations
- Graphs and/or Charts
- Web page images
15Most articles cite
- CCC (by far and away)
- College English
- TESOL Quarterly
- Rhetoric Review, Kairos, JBTC, Research in the
Teaching of English, Computers and Composition - And a host of others
16A Few Articles Analyzed
17Detailed analysis of an article I
- Rhetorical Borderlands Chinese American
Rhetoric in the Making, by LuMing Mao. (Volume
56, Number 3, February 2005.)
18Introduction
- Clearly structured and effective
- The author wrote about the general topic of
growing pattern of how emergent discourses are
trying to define themselves. Then he
effortlessly introduced the theme of the article
the making of the Chinese American rhetoric. - By using Chinese fortune cookies as an analogy in
the beginning of the article, the author shows a
keen sense of his audience. - Therefore it is a successful introduction
19Organization
- Carefully-written transition sentences and
transition paragraphs throughout the article. - The analogy of Chinese fortune cookies
stitches the whole article together from
introduction to the conclusion. - The section headlines in bold letters are very
helpful. Also, the opening paragraph of each
part of the article does a great job of making
meaningful transitions.
20More thoughts
- To conform to CCC guidelines which mainly focus
on teaching college writing, the author should
have more deeply explored the relevance of this
topic to modern college writing, in my opinion.
This indicates that CCC is willing to broaden its
guidelines to fit in an interesting article.
21Still more
- The article has 25 notes and 62 citations.
- It is also long, compared with other CCC
articles 53 pages
22Thoughts about submissions I
- Broad and interdisciplinary
- I will look for contributions that represent a
variety of subfields and interdisciplinary
approaches, grounded in the scholarly contexts of
composition studies.I hope also to broaden
perspectives, taking us each out of our own
sometimes narrowly prescribed areas of interest. - (Editor Deborah Holdstein, From the editor CCC
in 2005 Feb. 2005)
23Thoughts about submission II
- Being innovative, even bold or strange
- Ours is a tradition of innovation. (From the
Editor CCC in 2005) "Not Too Late to Take the
Sanitation Test" Notes of a Non-Gifted Academic
from the Working ClassAuthor Borkowski, David
Sep.2004, P94 - Out of the Dead House Nineteenth-Century Women
Physicians and the Writing of MedicineAuthor
Braun, Lundy Sep. 2002, P143 - Gypsy Academics and Mother-Teachers Gender,
Contingent Labor, and Writing Instruction - Author Brown, Amanda Feb. 200 P500
24Thoughts about submission III
- For those who are technologically savvy
- The 2005 CCCC Chairs address is talking about
on-line writing and internet blogs with a
multi-media on-line version! - A video of students performing their work is
available at the CCC online web site to accompany
an article titled Performing writing, performing
literacy published in CCC 572 /Dec.2005 - So it is quite attractive if you add state-of-the
art technology
25Thoughts about submission IV
- For non-native authors
- CCCC statement on second language writing and
writers (June 2001, p669) acknowledging the
emergence of non-native writers in the field. - Three examples of those peoples work
- Ideology, Textbooks, and the Rhetoric of
Production in China by Xiaoye You, Volume 56,
Number 4, June 2005 - Rhetorical Borderlands Chinese American
Rhetoric in the Making by LuMing Mao, Volume 56,
Number 3, February 2005 - An Essay on the Work of Composition Composing
English against the Order of Fast Capitalism by
Lu Min-zhan
26More for non-native writers
- CCCC Honor won by a minority writer
- The CCCC 2005 James Berlin Memorial Outstanding
Dissertation Award was presented to Haivan Viet
Hoang, To Come Together and Create a Movement
Solidarity Rhetoric in the Vietnamese American
Coalition (VAC).
27Thoughts for submission V
- Planning ahead for special issues
- In CCC Announcements and Calls, you may find
calls for proposals for special issues (can be
one year ahead of the publishing time). - The Fall 2007 special issue will focus on Across
the Disciplines. The deadline for proposals just
passed this September. So please look out for
next call for special issues.
28Thoughts about submissions VI
- Symposiums and Interchanges
- CCC will offer readers the opportunity to read
and respond to contributions by established,
prominent thinkers in our field who take on
issues of importance and controversy. Toward
this end, I will often feature a regular
symposium (or interchange) of responses to
particular articles. - From the Editor CCC in 2005 CCC563 /Feb.
2005.
29Samples of Interchanges
- Interchanges CCC 571 Sep. 2005
- On asking Impertinent Questions --Richard E.
Miller - An Impertinent Answer --Irvin Peckham
- An essay on an essay about essays Response to
Richard Millers on asking impertinent
questions Shirley K. Rose - Richard Millers response to Shirley Rose and Irv
Peckham
30Articles read in depth
- Rui
- Rhetorical Borderlands Chinese American
Rhetoric in the Making, by LuMing Mao. CCC 563) - Beth
- Pedagogies of the Students Right Era The
Language Curriculum Research Groups Project for
Linguistic Diversity, by Scott Wible. (CCC
573, 442-478). - Joel
- 2005 CCCC Chair's Address Who Owns Writing,
by Hesse, Douglas D. (CCC 572, 335-357).
31And now
for something completely different
32TITLE MATCH
- The
- CURMUDGEON
- vs.
- The
- HAMMER
33Standard Academic Format
34Or not
35The match-up?
- (do articles published match the journals
statement about what it publishes) - The editorial staff of CCC invites submission of
research and scholarship in composition studies
that supports college teachers in reflecting on
and improving the practices in teaching writing.
36Subject matter and methodologies
- Hammer
- Broad range of subjects
- Related, in one way or another, to composition or
rhetoric, or both - Narrower range of methodologies
- Textual analysis (broadly construed)
- Theoretical and Historical Approaches
- Qualitative Research
- Ethnography, interview, case study, some survey
37Exception
- Curmudgeon declines to engage in the discussion
- at this point!
- O.k. point conceded.
38The Standard of Standards
- Hammer
- Journals flagship status is reflected in its
content and structure. - Introductions and conclusions Standard academic
articles with introductions that define and
refine the question, followed by literature
review or historical overviews, then clearly
defined position. Conclusions are usually strong
but not sweeping.
39Whats Standard?
- Curmudgeon
- Introductions and conclusions Some willingness
to push the boundaries - Starts with narrative seemingly not directly
related to topic (the right to sing Spirituals),
goes on to humor (writing by computer evaluated
by computer - check it out quite funny). - Stirring conclusion rewrite of a spiritual
40Organizational Moves
- Hammer
- Usually clear, sometimes explicit.
- Forecasts
- Transitions
41(Dis) Organizational Moves
- Curmudgeon
- Moves at a leisurely pace. Unlike most other CCC
articles no explicit transitions. Glyphs indicate
a break as topic shifts.
42Argumentative Moves
- Hammer
- Usually clear, sometimes explicit
- Forecasts
- Transitions
43(Not So) Argumentative Moves (Why argue? Have a
nice glass of tea instead.)
- Curmudgeon
- Easy and interesting to read, BUT not quite so
easy to pick out the argument and the
argumentative moves.
44Use of Resources
- Hammer
- Lit Review
- Completely
- Quotations v Paraphrases
- Paraphrases
- Primary v secondary sources
- Secondary (all the way)
45Use of Resources
- Curmudgeon
- Lit Review
- Not really
- Quotations vs. Paraphrases
- Some of one some of the other
- Primary vs. secondary sources
- Some of one some of the other
46Design
- Hammer
- The journals status and authority is reflected
in its design - Traditional layout, materials, structures, and
fonts - No mistakes
47Design
- Curmudgeon
- The print article preserves the flavor of a
website and the richness of web textual media
that can only partly reproduced in print
(hypertext, the look of a webpage including
arrangement of text and image on the page). - It is accessible on the website.
48In Conclusion
- U2 CAN BE A CCC
- EASY WRITER SIMPLY BY FOLLOWING THESE HELPFUL
TIPS
49Hot Tips from Holdstein
- Deborah Holdstein, editor, CCC
- http//www.niu.edu/PubAffairs/RELEASES/2005/march/
engchair.shtml
50Know Your Area
- And do your homework
- Good scholarship depends upon strong research.
51Use MLA and Use it Well
- CCC carefully checks facts and sources. Mistakes
will delay publication. -
- (Or worse)
52Think, Think, Think
- You are probably not the first person whos ever
had this idea.
53A Seminar Paper
- Does Not an Article Make
- Your paper might provide the basis for an
article, but it will not become one without
substantial research and revision. -
54Keep on Reading
- Stay current. Its important to know what others
are doing and understand how your work connects
to theirs.
55GOOD LUCK!! WRITERS!
56Presented to you by
- Beth the Hammer Campbell
- Joel the Curmudgeon Diamond
- Rui the Peacemaker Ma