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 16 events, panels, and workshops at the 2016 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Houston, Texas from April 6-9. The scholars, researchers, and teachers will discuss the latest findings on topics such as technological genres in composition pedagogy; coding for data analysis; and dialog on success in postsecondary writing.
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 complete list of events with UC Santa Barbara participants includes:
Wednesday, April 6
2:00pm – 4:30pm
Karen Lunsford
Intellectual Property in Composition Studies Business Meeting
Hilton, Ballroom of the Americas Salon C, Level Two
Thursday, April 7
12:15pm – 1:30pm
Linda Adler-Kassner
Remembering Kent: Taking Action on Literacy Policies
Hilton, Ballroom of the Americas Salon A, Level Two
1:45 - 3:00 pm
Kara Mae Brown
Action MFAs: Strategies for Incorporating Creative Writing Pedagogies in the Composition Classroom
Hilton, Meeting Room 329, Level Three
Karen Lunsford
Research in Writing Studies: Issues of Subjectivity, Neurology, Intellectual Property, and Disciplinarity
Hilton, Ballroom of the Americas Salon E, Level Two
4:45 - 6:00pm
Christopher Dean
Action over Reaction: Strengthening Veteran Identity through Strategic Narratives
Hilton, Room 330, Level Three
Linda Adler-Kassner, Charles Bazerman
Remembering Kent: CCCC Chairs' Tribute
Hilton, Ballroom of the Americas Salon C, Level Two
Kathryn Baillargeon
Writing: Dissertation, Thesis, and FYC
Hilton, 339B, Level Three
Friday, April 8
9:00am – 12:30pm
Karen Lunsford
Basics of Coding: Analyzing Data and Reporting Findings
Hilton, Room 330, Level Three
9:30am – 10:45am
Charles Bazerman
The Purposes of Required Writing?
Hilton, Ballroom of the Americas Salon A, Level Two
Elizabeth Narvaez-Cardona, Charlyne Sarmiento
Using Research as a Writing Strategy to Promote Literacy Acquisition and Advocacy of Writing Instruction across Geographic and Disciplinary Contexts
Hilton, Room 338, Level Three
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Karen Lunsford
Applying for a CCCC Research Grant: A Mentoring Session
Hilton, Room 344A, Level Three
Tyler Branson
Partnering with the Status Quo: Theories, Histories, and Cases of Problematic Partnerships for Action-Oriented Practitioners
Hilton, Room 335A, Level Three
2:00pm – 3:15pm
Jennifer Johnson, Randi Browning, Josh Mehler, Ilene Miele, Nicole Warwick
Research as Action: Studying Metacognition in the Writing Classroom
GRB, Room 351A, Level Three
3:30pm – 4:45pm
Ti Wu
Strategies for Campus-Wide Change
Hilton, Room 337B, Level Three
Saturday, April 9
9:30am – 10:45am
Ljiljana Coklin, Patrick McHugh
Curricular Crossroads: Teaching Professional Writing for Civic Purposes
Hilton, Room 332, Level Three
12:30pm – 1:45pm
Linda Adler-Kassner
Taking Action Plenary: Next Steps
Hilton, Ballroom of the Americas Salon B, Level Two