2023 CCCC Conference

[Geoff Clegg]

Hi everybody,

I hope everyone has been having a good semester! It was nice to see everyone who was able to show up to the 2022 SIG meeting. 

It's time for us to start brainstorming and seeing if we'd like to put together a panel for 2023 CCCC's! Anyone have any thoughts or ideas they'd like to trot out? I've copied the Conference Call to this email to help frame possible ideas.

Call:

"I invite you to a 2023 CCCC Annual Conference dedicated to doing hope. Together, let’s evaluate anew the relationship of our field’s prevailing theories and practices to the perpetuation of systems, structures, institutional policies, procedures, and practices that—by design—oppress, exclude, exploit. Together, let’s see if we can both imagine and make manifest, as trans writer and performance artist Heath Salazar might say, a CCCCs organization “where people do right by one another . . . a [field] which has no chance of faltering because it will refuse to forget its past” (2018). Let’s admit that the tyranny of western argument over our field and the attachment of “personal,” like an epithet-filled ball and chain, to narrative are not serving well our students, ourselves, or the public and political discourses our teaching helps to shape.  Let’s bust some binaries . . . between self and other and us and them on one hand and between genre and method and argument and narrative on the other. The known has failed us. So, I am inviting you to do hope at the outside edges of our knowns." Frankie Condon, 2023 Program Chair

 

IMPORTANT DATES

• By April 30, 2022: Deadline to request a proposal coach.
• By 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 7, 2022: Proposal submission deadline.

[Gina Genova]

Hi Geoff and SIG group compatriots!

Finally circling back around after a faculty meeting today where this topic was recalled to mind. We discussed a recent incident involving a student's (mis)perception of instructor bias in correcting said student's grammar and syntax. It had me thinking hard about the recent movement the C's call speaks of; allowing students to write in their "authentic voice" even if that means breaking traditional writing conventions. I confess to knowing nothing about the scholarship behind this movement but my initial reaction to it was "...not gonna happen in my business or legal writing courses, no way." Perhaps I'm the very audience that Heath is seeking to persuade? 😉 

So, maybe this intersection or tension is something we could explore as a panel topic - something along the lines of whether this movement has a place/would work/be successful/be even accepted in business or other professional writing genres where practitioners believe conventions are necessary to/for multiple communication functions? 

I hope that made sense. I am totally riffing here with no agenda but instead, a genuine curiosity to learn more and see what others think about this in their own practices. 

And if there is any interest in this idea, I have to punt on writing up a submission by June 7 (...I know, I hear the boos...😁) only because my daughter will be having a particularly gnarly jaw surgery next week (bilateral upper and lower breaks with lots of screws and hooks and liquid diet until August...yipes) and I'll be her full-time nurse when I'm not in class finishing up the quarter that ends for us on June 12. Ugh.

If you think it's an awful idea, I promise my feelings won't be hurt so no need to be polite about it. 😊 

-g

Gina L. Genova, Esq. |she.her.hers

Continuing Lecturer

UCSB Writing Program

Campus Office: 1325 Girvetz

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