[CBW_Exec] Thanks and additional request for help (cut! To 5000 from 7075!)

Fri May 8 11:50:31 CDT 2009

Hi, all--

I just spoke with Hannah and want to thank her for taking care of just about
EVERYTHING on this important proposal before life intervened a couple days
ago. We spoke several times about plans, but for me it was April that forced
me out of pocket with multiple trips back and forth between Corpus and
Dallas (about a nine hour drive, 16 round trip, x3 last month!)

Hannah drafted the proposal, contacted all of you, got it into the system,
and everything else commendable and necessary with no help from me. SO
grateful for that, as I¹ve been struggling to catch up and against the pain
of a recent loss. And other midnight publication deadline, which you¹ll hear
about in a moment. 

So THANKS, Hannah! We¹ll take it from here.

Of course we are at the deadline, and it looks like I¹ll need your help to
complete the process.

FIRST and foremost: We have FAR too many characters in this draft. We get
5000 characters. 

We have 7075!

HELP!!!!!!

I am SO sorry, but I absolutely cannot cut that to size. Can one or more of
you get in and hack away? There is no possible way I can do this. Cutting is
my absolutely weakness and, on top of everything else associated with life
and the day job, CCC gave me less than seven days to cut 12 pages from an
article accepted (³as is²!) in 2006. Just about every minute of that time
span is already spent, and though I¹ve been looking for potential cuts in
every tiny spare moment I¹ve had since I learned of the need for such cuts
I¹m only just this minute finding places that might possibly go. (BTW: Her
hands are tied, as well. Darn reality of budget cuts and last minute
decisions at levels beyond the editor¹s control. Life happens, doesn¹t it?)

Help?

Also:
1. SIG: I¹ll add the SIG in the system under Hannah¹s credentials. Please
take a look and let me know if you see any problems with it.
2. Workshop: (a) need names for ³Discussion Leaders² in a couple of
instances. If you are listed as a facilitator but your name does not appear
in the prose of the workshop prose itself, please add your name as
³Discussion Leader² somewhere in the proposal. If we have anyone listed in
one place but not the other, reviewers will count it against us. (b) need
names for the National Database presentation (Deborah and Rebecca: would you
check on that portion of the abstract?), ( C ) CUT!!!!!!

We can include the longer proposal at our website  (and maybe the blog?).
Website concern still being addressed. Soon. Very soon.

On the rest: I REALLY need your help!

If you can help, please email all of us here so we know who is doing what
and don¹t get ourselves too tangled up, then get into the system to make
those cuts directly.

http://www1.ncte.org/cccc/proposals/

username: hashley
password: cbw2010

I tried to revise the last section and added another several words to the
end, which is when the system jumped in and said no way.

If we can find space for any of this, it might be useful. But probably not.
As I said, I¹m an adder not a cutter. Sigh. We had a hell of a time getting
the proposal down to size last year. Whew.

See what you think. ..
---------
Hannah Ashley and Shannon Carter, Large group:  Revisiting: What does basic
writing stand for? How do we get that into the world? How might
multimodality help basic writing practitioners, students, and the discipline
itself get the word out regarding who we are and what we stand for?

In addition the workshops ongoing goals to promote best practices in basic
writing, CBW 2010 has two key objectives:
(1) The day's presentations and activities should yield a strong
infrastructure, contacts, and ideas for acting locally and nationally on
behalf of basic writing and students called "basic writers" and
(2)  lead to a revised Social Justice Policy Statement, which CBW membership
will present to CCCC in hopes of ratification.

On 5/8/09 9:36 AM, "Ashley, Hannah" <HAshley at wcupa.edu> wrote:

> Kathleen--Please do feel free to add yourself as a facilitator in one of the
> interactive pieces/small group pieces and post your info.  There is room.
>  
> Thanks everyone for doing the update.
>  
> SHANNON--Did you do SIG stuff?  Is it under my sign-in or what?  I can check
> but things remain a mess here.  I am starting to dread Mays.
>  
> Hannah Ashley, Ph. D.
> Associate Professor, Composition and Rhetoric Program, Department of English
> Director, Writing Zones 12.5 (www.wcupa.edu/writingzones
> <http://www.wcupa.edu/writingzones> )
> 551 Main Hall, West Chester University
> 610-738-0499, hashley at wcupa.edu
> "If you're not terrified when you are writing, you're writing about the wrong
> things."  --Dorothy Alison--
> 
> 
> From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu on behalf of Kathleen Baca
> Sent: Thu 5/7/2009 6:24 PM
> To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
> Cc: Ashley, Hannah
> Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] FW: 2010 CCCC Proposal Submission - Profile Username
> and Password
> 
> Shannon and Hannah, thanks for the updates, and especially for putting
> together what will be a great precon.
> 
> I would like to be listed as a facilitator, if possible, but I didn't add
> myself since you said there was limited space and because I was listed
> last year. So, if there is room, I can add myself or you can add me with
> the info below (or the info from last year), and if there is not room, I
> won't be on the program.  Thanks.
> 
> Happy grading and life to all.  kb
> 
>> > Apologies if you are seeing this for a second time in just a handful of
>> > minutes.
>> >
>> > I got a strange message from the listserver and am not sure that Hannah¹s
>> > important message actually got through.
>> >
>> > Just in case--
>> > --
>> > Shannon Carter, PhD
>> > Associate Professor of English
>> > Department of Literature and Languages
>> > Texas A&M University-Commerce
>> > Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
>> > Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu
>> > http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/
>> > http://www.shannoncarter.net <http://www.shannoncarter.net/>
>> >
>> > ------ Forwarded Message
>> > From: "Ashley, Hannah" <HAshley at wcupa.edu>
>> > Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 12:42:47 -0400
>> > To: <cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu>,
>> > <Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu>
>> > Cc: <Steve.Lamos at Colorado.EDU>, <kinloch.2 at osu.edu>
>> > Subject: FW: 2010 CCCC Proposal Submission - Profile Username and Password
>> >
>> > VERY IMPORTANT!!!  Please excuse the rush and informality--things in my
>> > home
>> > life have been a disaster; no need to go into detail.
>> >
>> >
>> > I have pulled together, as best I could given what folks sent me and space
>> > constraints, our CBW proposal.  I am out of time today, and I need your
>> > help!  It is due midnight, Friday, in final form.  See below for getting
>> > in
>> > to the system.
>> >
>> > I need everyone to either add yourself as a speaker (Deborah, Rebecca,
>> > Bill,
>> > Sugie, Susan) or a facilitator (Greg, Marcia) or to check and add to your
>> > contact info, if I started your profile (Shannon, Valerie, Steve, Peter?)
>> >
>> > Please do this TODAY.  If you are not listed on the program, you are not
>> > listed on the program, and I don't have everyone's stuff!
>> >
>> > Hannah
>> >
>> > Shannon--I didn't deal with the SIG.  Will call you about that.  We need
>> > to
>> > submit for that right, ASAP?
>> >
>> > Hannah Ashley, Ph. D.
>> > Associate Professor, Composition and Rhetoric Program, Department of
>> > English
>> > Director, Writing Zones 12.5 (www.wcupa.edu/writingzones
>> > <http://www.wcupa.edu/writingzones> )
>> > 551 Main Hall, West Chester University
>> > 610-738-0499, hashley at wcupa.edu
>> > "If you're not terrified when you are writing, you're writing about the
>> > wrong things."  --Dorothy Alison--
>> >
>> >
>> > From: cccc at ncte.org [mailto:cccc at ncte.org]
>> > Sent: Thu 5/7/2009 11:23 AM
>> > To: Ashley, Hannah
>> > Subject: 2010 CCCC Proposal Submission - Profile Username and Password
>> >
>> > Thank you for joining the online submission process for the 2010 CCCC
>> > Convention in Louisville. Your username and password are listed below.
>> > Please keep this information for your records. You will need this
>> > information if you wish to return to your proposal to make any changes or
>> > revisions before the final deadline on May 8, 2009.
>> >
>> > Your user name is: hashley
>> > Your password is: cbw2010
>> >
>> > You can login at the link below with your username and password to create,
>> > view, edit, or delete your proposal submissions. You can also modify your
>> > username and password.
>> >
>> > http://www1.ncte.org/cccc/proposals
>> >
>> > If you have questions about your CCCC proposal submission, please contact
>> > us
>> > by using our online form at http://www.ncte.org/contact. After you have
>> > filled in the requested information, please choose Convention for the
>> > appropriate department to receive your inquiry.
>> >
>> > For additional information about CCCC (i.e., featured information, ideas
>> > and
>> > strategies, meetings and professional opportunities, and leadership
>> > opportunities) please visit the CCCC Web page at http://www.ncte.org/cccc.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > The CCCC Convention Planning Team
>> >
>> >
>> > ------ End of Forwarded Message
>> >
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>> >
> 
> 
> Kathleen A. Baca
> English and Communication Department
> Doña Ana Community College
> MSC 3DA
> PO Box 30001
> Las Cruces, NM 88003
> 575-527-7626
> kbaca at nmsu.edu
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-- 
Shannon Carter, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu
http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/
http://www.shannoncarter.net

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