[CBW_Exec] CBW_Exec Digest, Vol 23, Issue 1

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On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:00:06 PM, cbw_exec-request at tamu-commerce.edu wrote:

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Subject:    CBW_Exec Digest, Vol 23, Issue 1
Date:   February 10, 2010 12:00:06 PM CST
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Today's Topics:

1. BWe update and request (Shannon Carter)


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Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:03:22 -0600
From: Shannon Carter <Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu>
Subject: [CBW_Exec] BWe update and request
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
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Hi, all--

Thanks for your hard work in reviewing and reviewing again the various
submission to BWe. We had more submissions than I?ve seen in my handful of
years with BWe, and they covered an exciting range.

JP, Susan, and I will provide a Table of Contents within the week. Stay
tuned. 

The excellent news: BWe 2009 is on track for publication before CCCC.

Status as of 2/8/10: Six rich and interesting articles and book reviews have
gone through two full rounds of review/revision/review and have been
accepted for publication. Two additional articles are currently being
revised in response to reader feedback and will likely appear in the next
issue of BWe as well.

Here?s a very rough outline:
1. Editor?s introduction (Susan and I are working on that)
2. Articles (nice range of topics, approaches, genres, and modalities)
3. Social Justice Policy (two articles responding to Susan?s 2009 article
proposing CBW adopt a Social Justice Policy)
4. Book Reviews (two, I think)
5. Awards (article from CBW Award winner Dawn Terrick; we?d love to make
this a regular part of each BWe issue [see below])
6. Linkages (Peter Adams)


Request: We?d like to include introductions to each of our ongoing features,
especially since each of these features are brand new to BWe. As you may
recall--at our last meeting, we reorganized BWe to include Associate Editors
of several new sections. For the most part, the articles accepted shake out
along the lines drawn last March.

http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/cbw/cbw/BWE_-Co_Editors_and_Associate_Director
s.html

To that end: Can the associate editors provide introductions for each of the
sections proposed? By 2/24/10? It needn?t be more than 250 words. Shorter or
longer works too. Up to you.

Book Reviews: Sonya and Kathleen
Linkages: Peter Adams
Awards: Gregg and his team [?]
[We?d like to propose a new section in which award winners describe their
programs in award-winning terms. Perhaps this will help yield more winning
years? Certainly help honor previous award-winners. Gregg: I?ll be
contacting you about this in the next day, especially in terms of a current
article]

Goals for each introduction? Up to you, of course. Maybe to get potential
authors interested in submitting to future issues or current readers
excited about reading the items published in this particular section of the
current issue or perhaps something on what makes this feature important.
Whatever you think!

Signing off for now.

Yours, 
Shannon (and Susan)
-- 
Shannon Carter, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Director, Writing Programs
Department of Literature and Languages
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, Texas 75429-3011
Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu
http://www.shannoncarter.info


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I have reviewed (and edited)  "Tearing down the Walls," which I am enclosing. (If you choose to include it, I'd recommend changing all the capitalized "Composition" and "Basic Writing" to lower case throughout.) Voorhees thesis, that we should tear down the institutional silos that isolate BW and treat it as an ignored stepchild and that we have to view BW in a much larger context, is certainly valid. It further argues that, since nobody trains rhet comp majors in BW, we have to look elsewhere for them, is a bit more tenuous (that is, for example, to Voorhees). I can somewhat agree with that argument: a linguist trained in TESOL can certainly bring much to bear on the teaching of BW (and that happens to be the case in my department), and I have no formal training in BW myself. But wouldn't it be better to fight for the elevation of BW as a legitimate discipline in rhet comp programs?  So I am of two minds about the article: its thesis seems a bit contradictory, but the article may provoke a good debate. 


Alan 
Tearing Down the Walls.doc
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