[CBW_Exec] FW: BWe, Special Issue proposal (vote by 3/5/10)

[sgoen@sfsu.edu]

It sounds like a very good plan to me.
Sugie

>Dear BWe Editorial Board:
>
>On behalf of Barbara Gleason, I put forward the following proposal 
>for a Special Issue of BWe on the topic "multimodal literacies: 
>learning, access, and support among students, instructors, and 
>institutions."
>
>Since it ties in so beautifully with the CBW workshop theme, we'd 
>love to get an approval so Barbara can prepare a CFP to distribute 
>at the CBW 2010 workshop and throughout CCCC.
>
>We've not done a special issue before, so we have no procedure for 
>approval. I'd like to suggest that we go ahead as it sounds like a 
>marvelous idea to us here at A&M-Commerce.
>
>If you can send us your thoughts before March 5th, 2010, that'd be 
>great. If we hear no objections before that date, we'd like to give 
>Barbara the go-ahead so she can begin developing the CFP and 
>conversations at her institution.
>
>--From Barbara Gleason--
>
>I would like to take on the responsibility of editing a special 
>topics issue of BWe on this topic: "multimodal literacies: learning, 
>access and support among students, instructors and institutions." 
>This issue could spin out of the CBW workshop in 2010.  CBW  members 
>could contribute ideas and also their own manuscripts -- if they 
>want to. The special topics call for papers could be discussed at 
>the CBW EB meeting and announced at the CBW SIG, which I plan to 
>attend.  This topic (as stated above) is  a rough draft of how the 
>topic might eventually be articulated. I would be more than happy to 
>flesh  out and form  ideas in collaboration with you and Shannon. 
>The really good news is that I could recruit current graduate 
>students to assist with the editorial process. They would learn a 
>lot and BWe would benefit from their labor. As you know,  I served 
>as the managing editor of The Writing Instructor as USC for 2 years. 
>I have lots of experience  issuing a call for papers for a special 
>topics issue, manuscript review and selection, and communicating 
>with authors about suggested revisions. I would be able to teach 
>students about these practices and I'd love to work out a plan where 
>you could mentor one or more of our L&L grad students as an 
>"editorial assistant"  either on this or a future BWe issue.
>--
>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>http://www.shannoncarter.info
>
>
>------ End of Forwarded Message
>
>_______________________________________________
>CBW_Exec mailing list
>CBW_Exec at tamu-commerce.edu
>http://mailman.tamu-commerce.edu/mailman/listinfo/cbw_exec
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.tamuc.edu/pipermail/cbw_exec/attachments/20100225/03b79f48/attachment.htm