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

[Sonya Armstrong]

Sounds very cool--what a great idea!

Sonya

>>> Shannon Carter <Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu> 2/25/2010 2:31 PM
>>>


Dear BWe Editorial Board:

On behalf of Barbara Gleason, I put forward the following proposal for
a
Special Issue of BWe on the topic ³multimodal literacies: learning,
access,
and support among students, instructors, and institutions.²

Since it ties in so beautifully with the CBW workshop theme, we¹d love
to
get an approval so Barbara can prepare a CFP to distribute at the CBW
2010
workshop and throughout CCCC.

We¹ve not done a special issue before, so we have no procedure for
approval.
I¹d 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, that¹d be
great. If
we hear no objections before that date, we¹d 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 


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