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

[Lalicker, William]

So it sounds about unanimous...This should be an excellent issue! --Bill

William B. Lalicker, Ph.D.
Professor of English
Director, Composition Program
Director, Global Development Collaborative
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Main Hall, 720 S. High Street
West Chester, PA 19383 USA
wlalicker at wcupa.edu; tel. 610.436.2268; fax 610.738.0516

From: cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu [mailto:cbw_exec-bounces at tamu-commerce.edu] On Behalf Of Shannon Carter
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:32 PM
To: Conference of Basic Writing Executive Board
Subject: [CBW_Exec] FW: BWe, Special Issue proposal (vote by 3/5/10)



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


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