[CBW_Exec] Press Release?

[Sugie K Goen-Salter]

I think we should go for it. Thanks Liz.

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On Apr 8, 2011, at 9:41 PM, "Shannon Carter" <Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu> wrote:

> I think this looks fabulous! Thanks, Liz!
> 
> What do the rest of you think?
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Apr 8, 2011, at 8:31 PM, "J. Elizabeth Clark"  
> <lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Hill suggested that we have a press release prepared because  
>> Inside
>> Higher Ed is coming to the meeting tomorrow. I'm far afield here,  
>> but I
>> copied the format for a press release. Rebecca, I used your  
>> statement as
>> the  "significant quote." Thoughts?
>> 
>> 
>> How do you feel about this? Is this too much, or do we want to run  
>> with
>> it?
>> 
>> 
>> Since I won't be there, I put Bill and Shannon as the contacts.   
>> What do
>> you think? I am including the EXEC board and Mike on this discussion.
>> 
>> 
>> Liz
>> ____________________
>> 
>> 
>> For Immediate Release:
>> 
>> The Council on Basic Writing, an open community of teacherscholars in
>> the field of Basic Writing, calls for a recommitment to the  
>> centralrole
>> of basic writing in the composition community.
>> 
>> Atlanta, Georgia, 9 April 2011: Although many luminaries inthe field  
>> of
>> composition studies trace their roots to teaching and writingabout  
>> Basic
>> Writing, Basic Writing has become increasingly marginalized withinthe
>> CCCC community and in the field of composition studies. Virtually
>> invisibleat the national CCCC convention, Basic Writing is gone as a
>> strand, as afeatured session, and even as a central word in conference
>> session titles.
>> That point was driven home in the 2011 Chair's address, asprinted in  
>> the
>> program that "the fields that make up CCCC--composition,rhetoric,
>> creative writing, language/linguistics, visual and digital
>> rhetorics,professional writing and communication--are diverse."
>> In response to the absence of Basic Writing at CCCC, Rebecca  
>> Mlynarczyk,
>> Co-editor, Journal of Basic Writing said, "Basic Writing is an  
>> important
>> sub-set of composition studies with a significant student population  
>> and
>> with a long and distinguished history and scholarship. We feel it is
>> important that Basic Writing be acknowledged explicitly by CCC in a  
>> time
>> of waning public support for this important endeavor."
>> To help to encourage CCCC to provide support for basicwriting faculty
>> and students, and to recommit to the central role Basic Writinghas in
>> the field of composition, we are introducing the following sense of
>> thehouse resolution at the business meeting tomorrow morning. "Be it
>> resolvedthat Basic Writing, a vital field and its students and teacher
>> scholars aproductive force within composition; is under attack
 
>> by
>> exclusionary publicpolicies; and therefore must be recognized publicly
>> and supported by CCCC as aconference cluster and with featured
>> sessions."
>> 
>> Contact:
>> William Lalicker
>> Executive Board of CBW
>> WLalicker at wcupa.edu
>> 
>> Shannon Carter
>> Outgoing Chair of CBW
>> cartershannon at gmail.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.
>> Professor of English
>> LaGuardia Community College--CUNY
>> e-mail:  lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu
>> Phone:  718.482.5665
>> www.jelizabethclark.com
> 
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