[CBW_Exec] Press Release?

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Go for it! --Bill
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From: Shannon Carter <Shannon_Carter at tamu-commerce.edu>
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 21:42:30 
To: J. Elizabeth Clark<lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu>
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Subject: Re: [CBW_Exec] Press Release?

I think this looks fabulous! Thanks, Liz!
What do the rest of you think?
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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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