[CBW_Exec] Press Release?

Fri Apr 8 23:11:04 CDT 2011

Looks great, Liz.

Peter

Peter Adams | Director of Accelerated Learning Program
Department of English
Essex Campus
Community College of Baltimore County
7201 Rossville Blvd
Baltimore, MD 21237
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Subject: [CBW_Exec] Press Release?

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
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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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