[CBW_Exec] CBW 2013--Important to READ and REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL! REPLY ALL!

Mon Apr 30 08:14:18 CDT 2012

Hi Everyone,

I've surfaced (literally).  It was an amazing (if unexpectedly CHOPPY)
week under the water.  My group planted 300 staghorn coral starts on
Pickles Reef outside of Tavernier Florida.  It's part of the Coral Reef
Conservation Project & it was a pretty amazing experience.  I could have
done without the 2-3 foot seas to get back on the boat, though.  Ouch.

With T-1 week to go, this is looking great.  I've read through all of
your e-mails from the week and it looks like we're in great shape.

In short, wow!  You are amazing!

Huzzah to Bill!  How awesome is it that Victor will join us?  Amazing!

Wendy & Steve are making great headway on the roundtable.

With respect to the publishing panel:  I would like to split the
difference:  maybe there's a way we can do a publishing workshop for
those who are interested and a networking time for those who aren't.  
What would you think about two options?  I do like Cheryl's proposal of
different tables for the publishing piece.  I'd also like to add a table
for grant writing.

Tomorrow or Wednesday, I'll send around a formal write up for the
workshop for your perusal.  

Thanks so much everyone!

Liz

>>> Susan Naomi Bernstein <susan.naomi at gmail.com> 04/21/12 21:41 PM >>>
Lynn Reid’s suggestion of offering a publishing/grant writing workshop
similar to the Graduate Research Network at the Computers and Writing
Conference sounds really wonderful. Based on that model here’s what we
might propose for maximum involvement for our participants and for
members
of the executive board. And definitely think of the list below as
suggestions to completely revise, tweak, or disregard as necessary.

1)   Before the conference, interested participants submit a brief
abstract
of something they are working on or trying to work on to the EB (or an
EB
subcommittee charged with this task).

2)   People who submit are automatically invited to take part in the
workshop and their name would in the CBW program so they can ask for
funding from their home institutions.  People who do not submit ALSO can
take part; see #5 below.  The workshop would NOT be limited to graduate
students.

3)   During the workshop, the group is broken into tables with 1-2 table
mentors, people who have published, researched, and/or won grants in
particular areas.  The EB has so many qualified people that this part of
the process should be easy.

4)   Additionally we can invite people outside CBW to serve as mentors.
Or
we could use horizontal organization and have people at tables discuss
their projects and offer suggestions to each other*whatever format seems
most feasible to the EB.

5)   Participants choose tables based on their particular interests. Or
participants can be assigned to tables based on the abstracts they
submitted.  Participants who did not submit can choose among these
tables,
and/or we can create a table for people who don't know where to start.

6)   Participants share a bit about their projects and then the mentors
lead a discussion on how to: frame the research, shape the research for
publication, consider IRBs, identify potential grant funders and so on.

7)   This process would help to welcome new folks to CBW and would be a
terrific draw, IMHO.

Best,

Susan

On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hill <mdhill1 at hfcc.edu> wrote:

> This sounds great to me.  Liz, be safe and have a great trip .
>
> Mike
>
>
> Michael D. Hill
> English Division
> Henry Ford Community College
> (313) 845-6368
>
> >>> "J. Elizabeth Clark" <lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu> 04/21/12 12:11 PM >>>
>
> i All,
>
>
> I'm getting ready to leave (in an hour!) and will be off-line for all
of
> next week. If there's easy access to the Internet, I may check in
mid-week,
> but I'm not going to promise if for now, since I'm not sure what I'm
> walking into. I'm back on 5/1, which will give us another week to nail
down
> the details.
>
>
> Thanks in advance to everyone for all of your fabulous ideas and
comments.
>
>
> Here's where we are right now:
>
>
> Basic Writing and Race: A Symposium
>
>
> Morning:
>
>
> 1. Keynote--hopefully Victor Villanueva (Bill, let us know how that
comes
> along)
> 2. Poster session featuring new scholars (call to come out later).
> 3. Networking
>
>
> Afternoon:
>
>
> 4. Roundtable on Basic Writing and Whiteness)
>
>
> 5. Publishing/Grant writing workshop.
>
>
> 6. Reception again (if they're game?)
>
>
> I was originally going to invite editors to do the publishing
workshop,
> but I love Lynn's idea of making it a workshop. We could have groups
> according to where people are at with publishing, ranging from ideas
to
> manuscript critiques.
>
>
> What do you think?
>
>
> Liz
>
>
> 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
> >>> Lynn Reid 04/19/12 2:47 PM >>>
> Hi everyone,
> First, thanks to all for the welcoming words. I'm looking forward to
> working with each of you.
>
> As for CBW 2013, I also support Liz's idea of the publishing and grant
> writing workshop. The Computers and Writing Conference offers a
similar
> session as part of the Graduate Research Network, and it's by far the
most
> valuable part of my conference experience there every year. I wonder
if we
> could model their approach and ask folks to bring ideas or research in
> progress for a mentoring session on publishing.
>
> Everything else sounds fantastic for next year!
> Best,
> Lynn
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Susan Naomi Bernstein <
> susan.naomi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Liz and colleagues,
> >
> > I write in support of Liz's idea of the publishing and grant writing
> > workshop. The 4th edition of _Teaching Developmental Writing_ will
be
> > available for Cs 2012 and I can ask Bedford if they would be willing
to
> > provide copies for all attendees. In addition, I would be happy to
assist
> > in facilitating the publishing piece of the writing workshop, if the
> Board
> > would be amenable.
> >
> > I'm reading the unfolding conversation on next year's CBW Wednesday
> > gathering with great joy and so much gratitude. Kudos to all for
creating
> > visibility for these critical issues!
> >
> > Peace & best,
> >
> > Susan
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:13 AM, J. Elizabeth Clark > wrote:
> >
> >> You guys are AMAZING! We are going to have a great year. I've been
> >> listening to this conversation and I'm excited about the great
ideas we
> >> have here, the ways this is pushing our work ahead, and the ways we
are
> >> thinking of new ideas and new directions. I also particularly
appreciate
> >> Steve and Hannah's careful thoughts about what direction we should
go
> in.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks to Shannon for getting our new EB folks on the list. I've
added
> >> Wendy Olsen into the conversation since she and Steve may lead a
> roundtable
> >> for us. So, please do continue with "reply all" here so Wendy can
see
> the
> >> conversation.
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm going to attempt to distill this conversation to move us
towards a
> >> consensus for the program so we can get invitations out to folks. I
> think
> >> (?) this is a combination of the ideas we've passed around,
spinning
> off of
> >> the text that Steve and Cheryl shared with us.
> >>
> >>
> >> I think we've agreed that we want to focus on Basic Writing and
Race.
> >> Great!
> >>
> >>
> >> I think we should approach Victor Villanueva and Malea Powell for
> >> keynotes to start. Bill, can you contact Victor? Does anyone know
Malea?
> >> If not, I will e-mail her.
> >>
> >>
> >> Steve and Wendy, I'd love to do a roundtable featuring both of you
and
> >> your work on BW and whiteness. Do you want to add in Scott Lyons?
People
> >> were very excited by this! If you are willing to do the roundtable,
I
> >> think it would be a GREAT addition! Who knows Scott personally?
> >>
> >>
> >> In addition to the keynotes, I think we should do the poster
session
> >> again. We don't need to work this out now, it can be a placeholder
in
> the
> >> program and we can send to the CBW-L list later, as we did last
year.
> That
> >> worked well, but I want to give it a little more time next year--I
> think it
> >> was a little rushed.
> >>
> >>
> >> I would also like to add in a roundtable on publishing and grant
writing
> >> at the end of the day, since that's something we've seen interest
in on
> the
> >> CBW Facebook page and other forums.
> >>
> >> If we do 2 keynotes, 2 roundtables, and an extended poster-session,
we
> >> have a lovely program.
> >>
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >>
> >> I have not included, here, Ian Marshall. I'm very open to inviting
him,
> >> but I'm not sure where he would fit in in this formulation.
> >>
> >>
> >> What do you think?
> >>
> >>
> >> Starting Title:
> >>
> >> "BW and Race: A Symposium"--not very sexy--any thoughts for making
this
> >> stronger?
> >>
> >>
> >> Liz
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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