[CBW_Exec] Does CCCC have a Basic Writing Position Statement?

[Susan Naomi Bernstein]

Liz & colleagues,

The social justice initiative I wrote for BWe in 2009 (
http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/BWE/7.1_Backup/7.1-9.html)  has a link to
this 1974 position statement for "motivated but inadequately prepared
college students" (
http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/inadequatelyprepared).

There is also this powerful statement from "Students' Right to Their Own
Language": "Perhaps the most serious difficulty facing "non-standard"
dialect speakers in developing
writing ability derives from their exaggerated concern for the least
serious aspects of
writing. If we can convince our students that spelling, punctuation, and
usage are less
important than content, we have removed a major obstacle in their
developing the ability
to write." (first sentence at the top of page 12
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Groups/CCCC/NewSRTOL.pdf).

If I find anything else, I'll let you know.  Meanwhile, looking forward to
speaking with everyone at the Exec Board meeting, but sorry to miss you all
in person in St. Louis. Wishing everyone who attends a wonderful time! If
you happen to be in NYC next weekend, I'm giving a presentation about
Occupy at Left Forum at Pace University. Here's a link to the facebook
event page with more information.
http://www.facebook.com/events/143322885790371/

Finally, kudos to Liz and her CCCC panel, for the wonderful discussions on
the CBW facebook page http://www.facebook.com/groups/50538806660/. We've
added so many people to the page in the last month-- and the conversations
are really flowing! :-)

Peace and take good care,

Susan

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:07 PM, J. Elizabeth Clark
<lclark at lagcc.cuny.edu>wrote:

> Hey all y'all,
>
>
> Looking forward to seeing you on the 21st at our board meeting.  A quick
> question as we get ready for C's.  Does anyone know/remember/ have
> information about:
>
>
> Does CCCC/NCTE have an official position statement on Basic Writing?  A
> quick search of the on-line site reveals nothing.
>
>
> Any back history I don't know about?
>
>
> 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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-- 
Susan Naomi Bernstein, PhD
Queens, NY
http://writing4themind.tumblr.com/
http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/author/devenglish/
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