<html><head></head><body name="Mail Message Editor"><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br></span></div><div id="replyPrefaceElement">On Feb 10, 2010, at 12:00:06 PM, cbw_exec-request@tamu-commerce.edu wrote:</div><br><blockquote style="padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: blue; color: blue; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="width: 749px; "><div id="felix-mail-header-block" style="color: black
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nt-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>Date:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span>February 10, 2010 12:00:06 PM CST</span></td></tr><tr><td width="70px" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: gray; text-align: right; vertical-align: top; font-weight: bold; "><span>To:</span></td><td style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8pt; color: black; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-left: 5px; "><span title="cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu">cbw_exec@tamu-commerce.edu</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="felix-mail-content-block" style="color: black; background-color: white; width: 749px; "><div style="font-family: monospace; color: black; background-color: white; font-size: 8pt; ">Send CBW_Exec mailing list submissions to<br>cbw_exec@tamu-commerc
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i, all--<br><br>Thanks for your hard work in reviewing and reviewin
g again the various<br>submission to BWe. We had more submissions than I?ve seen in my handful of<br>years with BWe, and they covered an exciting range.<br><br>JP, Susan, and I will provide a Table of Contents within the week. Stay<br>tuned.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>The excellent news: BWe 2009 is on track for publication before CCCC.<br><br>Status as of 2/8/10: Six rich and interesting articles and book reviews have<br>gone through two full rounds of review/revision/review and have been<br>accepted for publication. Two additional articles are currently being<br>revised in response to reader feedback and will likely appear in the next<br>issue of BWe as well.<br><br>Here?s a very rough outline:<br>1. Editor?s introduction (Susan and I are working on that)<br>2. Articles (nice range of topics, approaches, genres, and modalities)<br>3. Social Justice Policy (two articles responding to Susan?s 2009 article<br>proposing CBW adopt a Social Justice Po
licy)<br>4. Book Reviews (two, I think)<br>5. Awards (article from CBW Award winner Dawn Terrick; we?d love to make<br>this a regular part of each BWe issue [see below])<br>6. Linkages (Peter Adams)<br><br><br>Request: We?d like to include introductions to each of our ongoing features,<br>especially since each of these features are brand new to BWe. As you may<br>recall--at our last meeting, we reorganized BWe to include Associate Editors<br>of several new sections. For the most part, the articles accepted shake out<br>along the lines drawn last March.<br><br>http://orgs.tamu-commerce.edu/cbw/cbw/BWE_-Co_Editors_and_Associate_Director<br>s.html<br><br>To that end: Can the associate editors provide introductions for each of the<br>sections proposed? By 2/24/10? It needn?t be more than 250 words. Shorter or<br>longer works too. Up to you.<br><br>Book Reviews: Sonya and Kathleen<br>Linkages: Peter Adams<br>Awards: Gregg and his team [?]<br>[We?d like to propose a new section in
which award winners describe their<br>programs in award-winning ter
ms. Perhaps this will help yield more winning<br>years? Certainly help honor previous award-winners. Gregg: I?ll be<br>contacting you about this in the next day, especially in terms of a current<br>article]<br><br>Goals for each introduction? Up to you, of course. Maybe to get potential<br>authors interested in submitting to future issues or current readers<br>excited about reading the items published in this particular section of the<br>current issue or perhaps something on what makes this feature important.<br>Whatever you think!<br><br>Signing off for now.<br><br>Yours,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Shannon (and Susan)<br>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Shannon Carter, PhD<br>Associate Professor of English<br>Director, Writing Programs<br>Department of Literature and Languages<br>Texas A&M University-Commerce<br>Commerce, Texas 75429-3011<br>Shannon_Carter@tamu-commerce.edu<br>http://www.shannoncarter.info<br><br><br>------
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ext, is certainly valid. It further argues that, since nobody train
s rhet comp majors in BW, we have to look elsewhere for them, is a bit more tenuous (that is, for example, to Voorhees). I can somewhat agree with that argument: a linguist trained in TESOL can certainly bring much to bear on the teaching of BW (and that happens to be the case in my department), and I have no formal training in BW myself. But wouldn't it be better to fight for the elevation of BW as a legitimate discipline in rhet comp programs? So I am of two minds about the article: its thesis seems a bit contradictory, but the article may provoke a good debate. <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><br></span></div><div>Alan </div></span></div><div class="aol_ad_footer" id="u8D1B9C6BF7D74187A26CA96453076D13"></div></body></html>