College Composition & Communication - Volume 60, Issue 2, 2008

Like other seemingly ordinary materials (cookbooks, street art, scrapbooks, etc.) the subject of our investigation “holy cards or (in Italian) immaginette” often function as rich repositories of personal and cultural memory as well as indicators of popular literacy practices. But to relegate them to the category of ephemera, as is customary with materials of this sort, diverts attention from their significant cultural and pedagogical value.

In a FIPSE-funded assessment project, a group of diverse institutions collaborated on developing a common, course-embedded approach to assessing student writing in our first-year writing programs. The results of this assessment project, the processes we developed to assess authentic student writing, and individual institutional perspectives are shared in this article.

describe and analyze the cases of three Native scholars in order to explore the claims, evidence, and rhetorical exigencies present when a scholar claims to be Native American.

Teaching rhetorical production in a digital age calls for us to rethink our discipline’s current distaste for writing mechanics. Yet, the digital mechanics of writing are much broader than grammatical concerns. They include production tools that allow for the invention and circulation of audio, visual, and Multigenre writing.

This essay argues for the value of an ecological metaphor in conceptualizing, designing, and enacting research in writing studies. Such a metaphor conceives of activities, actors, situations, and phenomena as interdependent, diverse, and fused through feedback.

This is the text of Cheryl Glenn’s address at the CCCC meeting in March 2008.

The next entry into our “Re-Visions” feature “a series that offers reconsiderations of particularly significant work in CCC” is a reappraisal of Kenneth Burke’s “Questions and Answers about the Pentad,” which originally appeared in December of 1978 (volume 29.4, 330–35).

Reviewed: Mexican Writers on Writing Margaret Sayers Peden, editor Irish Writers on Writing Eavan Boland, editor Polish Writers on Writing Adam Zagajewski, editor

Reviewed: Changing the Way We Teach: Writing and Resistance in the Training of Teaching Assistants Sally Barr Ebest Don’t Call It That: The Composition Practicum Sidney I. Dobrin, editor Concepts in Composition: Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing Irene Clark, with Betty Bamberg, Darsie Bowden, John R. Edlund, Lisa Gerrard, Sharon Klein, Julie Neff Lippman, and James D. Williams

Reviewed: Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon, editors