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Call for Proposals

New England Summer Conference on

College Composition and Communication

“Sharing Best Practices”

May 24-25, 2017

Boston University, College of General Studies

We are very excited to announce the New England Summer Conference on College Composition and Communication (NE CCCC) to be held at Boston University’s College of General Studies from May 24 to 25, 2017. This conference is one of four regional sites chosen and supported by the CCCC.

Built on the success of the Boston Rhetoric and Writing Network’s annual Summer Institute, this two-day conference offers New England-area college writing teachers—particularly those who have attended previous BRAWN Summer Institutes and those who are not able to attend the national CCCC—the opportunity to engage with colleagues in sessions that emphasize the sharing of results from teacher research, the cultivation of scholarly praxes for college writing instructors, and evidence-based, practical ideas for teaching writing.

The NE CCCC Summer Conference will give participants opportunities to develop ideas for the classroom, build a network within the region, and become actively involved in the national organization. We invite you to submit conference proposals and be a part of this inaugural event. Some possible questions to address in relation to the conference theme of “Sharing Best Practices” include:

• How do we create classrooms that are inclusive of diverse students and perspectives? • What roles might teacher research—particularly teacher research—play in informing and

improving practice as well as building collaborative networks? ? communities of practice? • What kinds of technology have you used to enhance student learning? How, when, where? • What are effective strategies for responding to students’ writing? • What peer review practices have you found particularly effective? • How might grading practices be made equitable, fair, and manageable? • How can writing assignments be best sequenced to meet specific assignment and larger

course goals, and why? • What roles does reflection play in the writing classroom? In WI, WAC or WID courses? • How does the work of university writing centers inform the teaching of writing?

• What forms of multimodal composing represent new opportunities for engaging students? How does multimodal composing achieve learning goals?

• What does/ can/might/ should? writing look like in classes outside of rhetoric/writing/composition?

• How can we best support multilingual writers and challenge monolingual notions of the writing classroom?

• How might reading, speaking, listening—all of the language arts—be best integrated? • How does rhetorical theory and practice intersect with current composition curricula and

pedagogy? • How can we create effective assignments to create student agency, enter civic and public

discourse, and practice writing for social justice?

By no means is this an exhaustive list, so we invite you to bring your interests and experiences to the sessions you propose.

Conference registration, lodging, and travel information will be available soon, via the conference website. Our goal is to make this conference affordable and accessible for all participants.

Participants: We strongly encourage proposals for the 2017 NE CCCC Summer Conference from part-time and adjunct faculty, graduate students, non-tenure track faculty, as well as full-time faculty engaged in the teaching of writing. The program is open to everyone, including scholars from other disciplines. Nonmembers of CCCC are welcome to submit proposals but will be required to join the organization upon registering for the conference. CCCC is a nonprofit organization and cannot reimburse program participants for travel or hotel expenses.

Session formats: We encourage interactive, engaged sessions, including panels, individual presentations, idea exchanges, and posters designed to launch informal conversation among session participants. You may propose whole sessions (90-minute sessions consisting of three or more participants) or submit a proposal as an individual, which will be combined into a panel by the Program Chairs.

Deadline: Proposals are due by February 1, 2017. Participants will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 2017.

Preregistration for Program Participants: CCCC depends on the support of everyone who attends. Program participants must register online and submit the registration fee when they accept their role in the program.

Proposal Review Criteria: As they read proposals, reviewers will focus on five broad criteria:

1. Connection to key contexts, issues, and practices. Is the proposal situated contextually in the field’s research traditions, current issues, and/or practices? The connection to the field’s broader identities, research, and interests should be clear to reviewers.

2. Relationship to the conference theme of “Sharing Best Practices.” Does the proposal specify and elaborate on major issues and ask questions about or propose actions that others might take in relation to the conference theme? The proposal should make clear the opportunities that are opened through consideration of its approach or focus.

3. Focus. Does the proposal seem focused enough for the time available, keeping in mind the need to engage audiences in discussion? Reviewers should be able to readily understand the

proposal’s primary question or the idea it will explore and see potential for interaction among presenters and attendees related to that focus.

4. Innovation. Do the practices described establish new ground or point to wider implications or new questions based in research and experience, rather than just describing “what I did”? Reviewers should be able to identify what is new, different, and exciting about what is being proposed.

5. Audience engagement. Does the proposal describe how the presenter will engage participants in the topic under consideration? What attendees will take away from the session in specific ways?

General Guidelines for Proposals

• Provide only the information requested. The intense reviewing procedure makes supplemental material a hindrance.

• Official invitations will be sent to persons on accepted proposals by March 15. • Names appearing in the conference program will represent only peer-reviewed proposals and

paid registrations.

Submit proposals: http://tinyurl.com/SummerCCCC

Submission deadline: 11:59 p.m., February 1, 2017, Eastern Standard Time

Questions? Contact [email protected].