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Views from the Center

First  Edition©2006  Duane Roen

ISBN:9780312438135

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A collection of the formal addresses by the chairs of the Conference on College Composition and Communication from 1977, the year of the first formal address, to 2005. An introduction provides an overview of the addresses, the organization, and the field, and a reflection by the chair, or a colleague or former student, accompanies each address.

Table of Contents

Preface


Introduction: The CCCC Chairs’ Addresses


1977 Richard Lloyd-Jones, A View from the Center

1978 Vivian I. Davis, Our Excellence: Where Do We Grow from Here?

1979 William F. Irmscher, Writing as a Way of Learning and Developing

1980 Frank D’Angelo, Regaining Our Composure

1981 Lynn Quitman Troyka, Perspectives on Legacies and Literacy in the 1980s

1982 James Lee Hill, Beyond Access to Education—Literacy and Learning in Perspective

1983 Donald C. Stewart, Some History Lessons for Composition Teachers

1984 Rosentene B. Purnell, Using Language to Unlock the Limits

1985 Maxine Hairston, Breaking Our Bonds and Reaffirming Our Connections

1986 Lee Odell, Diversity and Change: Toward a Maturing Discipline

1987 Miriam T. Chaplin, Issues, Perspectives and Possibilities

1988 David Bartholomae, Freshman English, Composition, and CCCC

1989 Andrea A. Lunsford, Composing Ourselves: Politics, Commitment, and the Teaching of Writing

1990 Jane E. Peterson, Valuing Teaching: Assumptions, Problems, and Possibilities

1991 Donald McQuade, Living In — and On — the Margins

1992 William W. Cook, Writing in the Spaces Left

1993 Anne Ruggles Gere, Kitchen Tables and Rented Rooms: The Extracurriculum of Composition

1994 Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Freedom, Form, Function: Varieties of Academic Discourse

1995 Jacqueline Jones Royster, When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own

1996 Lester Faigley, Literacy after the Revolution

1997 Nell Ann Pickett, The Two-Year College as Democracy in Action

1998 Cynthia L. Selfe, Technology and Literacy: A Story about the Perils of Not Paying Attention

1999 Victor Villanueva, On the Rhetoric and Precedents of Racism

2000 Keith Gilyard, Literacy, Identity, Imagination, Flight

2001 Wendy Bishop, Against the Odds in Composition and Rhetoric

2002 John C. Lovas, All Good Writing Develops at the Edge of Risk

2003 Shirley Wilson Logan, Changing Missions, Shifting Positions, and Breaking Silences

2004 Kathleen Blake Yancey, Made Not Only in Words: Composition in a New Key

2005 Douglas Hesse, Who Owns Writing?


Notes on Chairs and Other Contributors


Index

Duane Roen

Duane Roen, is a Professor of English and serves as Assistant Vice Provost for University Academic Success Programs at Arizona State University.  He also serves as faculty head of Interdisciplinary and Liberal Studies as well as head of Technical Communication. At ASU, Duane previously served as faculty head of Humanities and Arts, and he directed the Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence and the writing program.  Roen is secretary of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and vice president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. He has published eight books on writing, and he has authored or coauthored more than two hundred chapters, articles, and conference papers.