College Composition and Communication

Welcome to Mere Rhetoric, the podcast for beginners and insiders about the ideas, people and movements who have shaped rhetorical history. Uh, I guess including recent history, because today we're going to talk about the February 2017 issue of College Composition and Communication as our "journal of the month" summary. This issue, as editor Jonathan Alexander points out, "takes up the notion of the 'personal' in a variety of ways" (436), departing from what we might think of as "composition as usual." The articles in it include thinking about students who are full-time workers, students who have disablities, and indigenous methodology. College Composition and Communication, if you're unfamiliar with it, is one of the grand old dames of composition journals. It came about way back in the 50s as a summary of the conference on college composition and communication and many of the early issues were just summaries of what happened in the conference, so that you could follow along at home. The conference itself was an outgrowth of the rise of college writing classes. Many of these early composition classes were taught by people trained in literature, and they were eager to have their own place to share ideas about teaching and come up with theories that would apply as well in Tampa as in Toledo. CCC, or "the cs" as it is sometimes called, is still a great resource for composition instructors and researchers looking for theory as well as practice for their own classrooms. In that spirit, let me take you through a whirlwind summary of all of the articles in this issue. Maybe you don't

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College Composition and Communication is an episode from Mere Rhetoric by Mary Hedengren.

This episode is 08:14 long.

This episode was published on Oct 4, 2017.

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