Welcome to the CCCC website!

Since 1949, the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) has been the world's largest professional organization for researching and teaching composition, from writing to new media. Welcome to our community. You'll find the field's leading resources and, more important, expert scholars and teachers eager for you to join us. 

CCCC Annual Convention
Louisville, March 17-20, 2010
"The Remix: Revisit, Rethink, Revise, Renew"
 

Announcements

2010 CCCC Elections: Call for Nominations

The 2010 CCCC Nominating Committee invites nominations for the posts of CCCC Assistant Chair, Executive Committee member (seven members), and 2011 Nominating Committee (five members). Please send nominations, with biographical information, by February 19, 2010, via email to cccc@ncte.org. Members are encouraged to nominate themselves.  For further details, please visit the CCCC Elections website.

Web Resources for CCCC Members

CCCC has created a page that gives you links to our communities around the web and also provides you graphics and banners to use on your sites.

You can also follow CCCC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/NCTE_CCCC

Find out what the CCCC Committees are working on...

Visit the CCCC committee website for all of the November 2009 updates on the work of the committees.  Below are some resources of note:

• Task for on Nontraditional Literacy Work: Read the recently approved CCCC Position Statement on Faculty Work in Community-Based Settings.
    
• Committee on Computers in Composition and Communication (7Cs): Visit the Call to Host the Computers and Writing Conference for information on hosting this conference with application procedures and criteria.  In addition, you can now find the Tenure and Promotion Cases for Composition Faculty Who Work with Technology on the 7C's site.
    
• Committee on Intellectual Property: This Committee publishes monthly reports on a variety of intellectual property issues. 
    
• Committee on Second Language Writing: Read the recently revised CCCC Statement on Second Language Writing and Writers!
    
• Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession: Check out their new listing of resources including a history of this long-standing committee, web resources, bibliographies, and more.

National Gallery of Writing

On Thursday, October 8, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution declaring October 20 as the National Day on Writing!

Get Involved: Learn what you can do and see what others are doing. Consider ways to showcase your writing-–great and small, whether text, audio, or video-–in the NCTE National Gallery of Writing.     

Submit your Writing: Make your contribution(s) to the National Gallery of Writing which opened to the world on October 20.

Start a Local Gallery: A local gallery can be any group, including a family, a few good friends, a club or church group, a class, a school, a workplace group, or an entire city who wants to see their work collected together inside the National Gallery. 

Connect with Us: Share your ideas and connect with others online at the NCTE NING Group, become a fan on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter.

Interested in the latest national news? Click here
for links to recent articles on a variety of educational issues.