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By Colby and Colby. Published in Computers and Composition, Volume 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 300-312. Reading Games: Composition, Literacy, and Video Gaming. Abstract only available here for free. Full article for purchase or through document delivery at your college library.

By the Council of Writing Program Administrators (WPA), April 2000; amended July 2008. From the Introduction: This statement describes the common knowledge, skills, and attitudes sought by first-year composition programs in American postsecondary education."

Vol 25, Issue 3 of Computers and Composition (journal). This is the table of contents of full issue. Only abstracts available for free; full articles for purchase or via document delivery from your college library.

on Guide to Grammar & Writing, sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut.

MZ assigned this in week 7, semester 3.

Published by Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in 1974, this document "includes the resolution on language adopted by members of CCCC in April 1974; the background statement explaining and supporting that resolution; and the bibliography that gives sources of some of the ideas presented in the background statement...."

Young, Vershawn Ashanti. Published in College Composition and Communication. 55.4 (2004): 693-715. The author looks at the differences between black and white language. This page from the CCC Online Archive includes an abstract, works citing, and works cited.

By the Conference on College Composition (CCCC) Committee on Assessment, November 2006 (revised March 2009). This document outlines the CCCC's position on writing assessment, noting that "given the high stakes nature of many of these assessment purposes, it is crucial that assessment practices by guided by sound principles..."

By Scott Jaschik, in Inside Higher Ed, March 18, 2010. This article the discussion of how to improve master's programs to better train community college writing instructors. It was held at the recent Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Founded in 1880, today the Conference on Basic Writing (CBW) is a special interest group of the Conference on College Communications and Composition (CCCC). The CBW's mission "is to create a network of basic writing professionals."

By Arthur Applebee, The Atlantic, Sept 27 2012. Published as part of a debate, "Why American Students Can't Write," Applebee argues that students must be asked to write more (throughout their K-12 education) and on rich topics.

RA (coach) sent the link to this article, with an interest in the "evolving purpose of composition classes." She links GSCC work to this article, especially the professional learning community.

Study done by Writing in Digital Environments (WIDE) Research Center, Michigan State University, published September 7 2010. The study looks at the writing lives of over 1300 first year students, enrolled in a variety of secondary settings (and geographic locations), from large 4-year universities, to a community college. Executive summary, information about the survey, and a downloadable PDF.

By Cathy Birkenstein and Gerald Graff. In Style, vol 42 (1), spring 2008. pp 18-21. Originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, vol 54 (30), p A40.

By Serena Golden, April 11, 2011, Inside Higher Ed. Author writes about the neglected subject of basic writing, particularly at the Conference on College Composition. The members on the Council on Basic Writing are working to combat the inattention.

M.K. mentioned this article in Coffee Klatch, April 2011. P.A. is quoted in article.