Review: The 2000 Conference on College Composition and Communication

– Reviewed by Will Hochman and Diane Masiello, April 28, 2000
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Like a living hypertext, CCCC/2000 Educating the Imagination; Re-imagining Education begins, ends, and continues in the multilinear paths of its diverse participants. What a group of readers, writers and teachers we are! This review is an attempt to bring some sense to the event without limiting its ongoing beauty of learning and confusion. As editor and contributor to this review, Will Hochman hooked Diane Masiello, an NYU graduate student, into writing some fine session reviews, as well as calling on assorted friends to offer their impressions of selected nooks and crannies of the conference. Though not comprehensive, we hope that this review will spike your own memories and impressions of the conference, and look forward to any comments about it you might send to Academic.Writing.

For more information on the conference, visit the CCCC 2000 Web site at http://www.ncte.org/convention/cccc2000/.

• Workshops
• Selected Session Reports: Since the 4Cs is such a carnival of delights, we felt it that it was best to reflect our personal interests in choosing sessions. The following reports offer a slice of conference attendance that may provoke concerns about why a particular session was not reviewed or why an idea was summarized beyond recognition. If you are feeling strongly about these valid issues, contact Will Hochman and become a reviewer for Academic.Writing!
  • Electronic Conversation In The Composition Classroom: Barroom Brawls In The Burkean Parlor (A.16)
  • Science Fiction And The Social Ethics Of Technology (B.23)
  • Responding To Pressures For Assessment: One More Damn Thing To Do, Or An Opportunity To Improve Teaching And Learning (B.26)
  • Technological Literacy in America, l978-2000: Tracing The Paths Of The Technology-Literacy Linkage (C.26)
  • Revisualizing the Space of Electronic Writing Instruction: Words+Images+ Spaces+Sounds=The Writing Classroom 2000 (D.29)
  • Whose English Is It?: Creating Contexts For A Deeper Understanding Of Language Issues In And Out Of The Composition Classroom (D.31)
  • Navigating Between Computer Mediated and Face-to-Face Classrooms: Opportunities for Instructional Enactments (E.11)
  • It Takes A Village: Re-Imagining Critical Praxis For Local Contexts (E.25)
  • Textual Insurrections: Imagining A Literacy Of Resistance (F.22)
  • Integrating Rhetoric and Poetic: Inviting the Soul Into Writing For Composition Classes (F.27)
  • The Holocaust And The Rhetorical Imagination (G.21)
  • (Re)Imagining 4cs: Multiple Perspectives, Multiple Conferences (H.24)
  • Hazarding Dreams: Theory, Practice, And Community In The Electronic Classroom (I.35)
  • Curriculum Models For Service Learning: Simulating Workplace Writing Situations (J.5)
  • Shift Happens (Again): From Lan- To Wan-Based Instructional Support (K.28)
  • Research of Traditional and Online Communities (M.28)
  • Creative Collaboration and Collaborative Creation: Empowering Student Writing in the Virtual Classroom (N.29)
• Voices From the MFA SIG (SI.15)
• WPA Breakfast
• Tech Center
• The Extracurricular Drift - by Dona Hickey
• CCCC 2000 Fashion