The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is a United States professional organization dedicated to "improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. Since 1911,NCTE has provided a forum for the profession,an array of opportunities for teachers to continue their professional growth throughout their careers,and a framework for cooperation to deal with issues that affect the teaching of English." In addition,the NCTE describes its mission as follows:
The Council promotes the development of literacy,the use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society,through the learning and teaching of English and the related arts and sciences of language.
Computers and writing is a sub-field of college English studies about how computers and digital technologies affect literacy and the writing process. The range of inquiry in this field is broad including discussions on ethics when using computers in writing programs,how discourse can be produced through technologies,software development,and computer-aided literacy instruction. Some topics include hypertext theory,visual rhetoric,multimedia authoring,distance learning,digital rhetoric,usability studies,the patterns of online communities,how various media change reading and writing practices,textual conventions,and genres. Other topics examine social or critical issues in computer technology and literacy,such as the issues of the "digital divide",equitable access to computer-writing resources,and critical technological literacies. Many studies by scientists have shown that writing on computer is better than writing in a book
The Conference on College Composition and Communication is a national professional association of college and university writing instructors in the United States. The CCCC formed in 1949 as an organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). CCCC is the largest organization dedicated to writing research,theory,and teaching worldwide.
Edward P.J. Corbett was an American rhetorician,educator,and scholarly author. Corbett chaired the 1970 Conference on College Composition and Communication,and was chair of the organization and a member of the National Council of Teachers of English Executive Committee in 1971. He was also chair of the Rhetoric Society of America from 1973 to 1977. From 1974 to 1979,he was editor of the journal College Composition and Communication. He is known for promoting classical rhetoric among composition scholars and teachers.
Keith Gilyard is a writer and American professor of English and African American Studies. He has passionately embraced African American expressive culture over the course of his career as a poet,scholar,and educator. Beyond his own literary output,he has pursued –and in some instances merged - two main lines of humanistic inquiry:literary studies,with its concern for beauty and significant form,and rhetorical studies,with its emphasis on the effect of trope and argument in culture. Moreover,his interests branch out into popular culture,civic discourse,and educational praxis. A critical perspective concerning these areas is,in his view,integral to the development of discerning and productive publics both on and beyond campuses and therefore crucial to the optimal practice of democracy.
Bootstraps:From an American Academic of Color (ISBN 0814103774) is a book by Washington State University Regents Professor Victor Villanueva,published in 1993 by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Bootstraps uses Villanueva's personal history as a struggling Puerto Rican academic to initiate a broader discussion of race and language in academia.
Charles Bazerman is an American educator and scholar. He was born and raised in New York. He has contributed significantly to the establishment of writing as a research field,as evidenced by the collection of essays written by international scholars in Writing as A Human Activity:Implications and Applications of the Work of Charles Bazerman. Best known for his work on genre studies and the rhetoric of science,he is a Professor of Education at the University of California,Santa Barbara,where he also served as Chair of the Program in Education for eight years. He served as Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication,delivering the 2009 CCCC Chair's Address,"The Wonders of Writing," in San Francisco,California. He is the author of over 18 books,including Shaping Written Knowledge,Constructing Experiences,The Languages of Edison’s Light,A Theory of Literate Action,and a Rhetoric of Literate Action. He also edited over 20 volumes,including Textual Dynamics of the Profession,Writing Selves/Writing Societies,What Writing Does and How it Does It,as well as the Handbook of Research on Writing and the two series Rhetoric,Knowledge and Society and Reference Guides to Rhetoric and Composition. He also wrote textbooks supporting the integration of reading and writing that have appeared in over 30 editions and versions including The informed writer:Using sources in the disciplines,The Informed Reader,and the English Skills Handbook.
Geneva Smitherman is a University Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and co-founder of the African American and African Studies doctoral program at Michigan State University. Smitherman co-founded the first public African-centered elementary school in the country Malcolm X Academy within the Detroit Public Schools. She is also known as "Dr. G" and "Dr. Smitherman".
Kathleen Blake Yancey is the Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English at Florida State University in the rhetoric and composition program. Her research interests include composition studies,writing knowledge,creative non-fiction,and writing assessment.
Cheryl Glenn is a scholar and teacher of rhetoric and writing. She is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies Director at Pennsylvania State University.
Deborah L. Brandt is professor emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Jonathan Alexander is an American rhetorician and memoirist. He is Chancellor's Professor of English,Informatics,Education,and Gender &Sexuality Studies at the University of California,Irvine. His scholarly and creative work is situated at the intersections of digital culture,sexuality,and composition studies. For his work in cultural journalism and memoir,Tom Lutz,founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books,has called him "one of our finest essayists."
Sondra Perl is a Professor Emerita of English at Lehman College and director of the Ph.D. in Composition and Rhetoric at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the founder and former director of the New York City Writing Project. She writes about the composing process as well as pedagogical approaches to implementing composition theories into writing practices in the classroom.
Asao B. Inoue is a Japanese American academic writer and professor of rhetoric and composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University whose research and teaching focus on anti-racist writing assessment. In 2019,Inoue was elected the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Chair. He delivered the keynote presentation for the 2019 CCCC Annual Convention,entitled "How Do We Language So People Stop Killing Each Other,Or What Do We Do About White Language Supremacy?" Inoue is the recipient of multiple disciplinary and institutional academic awards,including the 2017 CCCC Outstanding Book Award,the 2017 Council of Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) Best Book Award,and the 2012 Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence at California State University,Fresno.
Min-Zhan Lu is a composition professor and scholar. She serves as Professor Emerita of English at the University of Louisville. She is the 2005 recipient of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) Richard M. Braddock Award and the 2012 CCCC Outstanding Book Award.
Priscilla Tyler was an American educator and scholar of composition and world literature. She served as the first female chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and as vice president of the National Council of Teachers of English in 1963.
Ann E. Berthoff was a scholar of composition who promoted the study of I.A. Richards and Paulo Freire and the value of their work for writing studies.
Janet Emig was an American composition scholar. She is known for her groundbreaking 1971 study The Composing Process of Twelfth Graders,which contributed to the development of the process theory of composition. Her article,"Writing as a Mode of Learning" (1977) is also frequently cited and anthologized by the Writing Across the Curriculum movement.
Janice M. Lauer Rice was an American scholar of composition,rhetoric,and linguistics. She was a founding member of the Rhetoric Society of America. She founded one of the first doctoral programs in rhetoric and composition at Purdue University in 1980. The Lauer Series in Rhetoric and Composition from Parlor Press is named in her honor,as well as the Rhetoric Society of America's Janice Lauer Fund for Graduate Student Support and the Purdue Foundation Janice M. Lauer Dissertation Award.
Anne Ruggles Gere is an American scholar in the field of language education and literacy. She has published on topics such as the history of writing groups,best practices in literacy education,and integration of culturally responsive pedagogy.
