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2007Overview2007 CCC Conference Review Overview In her "Call to Convention" statement in the 2007 CCCC program, Cheryl Glenn writes that, “’Representing Identities,’ the theme of our 2007 convention, asks us to consider identities as they are constructed through reading, writing, speaking, listening, and silence.” Judging from the reviews that I and my co-editors have lovingly labored over, we all drew much from the reading, writing, speaking, listening, and silence that filled the New York Hilton. The range of the reviews runs from personal ruminations on the nature of love, death, and the field of composition (Leeann, “Mysti Rudd’s “Re-Composing My Conferencing Identity”) to concise and smart reviews of a whole conference strand (Fred Siegel’s “Performance Studies at CCCC”), and all of the reviews extend, from my perspective, the learning, thinking, and living that we did for a few fine days in New York City. This is not to say that the CCCC was—no conference ever is. Folks, as usual, struggled certain aspects of the conference, everything from the cost of computer technology at the conference to the tendency of folks to engage in “The Insidious Practice of Monotonously Reading Your Paper at a Conference.” However, as usual, the conference brought us together, focused our energies on our shared field and interests, and ultimately on the work of teaching writing. It is our pleasure to bring a review of the conference to you that is as wide-ranging as our experiences in New York City in March of 2007. It is also our pleasure to bring this review from the WAC Clearinghouse, and the fine and gentle auspices, of Mike Palmquist, to the fine folks at Kairos. Doug Eyman, Cheryl Ball, and Charlie Lowe have all been wonderfully gracious, kind and understanding in terms of helping realize this review in a wonderfully interactive wiki. (Many thanks are due Doug Eyman for thinking of this interface for the review.) Ultimately, Jonathan Alexander, Hannah Dickinson, Fred Siegel, Will Hochman, Randall McClure, and I are, as editors, grateful to all the folks who presented at the 4Cs, all those who have chosen to share their thoughts as reviewers, and all of you who are going to take part, through your comments and reading, in this year’s interactive CCCC review. We hope that you will find this, our seventh review of the 4Cs, to be, as our other reviews have been, an extension of the conference. We hope, through this review, that you will help us continue to archive, modify, and engage in the many identities that all of us as compositionists represent. Comments? |