Introduction

 

Articles

Social Justice Initiative for Basic Writing by Susan Naomi Bernstein, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York

CCCC 2008 Session Reviews

Exposing Some Basic Realities: A Conversation about BW Strategy from Portfolios and Stretch Courses to Studies and Mainstreaming - reviewed by Peter Adams, Community College of Baltimore County

Stories I Need to Hear:  Review of CCCCs session A. 29:  Exposing Some Basic Realities:  A Conversation about BW Strategy from Portfolios and Stretch Courses to Studios and Mainstreaming - reviewed by Patricia Gillikin, University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus

Writing Across the Community:  Changing Writing Realities in a University-Run Summer Writing Program for High School Youth - reviewed by Hannah Ashley, West Chester University

Finding What I Came For, Transitions to College Writing and Reading: Cultivating Performative Literacy in Freshman English Class - reviewed by Patricia Gillikin

Creating a National Database about Basic Writing Programs, Students and Faculty - reviewed by Sugie Goen-Salter, San Francisco State University

Fostering the Assessor to Foster the Writer: Teaching Writing by Teaching Tutoring- reviewed by Eileen Ferretti, CUNY-Kingburough Community College

Trauma in New Orleans Post Katrina - reviewed by Alan Meyers, Chair Communications Department, Harry S Truman College, Chicago

Special Interest Group on Progressive Approaches to Teaching Grammar, Error, and Effective Writing - reviewed by Patricia J. McAlexander, The University of Georgia

Book Reviews

Teaching/Writing in Thirdspaces: The Studio Approach by Rhonda C. Grego and Nancy S. Thompson - reviewed by Vanessa Cozza, Bowling Green State University

Basic Writing in America: The History of Nine College Programs. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2008 by Nicole Pepinster Greene and Patricia J. McAlexander, Eds.  - reviewed by Deborah M Sánchez, University of Cincinnati