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This year at the Computers and Writing conference in West Lafyette, IN, Dr. Kris Blair, our Editor here at CCO, was awarded the Charles Moran Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Field.  As its title implies, this award is given each year to a scholar with outstanding achievements in scholarship and service to the field. [...]

It’s that time of year again when we all start making plans to propose panels and presentation for next year’s 4Cs conference, and, as such, I thought it would be appropriate to remind everyone about a really valuable yet, I think, under-recognized presentation opportunity at the Cs:  The Computer Connection.  Each year the CCCC Committee [...]

I had the great pleasure of sitting in on a panel presentation given by Ehren Pflugfelder and Cristyn Elder from Purdue University on Plagiarism Pedagogy. Drawing on quite a bit of recent research on the subject of plagiarism as well as their own experiences addressing this issues as teachers, Pflugfelder and Elder walked us through [...]

Lev Manovich: Sporting bright green sneakers, Lev Manovich offered an intriguing new perspective for those interested in digital humanities or new media to consider.  He argued that while many in rhetoric, composition, communication, and cultural studies have studied the implications of technology for their disciplines, none have studied the “engine” of that technology: Software. Manavich [...]

As many of you likely know, The Bi-Annual Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Writing was held in Louisville, Kentucky this past weekend (October 16-18).  Having been lucky enough to attend and present at the conference, I thought I would post a few highlights to the blog.  This will be the first of a [...]