Good information design is delightful. Gotta share ‘em all. www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...

If you're curious what the Peer & AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social approach consists of, how we got started, what we've learned so far, and how you can view, try, and/or adapt our materials, check out the slides for our recent #4C26 session. Slides: pairr.short.gy/4C26

Thank you, Donnie and team, for this call for #4c27 participation.

Update: Miller thinks his current dataset isn’t reliable, hence an update is not viable. The talk focuses on thinking about ways to collecting, cleaning, and validating the data before analysis is possible.

At my very last presentation session before leaving for the airport. Benjamin Miller shares an update to his analyses of dissertation research methods in rhetoric & composition studies, from 2015 to present. #4c26

Marie Pruitt shares examples of network analyses in writing studies “since the 1900s” that include social, organizational, and citational graphs. #4c26

Joe Moses demonstrates “collaborative prompting” as a co-learning activity in writing pedagogy. Team promoting uses a role-based, task-specific method to building information density in shared projects. #4c26

Meghalee Das introduces design thinking as a productive framework for teaching & facilitating teamwork in writing pedagogy. #4c26

#4c26 Most of the learning that happens at CCCC is confined to people who attended the sessions. A collection of knowledge work should help mobilize our collective wisdom beyond the physical conference. Can we do something like this companion publication again? publicationsncte.org/content/CCCC...

The first “table discussion” at the all-attendee session asks, “What professional purposes can the CCCC conference fulfill?” #4c26

“Far too many of us cannot listen because we have we have not learned how to be silent” — Prof Kofi Adisa on allyship, linguistic justice, etc #4C26

I like the in-person interactions and relational dynamics we may get at conferences, but let’s not overlook the needs of MANY members of our community who cannot afford to participate due to various factors—including funding, accessibility, citizenship/status, + other marginalizing forces. #4c26

#4c26 program chair Melissa Ianetta opens the all-attendee session with past CCCC program chairs regarding their lessons learned and the collective goals of our future. Panels include Doug Hesse, Carolyn Calhoon-Dillahunt, & Gwendolyn Pough.

Tonight! Stitch & Spin will be from 7:30-9:30 in The Loft, Atrium 4th floor. Part record nite, part craft slam. Refreshments provided! Contribute to the music playlist at bit.ly/4C26playlist. Brought to you by: Handcrafted Rhetorics SIG, Sound Studies & Writing Collective, SJAC Committee, and LAC.

The antiracist reviewing heuristic is a great, widely adopted resource that many journals and presses are asking reviewers to use when making their contributions. #4c26 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I echo this sentiment: Graduate students can start getting involved with the publishing/editorial process while still in their program. My editing experience started as a guest co-editor for a journal special issue during my 2nd year in PhD coursework.

I am skeeting from the Editing & Publishing roundtable now, and am loving the experience shared by the panel of editors here.

LOVE the energy, passion, talent, resources, and sense of community shared here at the CCCC Asian/Asian American Caucus. #4c26

Dori Coblentz believes that framing “authentic” (pure) writing as most desirable can perpetuate ableism that marginalizes or even harms students who need assistive technologies to compose. There’s friction between responsibility and disability. Transparency and documentation aren’t neutral. #4c26

What’s problematic about framing “the AI problem” as problems to be solved? Sean Dolan asks during the slow rhetoric panel and recounts the entanglements in writing-as-thinking and thinking about AI writing. #4c26

Moinak Choudhury observes a “systemic shock” brought about by the rapid introduction of AI to higher education and the largely distributed approach to policymaking (instructor-driven policies) about AI use in teaching & learning. #4c26

Luke Rodewald asks an important question—how can instructors value and encourage slowness that holds the potential to yield benefits in a labor-intensive teaching & learning condition? #4c26

Kathleen Dillon poses excellent respondent questions that challenge us to consider capitalist practices that we enforce in our pedagogy and what we might do differently to be more caring toward our students. In the face of fast tech & productivity demands, how might we slow down thoughtfully? #4c26

Olivia Rowland reminds us that race and racism can be manipulated as technologies of capitalism, and such manipulation finds its way into our pedagogies when we reproduce capitalist practices of mainstreaming languages and ranking and sorting student performance. #4c26

Márcia Rego compares capitalist mindsets and effects on value & transactions with the commodification of research (its speed, impact) in the name of productivity. Slow is not anti-fast or anti-new. Slow can be resistance. Ethnography, though not unproblematic, can be used to study slowness. #4c26

Angela Glotfelter draws from the Marxist tradition, combined with racial-cultural, feminist, and intersectional critiques/augmentations to create a heuristic for studying capitalist technologies and creating anticapitalist technology design. #4c26

Adam Phillips argues that generative AI “redistributes” agency across assemblages of people, tools, interfaces, and institutions. #4c26

Cara Haderlie finds (preliminarily) that a trauma-informed approach to online pedagogy helps foster community and a sense of belonging, which cultivates academic confidence. #4c26

Ju-A Hwang shares the rationale and sample learning assignment for teaching students to synthesize information through AI prompting and revising AI output. #4c26

Queer sessions tomorrow! #4C26 1. Risky Click: The Rhetorical Closeting of Queer Desire at 1:45, Room 307 B 2. Queer Archival Approaches to Comp/Rhetoric Scholarship at 1:45, Room 205 A 3. What Do We Value (and Love)? Redesigning the Introduction to the English and Writing Major" at 2:30, Room 17

I'm noticing that during the opening session at #4c26, my emotions and thoughts are being enlarged already, as I'm called to attend to the broader world of our field, beyond my little world on campus. In writing, that doesn't sound very profound. But in my chest, my belly, it feels more so.

Daocheng Lin makes the argument that aesthetics aren’t just a concern for the usability of data, but also intercultural engagement/critique/exchange through design. #4c26

Re-upping this post because Andrea Lunsford has just charged our field with some action items re: collaborative writing: - more case studies on team collaborations - longitudinal studies on team processes - theories for collaborating with machines The CWP series has relevant insights & tips! #4c26

Letizia Guglielmo & Lynee Gaillet share a “framework for mindful looking” to support intergenerational collaboration: - Look back: re-engage with a collaborator for a new goal - Look around: foster new connections through grounded in current work - Look forward: extend collab in new directions #4c26

Andrea Lunsford shares via video her sentiments about collaborative writing at the (Still) Writing Together panel, noting how Lisa Ede still writes with her in spirit. Lunsford urges us to confront conflicts as productive frictions that can enhance collaborative outcomes. #4c26

A big conference like CCCC can be overwhelming for folks. It is fine to follow your own pace to sync your mind-body-spiritual perception of the surroundings with your own needs. Slow down. Take breaks. Hydrate. We are here, together. #4c26

It is profound what attending conferences can do to your mind. — Kofi Adisa in responding to the theme of #4c26 and the authentic lessons learned from other expert teachers sharing their stories at our gatherings.

Getting a sticker never stops being fun. We don't make the rules. We're at #4C26—find our editors Jacob Babb or Zach Beare, say hello, and one is yours. No subscription required. Best bet: Editor's Table in the Action Hub. Also spotted near coffee. #CompositionStudies #RhetComp #CCCC2026

CCCC Chair Kofi Adisa reminds us of the stories each of us hold dear, and how they make up the rhythm, beats, and steps—the hearts and souls of our writing voices, the soundtracks of our lives. #4c26

And finally, congratulations to Morgan C. Banville and Gavin P. Johnson, winners of the Lavender Rhetorics Award for their Peitho Cluster Conversation “Talking Back Through Rhetorical Surveillance Studies: Intersectional Feminist and Queer Approaches” #4C26

Congratulations to Pamela Vanhaitsma, winner of the Lavender Rhetorics Award for her book, “The Erotic as Rhetorical Power: Archives of Romantic Friendship between Women Teachers” ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

Congratulations to Erin M. Green, winner of the Lavender Rhetorics Award for her dissertation, “Writing Abolition: Dismantling Carceral Literacies of the Prison-Industrial Complex through Black Queer Activism”

Anis Bawarshi receiving the 2026 CCCC Exemplar Award. Bawarshi talks about the functions of rhetorical “articulation” in creating shared worlds through meaning-making and relationships. #4c26

Congratulations to Ada Hubrig, V. Jo Hsu, Christina Cedillo, and Jennifer Wingard, winners of the Lavender Rhetorics Award for their article, “Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Using CRT to Name the Intersections of Texas’s Legislative Harm.” College English, vol. 87, no. 1, Nov. 2024, pp. 168–87.

The official opening of #4c26 is underway. Huge thank you to the local arrangements committee who made all things logistical possible and enjoyable!

Writing together has been the strongest engine motivating my scholarship since I was a student. I hope to share this bundle of joy (slash labor of love) with those who are interested in collaborative writing as a practice or method of inquiry. jasontham.com/2026/03/02/t...

Tensions and negotiations in AI’s interference with communication design. jasontham.com/2026/01/02/p...

Unusual weather on Christmas Day calls for unusual activities.

Wednesday is for Faculty Mentor Orientation.

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