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GC Composition & Rhetoric Community (GCCRC)

The Graduate Center Composition and Rhetoric Community (GCCRC), a DSC-chartered organization, is comprised of a diverse group of students and faculty interested in not only what texts say, but how they say it, and how they come to say it – in short, how they are composed. This interdisciplinary group has been of particular interest to those who are teaching while pursuing their degrees because of our commitment to exploring writing-centered pedagogies, offering a support network for new and continuing graduate student instructors and hands-on training sessions for anyone interested. The GCCRC aims to foster discussions of writing studies and composition theory alongside our own local classroom experiences; these important connections between theory and practice regularly develop into extended discussions that group members have presented at national conferences.

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Announcement by Amanda Licastro on 9/5/12

  • Posted by Amanda Licastro on September 5, 2012 at 3:10 am

    Dear GCCRC,

    Welcome to a new school year! It was lovely to see so many of you at Sondra’s potluck and at all of the new student events over the last week.

    As you settle into your new semester schedule, we’d like to remind you that our first GCCRC meeting of the year is next Monday, Sept. 10th. This fall our meetings will be every other Monday night from 6:30-8:30 in room 5409.

    This first meeting is an informal “meet and greet” so that new students who are interested in joining our group can mingle with our current members and get a feel for what we offer as a DSC organization. We’ll be setting goals for the semester, discussing upcoming events in the field, and hearing reports from summer developments in our ongoing group projects. RSVP to [email protected] so we know how much food and drinks to provide. Also, we encourage you to bring a friend from any discipline who may have an interest in the study and teaching of writing. As always, we welcome students and faculty!

    And don’t forget to save the dates for our upcoming events featuring speakers and workshops centered around writing studies and pedagogy:

    9/10 – Meet and Greet the GCCRC
    9/24 – Jason Tougaw on memoir writing
    10/15 – Conference proposal workshop
    10/29 – Mark McBeth’s “Masquerade”
    11/12 – Jessica Yood on turning informal academic writing into publishable work
    11/26 – Dominique Zino on visual rhetoric
    12/3 – Amy Wan (topic TBD)
    12/17–Peda-Pollyanna (an exchange of effective assignments and activities)

    We wish we a successful semester and look forward to seeing you soon,
    Amanda and Andrew

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