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Written Communication, Vol. 22, No. 2, 198-223 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0741088305275367

NCTE/CCCC’s Recent War on Scholarship

Richard H. Haswell

Texas A&M University

This article documents aspects of the history of support for scholarship by two professional organizations involved with teaching composition at the postsecondary level: the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). Evidence is found that for the past two decades, the two organizations have substantially withdrawn their sponsorship of one kind of scholarship. That scholarship is defined as RAD: replicable, aggregable, and data supported. The history of RAD scholarship as published in NCTE and CCCC books and journals, compared to that published elsewhere, is traced from 1940 to 1999 in three areas: teaching of the research paper, gain in writing skills during a writing course, and methods of peer critique. The history of NCTE and CCCC attempts at scholarly bibliography is also traced. Implications are considered for the future of the study of college composition as an academic discipline.

Key Words: research methodology • professional organization • National Council of Teachers of English • Conference on College Composition and Communication • sponsorship • disciplinary history • peer critique • research paper • skill gain


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