2023 CCCC PRESENTATION

Work on this presentation began in earnest during winter quarter 2022 in WRD 550: Special Topics in Teaching Writing & Language Critical Writing Pedagogy: Disability, Race, and Institutional Change, taught by Dr. Erin Workman. Our final project of the course was an Institutional Change project wherein each student had the opportunity to create either a syllabus re-design, a research proposal, or a rhetorical analysis of a corpus of antiracist statements that could be used to effect institutional change in their respective professional contexts. As an aspiring educator who would be teaching a section of First-Year Writing in the fall, I chose to re-design an existing writing assignment that emphasizes the importance of composing for accessibility and committed to assigning this project in my future classroom.

As we progressed through the course, we began to feel energized about our projects and discussed submitting our work to the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), which was to be held in Chicago the next year. After examining our own positionalities and engaging with antiracist and antiableist strategies and pedagogies, we wanted to not only enact our own change projects but bring them to the field as hopefull possibilities.

Along with my cohort, Liz Adames, Kim Gwizdala, and Kerri Martin, I presented my Accessible Multimodal Composition in Two Genres assignment as part of our presentation, "Disrupting Writing Normativities & Enacting Institutional Change Across Secondary, Postsecondary, & Community College Contexts." This presentation was given at the 2023 Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL. 

The full presentation is embedded below, and the script of my part of the presentation is embedded below that.