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Welcome to the Conference on Basic Writing (CBW) website. CBW's goal is to provide a site for professional and personal conversations on the pedagogy, curriculum, administration, and social issues affecting basic writing. The intent of this webpage is to build on the CBW mission by providing resources to further the study of basic writing in various contexts.
 

Contents

CBW Membership

Online Resources

 

Basic Writing e-Journal

 

Reading List

CBW listserv

BW Programs

Journal of Basic Writing

 

Click here for information on the CBW 2008 Award for Innovation


Nominate your program or another for innovative practice in the teaching of basic writing

 

Click here for information on the Conference on Basic Writing 2008 CCCC Fellowship


The Conference on Basic Writing is pleased to announce the 2008 CBW/CCCC Fellowship, a $500 award given to a teacher of basic writing to subsidize travel to CCCC in New Orleans in April and participation in the Conference on Basic Writing Pre-Conference Workshop.

 

Click Here for photos of the CBW’s silver anniversary party in San Francisco, March 18, 2005, kindly sponsored by Bedford / St. Martin’s

 

Click here to go to the 2003 National Assessment

of Adult Literacy

CBW Archive

The CBW archive contains The CBWS/CBW Newsletter from 1982-1998, and additional historical material

 

 

For more information about CBW or BWe: Basic Writing e-Journal, please contact CBW co-chairs and editors of BWe:

 

 

 


 

We frequently update this site. Please visit the site regularly for current information. 

If you have comments or suggestions, please email Greg Glau at Arizona State University 

 

 

Special thanks to Anne M. Parks and Terry Collins, who originally designed and constructed these web pages.